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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
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Posted on January 20, 2012
The Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) has been awarded a five-year contract to operate the water treatment and transmission systems of the two water systems which provide clean drinking water to 14 municipalities located between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. The value of the five-year contract is $35.1 million.
Together, the two water systems supply clean water to more than 500,000 people living and working in this region through an efficient network of water treatment plants, pipelines, pumping stations and reservoirs. The systems are owned and operated under the authority of two boards of management, each comprised of members appointed [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2012
Staff at Ontario's Ministry of Transportation (MTO) have received the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario's (ECO) 2011 Recognition Award for using two environmentally beneficial innovations: bioretention cells and rubber modified asphalt (RMA). The innovations are used at the carpool lot in Beamsville, Ontario, located at the Queen Elizabeth Way and Ontario Street Interchange.
This project earned MTO the ECO Recognition Award for its benefits on stormwater management, waste diversion, and the promotion of carpooling.
"This is the second year in a row that MTO received this award," said Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner [...]
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Posted on January 12, 2012
Water is the focus of a new round of grants announced this week by Ontario's Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation. Five organizations have been awarded grants centred on protecting water systems and wetlands, extending the Greenbelt along major connecting waterways, and bringing more Greenbelt food into urban areas.
Results from Greenbelt public opinion polls consistently show that protecting water systems tops the list of environmental concerns for Ontarians. Two of the new grants focus on improving the Greenbelt's water systems.
"Our latest grants enhance water resources and ensure a clean source of drinking water for millions [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2012
Salsnes Filter AS of Namsos, Norway will join the group of businesses owned by London, Ontario-based Trojan Technologies.
Salsnes Filter’s technology removes particles from municipal and industrial process water. Industries such as food, paper, cruise lines, and aquaculture use the fully-automated treatment technology to treat effluent, improve the quality of influent or enhance the utilization of raw materials. The company's technology is also an alternative to a primary settling stage for a traditional chemical/biological treatment facility or preventing membrane bioreactor fouling.
Founded in 1991, Salsnes Filter is represented [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2011
Ontario's AquaResource Inc. will become a division of Calgary-based Matrix Solutions Inc. effective January 1, 2012.
The merger expands the geographic reach and industry base of each company nationally and internationally. The two companies have collaborated on numerous initiatives over the past several years and the merger is complementary in terms of expertise, clients, and strategy.
Matrix's Robert Pockar will remain president and CEO, while employees of both companies continue on in their current roles with projects and services agreements proceeding as scheduled through the existing offices. Paul Martin and David Van Vliet [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2011
Ontario's Environmental Commissioner is worried that Ontario has lost momentum when it comes to the province's pressing environmental issues.
In his 2010/2011 Annual Report, titled Engaging Solutions, Gord Miller says there's no shortage of talk about the problems such as climate change, waste diversion, and the loss of biodiversity. "But when it comes to doing something" says Miller, "there doesn't seem to be a lot actually happening.”
On the Great Lakes, for example, he says that lengthy negotiations between Ontario and the federal government “threaten to paralyze progress towards further clean-up, and Ontario is allowing [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2011
The feds announced a 15-year commitment to protect the St. Lawrence River this morning. The agreement, known as the St. Lawrence Action Plan 2011-2026, will continue the Canada-Quebec collaboration on the St. Lawrence that began back in 1988. The governments also confirmed a joint investment of $70 million over five years.
"The health of the St. Lawrence ecosystem is of inestimable value to Quebec's economy, and we must ensure its protection and sustainable development," said Minister of Veterans Affairs Steven Blaney. Minister of Environment Peter Kent was also present.
"For 23 years now, thanks to an approach based on [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2011
Trojan Technologies has acquired the business assets of OpenCEL of Glencoe, Illinois. OpenCEL is an environmental biotechnology company that offers a proprietary technology which significantly improves processing of wastewater biosolids. Utilized for pretreating wastewater sludge prior to anaerobic digestion, the technology employs high frequency electrical pulses to break open biomass cell membranes, releasing soluble material that is more readily digested and converted to energy, reducing the amount of biosolids that are produced and disposed. The OpenCEL business will operate as a division of US Peroxide, a Trojan Technologies business [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2011
The board of directors of the Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) has approved the establishment of two advisory councils, the research advisory council (RAC) and the training advisory council (TAC).
For the RAC (application form, terms of reference), the organization is seeking members from Ontario’s water sector including academia, technology companies, engineering consultants, First Nations, NGOs, government, utilities groups and other interested parties. TAC (application form, terms of reference) requires members who possess strong backgrounds in the drinking water industry and/or drinking water training, as well as members [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2011
Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregate (SERA) has formed its expert technical panel, which represents municipal, industry, community and environmental interests, to produce a voluntary standard that establishes credible, practical, and measurable requirements for socially and environmentally responsible aggregate extraction in Ontario.
Technical support for the standards development initiative will be provided by BRE-Global and the Rainforest Alliance, both international leaders in third party environmental certification. Dr. Jacqueline Glass, a leading European expert in responsible sourcing in the construction [...]
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