About

You could find Marilyn in Labrador or Placentia Bay or Nunavut or Ottawa … or anywhere in eastern Canada. 

Marilyn Butland of Butland Communications has decades of experience in securing trust and support for industrial clients, especially in rural and northern environments, and with Indigenous groups. Her work has ranged from working with owners to open and close mines and processing plants, to supporting Indigenous negotiating teams with multiple levels of government to achieve land claim agreements, to contributing to environmental assessment consultation and documentation to secure regulatory approvals for major projects. Often the projects are complex.

Butland Communications is a strategic business communications consultancy focused on project planning, stakeholder relations and corporate communications. Principal consultant Marilyn Butland is a valued adviser with extensive experience in energy, mining, aquaculture and wild fisheries, tourism, and government and Indigenous relations.  

Her clients are dynamic. Leaders. CEOs. Chiefs. Presidents. Executive Directors. Entrepreneurs. Senior Managers. Leadership Teams. People who are engaged in negotiation, investment, planning, communicating. In boardrooms, courtrooms, on the ground, and in community halls.