About the Company
Counterspil Research Inc. specializes in oil and chemical spill control for facilities and geographical areas of concern. CRI provides cleanup advice at spills and conducts technical studies relating to facility assessment, spill risk, trajectory modelling, accident prevention, emergency response strategies, countermeasures equipment, and contamination assessment and remediation. Demonstrated skills include: equipment testing and recommendations spill response training preparing technical reports and operations manuals developing contingency plans and sensitivity maps
Counterspil occupies an office in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that features:  training area IBM pentium and laptop computers, projector up-to-date software report preparation equipment: scanner, printers, CD writer,  report binder The company maintains an extensive library on oil and chemical spills. Information includes properties data, fate and effects, contingency planning, and cleanup guidelines, regulations and techniques for releases on land and into water. Brochures and test reports have been compiled for most commercial spill countermeasures equipment and materials: booms, skimmers, chemical agents, separators, pumps, sorbents, storage units, response vessels and incinerators.	Counterspil office

Personnel Lauri Solsberg, P.Eng. CRI's president, Mr. Lauri Solsberg, became an independent consultant in May 1986 and incorporated Counterspil Research Inc. on October 16, 1986. His experience in oil and hazardous material spills dates back to 1973. He is a chemical engineer (University of Toronto) with a masters degree in environmental engineering (University of Western Ontario).

Lauri has worked with his counterparts world-wide on accident prevention and control equipment including containment, recovery, transfer, treatment and disposal systems. He has published many reports and papers on these subjects. His experience includes extensive fieldwork in responding to spills in a cleanup capacity. For more than five years, he evaluated spill response technologies for the Canadian government through laboratory, test tank and in-situ trials. Since joining the consulting sector in 1980, he has continued to respond to spills, test and recommend equipment, and investigate a wide range of spill control devices and methods. Laurie has also prepared many contingency plans, spill response manuals and environmental impact statements. The development and instruction of training programs has been a key part of his work since 1980. A member of the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia and Ontario, Mr. Solsberg has taken oil spill courses at the Petroleum Institute for Training Services in Edmonton, Alberta and at the Marine Oil Pickup Service in Seattle, Washington. He has also attended the Arctic Summer School of the University of Alberta and the Hazardous Material Spill Course at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Maureen McGrath Maureen has a Bachelor of Science in Physical Geography with a Minor in Environmental Toxicology (Simon Fraser University).  Maureen first joined Counterspil Research Inc. in 1991 and has worked in spill-related areas since 1988.

Maureen researches countermeasures systems including vessels, booms, skimmers, sorbents, dispersants, pumps, storage units, separators, and incinerators.  Her work has included the investigation of equipment and strategies for dealing with both cold weather and temperate climate spills.  Maureen prepares and reviews oil and chemical spill contingency plans, operations manuals and training guides.  She has also conducted environmental assessments including soil contamination analyses.  The Transportation of Dangerous Goods and the effects and response to toxic chemicals have been additional areas of study.