The Pembina Institute works directly with communities, Aboriginal people, companies, governments, schools and the public to create sustainable energy solutions and minimize the impacts of oil and gas projects.

Our work in the North focuses on three main issue areas: Climate Change, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Management of Oil and Gas Development. For more information, please visit Our Work.

Our Team

Jennifer Grant is the Director of Arctic Energy Solutions. She has worked with the Pembina Institute since 2006 on a variety of issues including the environmental impacts of Canadian oil sands development and cumulative effects and land use planning in the North. Jennifer represented the Pembina Institute on the Reclamation Working Group and the Watershed Integrity Task Group of the Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA). Prior to her work with the Pembina Institute, Jennifer worked as a biologist, facilitator and educator for both government and non-government organizations. Jennifer holds a Master of Science in Ecosystem Management from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences with distinction from the University of Victoria. She is the co-author of Scenario Analysis: A Best Practice Approach to Assessing the Cumulative Impacts of the Mackenzie Gas Project; Catching Up: Conservation and Biodiversity Offsets in Alberta's Boreal Forest; Fact or Fiction: Oil Sands Reclamation; and Taking the Wheel: Correcting the Course of Cumulative Environmental Management in the Athabasca Oil Sands.

Jennifer Dagg is a Policy Analyst with the Arctic Energy Solutions team. Her work focuses on the effects of climate change and oil and gas development in Canada's north. She was one of the principal founders of a climate change awareness group at Trent University and has experience in environmental education and arctic ecology from northern Manitoba, Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory. Jennifer previously worked for Parks Canada and the Grand River Conservation Authority. Jennifer completed a B.Sc. (Honours) in Environmental Science at the University of Guelph and an M.Sc. at Trent University, where her research focused on the effects of climate change on the carbon cycle in tundra vegetation in the Northwest Territories. 

Peggy Holroyd, previously the Director of the Arctic Energy Solutions program, is currently on leave. Peggy has worked with the Pembina Institute since 2004. She works with First Nations, government and companies on a variety of projects related to cumulative effects assessment, and land and resource use planning. She is engaged in reviewing environmental assessments for new and proposed oil and gas projects, and identifying the potential cumulative impact of gas development in the Western Sedimentary Basin. Peggy also researches thresholds-based management of cumulative effects, corporate environmental responsibility, environmental externalities and socio-economic effects associated with energy projects. She has worked in public affairs, community development and education. Peggy holds a Master's in Environmental Design and BA in International Development from the University of Calgary with a specialization in northern planning and development from the Arctic Institute of North America.