Beverly (Pixie) Hobby

Since 2014 Pixie has practiced environmental law in South Surrey & White Rock and advising law firms representing First Nations. She serves on the Boards of Directors of the Dunsmuir Community Garden Group, the Unity of White Rock, and the Turkana Empowerment Project, an African educational charity. Pixie volunteers with Seeds for Change and Surrey Threshold Singers, who sing at bedside at end of life.

After joining the Department of Justice’s Tax Litigation Section in 1981, she transferred to Environment Canada in 1988 to work on federal/provincial cooperation to implement the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, and to work on an International Convention on Climate Change. She prepared Canada’s amicus curiae brief and assisted US Counsel in the Acid Rain Appeal before the US Court of Appeals in 1989.

In 1990 Pixie joined the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency as Instructing Counsel for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. Pixie she worked on Indigenous self-government for forestry and land management, and the negotiation of the First Nations Land Management Agreement.

In 1995 Pixie joined Environment Canada’s Pacific & Yukon Office and worked on litigation on environmental protection and assessment, and negotiating environmental guidelines for the BC Treaty Process.

After joining the Department of Justice Vancouver Office in 2008, Pixie served as counsel in public review panels established under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act to examine the impact of major projects across Canada.

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