Nina is the director of the fossil fuel program of the Pembina Institute, Canada’s leading energy think tank. She focuses on finding opportunities to reduce the environmental impacts of fossil fuel development while maintaining industry competitiveness. Nina collaborates extensively with industry, government, communities and other non profits.

Nina’s previous experience working for a large oilsands company included project management and project engineering roles, strategic planning and regulatory approval work.  She has a deep understanding of oilsands operations after spending five years working in Fort McMurray and three years in the company’s Calgary office. She also spent one year working with a large international development agency in Sub-Saharan Africa, connecting rural farmers to output markets.

Nina has a bachelor of engineering with a minor in management from McGill University, and is a registered professional engineer in Alberta.

Nina is an avid cross-country skier who is attempting to foster a similar love in her husband and two young children. In the summer she can be found pottering in her garden, camping with the family or mountain biking. She is based in Edmonton. 

Contact Nina Lothian

cell: 403-669-5711 • work: 780-229-3154 ext. 205

Nina Lothian's Recent Publications

Alberta is ready for the energy evolution A look back at the 2018 Alberta Climate Summit

Blog

Oct. 2, 2018 - By Nina Lothian

The diversity in the room – with representatives from government, industry, community organizations, Indigenous communities, and other environmental groups — clearly demonstrates a momentum and interest in the energy evolution in Alberta.

Fifty years of oilsands equals only 0.1% of land reclaimed Oilsands at 50 Series – The Real Cost of Development, Part 3

Blog

Oct. 13, 2017 - By Nina Lothian

Over the past 50 years, oilsands mining has ballooned in production from 60,000 barrels of oil per day to 1.2 million barrels per day.

Statements of concern on tailings ponds solutions Questions for industry's tailings management proposals

Publication

March 22, 2017 - By Jodi McNeill, Nina Lothian

Tailings ponds operators submitted management plans on November 1.  OSEC, a coalition of environmental organizations filed statements of concern for each plan. 

Tailings Management Plans A review of Directive 085

Publication

March 22, 2017 - By Jodi McNeill, Nina Lothian

The total volume of fluid tailings ponds, a toxic byproduct of Alberta oilsands mining, reached 1.18 trillion litres in 2015. This is the result of 50 years of regulatory and engineering shortcomings.

Landowners’ Guide to Oil and Gas Development 3rd edition, all new and revised

Publication

Nov. 6, 2016 - By Duncan Kenyon, Nikki Way, Andrew Read, Binnu Jeyakumar, Benjamin Israel, Nina Lothian

Alberta’s energy development landscape is a maze of regulations and complex relationships. This guide provides advice on negotiating the best relationship possible between industry representatives who live and breathe this subject matter and property owners or communities that may be facing it for the first time.