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- February 14-16, 2012: Environment Business 2012
- February 15, 2012: Blue Drinks Toronto
- February 15, 2012: Seminar: Crawling Under the Roadblocks to Global Water Solutions
- February 17, 2012: Lecture: Water Security in Canada
- February 22-23, 2012: International Conference on Stormwater and Urban Water Systems Modeling
- February 27-28, 2012: Emerging Issues in Groundwater Conference
- February 28-29, 2012: Oil Sands Water Management Initiative
- February 28, 2012: Water & Imagination: Our Human Expression
- March 2, 2012: Water For People Canada Gala
- March 5, 2012: Water and Discourse: Shaping a New Culture of Water Consciousness
Items tagged: oil sands
Items Found: 15
February 2, 2012 - 10:23 am
This guest column is part of Building Our Blue Future, a monthly web series that narrates Canada’s water story as it happens.
In 2003, Don Tapscott published a book called The Naked Corporation, which declared that the boundary-less immediacy of the Internet would expose business practices and radically...
Categories: Blog
July 21, 2011 - 9:42 am
Environment Minister Peter Kent today issued a press release announcing an integrated monitoring plan for Canada's oil sands region. The Government of Canada will be working with the Province of Alberta on implementing the plan.
"The oil sands represent a significant, long-term economic advantage...
Categories: News, Western Canada
July 18, 2011 - 5:28 am
The Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) has launched a new Groundwater Working Group (GWWG) to focus on improving scientific knowledge of regional groundwater systems using effective characterization, monitoring, and modelling approaches that, according to a press release, "support...
Categories: News, Western Canada
January 28, 2011 - 3:09 pm
There is immense opportunity for water technology innovation in Canada's oil sands region.
Even the greatest oil sands critics would find it hard to argue with that statement. But the more important question is whether operators are choosing to embrace the opportunity to become global leaders.
In...
Categories: Blog
January 3, 2011 - 8:54 am
Happy New Year! A brief news roundup following a two-week break:
1. Shortly after the Royal Society of Canada released its oil sands report and just before the holidays began, Minister of the Environment John Baird released the results of the independent report on the oilsands chaired by Elizabeth...
Categories: International, National, News, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
December 16, 2010 - 9:27 am
Yesterday's release of the Royal Society of Canada's Expert Panel report on the environmental and health impacts of the oil sands industry (pdf) garnered a flurry of activity on the web—especially around water issues. Here's brief rundown of some the praise and scrutiny it has received:
"The expert...
Categories: Blog
December 7, 2010 - 9:25 am
Environment Canada is not adequately monitoring Canada’s fresh water resources, says Scott Vaughan, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, in his report tabled today in the House of Commons.
“Environment Canada has been running the federal government’s water monitoring...
Categories: National, News
July 12, 2010 - 7:48 am
Recognizing the importance of finding efficient and economical ways to recover heavy oil from the oil sands regions, GE and Calgary-based FilterBoxx Water & Environmental Corp. have teamed up to develop water treatment solutions.
GE and FilterBoxx recently signed an agreement to develop integrated...
Categories: International, National, News, Western Canada
December 15, 2009 - 12:45 pm
Edmonton-based Seair Inc. has sold six large industrial water treatment units to an oil sands facility for use in treating groundwater prior to mining. The water, which has not come in contact with the mining operation, can be pumped out and released to the environment as long as it meets all regulated...
Categories: National, News, Western Canada
August 6, 2009 - 11:48 am
Banff, AB
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Discussing water and energy in Alberta's oil sands.
Categories: Events
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