Committee Members
Elected Officials
Alan Halberstadt, a Kitchener native, has worked as a journalist in Woodstock, Cambridge and at the Toronto Globe and Mail. He spent 16 years with the Windsor Star including seven as an editorial page columnist and sports columnist.
Councillor Halberstadt was elected to the Windsor Public School Board in 1988. In 1997, he was elected to City Council and was re-elected in 2000, 2003 and 2006 in Ward 3.
In addition to serving as the co-chair of the Windsor Essex County Environment Committee, Alan is also the co-founder of the Waterworld Springfest, the Clean City Committee, and was the driving force behind the transformation of a junk-laden vacant lot on Assumption Street into the Rivertown Gardens.
email: alan_halberstadt@wecec.org
email: charlie_wright@wecec.org
email: tamara_stomp@wecec.org
Citizen Members


Labour
For over 25 years, Mark Bartlett, BA, has made environmental protection a top priority for the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union.
Mark is the CAW Local 444 Community Environment Representative, the CAW National Environment Representative at Chrysler, Canada, and Vice-Chair of the CAW Local 444 Environment Committee.
As President of the CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council, he represents 45,000 CAW members in Essex, Chatham-Kent and Sarnia-Lambton Counties.
email: mark_bartlett@wecec.org
Rick is a representative from the Windsor and District Labour Council and the former Chair of the Windsor Environmental Advisory Committee.
email: rick_coronado@wecec.org
Troy Brian is the chairperson for the CAW Local 200 Environment Committee, sits on the boards of Computers for Kids, CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council , the LaSalle Strawberry Festival Environment Committee and the Essex Windsor Children's Water Festival, besides being an alternate on the Windsor Essex County Environment Committee.
Troy considers himself a labour and Environmental Activist and tries to involve his supportive wife and three children in many of the environmental activities that he participates in.
email: troy_brian@wecec.org
Pauline Cheslock is a founding Board member of Prevent Cancer Now, a Canada-wide Cancer Prevention Coalition. She has worked with the City of Windsor to develop their Pesticide by-law, which was eventually passed in 2005. Pauline won the WOHIS Cancer Prevention award in 2006. She has worked with various school boards to introduce toxic free discussions in schools. She is a Staffperson with the Ontario Public Service Employees Union.
email: pauline_cheslock@wecec.org
Industry
Dean is the Technical Engineering Services Manager at the Windsor Site of BASF Canada. Dean is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario and an enthusiastic proponent of Responsible Care and sustainability. Dean and his wife Michele live have lived in Windsor for the last 18 years. In addition to his day job, Dean is involved in the Windsor Essex County Environment Committee (WECEC), the Windsor Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce (WERCoC) Environment and Energy Committee, and is a member of the Board and Executive Committee of WERCoC.
email: dean_clevett@wecec.org
Is a Senior Project Manager with Matassa Incorporated, a local general contractor specializing in the Industrial ICI construction sector. Some local projects he has managed include Chrysler Canada, Ford EEP and WAP, BASF Canada Inc., Brighton Beach Power, Casino Windsor.
John obtained a Diploma of Technology from St. Clair College in Civil Engineering and Supervisory Studies from the Ontario Management Development Program. He has also received certificates in Project Management and Microsoft Project from York University Executive Education Centre Schulich School of Business.
John also volunteers for and sits on the Building Committee for the Windsor/Essex County Humane Society and is a Trustee member for the Windsor Construction Labour Relations Group & Construction Relations Association of Ontario.
email: john_miller@wecec.org
Education
Dr. Paul F. Henshaw, P.Eng. is an Associate Professor at the University of Windsor. He received his Bachelor's in Science (Chemistry) in 1982 and Bachelor of Engineering Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 from the University of Western Ontario. He then worked for three years as a designer of HVAC and industrial ventilation systems. In 1988 he entered graduate studies at the University of Windsor to earn his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering. He was hired as an Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor in 1997. His areas of research include: automotive paint application, air pollution from combustion processes, and wastewater treatment.
email: paul_henshaw@wecec.org
Dr. Sawyer-Beaulieu has more than 10 years of professional engineering experience in the mining and mineral processing industry, 7 years in the metals recycling industry, 8 years in consulting, and holds professional engineering licenses in Ontario and Quebec.
She holds undergraduate degrees, a B.A. in biology and a B.Sc. in mining and mineral processing engineering, from Queen's University, and graduate degrees, M.A.Sc. and Ph.D., in environmental engineering from the University of Windsor. Having recently completed her Ph.D. in 2009, Dr. Sawyer-Beaulieu is currently working as a post doctorate fellow at the at the University of Windsor researching vehicle recycling.
