Kaella-Marie Earle

Kaella-Marie Earle is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi) from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory and Aroland First Nation. She currently works at Enbridge in energy transition services as an industrial decarbonization engineer, co-leading strategy for the reduction and elimination of methane emissions in gas transmission and storage in Ontario. She previously worked at Enbridge in engineering construction field operations where she managed storage and transmission expansion work and integrity of major natural gas pipelines as well as in hydraulic system design for liquid pipelines in Canada and the US. She additionally serves as Vice-Chairperson of the Indigenous Advisory Committee of the Canada Energy Regulator, working with a team of Indigenous leaders across Canada to advise the Board of Directors on building strategy for the inclusion of Indigenous people in energy as well as the implementation of UNDRIP. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Chemical Engineering Technology from Cambrian College as well as a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Laurentian University, and is currently attending DeGroot School of Business at McMaster University to become a Chartered Director. Ms. Earle also served as a former member of the NWMO Indigenous Council of Youth and Elders, as previous Co-Chair of the Indigenous Inclusion Committee for the Young Pipeliners Association of Canada, and other leadership roles on energy transition and the inclusion of women in energy. Ms. Earle’s career goal is to weave her Anishinaabe cultural values into her engineering work in a way that will lead the oil and gas industry to a lower carbon energy future, especially for the elimination of methane emissions in frontline operations.