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June 30, July 7, July 14, and July 21, 2020
PGO’s Conference Planning Committee is busy putting together the program for PGO’s inaugural symposium, which will be launched on June 30, 2020. Build your 2020 CPD hours and set aside 2.5 hours of your time to attend the scheduled panel presentations on June 30, July 7, July 14 and July 21, 2020. To see a snapshot of the panel sessions, please click on this link. More information will be posted soon.
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April 19 to 25, 2020 is the Canadian National Volunteer Week. According to Volunteer Canada, about 13 million Canadians across the country generously volunteer, clocking in 160 million of volunteer hours each month. PGO would like to take this opportunity to thank all its volunteers for generously committing their time and sharing their expertise to PGO. They volunteer as active members of PGO Council, statutory committees, standing committees and subcommittees and advisory body. They volunteer as mentors, CPD event speakers and as PGO’s representatives to various tables at provincial and national levels.
Thank you for working alongside staff in ensuring that PGO upholds its mandate of protecting the public and advancing professional practice. Thank you for giving back to the geoscience profession. Finally, thank you for nurturing geoscience students, geoscientists-in-training and newly-minted P.Geo.’s. through mentorship and outreach. Cheers to all PGO volunteers.
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An important reminder to all PGO licensees! Consider running for a Council position or nominate a peer. This is a very important role. Exercise and expand your leadership by lending your time and expertise to the governing body of PGO. Council positions that are up for election are Vice President, South East Councillor and South West Councillor. PGO also has appointive Council positions that need to be filled.
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May 6, 2020 at 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Speakers: Shane Todd, Partner and Justin P’ng, Associate, FASKEN
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues its spread in North America and around the world, Canadian employers must plan to manage the impact on their businesses and workforce.
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Disclaimer: The events and media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof.
Conference Board of Canada
The Conference Board of Canada developed a series of videos featuring Dr. Bill Howatt, Chief of Research, Workplace Productivity on the topic of Mental Health and COVID-19. Check out this great online resource.
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Disclaimer: The media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof.
INN
It’s safe to say COVID-19 has had a major impact on the mining industry globally, with jurisdictions around the world slowing or halting operations to stop the virus from spreading.
Mining is a crucial part of Canada’s economy, accounting for five per cent of the country’s total nominal GDP and 19 per cent of its total domestic exports. Now, as companies in the country respond to the coronavirus, questions are being raised about the long-term consequences for the market.
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TimminsToday.com
Three new cases of Lac des Iles mine workers infected with COVID-19 have been announced by Impala Canada, bringing the total number of positive cases at the northwestern Ontario underground palladium operation to 14.
The mining company made the announcement recently.
Impala had been awaiting results from other self-isolating workers who had shown symptoms of the virus.
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Northern Ontario Business
A Sudbury mine-tech company is developing a new system to inventory and sanitize personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
FORTAI’s Sanitation SmartCube will be able to sanitize PPE, while also keeping an inventory of what PPE is being used.
The SmartCube has been in development for the last two years, but company president Trang Tran-Valade said that, given the ongoing pandemic, the company wanted to contribute tech that would help contain its spread.
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Mining Technology
As recently as 2010, mining was a cornerstone of the Canadian economy, contributing close to a quarter of Canada’s total equity value, according to Bloomberg. While the sector’s total contribution to national GDP has increased from just over $120 billion in 2012 to just over $140 billion in 2020, the sector’s relative influence has declined, with mining’s contribution to national equity falling to just 10.8 per cent by January of this year.
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BlackburnNews.com
Windsor’s hydro and water utility is assuring residents that drinking water is safe after a barge transporting diesel fuel ran aground in the Detroit River.
ENWIN Utilities confirmed recently that the water it continues to deliver is perfectly safe, after the tanker Margaret, which was carrying almost four million gallons of diesel fuel, became grounded near Peche Island recently.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and their colleagues used a new geochemical tool to shed light on the origin of nitrogen and other volatile elements on Earth, which may also prove useful as a way to monitor the activity of volcanoes. Their findings were published recently in the journal Nature.
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USGS
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor in space. For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, in collaboration with NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute.
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