Associates

 

             Kelleher Environmental Associates

Maria Kelleher, M. Eng. P.Eng

Maria Kelleher is an environmental engineer who specializes in waste management issues.  She graduated with a Civil Engineering degree from University College, Cork, Ireland, and subsequently earned her Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1982, and a Diploma in Environmental Health from McMaster University in 2000.  She has over 25 years of experience in the environmental consulting industry, and has worked on a wide range of waste policy and strategy, quantification, management, planning and stewardship projects for a range of different materials for both private sector and public sector clients. 

Her areas of expertise include: solid waste management planning for municipal clients, with a focus on waste diversion and the use of economic instruments to promote waste reduction; financing mechanisms to promote waste diversion, organic waste management, greenhouse gas implications and life cycle assessment of waste management strategies.  Ms Kelleher is also an experienced adult educator and facilitator, and has carried out a number of climate change and green energy related projects for public and private sector clients.

 

 

 

Janet Robins, M.E.S.

Janet Robins graduated from the Masters program at the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto and has been working as an environmental consultant for over 15 years. Ms Robins has a diverse range of environmental experience.  She has worked with public and private sector clients designing and evaluating waste reduction programs and sustainable waste management system design. She recently developed a waste management and diversion strategy for the Regent Park Sustainable Community project and has been retained by Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) to prepare a series of strategies to deal with illegal dumping, electronic waste and HHW on their properties. Ms Robins was instrumental in researching and writing a comprehensive study of anaerobic digestion systems in Europe, Asia and North America, which could process garden waste to produce green energy for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and wrote the Solid Waste Guidance Manual and Workbook for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), to become its key reference documents for municipal integrated waste management planning, including organics management. As part of the work, she recently helped deliver a series of Solid Waste as a Resource workshops across the country.

Ms Robins has been involved in the climate change issue.  She wrote the Ontario municipal chapter of the Ontario business plan for the National Fleet program and developed a database of best practices profiling almost 20 municipal best practices in the area of climate change and energy efficiency. She also assessed the greenhouse gas impacts of 20 projects funded under the Enhanced Recycling Program, as part of the Federal Government’s Climate Change Action Fund.

Lori Andrews, E.I.T.

Lori Andrews obtained her Bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering from Dalhousie University, Halifax. She has over seven years of environmental and engineering experience on a wide range of waste and climate change related projects.

Lori joined the Kelleher Environmental team in 2005. Since joining, she has applied her technical background on several projects to evaluate recycling, resource recovery and waste diversion systems.  She has been heavily involved in constructing models for waste management systems.  She constructed an IC&I waste allocation model for the City of Ottawa, and will shortly create a similar model for the City of Lethbridge, Alberta.  She assisted with modeling the life-cycle of post consumer batteries for Environment Canada. She assessed the greenhouse gas impacts of 30 projects funded under the Enhanced Recycling Program, as part of the Federal Government’s Climate Change Action Fund.  She recently completed work on an ARMA (Alberta Recycling Management Authority) electronic waste tonnage flow for the province of Alberta, and is constructing a similar model for the Ontario WEEE Program.  In addition, she constructed a model for the flow of fluorescent bulbs and tubes in Ontario.

As part of the Kelleher Environmental team, Lori is responsible for constructing models for a range of waste management activities, particularly the flow of materials through waste systems, as well as the research support to construct these models.

Prior to working in Canada, Lori worked as an engineering researcher in Berlin, Germany developing and testing filtration systems for separation technologies at GKSS Research Institute.

During her engineering education, Lori accumulated 2 years of engineering experience as part of a Co-Operative education program. These included work experiences in Sweden at a hazardous waste facility (SAKAB) working on a soil remediation project, in Germany at an air emissions research institute performing modeling and lab analysis, Sydney, NS with AMEC (formerly Washburn Gillis Assoc.) consulting on water treatment systems and the Sydney Tar Ponds remediation project, at Health Canada in the Radiation Protection Lab programming a mechanical arm for lab tests on cellular phones and EMFs and at Canadian Standards Association as a technical writer for published technical standards.

She is currently preparing for her P.Eng. license with the PEO.

Geoff Love, M. E. S.

Geoff Love is President of Love Environment, a small highly specialized Canadian environmental consulting company. Established in 2002, Love Environment provides environmental business and organizational development, strategic planning and project management expertise to its private sector, public sector and not-for profit clients. The firm works exclusively on environmental strategy, producer responsibility, green procurement, waste diversion and climate change issues, ideas and projects.

Love was the President of Resource Integrations Systems (laterally known as Enviros-RIS) from 1998 to 2002. RIS is widely recognized as an international pioneer of “blue box” recycling programs (tens of millions of households are now served world-wide). In addition to his extensive project work, Love led RIS’s expansion into 3 US offices in the late 1980s and 2 offices in Europe in the early 1990s. His skills and experience in business development and environmental issues management contributed to RIS becoming a leading international consultancy specializing in waste reduction and climate change.

Love spearheaded the sale of RIS to the UK green venture capital company Enviros in the late 1990s and served as President of Enviros RIS Canada for four years. As a highly experienced project manager, he has been working independently for the past seven years – often in collaboration with other technical and process specialists – for his own company, Love Environment.

Love was a member of the federal Public Education and Outreach (PEO) Issue Table for Climate Change. He was also the director of an award winning national employee training program on climate change.

Love is past Chair of Pollution Probe and Youth Ventures Developments. He is the current Chair of Friends of the Earth Canada and a member of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund Grants Committee.

Environmental Consultant

Senior Researcher and Consultant

Associate

President