Michael D. Mehta

Dr. Michael D. Mehta (born 1965 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is an environmental social scientist who specializes in science, technology and society with a focus on environmental and health risk issues. His recent work focuses on community resistance, resiliency and social innovation with a particular emphasis on citizen science. He was co-founder and coordinator of Help the Kelp Project, and was co-founder and a Director of community-based electrical non-profit society GabEnergy on Gabriola Island, British Columbia. In 2015 he formed three new organizations; namely, the Salish Sea Marine Ecosystem Society, Western Canada Renewable Energy Association, and the Gabriola Island Clean Air Society. He is a founding Director of an international organization called Doctors and Scientists Against Woodsmoke Pollution.He leads a project called the Solar Compass - Canada's first solar road, and he is the CEO and President of the Sweet Spot Solar Company.He is of Indo-Canadian and Parsi descent, and son of retired Rheumatologist Dinshaw M. Mehta, M.D., F.R.C.P. (born 1932) and Sarah (Sally) E. Mackay (1942-1991). His siblings are Toronto-based artist Lisa Cripps and early childhood education specialist Tammy Vieira of Pickering, Ontario. Dr. Mehta has been a fierce opponent of the proposed KGHM-Ajax Mine in Kamloops, B.C., which was rejected by the provincial government on December 14, 2017. Mehta played a major role along with other local groups in providing key facts and data to the opposition coalitions.