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Resume for Peter K. Krahn, BSc. Chem. Eng., P. Eng.


 
North Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada
  

Call  778 870 3241


e-mail     peterk12@live.com

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Genesis Environmental Sciences Ltd
1995– present  designs, develops and provides environmental law enforcement training and development courses for government environmental law enforcement agencies.  Provides management training courses on environmental law enforcement program design, implementation and performance monitoring.  Designs specialty equipment for specific issues, see patents below.


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INTERPOL                
2011-2014
Project Manager for the INTERPOL Pollution Crimes Forensic Environmental Investigations Manual
  
INTERPOL is an international law enforcement agency comprised of 190 member countries.  The National Central Bureaus (NCB) of the federal enforcement agencies share information, intelligence and law enforcement experience for all facets of law. 

From 2011 to 2014, I led an international team from 45 INTERPOL member countries to design and develop an environmental forensics manual especially targeted for developing countries.  Includes developing scenarios and techniques and standard approaches to inspections and investigations and presentation of evidence.  The two volumes can now be found on the INTERPOL Public access web site;

http://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Environmental-crime/Resources

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Environment Canada

1983-2018
Sr. Enforcement Engineer and 
National Operational Adviser, Enforcement Division

Technical operations and litigation adviser to Environment Canada and the Dept. of Justice on environmental law enforcement techniques, technologies, investigative strategies and environmental forensic methods.  Provides expert witness testimony and/or procures expert witnesses and assists in case development strategies. Provides environmental law enforcement technical advice on a national basis to all the regions and headquarters.  Provides specialty training in research, regulatory development and forensic environmental investigation techniques.


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Environmental Enforcement, Contaminated Site Investigation and Cleanup.

Conducted/assisted in more than 100 legal investigations of Federal environmental law, and several hundred plant and site inspections.  Issues involve violations of the Canadian Fisheries Act, Canadian Environmental Protection Act and British Columbia Waste Management Act,  concerned with PCBs, anti-sapstains, heavy duty wood preservatives, hydrocarbons, hog fuel leachates, hazardous wastes, contaminated sites, Pulp and Paper Mills and all other industrial sectors in Canada.  Duties include negotiations on legal penalties, site assessment/remediation strategies and participation in site remediation programs. Sites included private lands, federal lands, lands under First Nations jurisdictions and impacts on municipal jurisdictions. See Appendix I for details.

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Training courses can be custom designed to meet the needs and capacity level of the local regional agency.  Field exercises allow the students to practice the skills learned in the class lectures.  The settings are real life situations that they can encounter in the field and strongly re-enforce the objectives and techniques required for conducting forensic environmental assessments and investigations.
See also Courses.
Training Experience   

Designed and conducted training courses in toxic chemicals research, environmental audit/inspections, federal environmental regulations and law enforcement for numerous groups including;             
- Environment Canada
- Dept. of Industrial Works, Govt. of  Thailand.
- B.C. Ministry of the Environment
- Shanghai Dept. of Environment, Shanghai
- Council of Forest Industries of B.C
- Canadian National Forestry Association.
- B.C. Institute of Technology,  
- Hong Kong, Dept. of Environment
- SEDOSOL (Mexican Federal Dept. of Environment)
- Canadian/American Society of Civil Engineering
- United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
- United States Dept. of Justice, International Criminal Investigative  
   Training Assistance Program (ICITAP)
- INTERPOL - international police organization - Pollution Crime 
   Forensics
- Government of Tasmania, Australia
- Government of Australia, Antarctic Division
- Government of Indonesia, National Police, Forestry, Fisheries, 
   Justice and Environment  Divisions

- Langara College - Environmental Law Program
- Langara College - Environmental Studies Program

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Details relating to Experience and Interests.
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I have many varied interests which include getting outdoors and participating in wildlife
management programs such as a volunteer guide and tagger for the endangered Fraser 
river White Sturgeon.  See my related fishing website www.fraserlegendsfishing.com
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Education        
Graduate of:     - 1983, Lakehead University, Chemical/Environmental Engineer
                                 - 1979, Undergrad, Trinity Western University, Science and Religious Studies.
                                 - 1978, B.C. Institute of Technology, Chemical/Metallurgical/Environmental                                     

