The 2009 “Brownfielder of the Year” award for individual      achievement is awarded to Tammy Lomas-Jylhä, Vice President   of Remediation and Brownfield Services at OCETA and Executive   Director of the Canadian Brownfields Network. “This award   acknowledges a remarkable devotion to the notion of brownfield   redevelopment that goes above and beyond professional   commitment,” the jury noted.  “Ms. Lomas-Jylha’s tireless efforts   across Canada over the past decade have made a genuine   difference.”

Biography

Tammy Lomas-Jylhä has more than 25 years of diversified public and private sector experience in the environmental industry.

Currently Tammy is Vice President of Sustainable Remediation and Brownfield Services at OCETA where she manages activities associated with the aboutREMEDIATION.com business. She has also acted as the Executive Director for the Canadian Brownfields Network since 2004. 

Her recent work focuses on connecting private and public stakeholders; creating demand for innovative environmental and clean technology solutions; integrating approaches to support sustainable communities; and building capacity for remediation and brownfield redevelopment in Canada.

Tammy collaborates with all three levels of government and the private sector to encourage green remediation, application of innovative approaches, and sustainable brownfield redevelopment through the development of decision support tools, market assessment and research, facilitation of policy working sessions and delivery of workshops and training. 

In partnership with public and private stakeholder organizations, Tammy has delivered over 35 knowledge and training workshops; transferred and exchanged knowledge on environmental and clean technologies; and facilitated stakeholder engagement initiatives to develop guidance frameworks and compendiums of best practices.  In particular, she played an instrumental role in the development of the Redevelopment Framework for Former Service Stations™, the Municipal Brownfields Redevelopment Toolbox (BF Roadmap) and aboutREMEDIATION.com - Canada's brownfield and contaminated sites webportal.

Tammy has participated on numerous international, national, federal and provincial committees, councils and working groups. Recent committee participation includes: the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund Council, ECO Canada - National Contaminated Sites Steering Committee, the Federal Government’s Technology Advancement Working Group under the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan (FCSAP), and the Province of Ontario’s Brownfield Stakeholder Group.

Prior to joining OCETA’s leadership team, Tammy produced curriculum and instructed at several post-secondary institutions in Ontario.  In addition, Tammy developed specialized expertise in designing test procedures and conducting field assessment studies and laboratory bioassays on sediments from the Great Lakes Areas of Concern and Remedial Action Plan Sites while working with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. She has extensive experience developing strategies, policies and guidelines related to sediment contamination and toxicity.