Trained as a Nuclear Engineer (B Ap Sc & M Eng.), Bart was a member of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL’s) reactor design team for Pickering Nuclear Reactors which were built to provide power to Toronto. Bart focused on Xenon-135 fluxes during start up and shut down and he successfully predicted at what start-up power level, the absorption of thermal neutrons by Xe-135 would start to effect reactor performance, and therefore when to initiate reactor control strategies.  This critical information has allowed the Pickering reactors to still be safely providing power to the grid after 45+ years of operation, which is in stark contrast to Chernobyl where the engineers there missed the significance of the Xe-135 effect with the catastrophic result we are all aware of.  After leaving AECL he moved to the West Coast of Canada and went into the field of environmental engineering, starting two successful companies in the space.  

Now with over 17 years’ experience using carbon financing, Bart has successfully structured multiple projects in regenerative agriculture, nested jurisdictional REDD+, and in riparian and primary forest restoration.  In 2014/15 he recognized emission reduction offset possibilities of fuel switching from fossil fuels to emerging renewable energy technologies such as HERO® with green hydrogen.

Bart is skilled at managing diverse stakeholders including methodology and technical developers, validation/verification bodies, indigenous community members, as well as investor and Board of Directors relations.  Currently, Bart consults on a variety of international projects across the energy and land use sectors to develop and sell CO2 verified emission reduction offsets into the growing voluntary Net Zero carbon market, as well as into the emerging global compliance (Paris Agreement Article 6) markets.

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