Post Graduation courses include; 
          - Biology, biochemistry  and human anatomy at University of British Columbia
          - Hydraulic Fracturing Engineering - Petroleum Institute for Continuing Education, Calgary Alberta
          - Environmental Crisis, First Responder, USA National Fire Training  Centre, Pueblo Colorado
         - Peace Officer Training,                                         - EPAM Negotiator Environment Canada.
         - Project Planning and management                   - Princeton University Groundwater and Hydrology
         - St. John Ambulance, Wilderness First Aide    - Ground-water Litigation and Remediation
         - Federal regulatory courses                                 - Supervisory Courses
         - Media relations                                                      - Environmental Risk assessment


Awards

2014  Environment Canada - National Ci
tation of Excellence - Enforcement Branch - Leadership in the development of the INTERPOL Pollution                                                                                                                                                    Crimes Forensics Investigations Manual.

2011   Environment Canada - National Citation of Excellence – Geoff Howell Award in Innovation for design, development and application of the                                                                                                                          K-Interstitial Groundwater Sampler  (KIST Sampler).                                           

2003   Environment Canada - Regional Citation of Excellence  - For an innovative groundwater treatment technology at the Pacific                          
                                                                                                                         Environment Center Site.
1999   Environment Canada - National Citation of Excellence - For Leadership  on the National Enforcement Action Plan.

1994   Environment Canada - Regional Citation of Excellence - For enforcement of the Fisheries Act and remediation of the CP Rail site in Field, 
                                                                                                                        British Columbia
1993  Environment Canada  - Regional Citation of Excellence - For Compliance Status Reporting.

1991  Environment Canada - Regional Citation of Excellence  - For Research related to Environmental impact and control of wood preservation 
                                                                                                                        chemicals.

 
Testimony before the Canadian Parliament Standing Committee on Environment
1)   ENFORCING CANADA'S POLLUTION LAWS: THE PUBLIC INTEREST MUST COME FIRST!, THIRD REPORT STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT May 1998 http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=1031521&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=36&Ses=1&File=18

Patents 

1)      Inventor and designer of the “K Interstitial Groundwater Sampling Probe” (KIST Sampler) for off shore sampling of water column, 
          interstitial upwelling ground water and sediment core samples.
2)      Inventor and designer of the “K Plug” and “K-Coupler” for the control of deep sea ruptures from off shore oil rigs. 
Appendix I

Contaminated Site Assessment, Site Cleanup and Legal Investigations

1)            Site assessment and supervision of cleanup of a sawmill site in Delta, B.C. contaminated with PCBs.

2)            Assessment of a PCB spill and supervision of the cleanup of a contaminated site at Elbow Lake Federal Penitentiary in B.C.

3)            Initial disaster management, health and environmental assessment, legal investigation, site characterization of a sawmill site on the  
                Esquimalt Indian Reserve contaminated with chlorophenols and PCBs as a result of spills and a fire.  Supervision of the cleanup of PCBs. 
                Member of technical steering committee for site cleanup.

4)            Legal investigation of five sawmills discharging contaminated stormwater contaminated with antisapstain chemicals, including 
                chlorophenols, TCMTB, Copper-8-Quinolinolate.

5)            Legal investigation of the sale of PCB equipment at a sawmill in Williams Lake, B.C.

6)            Legal investigation and assessment of PCB equipment illegally imported from the United States to Chilliwack,  B.C.

7)            Legal investigation and supervision of site cleanup of a PCB spill from equipment transported near Headly, B.C.

8)            Legal investigation and contaminated site assessment of PCB equipment stored at a used equipment operation near Savona, B.C.

9)            Initial spill response, public relations and legal investigation and accident reconstruction of a  tanker rupture and spill of 5000 gallons of 
                TCMTB antisapstain to the Fraser River from a lumber export terminal.

10)          Legal investigation of a PCB spill from electrical equipment at Gold River, B.C.

11)          Legal investigation, accident analysis of a spill of several hundred gallons of PCB fluid at Powell River, B.C.

12)          Legal investigation and accident analysis of a pulp storage tank rupture and destruction  of  a  Chlorine Dioxide generating facility at a 
                 pulp mill in Powell River, B.C.

13)          Legal investigation and site assessment of a PCB spill at a sawmill in south Vancouver, B.C.

14)          Legal investigation of a PCB spill at Grand Forks, B.C.

15)          Legal investigation, preliminary site assessment of a hydrocarbon contaminated  rail  yard in Yoho National Park. Technical Steering 
                 Committee member for site cleanup.  This lead to  being a recipient of the regional Citation of Excellence in 1994.

