Patrick Howe

Background

About Patrick Howe

Executive Director of the Northeast Capital Industrial Association The Voice of Industry in our Region The Northeast Capital Industrial Association (NCIA) is a not-for-profit industry cooperative representing industry in Strathcona County, Sturgeon County and The City of Fort Saskatchewan. As the respected voice of industry in the region, NCIA promotes and supports sustainable industrial growth and high quality of life through environmental, socio-economic, and public safety programs. With their partners and stakeholders in industry and government, NCIA plays a key role in helping to build accountability and set high stewardship standards for companies operating in the region, including: • The Regional Noise Management Model, a regulatory tool for managing industrial noise on a large scale and the first of its kind in the world. • Air quality monitoring and reporting for residents through Heartland Air Monitoring Partnership. • A collaborative approach to mutual aid and emergency notifications through NR CAER. • Joint efforts with the Government of Alberta on a regional groundwater management project to protect the Beverly Channel Aquifer for future generations. • A Water Management Framework to protect the Devon to Pakan reach of the North Saskatchewan River from municipal and industrial effluent discharges. • The establishment of Alberta’s Industrial Heartland as a Designated Industrial Zone.