- HazMat
Management Magazine Partners with the CBN:
HazMat Management Magazine is the CBN's new media partner. This partnership
allows us to offer a free magazine subscription to each CBN member.
Members also have the opportunity to provide editorials and content
for the Canadian Brownfields Chronicle, a special supplement to the
magazine. Read
the press release.
- Canadian
Brownfields 2005: Developing Livable Communities: Early Bird
registration is available until July 15th and the preliminary program
is now online. More
information.
- Events at
the Montréal Centre for Excellence in Brownfield Rehabilition
(MCEBR): The Centre has launched its summer activities and has
opened its doors to the public. The permanent exhibition, housed in
the experimental station, features in exclusivity for 2005: the Centre's
showcase partners and technological innovations, five interactive terminals
showing the different projects sponsored by the Centre, presence of
a skilled guide from Tuesday to Saturday keeping visitors well informed
on state-of-the-art technologies and tools.
This year, MCEBR, thanks to the support of the City of Montréal,
has created an experimental garden featuring the remediation properties
of certain plants. The chosen species illustrate different aspects of
phytoremediation : accumulation of contaminants, detoxification, reduction
of soil erosion. MCEBR
website.
- Brownfields
Legislation and Regulation Update (Ontario):
- Mandatory Filing
Requirements
- Proposal to Classify
Certificates of Property Use under EBR (opportunity
to comment)
- Minor Amendments
to Records of Site Condition regulation
- Guidance Information
- Full
information.
- Extension
of time period for EPH equivalency to LEPH/HEPH (BC): For contaminated
sites regulatory purposes, the equivalency of extractable petroleum
hydrocarbon (EPH) data with light extractable petroleum hydrocarbon
(LEPH) and heavy extractable petroleum hydrocarbon (HEPH) data has been
extended to July 1, 2006 by the Director, Environmental Management Act.
Ministry guidance
on this matter is contained in the May 23, 2003 Update
on Contaminated Sites regarding Clarification
on Hydrocarbon Analytical Methods and Standards.
If you have any
questions, please direct them to:
Katherine O'Leary
Science and Standards Unit
Contaminated Sites Program
Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection
2975 Jutland Rd. 3rd Flr
Victoria BC
(250)-387-9740
Katherine.Oleary@gov.bc.ca
- 14th
Annual CEAA Conference & AGM: will
be held at the Novatel Hotel North York in Toronto from Oct. 5 - 7,
2005. Please mark your calendars and complete the registration
form to take advantage of early-bird rates. This is also a formal
Call for Papers for the conference program.
More information.
- Association
of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. Professional Experts
Examination: The Roster Steering Committee (RSC) wishes to advise
that the October 2005 sitting of the Professional Experts Examination
is anticipated to be the last sitting offered under the existing Roster
system. As the RSC is to be replaced with a new body to govern contaminated
site review services on April 1, 2006, it will not be practicable for
the RSC to offer a Spring sitting of the examination. More
information.
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