16)          Initial response, disaster management, preliminary health and environmental assessment, site assessment and investigation of an 
                 illegal PCB incineration and metal recycling operation at the Kamloops Indian Reserve.

17)          Preliminary assessment and legal investigation of the illegal deposit of hog fuel in Maple Ridge,  B.C. resulting in ground water and 
                 surface water pollution of the North Allouette River.

18)          Legal investigation of an illegal waste incineration operation on Burrard Inlet in contravention of the Canadian Environmental   
                 Protection Act.

19)          Legal investigation for violations of the Fisheries Act and site assessment of 5 heavy duty wood preservation sites in the B.C. Lower 
                 Mainland.  Chemicals include the leaching of Copper, Chromium, Arsenic, Pentachlorophenol, Creosote, PAH's. Participant in the 
                 Steering Committee.  Lead investigator resulting in the prosecution and conviction of  Domtar Inc. and Stella Jones Ltd.  Jan. 1994 to  
                 Jan. 1999.

20)          Legal investigation and technical assessment of the rupture of the  Pembina Pipeline at Pine River near Chetwynd British Columbia.

21)          More than 20 legal investigations of the violation of the PCB Regulation under the Toxic Chemicals   Act and the Canadian 
                 Environmental Protection Act.

24)          Expert witness in testifying in various courts in British Columbia, in use and handling of  toxic chemicals, forensic analysis of industrial 
                 operational procedures,  equipment and  process failures.

25)           Forensic environmental investigation of heavy metal contaminated soil and river from a lead, zinc smelter complex and a  
                  transboundary river system.

26)           2012 - Forensic environmental investigation of coal mines and selenium contamination of a transboundary river system in South 
                  Eastern British Columbia, Canada.



Appendix II

List of Publications and Videos

1)            Krahn, P., Hui, K., "Fraser River Estuary Study, Water Quality Site Registry of Storm Water Outfalls", Province of British Columbia, 
                Ministry of the Environment, 1979.

2)            Clark, M., Krahn P., "Fraser River Estuary Study, Water Quality, Dry Weather Storm Sewer Discharges", Province of British Columbia, 
                Ministry of the Environment, 1979.

3)            Krahn, P., "A Preliminary Study of the Wood Waste and Heat Recovery System of Kakabeka Timber Ltd.", Graduate Thesis, Lakehead 
                University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1983.

4)            Krahn, P.K., "A Field Survey of Water and Sediment Quality at Selected Sites in Pacific Rim National Park, Environment Canada, 
                Regional Data Report, June 1984.

5)            Krahn, P., "Characterization and Chemical Use Patterns for the Plastics, Rubber  and  Resin Industry in British Columbia", Environment 
                Canada, Regional Program Report, 85-05, 1985.

6)            Krahn, P., "Characterization and Chemical Use Patterns of the Paints and Coatings Industry in British Columbia", Environment Canada, 
                Regional Program Report, 85-09, 1985.

7)            Krahn, P., "Lead in the British Columbia and Yukon Environments: Summary of Industrial Data (1979 - 1986)", Environment Canada, 
                Regional Program Report, 90-05, 1990.

8)            Krahn, P., "Chemical Characteristics of Products and Wastes Produced  the Plastics, Rubber and Resin Industry of British Columbia.  
                Environment Canada Regional Program Report, 87-05, 1987

9)            Krahn, P., "Assessment Report - Leaching of Copper and Arsenic from Ammoniacal-Copper-Arsenate (ACA) Treated Wood used as 
                Bridge Decking and Support Timbers.  January 1987.

10)          Krahn, P., Shrimpton, J., Glue, R., "Assessment of Storm Water Related Chlorophenol Releases from Wood Protection Facilities in British 
                 Columbia", Environment Canada Regional Program Report,  87-14, 1987

11)          Krahn, P., Shrimpton, J., Glue, R., "Assessment of Storm Water Related Chlorophenol Releases from Wood Protection Facilities in British 
                 Columbia. Summary Report",   Environment Canada Regional Program Report, 87-15, 1987.

12)          Krahn, P., "Use of Fertan Metal Preservation Formulation at the Parks Canada - Gulf of Georgia Cannery Restoration Project, 
                 Steveston, B.C.",  Environment Canada Regional Program  Report, 88-01, 1988.

