Mr. Ricki Hurst is a Senior Associate with DPRA. He brings over 30 years of experience on environmental and resource management issues at the Arctic, national and international levels; most of which has involved Aboriginal people. This includes work on environmental assessment and regulatory review; oil and gas and mining development; Aboriginal consultation, capacity and socio-economic programs; contaminated sites and remediation; land use planning and protected areas; water management; and Board governance. He has a BSc in Wildlife Biology and a Masters in Bio-Physiology. He has strong skills at building teams, facilitating discussion and reaching agreement to resolve complex resource management issues. Starting in the 1970′s Ricki spent over a decade living and working in the north including 8 years as a Director within Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) and four years with DPRA Canada in Yellowknife. He has also worked extensively in Manitoba, Nunavut and Yukon. Sixteen years of his career were spent in Ottawa, working for INAC on northern policy and resource issues from the perspective of federal government headquarters; including a lead federal role on matters of contaminated sites management, environmental assessment, establishment of protected areas and land use planning.
Mr. Hurst has a strong background and understanding in the way in which government works. This has been gained through his thirty years of work in the three territories and in Ottawa, where he has had close involvement in issues of governance, environmental assessment and regulatory review and in negotiating and implementing comprehensive land claims and related legislation. In managing the DPRA Yellowknife office since 2006 and the Ottawa office since 2009, Mr. Hurst has demonstrated good skills as the liaison between client needs and facilitating resolution of difficult issues.
email: Ricki.Hurst [at] dpra.com