Gillian Macleod

Gillian has 41 years experience working at OPG (formerly Ontario Hydro) and has always carried an Environmental Portfolio. Since 2000 she has been exclusively working on environmental assessment for brownfield, greenfield and grayfield projects through out the Province of Ontario. These include the 550 MW combined cycle cogen gas plant at Portlands, and numerous hydro electric projects such as Wawaitin, Sandy Falls, Lower Sturgeon, Hound Chute, Mattagami Lake Dam, Peter Sutherland GS, Ranney Falls, Calabogie GS, Kakabeka Redevelopment and the Matabitchuan Redevelopment Projects. She also has conducted EAs for solar projects such as Nanticoke Solar LP and Gull Bay First Nations’ MicroGrid project. For all these projects she had provided support from concept phase through to construction and final handoff to operations. In addition, she has extensive experience working collaboratively with Indigenous Communities on these projects. In 2024 she received the OWA R.R. Dodokin Award for her work on Environmental Assessments and indigenous consultation.

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