Environmental Risk with Contaminated Sites – One Bank’s Perspective
Speaker: James R. Evans, M.Eng., P.Geo
Senior Manager, Environmental Risk
Enterprise Risk, RBC
Presentation Overview
About the Speaker
James (Jamie) Evans is a Senior Manager in the Environmental Risk group of RBC in Toronto. A geologist by training, Jamie has a B.Sc in Earth Science from the University of Waterloo and an M.Eng. in Engineering from the University of Western Ontario (now Western University). Mr. Evans is responsible for environmental risk issues enterprise-wide with an emphasis on the effect of environmental issues on credit. He is responsible for everything from evaluating the risk of unexploded ordinance at logistic properties in Germany to assessing the environmental impacts of a liquefied natural gas facility in Qatar. He has been with RBC for over 18 years and reviews over 2000 transactions per year worth approximately $15 billion in Canada, the US and Europe. Prior to working at the bank he spent 13 years as an environmental consultant with several international consulting firms and has worked on projects in Canada, the US, China and Barbados.
He has spoken on contaminated land remediation, the Equator Principles and Brownfield redevelopment for RBC on a number of occasions in Canada and the US. Jamie is regularly consulted by the legal profession, academics, regulators, environmental consultants and potential clients in Canada and the US.
