INNOVATION September-October 2016

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Reconciliation: Whose Responsibility Is It? Trina Wamboldt

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Addressing Sustainability: Tools for Engineers and Geoscientists Nelson Lee, P.Eng Sustainable Watershed Systems: Nature’s Assets Provide Vital Community Infrastructure Services Kim Stephens, P.Eng., Glen Brown and Brian Bedford

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ON THE COVER: A new BC sustainability initiative advances integration of watershed assets into everyday community- infrastructure planning and management. P hoTo : s. M air , cc By 2.0

Association Notes Connect & Discover: APEGBC Annual Conference and AGM; Submitting Motions for the AGM; Auction Items Sought for Scholarship Foundation; Stage 2 Consultation Begins on Possible Regulation of Engineering and Geoscience Firms; Practice Declaration and Contact Information Updates; APEGBC 2015/2016 Annual Report; Guidelines to Improve Mine Safety; Innovation ’s Project Pictorial Schedule Advances; Required Seminar Goes Online. 11 2016 President’s Awards depar tment s 4 President’s Viewpoint Competency Assessment – Change is Coming 6 Letters 32 Discipline Disciplinary Notice: Gregory J. Saunders, P.Eng., Winnipeg, MB; Disciplinary Notice: Anthony (Tony) Sze-Tong Yam, Vancouver, BC 32 Organizational Quality Management 33 Registration Help Pilot APEGBC’s Working in Canada Seminar 33 Community Tool Connects Mentors and Mentees; Creating a Diverse and Inclusive

Volunteering Environment 34 Professional Services 35 Membership 38 Display Advertisers Index 39 Continuing Professional Development

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Technicians train to measure flow along Pine Creek, site of a run-of-river, hydro-power project built by a Taku River Tlingit First Nation- owned company. Reconciliation requires engineering and geoscience firms to account for Indigenous rights and concerns in their projects. P hoTo : T aKu r iver T LingiT f irsT n aTion , via fLicKr , cc By 2.0

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