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Life membership may be granted to current or former CDA members whose lifetime of dedication and achievement has contributed significantly to the dam industry in Canada. The CDA Honours and Awards Committee recommends individual(s) to the Board for receiving Life Membership. Generally, recipients will have retired from active work (beyond occasional individual consulting) and will have been active members of the CDA or its predecessor associations for at least 10 years. Life Membership includes complimentary membership in CDA.
Life Membership Application Form
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Meet Johanne Bibeau, Ing., 2025 recipient
Johanne holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1984 and has served as a director of national and international dam and hydroelectric major projects. From 2002 to 2005, she was the Quebec director of the CDA, and participated in the annual technical seminars and annual meetings of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) for nearly 20 years. She built international bridges between the CDA and other global dam groups by serving as the CDA's representative to ICOLD for many years, and chaired one of ICOLD's technical committees on water resources development planning. Johanne also served as co-chair of the ICOLD's 2019 annual conference, which took place in Ottawa, welcoming approximately 1,400 delegates from around the world. |
Meet Harvey McLeod, FEIC, P.Eng. P. Geo., MSc., 2025 recipient Harvey McLeod’s career has spanned 50 years with Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd., starting out as the dam engineer for a major river basin in northern Nigeria assessing potential irrigation dam sites, to his current role as trusted adviser to major mining clients on tailings dam design and safety. Over his career Harvey has worked on hundreds of tailings dams in over 25 countries with all technical components from engineering to environment. Harvey was the CDA representative on the ICOLD tailings dam committee for 20 years, which included 10 years as Chair of the committee. As chair, he led two milestone Bulletins (“Tailings Dam Technology” and” Tailings Dam Safety”). Harvey was on the CDA organizing committee for the ICOLD 2019 conference, which saw a record attendance at the Tailings Dam Subcommittee workshops and meetings. |
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Meet Caius Priscu, Ph.D, P.Eng., 2025 recipient
Dr. Priscu is currently an independent consultant and Principal Geotechnical Engineer with Priscu and Associates in Lake Country, BC. He has been associated with the CDA for more than two decades as a conference participant, a CDA member, a Corporate Sponsor, a CDA Director (for Manitoba 2008-11), and a dedicated volunteer. He continues to be a strong supporter of CDA and the work being done by so many professionals and volunteers in this association and representing CDA in many international conferences and workshops. Dr. Priscu has over 35 years of experience as a civil works contractor, consultant, dam owner/operator and global corporate lead, in the field of geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering related to the mining and water resources industries, involved in projects and operations on five continents. His specialty is dam engineering, dam safety, risk management, and governance of both tailings storage facilities and water retaining dams. In Canada, he has been a true volunteer of many other organizations such as MAC, CIM, and CGS. Internationally, he served on behalf of ICOLD Chile in ICOLD Technical Committee H; Dam Safety, and currently for Romanian National Committee on Large Dams (ROCOLD) in ICOLD TC L: Tailings Dams and Waste Lagoons, as well as in the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) tailings working group (TWG) and its working subcommittees relating to tailings dams. Dr. Priscu holds a PhD in Mining Engineering from McGill University and is a registered Professional Engineer in B.C. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor with the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Priscu is the recipient of the Canadian Dam Association 2023 Peter Halliday Award for Service, and the 2024 CIM Distinguished Lecturer Award. |
Meet Greg Snyder, P.Eng., FEC, 2025 recipient
Greg Snyder, P.Eng., FEC, was the Engineering Manager for the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Facility of the Lower Churchill Project and now acts as an advisor as a Subject Matter Expert in Hydro. He has 44 years of experience, including numerous hydroelectric projects and water resource projects in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and British Columbia. Greg has extensive experience in the design and construction of new hydroelectric facilities, as well as in dam safety projects, dam safety inspections, design and construction for modifications for rehabilitation of aging structures. He has been involved in projects on over 300 dams on 50 systems in the Atlantic Provinces and British Columbia. |
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Meet Michel Tremblay, Ph.D., P. Eng, 2025 recipient
Dr. Tremblay is an engineer with a Ph.D. in hydraulics. He has over 40 years of experience in the field of dams and hydroelectric developments. At AtkinsRéalis, he was Director of Engineering and continues to occasionally support his colleagues in addressing challenges related to hydroelectric developments. He also contributes to some courses at Polytechnique Montréal. |
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