Mr. Freeman has over 35 years of environmental, geosciences, and geotechnical experience. He is an expert in the process and informational requirements of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as well as various state-level regulations modeled after NEPA. His experience includes 3rd Party EIS direction for a project after it was remanded by federal district court to a USACE district for failure to meet NEPA requirements, 3rd Party EIS management of two recent 36-inch diameter oil pipelines delivering crude oil from the Alberta Oil Sands to markets in the United States, and transmission line and power plant EIS experience. He has conducted 3rd Party EIS projects for DOS, BLM, USACE, BPA, and Washington State EFSEC. In addition to NEPA and SEPA EIS management, his expertise includes pipeline route environmental and geotechnical assessment, NEPA consistency analysis, SEPA (Washington State), MEPA (Montana), and CEQA (California) consistency analysis, due diligence analysis, geohazards analysis, construction monitoring, cold regions engineering, site and route selection, project feasibility assessment, and environmental management consulting.

His expertise and experience also encompasses hazardous and solid waste management, remedial investigations, remedial actions and remedial cost assessments, as well as feasibility studies and hazards assessments. During his career, he has served as the project manager on numerous remedial investigations (RI) and feasibility studies (FS) under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) and the Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA). Mr. Freeman also has conducted extensive MTCA and CERCLA remediation cost analyses.

His expertise in geological and geohazards analyses includes fault hazard analyses for pipelines, dams, reservoirs, and water delivery flumes. He has analyzed slope stability concerns for linear energy and water transmission corridors, and has managed feasibility analyses for water supply dam and reservoir projects. He is a Registered Professional Geologist and Engineering Geologist in Oregon and a licensed Geologist, Engineering Geologist, and Hydrogeologist in Washington state. Mr. Freeman earned both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Geology from Michigan State University.

Mr. Kicklighter is an aquatic ecologist with over 19 years of professional experience assessing the impacts of human activities on a wide variety of habitats with an emphasis on marine, estuarine, and freshwater habitats. His work has spanned a wide array of engagements related to environmental impact statements (EISs), water resource permitting and re-licensing, natural resource damage assessments (NRDAs), development and implementation of mitigation projects, and scaling restoration measures. He has served as Project Manager on over a dozen interstate oil and gas pipeline projects, liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities, transmission line projects, hydro-electric operations, and non-energy projects during which his responsibilities included agency consultation, coordination of public participation and outreach, management of sub-contractors, and project coordination. Mr. Kicklighter holds a B.S. in Biology from Memphis State University and an M.S. in Ecology-Fisheries from San Diego State University.

Ms. Peters has over 25 years of experience in managing interdisciplinary environmental projects, environmental impact assessments, site selection studies, and regulatory compliance programs. In this capacity, she has participated in the preparation of numerous environmental impact reports, statements and assessments (EIRs/EISs/EIAs) for both national and international energy development projects. Her areas of technical expertise include regulatory analysis, land use, socioeconomics, and visual resources. Ms. Peter holds a Masters in Public Administration from California State University at San Francisco, and a B.A in Environmental Studies and Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.