Reconciliation Cannot Be Seasonal
By Christy Smith, Senior Vice President, Indigenous Interests and Community Well-being Today, organizations and communities across Canada are recognizing Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. These moments matter. They create space to honour Survivors, remember the children who never came home, and deepen our understanding of the lasting impacts of […]
The Growing Influence of Indigenous Leadership in Energy
Across Atlantic Canada and beyond, Indigenous Nations and communities are playing an increasingly influential role in shaping the future of energy and major project development.
Steady Ground in an Unsteady Season
What UBCM 2026 tells us about getting things built in British Columbia By Katie Shaw, Vice President, Project Realization Ahead of the Union of BC Municipalities Convention, Vancouver, September 14–18, 2026 Before anything else. Communities across the province are mourning Amshen Joan Phillip, MLA for Vancouver-Strathcona, who passed away on August 28th after a lifetime […]
What Generate 2026 Told Me About the Real Work Ahead in Clean Energy
By Jason Veness, Director of Indigenous Interests and Community Wellbeing, Falkirk I went to Generate 2026 with a simple question. We hear a lot about Indigenous ownership in BC’s clean energy boom. What does that actually mean for the communities behind the projects? The numbers are real and they are moving fast. Every one of […]
The Real Challenge Isn’t the Model
By Adelle Roberge, Senior Water Resources Engineer, Water Stewardship As water resource engineers, we often focus on improving our technical tools. Better models, more monitoring data, higher-resolution climate projections, and increasingly sophisticated analyses all help us better understand complex systems. But one observation continues to stand out. The biggest project challenges are often not technical. […]
Trust, Transparency, and the Future of Impact Assessment
By Martha Baldwin, Practice Area Manager, Regulatory Approvals Next week, members of the Falkirk team will be in Québec City for IAIA26 and the timing couldn’t be better. Across Canada right now, there’s a growing momentum to get projects built. In the mining and renewable energy sectors, where we’re actively supporting clients through federal and […]
Who Cares About Groundwater?
By Pattie Amison, Practice Area Manager and Principal Hydrogeologist As a principal hydrogeologist at Falkirk Consulting, I think about groundwater every day. After more than 20 years in this field, that’s expected—but everyone else should care too. Groundwater holds about 30% of Earth’s freshwater and provides roughly a quarter of the water humans withdraw, […]