Director of Corporate Planning and Sustainable Community Development
City of Dawson Creek

Emanuel Machado is the Director of Corporate Planning and Sustainable Community Development for the City of Dawson Creek.

The majority of his work involves creating and implementing the framework around sustainability and energy planning which has situated Dawson Creek as a “hub of alternative energy technologies” in a Northern environment.

Dawson Creek’s sustainability planning is based on the concept of planning for people, and with this in mind the City is updating all of its planning tools, and creating new ones as necessary, with the goal of putting people first.

Emanuel is also promoting the use of renewable energy and developing a framework that allows municipalities to meet their energy needs with clean renewable technologies such as wind, biomass and solar.

In 2007, Mr. Machado was awarded an Arbor Vitae Award from the BC Ministry of the Environment for his contributions to the protection and stewardship of the environment, and in June of last year he received the “Professional Award for Innovation in Local Government” from the Local Government Management Association of BC.