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- May 22-24, 2012: Living Lakes Canada and Red Zone III Community Gathering
- May 23-26, 2012: CanWell: Canadian Groundwater Symposium
- May 24, 2012: Advancing Water Conservation: Leading Edge Tools & Technologies
- May 29, 2012: Webinar: Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective on Our Water Future
- June 1-4, 2012: Federation of Canadian Municipalities: 2012 Annual Conference and Expo
- June 4, 2012: Water and Lessons Learned: Have we quenched our thirst?
- June 5-8, 2012: Earth, Wind and Water – Elements of Life: 1st Joint CWRA / CGU National Conference
- June 5-7, 2012: IBM & WCIT 2012 World Tech Jam
- June 13–15, 2012: Membrane Filtration Technology: Fundamentals, Design and Applications
- June 14, 2012: Nutrients Removal in Ontario WWTPs: Future Challenges & Options
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Posted on May 23, 2012
This week, the Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) released Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective on our Water Future, a 42-page report that offers a uniquely Canadian perspective on our water future.
The report highlights a 16-city cross-Canada tour conducted by Canmore-based Bob Sandford, co-chair of the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW) and one of Canada's foremost water experts. Over a two-month period, Sandford talked to hundreds of Canadians, getting a first-hand account of the state of fresh water across the country.
Sandford released the report today at the 2012 Living Lakes Canada Gathering held at [...]
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Posted on May 17, 2012
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has announced the federal government's support for Bill C-383, which proposes stronger measures to prevent the bulk removal of water from Canada.
The bill was introduced by the MP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, Larry Miller, on December 13, 2011.
“I would like to commend Mr. Miller for introducing this legislation and for his commitment to this important issue,” said Baird. “Our government is committed to protecting Canada’s fresh water for the communities and ecosystems that depend upon it. We will continue to work with our provincial and territorial partners to ensure that Canada’s fresh [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2012
Can Alberta's oil sands balance environmental tradeoffs and economic returns? According to a new study from Alberta Innovates - Energy and Environmental Solutions (AI-EES), there may be a way.
In collaboration with the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), Alberta Environment and Water (AEW), and nine in situ producers, AI-EES today released the Thermal In-Situ Water Conservation Study summary report, which examines commercial and emerging technologies and their potential for maximizing water recycling and minimizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste generation in Alberta oil sands.
"In the context of sustainable [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2012
New rules being proposed this week would replace Manitoba's almost 50-year-old groundwater regulations as part of a strategy to better protect the 25 per cent of Manitobans who rely on well water, Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh announced today.
About 1,500 water wells are drilled in Manitoba each year. There are currently about 35,000 active water wells. The proposed legislation would include new driller responsibilities and liability insurance requirements that would protect landowners, including protection from the cost of uncontrolled flowing wells, said Mackintosh.
The proposed measures would be [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2012
The slow and steady decline in federal water science and management capacity may negatively affect government’s ability to protect Canada’s freshwater resources, says the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW).
“What is most concerning is that just as Canadian water issues are escalating, the capacity of the federal government to address them is being eroded,” said FLOW member and WWF-Canada's freshwater director, Tony Maas, on a report the group released today.
“The federal government has a constitutional responsibility to help address the growing health and environmental concerns facing Canadians and Canadian waters from [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2012
In March 2012, the Ministry of Environment (MOE) asked water professionals to participate in online focus groups, and to offer feedback via an online form. The objective was to facilitate a conversation with the water science community about how, together with the MOE, it can increase access to water data and information to support sustainable water use and management in BC.
In total, 31 people participating in the focus groups, and 27 respondents through the online comment form. Participants included representatives from a wide range of sectors from all across British Columbia.
For a look at what was said, and [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2012
Milestone Environmental Contracting Inc. has been awarded the contract to complete the capping of historically contaminated sediment in the Peninsula Harbour, which is a Great Lakes Area of Concern. The $7.3 million sediment capping project will begin this month.
Sediment in Peninsula Harbour is contaminated by mercury and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) from historical discharges of wastewater and storm water runoff from the local pulp mill, which closed in 2009. A 15-20 centimetre layer of clean sand will be placed on top of the contaminated sediment. This is said to accelerate natural recovery of Jellicoe Cove in Peninsula Harbour [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2012
A public-private partnership continues between Vancouver's Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. and Clean Water Services, a water resources management utility designed to protect the Tualatin Watershed. It recently announced the opening of what is said to be the world’s largest municipal nutrient recovery facility.
The Rock Creek Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, uses Ostara’s Pearl Nutrient Recovery Process to capture phosphorus and nitrogen from wastewater and transform them into Crystal Green, a slow-release fertilizer.
According to a recent press release, the recovery of phosphorus [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2012
NORAM Engineering and Constructors Ltd., a company specializing in the fields of nitration, sulphuric acid, and electrochemistry, has purchased a position in British Columbia-based ECOfluid Systems Inc., designer, builder, and operator of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants.
The acquisition widens ECOfluid’s technical and commercial resources, and its USBF® technology complements NORAM Biosystems Group’s VERTREAT™ and VERTAD™ ‘deep-shaft’ biological technologies.
ECOfluid will join NORAM at their offices located at 200 Granville Street, Vancouver. Read more about the company in Water's Next 2012. [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2012
The Sernas Group, a 220-person firm with offices in Canada and the USA, has merged wth GHD, an Australia-based engineering, architecture and environmental consulting company.
Sernas, and its associated business units of Ourston Roundabouts, Geomorphic Solutions, Nexgen Utilities, Transtech, SRM Associates and Sernas Associates, has a 50-year history, providing services in municipal and water resources engineering, transportation planning, land use planning, geomorphology, and environmental consulting.
The merger broadens GHD’s presence in the Americas with the addition of offices in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in Richmond [...]
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