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Draft National Wastewater Regs Now Available

Draft National Wastewater Regs Now Available

Posted on 09 February 2010

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Environment Minister Jim Prentice has announced that a draft of proposed municipal wastewater systems effluent regulations is now available for public consultation. Once in force, these regulations will [...]

Manitoba Declares War on Phosphorus

Manitoba Declares War on Phosphorus

Posted on 19 October 2009

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Manitoba is implementing new rules for livestock waste management in response to recommendations made by the Clean Environment Commission (CEC) and the auditor general, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers [...]

New Sewage Rules in Manitoba Met with Criticism

New Sewage Rules in Manitoba Met with Criticism

Posted on 30 September 2009

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Manitoba has announced new rules for sewage disposal, including a ban on new sewage ejectors and a ban on septic fields in sensitive areas. “Manitobans recognize it is time to move beyond outdated [...]

New Treatment System at Nipissing First Nation

New Treatment System at Nipissing First Nation

Posted on 28 August 2009

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Ontario’s Nipissing First Nation welcomes its new Garden Village Water and Wastewater Treatment facilities, built using $14 million in federal funding and $2.1 million of its own. The facilities [...]

Baird Talks Sewage at AMO

Baird Talks Sewage at AMO

Posted on 19 August 2009

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The Association of Ontario Municipalities’ annual conference was a chance for some municipal leaders to ask questions about—what else—stimulus funding. But it was in the media scrum that the real [...]

$93.3M for York, Durham Wastewater Improvements

$93.3M for York, Durham Wastewater Improvements

Posted on 04 August 2009

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The governments of Canada and Ontario have set aside a total of $93.3 million in funding to support the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant in Pickering. The governments of Canada and Ontario [...]

Dimethyl Sulfate Blacklisted

Dimethyl Sulfate Blacklisted

Posted on 04 August 2009

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Last week saw the release of the final screening assessments for 18 substances assessed in Batch 4 of Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan. Of the substances assessed in Batch 4, one substance poses [...]

Cold Snap

Cold Snap

Posted on 27 July 2009

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Just south of the Arctic Circle in the small Nunavut hamlet of Chesterfield Inlet—or in Inuktitut, Igluligaarjuk—a sewage truck dumps its potent—smelling load into a shallow hole in the ground [...]

Smelly Cities

Smelly Cities

Posted on 19 June 2009

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Poor Halifax. Since its brand-new, $54-million sewage treatment plant failed on January 14, about 82 million litres of raw sewage per day has flowed directly into Halifax harbour—and, along with [...]

Suncor Subcontractor Sentenced

Suncor Subcontractor Sentenced

Posted on 25 May 2009

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Subcontractor Rodney McCabe has been ordered under house arrest for 11 months for his role in sewage being released into the Athabasca River. In 2005 and 2006, Suncor Energy's Borealis and Millennium [...]

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