13)          Krahn, P., "Computer Simulations of the use of Diffusers to Reduce the Toxicity of Contaminated Storm Water Runoff from Treated 
                 Lumber Storage Yards", Environment Canada Regional Program Report, 88-02, 1988.

14)          Krahn, P., "An Estimate of the Concentration of 2 - (Thiocyanomethylthio) - Benzothiazole  (TCMTB) in Storm Water Runoff from 
                 Treated Lumber Storage Yards which  comply to the Code of Practice" Environment Canada Regional Program Report, 1988.

15)          Krahn, P., Glue, R., "An Assessment (1987) of Wood Protection (Antisapstain) Facilities in the British Columbia Lower Mainland Area", 
                 Environment Canada Regional Program Report, 87-20, 1988.

16)          Krahn, P., Shrimpton, J., "Modelling Stormwater Related Chlorophenol Releases to the Fraser River Using the Motz-Benedict (MOBEN) 
                 Computer Model", Water Pollution Research  Journal of Canada, Volume 23, NO.1, 1988.

17)          Krahn, P., Shrimpton, J., "Storm Water Related Chlorophenol Releases from Seven Wood Protection Facilities in British Columbia", 
                 Water Pollution Research Journal of Canada, Volume 23, NO.1, 1988.

18)          Krahn, P., "Leaching of 2-(Thiocyanomethylthio)-Benzothiazole (TCMTB) from Surface Treated Lumber", Environment Canada Regional 
                 Program Report, 90-06, 1990.

19)          Krahn, P., Strub, R. "Standard Leaching Test for Antisapstain Chemicals", Environment Canada Regional Program Report, 90-10, 1990.

20)          Krahn, P., Shrimpton J., "Leaching of Chlorophenols from Treated Lumber", Paper presented to the 1988 Joint CSCE-ASCE National 
                 Conference on Environmental Engineering, July 13 - 15, Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, B.C.

21)          Martens, H., Krahn, P., " Leaching of Didecyldimethylammonium Chloride (DDAC) and 3-Iodo-2-Propynyl-Butyl-Carbamate (IPBC) 

                 from Lumber Treated with NP1 Antisapstain chemicals using the Standard Leaching Protocol", Environment Canada/MacMillan 
                 Bloedel/Doman Forest Products/Kopcoat Joint Study, 1991.

22)          Mendoza, E., Kay, B., Krahn, P., "Compliance and Enforcement Summary Report, Fiscal Year 1992 - 1993", Pacific Region of 
                 Environment Canada, April 1994.

23)          Krahn, P., "Compliance Ratings of British Columbia Pulp and Paper Mills with Respect to Federal Regulations", Proceedings, 1994 
                 Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, Joint Conference, Jasper Alberta, May 1994.

24)          Krahn, P., "Assessment of Stormwater Runoff Characteristics at the Domtar/Stella Jones Wood Preservation Facility", for Dept. of 
                 Justice, July 1995.

25)          Krahn, P., Christofferson, M., "Assessment of Tidal Influence on the movement of Contaminated Storm Water from Heavy Duty Wood 
                 Preservation Sites to Nelson Creek", for  Dept. of Justice, June 1996.

26)          Krahn, P., "Computer Animation of the Movement of Contaminants in Storm Water Runoff under Tidal Influence", for Dept. of Justice, 
                 June 1996.

27)          Krahn, P,, “Compliance Report for the Heavy Duty Wood Preservation Industry in British Columbia, 1983 to 1997”,   Environment  
                 Canada Regional Program Report, April 1997.

28)          Krahn, P,, “Compliance Report for the Antisapstain Wood Preservation Industry in British Columbia, 1983 to 1997”,  Environment 
                Canada Regional Program Report, April 1997.

29)          Krahn, P., "INTERPOL - Pollution Crimes Environmental Forensics Investigation Manual", 2013

30)          Krahn, P., "Environmental Assessment of Selenium Contamination in a Coal Mining Area in South Eastern British Columbia", Report for 
                 the Federal Department of Justice, Environment Canada, 2014


31)          Krahn, P., "Fish Habitat Impact of Coal mining in South Eastern British Columbia". Report for the Federal Dept. of Justice, Environment      

                 Canada 2014.

32)          Krahn, P., "Assessment of Remediation Technologies for the treatment of Selenium Contaminated Water from Coal Mines in South Eastern                   British Columbia", 
Report for the Federal Dept. of Justice, Environment Canada 2014.

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