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 Items tagged: MontrealItems Found: 13A Bitter PillJanuary 12, 2012 - 2:09 pm If the brook trout swimming in Dr. Sébastien Sauvé’s laboratory tanks at the City of Montreal wastewater treatment plant smiled while his team probed their brains for effects from trace pharmaceutical residues, it’s possible that antidepressants were responsible. Not that Sauvé, associate professor... Categories: Features Pond, Tunnel and PipeApril 17, 2011 - 3:08 pm It wasn’t a happy day back in 1987 when the International Joint Commission (IJC) listed Toronto’s waterfront as one of 43 Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes Basin. “Toronto the Good” was coming of age. Anxious to strut about the global stage, the city would welcome world leaders to the 1988... Categories: Features IWA: Day OneSeptember 19, 2010 - 6:58 pm "People have to come together to say 'we can't solve this by ourselves,'" said David Garman, the International Water Association's outgoing president at Sunday evening's World Congress opening ceremonies, speaking about the global water crisis and IWA's talented membership. Collaboration was a... Categories: Blog KSB Opens Montreal OfficeDecember 11, 2009 - 12:32 pm KSB Pumps Inc. has opened a new regional office in Montreal that will focus on customers and consulting engineering firms in Quebec. Located nearby Montréal-Trudeau International Airport, the new regional office will provide a base for supporting existing customer and distributor relationships in... Categories: International, National, News, Quebec Wastewater Funds for MontrealJuly 8, 2009 - 1:25 pm Canada and Quebec are partnering to improve a wastewater treatment facility in Montreal with a federal-provincial investment of up to $127.5 million. The funds will be used specifically to improve the disinfection process for wastewater at the Jean-R.-Marcotte treatment plant, which is situated in... Better, Faster, Longer: Gas Tax Extension for QuebecMay 14, 2009 - 1:36 pm The Canada-Quebec Gas Tax Fund has received a $1.8-billion boost and extension from 2010 and 2014. The fund supports environmentally sustainable infrastructure, such as water, wastewater, public transit and local roads. From 2005 to 2014, Quebec communities will receive over $3 billion through the... PRECO Means $700M for Quebec's WatermainsApril 7, 2009 - 2:01 pm After a winter of devastating watermain breaks and pipeline bursts, Quebec municipalities must have jumped with joy to learn that the province is investing heavily in water and sewer mains. An announcement yesterday confirmed that the governments of Canada and Quebec will jointly invest $700 million... GENIVAR Acquires WSA and EnvirotelFebruary 6, 2009 - 8:26 am The GENIVAR Income Fund has acquired two consulting engineering firms: Montreal-based WSA Trenchless Consultants Inc. and Sherbrooke-based Envirotel 3000 Inc. WSA specializes in municipal infrastructure, while Envirotel specializes in environmental services. WSA has expertise in trenchless technologies... Budget 2009: What Does Water Get?January 28, 2009 - 9:42 am Upgrades to Quebec water and sewer systems and other "priority" Building Canada Fund projects will be expedited, according to yesterday's budget release. This comes as a welcome announcement, especially after the latest aging water main catastrophe in Montreal. Infrastructure topped the list on the... Categories: Blog Medication Present in St. Lawrence RiverJanuary 26, 2009 - 10:15 am Chemotherapy products and certain hypertension and cholesterol medications are present in the St. Lawrence River. A study conducted by Université de Montréal researchers reveals that downstream and upstream water from the Montreal wastewater treatment plant contains bezafibrate (cholesterol reducing... Categories: News |
