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PGO’s response to Proposed amendments to Ontario Regulation 244/97 and the Aggregate Resources of Ontario Provincial Standards under the Aggregate Resources Act
Following the amendments to the Aggregate Resources Act that were made on Dec. 10, 2019, the province of Ontario proposed regulatory changes to Ontario Regulation 244/97 and the Aggregate Resources of Ontario Provincial Standards. PGO, through its Environmental Geoscience Subcommittee, submitted a response to Ontario’s proposed amendments. Read it here.
PGO
July 7, 2020
The ethical and societal expectations of professionals including geoscientists have changed. Geoscientists and other professionals are increasingly expected to be professionally competent in ethical decision-making and sustainability issues, and further, misunderstanding and/or avoidance of these expectations may result in additional professional risks and possibly economic consequences. Session B of PGO’s Symposium aims to bridge the gap between broad policy statements on geo-ethics and sustainability to practical application by using real-world case studies in environmental, mining and water resources situations. See the full symposium program. Register by May 31, 2020 to get the early bird rate.
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This is your chance to showcase geoscience at work through your pictures. Deadline for submission is June 12, 2020. See more for details.
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British Columbia Ministry of Health
Check out this online resource from BC’s Ministry of Health for workers, contractors and employers working in the natural resource sector.
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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.
Northern Ontario Business
Empty store shelves, shortages of vital supplies, and long lead times on ordering goods can be an educational primer for the general public on how stuff is made and where it's sourced.
The Mining Association of Canada released the results of a poll showing a majority of public support for Canada growing its market share as a preferred global supplier of critical minerals, based on abundance and leading environmental standards.
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The Mining Association of Canada
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CP24.com
Brenda Himburg is livid, but in a polite way.
The resident of Booth's Harbour, ON, is angry that no one has listened to her or her neighbours about the water problems that have plagued the hamlet for years.
"We just get the runaround," she says with a sigh as she looks out onto the expanse of water from the backyard of her home on the north shore of Lake Erie.
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Global News
As the May long weekend approached 20 years ago, an invisible killer began stalking the unsuspecting town of Walkerton, ON, preparing to unleash an epidemic that would damage or destroy many lives. Dangerous bacteria had found their way into a vulnerable well, flowing into a municipal water system dangerously low on chlorine and on to the taps from which the community of 5,000 drank.
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Haida Gwaii Observer
Shoreline cleanup and sampling is complete following the Dinan Bay diesel spill recently.
Taan Forest spilled approximately 4,500 litres of diesel into the bay on April 22, when a valve feeding fuel to the electrical generator on the Toba Barge failed.
According to a release from the Council of the Haida Nations’s business arm HaiCo and its company Taan Forest, sampling of water, soil and marine life was completed recently, and “there has been no observed fish kills by response personnel, sampling personnel or shoreline assessment personnel.”
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Squamish Chief
More than 80 people logged into a Zoom open house recently to learn more about field work that took place last summer exploring the geothermal energy potential on Mount Meager.
"If we seem a little bit nervous or maybe a little bit excited — or perhaps a little of both — this afternoon, please bear with us," said Richard Truman, director of external relations at Geoscience BC.
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Rutgers University
New research by Rutgers scientists reaffirms that modern sea-level rise is linked to human activities and not to changes in Earth’s orbit.
Surprisingly, the Earth had nearly ice-free conditions with carbon dioxide levels not much higher than today and had glacial periods in times previously believed to be ice-free over the last 66 million years, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances.
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CBC News
On Jan. 18, 2000, a fireball lit up the morning sky over Yukon and northern British Columbia. Loud bangs shook the area, and dust clouds wafted in the upper atmosphere.
The culprit: a five-metre rock that entered Earth's atmosphere. While most of the roughly 105-tonne meteor broke up on entry, some fragments showered down to the frozen landscape, much of it on Tagish Lake, B.C.
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