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APGO
"The APGO is growing in size and scope coming from newly registered geoscientists and students who are working to become professional geoscientists." — Gord White, CEO
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APGO
June 15, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Modernization of Approvals Branch, will be providing an introduction and overview of the new MOECC Client Account Management System. This system will be used for applicants and consultants who are applying for Environmental Compliance Approvals (ECAs) and/or Environmental Activity Sector Registrations (EASRs).
Register online
Speaker: Walter Yee, Manager, Implementation Unit, Modernization of Approvals Branch, Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change
The presentation will cover:
• Obtaining an account on the MOECC Client Account Management System (includes obtaining a ServiceOntario Account)
• Obtaining an EASR (focus on End of Life Vehicles or Water Taking)
• Obtaining an eECA
If you need assistance, please contact Marilen Miguel at 416 203 2746 ext. 24.
Disclaimer: The media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, or any employee thereof.
The Sudbury Star
Ask Jack Parker what the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) has contributed to life in Sudbury and he'll tell you it's a long story, 125 years long.
Parker is acting director of the agency established in 1891 as the Ontario Bureau of Mines. It was renamed the OGS in 1978. In a century and a quarter, its geologists and geoscientists have published 10,000 maps and almost 6,000 reports, and every one of them is available to the public online. A geologist who started with what was then the Ontario division of mines in 1977, Parker was named acting director of the OGS in late 2015 with the retirement of former director, Andy Fyon.
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How do you get high school students enthusiastic about mining? One way is to encourage them to create videos on the topic. Then sweeten the enticement with some cash. That was enough to draw 200 entries to the Ontario Mining Association's So You Think You Know Mining contest. Twelve winners and five honourable mentions brought their casts and crews a total of $48,000 in prizes at a recent Toronto event attended by mining professionals, government officials, teachers, parents and students.
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Ottawa Community News
The string of sunny days has been a welcome trend with most of Ottawa's rural residents to the south — but members of the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) says we should be hoping for rain.
The Rideau watershed is currently experiencing a moderately severe drought status. With little rainfall in the latter part of May and beginning of June, groundwater and surface water are well below normal levels for this time of year.
Patrick Larson, senior water resources technician with the RVCA, said the Rideau River is flowing at just a quarter of its usual volume, down to 7.5 cubic metres per second from its standard 28.5 cubic metres per second.
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Timmins Press
Kidd Operations' safety performance has once again been recognized as the best in Ontario.
Mine Safety Appliances Canada and the John T. Ryan Safety Trophies Committee has awarded the 2015 John T. Ryan Regional Safety Trophy in the Metal Mine category for Ontario to Kidd Operations.
This is the 20th time since 1973 that Kidd has won this award. The John T. Ryan Regional Safety Trophy is presented annually to the operation which has achieved the lowest reportable injury rate among Ontario's metal mines.
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CBC News
The city has ongoing problems with rocks falling from the escarpment. Now a new study says there are seven locations where the danger needs the fastest attention.
A new report from consultants Golder Associations says seven spots should be a "maintenance priority" — enough that the city should be turning its annual rock maintenance attention there. The city spends $300,000 in an average year to guard against rock falls. The most common method is scaling, which is the process of manually removing loose rocks. The city also installs mesh to catch tumbling rocks, and other measures.
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Northern Ontario Business
The mining industry is producing something besides minerals these days: It's producing massive quantities of data.
Data on finances, safety, equipment, productivity, scheduling, and more. It belongs to a category of information coined "big data" to describe the large, complex sets seen in the modern world of industrial production and technological innovation.
However, while these mining companies may produce tonnes of data, they don't necessarily have the equipment needed for extracting, processing and using them.
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Science Alert
One of the very first things you'll learn in science class is that if something is denser than water, it sinks. A rock or a hunk of metal is denser than water, so no surprises what happens when you chuck one of those into a pond, but styrofoam is less dense than water, so it floats. Strangely enough, crude oil is slightly less dense than salt water, so that's why it floats on the surface of the ocean. Now that we've established the rules, let's break them, using the coolest material ever — Vantablack, the blackest material on Earth.
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Motherboard
Is Antarctica melting or not? This question has been asked time and time again by scientists and climate change deniers alike. Climate models and ice records have shown that for some reason, warming in the Southern Ocean is happening at a significantly delayed rate.
For skeptics, Antarctica's sea ice growth in the face of global warming has provided false ammunition against the existence of anthropogenic climate change. But for scientists, the southernmost continent's seeming resilience has offered an invaluable opportunity to examine a relatively untouched ocean ecosystem before it succumbs to rising temperatures.
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