Principal, Senior Project Manager
BASIN Environmental & Engineering Ltd.

Darcy O'Brien has a B.Sc. degree in Forest Management from the University of Alberta with over fifteen years of environmental consulting experience in a variety of industry sectors including oil and gas, seismic exploration, transportation, and land development projects mainly in Alberta and Saskatchewan. His background is in forest management with considerable field experience conducting ecosite mapping, timber assessments, vegetation, soil and wildlife surveys, wetland assessments and riparian health assessments.

He is currently a Principal, Senior Project Manager with over fifteen years experience in the environmental field, including permitting and regulatory filings. Darcy has extensive project management experience with small and large oil sands projects. Work completed for these oil sands projects include oil sands explorations plans, coal exploration plans, caribou protection plans and reclamation inspections/certificates. Other environmental experience within Alberta includes environmental assessment (EA) reports, biophysical impact assessment (BIA) reports, wetland Impact Assessment (WIA) reports, environmental field reports (EFR), landscape analysis tool (LAT), enhanced approval process (EAP), Alberta environmental monitoring, ecosite/soil classification, road/cut block layout and Phase I and II environmental site assessments. Throughout his career he has gained experience in successful implementation of projects and communication with individuals ranging from crews to landowners to clients to regulators.

Affiliations:
• College of Alberta Professional Foresters - Registered Professional Forester
• Canada Institute of Forestry

Principal, Senior Project Manager
BASIN Environmental & Engineering Ltd.

Darren has extensive project management experience with small and large oil sands projects. Work completed for these oil sands projects include Oil Sands Exploration (OSE) Plans, Coal Exploration Plans (CEP), Caribou Protection Plans (CPP) and reclamation inspections/certificates.

Darren also has a vast experience in Alberta’s conventional oil & gas sector providing Environmental Field Reports (EFR), Enhanced Approval Process (EAP) Supplement and Landscape Analysis Tool (LAT) documents, Pre-Disturbance Site Assessments, and Detailed Site Assessments (DSA).

Experience on federal lands includes environmental assessments on Oil and Gas Canada lands which includes the Louis Bull, Wabamun, Wabasca, Kehewin, and Frog Lake First Nation Reserves and military leased land on the Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.

Experience specific to Saskatchewan includes the completion of Private Land Checklists (PLC), project proposal and restoration plans, and Environmental Protection Plans (EPP). In addition, regulatory approvals and reporting for the province's first ever oil sands exploration and development.

Other environmental experience within Alberta includes Alberta Environment Water Act Notification, Surface Material Exploration (SME)/Surface Material License (SMC)/Surface Material Lease (SML), detailed site assessments (DSA), topsoil and vegetation surveys for transportation projects, and Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESA) for both industrial and commercial sectors.

Affiliations:
• Alberta Society of Professional Biologists (ASPB) - Professional Biologist (P.Biol)