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Gmail Peter Burgess
Alberta Tar Sands
Seema Jindal
Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:40 AM
To: peterbnyc@gmail.com
Dear Peter,
Thanks for connecting with me. A very happy, successful and fulfilling New Year to you!
You are bang on. The Alberta Oil Sands drive the Canadian economy and so the industry finds it confronting :). I was in Fort Mcmurry in September 2013. I was dazed by how close the tailing ponds were to the Athabasca river. The few class projects I did in relation to the effect of water pollution on the communities living down stream; tailing ponds and reclamation of land disturbed showed huge cracks in the regulatory system.
Here the regulatory system is also taking a overhaul and has been renamed Alberta Energy Regulator. Interestingly the head of this regulatory body is a petroleum honcho.
I am currently working at a grass root project which involves generating a sustainable program for women with limited education to find employment. My objective is to study it up close and assess it pre and post pilot project to see the ROI it gives for the money spent. Of course, it will be difficult to measure abstract outcomes.
My aim is to be able to work globally using sustainable business models and to link them with CSR in the long run. In my utopian world, it addresses the triple bottom and creates a win-win situation for the companies, the society and environment.
I was excited to read about the rigorous metrics you are creating under Multi Dimension Impact Accounting. I wish you all success and would be really interested in it.
A very happy, successful and fulfilling New Year to you!
Seema Jindal
M.A., M.Sc.-Sustainable Energy Development, EPt.
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi
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