Brenna Fossum

Provide leadership to the site environment team for all monitoring and compliance programs and projects. Develop and implement individual development plans and provide technical and field training. Coordinate with other departments to provide soft skill training, team building opportunities and cross-department training. Prepare department capex and opex budgets, scope operational projects, and support permitting projects. Support Exploration with compliance tracking and reporting. Develop and implement policies, procedures and strategies to meet compliance requirements. Evaluate technical data and prepare documents for regulatory reporting or notifications. Engage with FN's to provide updates on programs, applications and ongoing operational activities.

Develop, prioritize, and adaptively manage strategies and programs for emerging water risks and opportunities to enable effective decision-making and improve water quality, quantity and aquatic health performance. Support initiatives by standing-up water programs and implementing governance and structure for existing and new work. Facilitate multi account analysis (options evaluation analysis) with strategic conversations, structured workshops and defined milestones.

Lead projects focused on improving environmental performance and regulatory compliance at the Line Creek Operations. Collaborated with other teams to resolve significant non-compliances and support the implementation of corrective action plans. Coordinated professional development, soft skill training, and mental health initiatives.

Participate in a Structured Decision Making (SDM) Process related to water quality treatment options for surface water. Participate in technical advisory meetings regarding available water quality mitigation technologies. Support Best Achievable Technology (BAT) assessments. Prepare scopes of work and track budgets for projects related to water management systems. Prepare operational documents for water management systems. SERA (Social, Environmental and Regulatory Approvals) Manager for water quality mitigation projects.

Responsible for environmental compliance with all permits and licences and ensuring compliance with provincial and federal Acts and Regulations on site. Lead and host annual environmental inspections with Provincial and Federal Inspectors. Primary author and editor of annual reports. Responsible for NPRI annual reporting. Provide ArcGIS support to engineering for projects and permit boundaries. Provide support and enforce health and safety requirements under the Mines Act and relevant provincial laws in the Environmental Department. While working closely with the Health and Safety Department to improve safety awareness and provide additional training for the use of recreational vehicles. Provide training on specialized environmental sampling equipment. Participate in Best Achievable Technology (BAT) Assessments and provide technical support for semi passive water treatment options. Provided day to day direction to Environmental Technicians and seasonal samplers. Manage and schedule field sampling in compliance with provincial permits and MDMER Regulations.

Conduct groundwater investigations for residential and commercial developments in the City of Vancouver and Burnaby in accordance with the new groundwater and stormwater management bylaws. Conduct auger and sonic drilling; along with soil sampling for density and moisture analysis. Conduct slug tests with subsequent aquifer test analysis. Prepare reports in support of building applications.

Safety: Lead daily safety meetings with the team. Lead safety demonstrations and provide training with recreational vehicles (UTVs and sleds). Conduct regular safety inspections of equipment, sampling activities and work areas. Special Projects: Project manager for BCR re-start. Analyze chemical analysis results from saturated backfill monitoring wells, compared to BCR results and pit lake chemistry (column testing) to determine effective methods of natural selenium reduction. Manage advance pit dewatering project by drilling and testing observation wells and dewatering wells. Initiated an LDC coring project for coal quality and structural geology prior to mining. Reporting: Submit reports to various regulatory bodies; compile, analyze and submit monthly water quality and air quality reports; primary author of annual water quality, air quality and reclamation reports; prepare technical reports in support of pit dewatering, reclaiming and moving monitoring water wells and the BCR progress. Develop Management Plans and standard operating procedures (SOPs). Work with consults to prepare technical reports for licences and permits. Database Administrator: Provided key tables to design the database framework. Error check and quality control environmental database. Data management for the environmental department. Spatial Data Analyst: Create and manage spatial data and maps using ArcGIS, for the company. Liaison with Engineering and provincial governments for permitting, mineral lease boundaries, disturbance boundaries and other mining activities. Create exploration permitting boundaries in shapefiles from a variety of data forms. QA/QC for other departments activities along the perimeter of the Mine properties and lease boundary over laps with other industries.

Compile, analyze and interpret chemical analysis results from all surface water, groundwater, seeps, sumps, soil, ARD and dustfall sampling for annual reports. Compile information and results for annual reclamation reports. Hydrogeological resource at the company. Initiate water well improvements, improved groundwater sampling techniques, analyze aquifer performance and conduct extended aquifer tests. Investigate dewatering options for pit lakes and groundwater, by conducting extended aquifer tests and pump tests with regular sampling and flow measurements. Engage database developers to design a specialized database. Database administrator for the department. Create and manage spatial data and maps as the sole ArcGIS user at the company. Provide in house technical training on various software. Project and contractor management for biochemical reactor (BCR) re-build. Data collection and interpretation of chemical analysis results and field parameters to monitor nitrate, sulphate and selenium reduction during start up, forward flow and sub zero temperatures; also monitoring field parameters to ensure healthy bio-activity in the mixed media. Collect groundwater, surface water, ARD, sediment, waste rock, toxicity, selenium speciation, sulphate samples and dustfall canisters for chemical analysis results. Conduct stream flow measurements and bird nest surveys. Restart and repair floc shacks (liquid and granular).

Complete watershed analysis studies, with a focus on the interaction between groundwater and surface water. Provide recommendations for target aquifers and/or aquifers to avoid due to overuse or poor groundwater quality. Prepare and submit licensing reports in support of Water Act applications to the Alberta Government. Collect, process and interpret hydrogeological data for groundwater availability projects, including future trends and impacts on groundwater flow and quality, for annual groundwater monitoring reports. Preparation of maps, appendices, stratigraphic correlations, structural cross-sections and reports for various hydrogeological studies. Develop and maintain client relationships. Business development. In house training on software for new hires and participation in safety presentations for field activities.

Worked in the oil and gas industry as an industrial medic. Obtained EMR, OFA Level 3, PST II and various other safety certificates. Continued education to maintain EMR licence.

Tracking envrionmental incidents; air quality and water quality sampling; and office administration.

Surveying drill patterns; field fitting drill patterns; surveying blast patterns; road and dump control; and creating blast circles via MineSight 3D. Conducting pit scans with RiSCAN Pro.

Produced exploration maps via ArcGIS; core logging and bulk sampling in the field.