Jim Edmondson was appointed to the Review Board on December 14, 2017.
Jim Edmondson has lived and worked in the assessments of development projects, beginning with the Norman Wells Pipeline Project and more recently with the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project.
Jim was also part of the consulting team that reviewed the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (YESAA) regime in Yukon. .He has assisted intervenors in several environmental assessments in the North since the fall of 1984, based primarily in Yellowknife but also in several other communities in Yukon, the NWT and Nunavut. He has done extensive work over the years with Aboriginal governments and organizations, with a focus on Aboriginal and treaty rights negotiations and implementation. This has involved him in many issues relating to self-government and to land and resource management and regulation. He continues to live in Yellowknife and helps to tend his wife’s garden.