Dr. Sawyer-Beaulieu's diverse work experience includes conducting biological surveys for the mining industry, automation and optimization of industrial dewatering and waste water treatment plant operations, remediation of mine and mill waste disposal sites, the design and patent of a quick lime slaking system, designing zebra mussel control systems for a dozen water treatment plants in southwestern Ontario, performing environmental site assessments and investigations, establishing ISO 14000 environmental management systems for industrial facilities, and design of industrial air quality control systems (to highlight a few).
email: karen_fallon@wecec.org
Environment
Derek is the Coordinator of the Citizens Environment Alliance(CEA). The CEA is a non-profit, grass-roots, international, education and research organization. We are committed to an ecosystem approach to environmental planning and management.
The CEA was formed in 1985 by citizens concerned about spills from the (Sarnia) Chemical Valley into the St. Clair River (the Toxic blob), and how those spills affected the region's drinking water.
As the group has grown, so too have the issues of concern. These now include waste management, wetland and natural areas protection, environmental land use planning, energy use and the long-term implications of economic growth on the environment. The Alliance's annual activities since its inception have aimed at increasing public knowledge of the area ecosystems and the impact humans have on these systems.
email: derek_coronado@wecec.org
Phil is the President of the Essex County Fiels Naturalists' Club. Organized in 1984 and incorporated in March 1985, the Essex County Field Naturalists' Club is a volunteer organization affiliated with the Federation of Ontario Naturalists (FON) and the Canadian Nature Federation (CNF). The members are from various backgrounds and some work professionally in the fields of conservation and education.
The Essex County Field Naturalists' Club is involved in many areas of conservation, education and exploration with committees dedicated towards Heritage Fundraising, Stewardship, Bluebird Monitoring and Field Trips.
email: phil_roberts@wecec.org
Matthew Child is Director of Watershed Restoration at the Essex Region Conservation Authority, where his work focuses primarily on ERCA's biological, forestry, water quality enhancement, and land use planning programs. Prior to joining ERCA in 1998 Matthew worked for five years as an environmental consultant in Vancouver, BC. He holds Bachelors of Science and Master in Environmental Studies degrees from the University of Western Ontario and York University, respectively.
email: matthew_child@wecec.org
Business and Agriculture
Mr. Tamr is an operations manager and a Senior Environmental Engineer in the Windsor and Sarnia, Ontario, offices of GENIVAR Inc. Mr. Tamr completed his undergraduate academic training at the Southern Illinois University specializing in Civil Engineering, and his graduate academic training at the Illinois Institute of Technology, specializing in Environmental Engineering. Mr. Tamr is a registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in the Province of Ontario and he is a Qualified Person (QP) for completing and submitting a Record of Site Condition for Phase I and Phase II ESA. He is also a member of the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce Environmental Committee.
He promotes awareness of environmental issues for clients throughout southwest Ontario. He has conducted numerous Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments for a variety of industrial, commercial and agricultural sector clients throughout Ontario and the United States, dealing with a wide range of contaminants in soil and groundwater.
Radwan has over 21 years of professional experience in consulting, environmental services, engineering design/analysis and project management. He has been involved in engineering design, analysis, and plans preparation, project management, preparation of technical reports and proposals, management and coordination of field operations for environmental and construction projects, site investigations and regulatory closure, site remediation projects, environmental assessments, and regulatory compliance, and had performed geotechnical assessments and investigations for small and large environmental and civil projects.
email: radwan_tamr@wecec.org

Juliet Mohammed
Juliet Mohammed, B.A. (Hons) (York) (Dean’s honour roll), LL.B. (Windsor), Barrister and Solicitor. Juliet was admitted to the Ontario Bar in June 2011. She currently practices law and is a Senior Case Management Analyst in the Legal and Policy Support Services at the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation. As Senior Case Management Analyst, Juliet delivers province wide training, advocates before the Assessment Review Board and monitors the case managed stream of appeals. Juliet also serves on the National Distributed Member Learning Team with Engineers Without Borders (EWB) supporting 28 chapters across Canada. Her research interests include a focus on developing and maintaining sustainable communities through interdisciplinary access to resources and education.
In her third year of law school, Juliet was hired by the President of the University of Windsor to conduct legal research on access to education. She focused her research on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on the United Nations Brundtland Commission definitions of sustainability and sustainable development where she drafted two comprehensive reports with recommendations for the President that he implemented. In her second report, Juliet designed a university business model of implementing access to education and resources to generate and maintain regional sustainability.
email: juliet_mohammed@wecec.org
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