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See the full list of APGO's new members that joined from April 1 to June 30, 2016.
Associated Environmental Site Assessors of Canada
Toronto, ON
Phase One ESA Training Course
Nov. 17th-19th, 2016
Phase Two ESA Training Course
Dec. 1st-3rd, 2016
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Goodman School of Mines
Nov. 22-25, 2016
8:30 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
This program is designed for leaders at all stages of their careers. It is open to individuals representing diverse organizations within the public, private and non-profit of sectors.
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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.
HazMat Magazine
The City of Guelph, located 100 kilometres northwest of Toronto, recently issued Guidelines for Development of Contaminated or Potentially Contaminated Sites in an effort to expedite the clean-up and redevelopment of brownfield properties in the city.
The Guidelines document establishes policies and a procedural framework for the integration of contaminated or potentially contaminated lands into the planning and development process within the City of Guelph.
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The Sudbury Star
Noront Resources president and chief executive officer Alan Coutts is a man of great faith, at least when it comes to mining. His company recently strengthened its commitment to developing the Ring of Fire with another acquisition.
Noront announced it had signed an agreement with MacDonald Mines Exploration to acquire 75 per cent of its claims in the Ring of Fire district.
Now Coutts is waiting to see if the Government of Ontario has a similar strong belief in the potential of the rich chromite, nickel, zinc and copper deposits.
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Toronto Star
The commute's a breeze, at any rate.
Leland Wilbur, operator of Toronto's G. Ross Lord Dam, can see his house through the control room window overlooking the massive structure and the reservoir it holds back.
The home sits just off to the left — on the lip of the reservoir's slope. And during storms and spring melts, the lake's waters, fed by the Don River, can creep menacingly up his expansive back lawn.
Wilbur, who is required to live at that house near Finch Ave. W. and Dufferin St., can be called out at all hours to respond to flooding threats on the river.
Has he been roused from his sleep often? "Oh, yes, definitely," he laughs.
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CBC News
The City of Gatineau is installing devices so it can finally measure the volume of its sewer overflows into the Ottawa River.
The move comes years after its Ontario neighbour, the City of Ottawa, launched its 17-project Ottawa River action plan worth hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up the same waterway.
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The Sudbury Star
An elite team of Goldcorp mine rescuers from around the globe are training in Timmins in preparation for the upcoming International Mine Rescue Competition.
The 10-person Goldcorp Americas team (which is composed of members from Timmins, Thunder Bay, and Red Lake, ON, Quebec, as well as Santa Cruz, Argentina) are practicing their skills at Northern College before heading to Sudbury at the end of this month.
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Edmonton Journal
Overhauling the traditional view of water treatment and wastewater services in Alberta could allow cash-strapped municipalities to unbridle themselves from weighty infrastructure projects.
Construction of a small-scale pilot facility is expected to start this month on a parcel of undeveloped land on the edge of St. Albert, the first phase in establishing a research hub exploring a new water management philosophy.
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CBC News
It may be just a tiny gold bead — four millimetres (1/8 inch) in diameter — but it is an enormous discovery for Bulgarian archaeologists who say they have found Europe's — and probably the world's — oldest gold artifact.
The bead, found at a pre-historic settlement in southern Bulgaria, dates back to 4,500-4,600 B.C., the archaeologists say, making it some 200 years older than jewellery from a Copper Age necropolis in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna, the oldest processed gold previously unearthed, in 1972.
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Business Insider
Earth isn't the steadfast planet we assume it to be. Its continent-size slabs constantly move, buckle, and vanish beneath each other over the millennia, all while hardly leaving a trace.
But geologist Roi Granot, a senior lecturer at Ben Gurion University in Israel, says he's discovered the most ancient slab of seafloor on Earth to date. The roughly 60,000-square-mile piece of crust has been hiding below the eastern Mediterranean Sea for about 340 million years (give or take 30 million years).
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