Save Our Rivers Society is proud to announce its Board of Advisors, featuring a range of luminaries in such fields such as journalism, biology, law, economics, and fly-fishing. From international bestselling author Naomi Klein, to Greepeace co-founder and author Rex Weyler, to some of Canada’s top fish biologists and energy experts – Alexandra Morton, Otto Langer, Drs. Hartman, Rosenau, Orr, and Calvert - their insights and passion inspire and empower Save Our Rivers in the battle to protect BC’s watersheds and public energy system. The Board of Advisors counsels SORS in various matters related to the push to privatize BC’s rivers for power production. The talent and credibility of these individuals is indicative of the importance of Save Our Rivers’ mission - and they will continue to be an immense help to the organization in the coming years.

Dan Burnett
Dr. Michael Byers
Dr. John Calvert
Dr. Gordon F. Hartman
Wendy Holm
Naomi Klein
Otto Langer
Alexandra Morton
Dr. William E. Rees
Dr. Marvin Rosenau
Kathy Ruddick
Hereditary Chief Alfred Scow
Catherine Stewart
Rex Weyler

Dan Burnett is widely recognized as one of the top media and defamation lawyers in Canada. Burnett has represented clients in litigation before all court levels including the Supreme Court of Canada on precedent setting cases in areas such as defamation, free speech, privacy, injunctions and estate disputes. Dan has been a featured panelist, moderator and lecturer on issues ranging from freedom of information to internet legal issues to libel. Dan heads the Owen Bird Law Corporation's Media Law Practice Group and is a founding member of the Canadian Media Lawyers Association.

Dr. Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia. He conducts research on Canada-U.S. relations, including environmental protection, international trade, and trans-boundary waters. Prior to 2005, he was Professor of Law and Director of Canadian Studies at Duke University; from 1996-1999 he was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University. Dr. Byers is a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and TheTyee.ca, and a frequent guest on CBC, CTV, and Global.

Dr. John Calvert teaches economics and public policy at Simon Fraser University. A leading expert on issues respecting public power and the Campbell government’s disastrous Energy Policy, Dr Calvert is the author of Liquid Gold which marshals all the facts and underscores the idiotic private power initiatives of the Campbell government.

Dr. Gordon F. Hartman has consulted on fisheries issues in a number of foreign countries to help them contribute to the well being of that resource. Leading fishery scientists all over the world will attest to his knowledge and ability. Dr Hartman, long a premier scientist and manager with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, was one of the “dissident scientists”, as Alcan referred to them, who helped mightily in the fight to cancel the Kemano Completion Program proposal for the Nechako system.

Wendy Holm is one of the country’s foremost agrologists is a much honoured resource economist, journalist, and writer who is passionate about food security, Canadian democracy, and sovereignty. She is an acknowledged authority on the North America Treaty Association (NAFTA).

Naomi Klein is a world-renown Canadian journalist and bestselling author on topics ranging from human rights and the environment to economics and geopolitics. Her latest book, the international #1 bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a searing indictment of the Milton Freidman school of economics, which advocates for the privatization of public resources and assets through forceful “shock therapy” methods. Klein came to prominence with her 2000 international bestseller No Logo.

Otto Langer obtained his BSc(Zool) (1968) and MSc(1974) in fisheries ecology from the University of Alberta. He worked for the Department of Fisheries and Environment Canada from 1969 to 2002 in salmon biology, habitat protection and contaminants control. During those years he pioneered the enforcement of the habitat provisions of the Fisheries Act and appeared in over 100 courts across Canada as an expert witness on many habitat destruction and pollution cases. He left DFO in 2002 and worked with the David Suzuki Foundation as a director and established their Marine Conservation Group that specialized in salmon farming issues and as a watchdog of DFO. He has published articles in numerous technical publications and books. In 2005 he co-authored Stain Upon the Sea - a book that challenged BC salmon farming practices. The book won the Rodrick Haig-Brown BC Book Prize.

Alexandra Morton has, from her home in Echo Bay in the Broughton Archipelago, courageously taken on the fish farm industry and both senior governments. Her many published scientific accounts of the death of and damage to Pink and Chum salmon smolts by sea lice from adjacent fish farms has shown beyond doubt, despite the best propaganda efforts of the industry and government, that fish farms are ruinous to our native wild salmon. Morton's work has been published in such esteemed scientific journals as Science, and she has been featured in news publications around the world, including the New York Times.

Dr. William E. Rees is the inventor of the "eco-footprint" concept and one the world's foremost ecological and sustainability experts. Dr. Rees received his PhD in population ecology from the University of Toronto and has taught at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) since 1969-70. He founded SCARP’s ‘Environment and Resource Planning’ concentration and from 1994 to 1999 served as director of the School. Prof. Rees’ teaching and research focus on the public policy and planning implications of global environmental trends and the necessary ecological conditions for sustainable socioeconomic development. He has been awarded a Senior Killam Research Prize from UBC and in 2000 The Vancouver Sun recognized him as one of British Columbia’s top “public intellectuals.” In 2006 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada.

Dr. Marvin Rosenau has worked over the last 25 years in the field of fisheries in academia, government, and consulting. He has worked for several government agencies including the British Columbia Provincial Fisheries program as a research and management biologist. Much of his work has focused on habitat and flow-restoration for stream and lake-rearing fishes. Dr. Rosenau is an expert on the impacts of hydroelectric projects on fish habitat.

Kathy Ruddick is well known across the country as one of the premier flyfishers in Canada. As the first woman selected for Team Canada, Kathy has represented her country at the World Flysishing Championships and other international competitions in places such as Australia and New Zealand. In 1999 she placed tenth in the world – amongst 110 male competitors. For many years she owned and ran Ruddick’s Fly Shop at various locations in Metro Vancouver.

Hereditary Chief Alfred Scow, C.M., of the Qui’Qwa’Sot’Enox Nation on Gilford Island near Port Hardy, was the first Aboriginal person in BC to graduate from law school (UBC), to become a member of the Bar, and to be appointed to the Bench. Justice Scow Retired from the Bench in December 1994. Founding president of the Vancouver Indian Centre, now the Aboriginal Friendship Centre, he served for six years as a Board member of UBC’s Alumni Association and three years on the University Senate. Chief Scow helped establish the First Nations House of Learning at UBC and continues to serve on the Management Council. He received an Honourary Doctor of Law degree from UBC in 1997 and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2000.

Catherine Stewart is one of Canada’s premier environmental campaigners. Long involved in protecting the environment with Greenpeace, she is now Salmon Farming Campaign manager for Living Oceans Society.

Rex Weyler is a journalist, author, and ecologist – and one of the founding members of Greenpeace International. His book Greenpeace: The Inside Story (Raincoast, 2004), was a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen award for political writing and for the BC Book Award for non-fiction. His history of the American Indian Movement, Blood of the Land (New Society, 1997), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Weyler’s work has appeared in books, magazines, and newspapers including the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vancouver Sun, and National Geographic. Weyler writes regularly for The Tyee online, and posts his “Deep Green” column at the Greenpeace International website.