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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 February 9, 2012
Manitoba is undertaking four initiatives to help improve action against floods and water management, announced the Province’s Infrastructure and Transportation Minister, Steve Ashton, this week.
Flood review task force
Chaired by civil engineer David Farlinger, the task force will release a public report by late summer examining a number of areas and focusing on how they can be improved for future flood events including, provincial and municipal preparedness and response, flood forecasting, public communications and information sharing, operation of flood control infrastructure, and flood protection works.
Lake Manitoba and [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2012
The federal government and Alberta unveiled the long-awaited Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring in Edmonton last Friday.
Spurred by University of Alberta researchers Erin Kelly and David Schindler, the governments established an independent review panel in 2010 and in July 2011 revealed the second phase of its resulting plan. The plan, they say, commits to a "scientifically rigorous, comprehensive, integrated, and transparent environmental monitoring program for the region," indicating that it will require sampling more sites for more substances more frequently to determine the long-term cumulative effects [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2012
The Englishman River Water Service (ERWS), a joint venture between the City of Parksville and the Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, has been awarded more than $1.3 million from the federal Gas Tax Fund for a project to store and recover water in an aquifer.
Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is a relatively new technology that is intended to manage peak demands and reduce overall demand on water treatment plants. The project will help excess water from the Englishman River flow through the treatment plant, and into wells. In the summer months, water will be withdrawn from the wells and pumped into the distribution [...]
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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 21, 2011
EPCOR, Plenary Environment, and SNC Lavalin/Black & Veatch have been shortlisted for the Alberta government’s Evan-Thomas Water Treatment and Wastewater Treatment Facility public-private partnership (P3) project in Edmonton.
“The number of quality industry candidates responding to this competition demonstrates that Alberta’s public-private partnership delivery model continues to be a viable option for providing public infrastructure,” said Jeff Johnson, Minister of Infrastructure. “As we move forward, our focus will be on finding value for Alberta taxpayers in the delivery of this state-of-the-art water treatment and [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2011
The feds will contribute up to $65.7 million through the P3 Canada Fund towards the Stave Lake Water Project, Minister of International Trade Ed Fast announced on Friday.
In accordance with provincial laws, in order to implement this project, the City must seek electoral consent through a referendum on borrowing and long-term contract authorities. This referendum will take place in conjunction with the municipal elections on November 19, 2011. If approved, the City will move forward with the procurement of the project. Once selected, the private partner will design, build, partially finance and operate the project through a 25-year [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2011
The federal government has announced over $398,000 in federal funding for nine new community projects supported under the fifth round of the Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship Fund.
Turtle Mountain Conservation District
Pembina and Long River Riparian Enhancement Program, $20,000
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Peguis First Nation Sustainable Cattle Management Project, $15,000
University of Manitoba (Dr. Jan Oleszkiewicz)
Innovative Process for Enhanced Phosphorus Recovery from Sludge, $26,000
Whitemud Watershed Conservation District
Riparian Enhancement Initiative, $20,000
Forks Renewal Corporation
Forks [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2011
Edmonton's Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant has selected Houston-based Headworks Inc., a wastewater screening manufacturing, to replace some of its existing equipment.
Located in the North Saskatchewan River Valley, the EPCOR-owned Gold Bar plant handles the wastewater requirements for over 820,000 people in the greater Edmonton area. The treatment capacity of the plant's 48.2 acre site is 79 MGD, roughly enough to fill 37,000 Olympic-length swimming pools each year.
The existing multi-rake screens will be replaced with three Mahr Bar Screens, an order totalling over half a million dollars. The screens will each be designed [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2011
British Columbia has a new conservation act to consider.
The Flathead Watershed Area Conservation Act, introduced on Tuesday, is intended to preserve the environmental values in the Flathead watershed.
The Flathead, in the East Kootenays, neighbours the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park. Waterton Glacier International Peace Park is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve. The Flathead River is one of North America's last wild rivers, and the area supports a variety of animals and a diverse collection of plants and fish.
The introduction of legislation meets the commitment made in the [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2011
The Abbotsford Mission Water Sewer Commission (AMWSC) is drafting a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to update the Services Agreements which govern the regional water and wastewater partnership between Abbotsford and Mission, but agreed at its last meeting to table it until after the municipal election in November, announced Abbotsford's Mayor George W. Peary, chair of the AMWSC, on September 19.
“Abbotsford and Mission have an ongoing spirit of cooperation in the areas of water supply, wastewater treatment, transit and recycling,” said Peary. “Our relationship is strong and our cooperation will continue."
Regardless [...]
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