Phase 2 underway for massive Randle Reef remediation
At Randle Reef in Ontario’s Hamilton Harbour, one of the most contaminated underwater sites on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes, construction of...
Latest spill shows North still struggling to prevent and control oil events
The Qulliq Energy Corporation (QEC), based in Nunavut, says a faulty automated valve and loose plug were the likely culprits in a March diesel...
Port Hope’s $1.28B radioactive waste removal underway in Ontario
Beginning in April 2018, and continuing through the summer, the first loads of an estimated 1.2 million cubic metres of historic low-level radioactive waste...
Canadian Brownfields Network conducting a survey of the brownfield landscape
The Canadian Brownfields Network (CBN) is launching several initiatives to revisit and update the 15 year old National Round Table on the Environment and...
U.S. firm Parsons wins bid to complete Giant Mine clean up in NWT
U.S.-based engineering services firm, Parsons Inc., has won the latest remediation contract surrounding the cleanup of arsenic trioxide waste at Yellowknife’s Giant Mine in...
Radiation protection for the remediation of historic low-level radioactive waste
The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) is the Government of Canada’s response to the community-recommended solutions for the remediation and safe, long-term management of historic low-level radioactive waste in the municipalities of Port Hope and Clarington, Ontario.
Sears leaves Calgary mall and questions amid unfinished remediation
Shortly after Alberta Environment officials announced in December 2017 that remediation efforts are still needed at a former Sears Canada property in Calgary, the...
Ontario food manufacturer fined for offences relating to discharging process water
On January 17, 2018, Sun-Brite Foods Inc. was convicted of two offences under the Ontario Water Resources Act (OWRA), and one offence under the...
Brownfield applications rolling in for Windsor, Ontario, as land prices spike
Freezing taxes for a decade, paying for feasibility and environmental studies, and chipping in for soil and groundwater testing were a few of the...
Canada’s new $80M oil spill protection investment relies on ocean modelling, joint research
A key plank of a new federal government initiative to protect Canada’s oceans from oil spills involves a $45.5-million program to “leverage collaboration among...
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