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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.
Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Ministry of Environment and Conservation Parks (MECP) is implementing regulatory changes related to the management of excess construction soil and redevelopment of brownfield sites. Click on this link to read more about the announcement and implementation of the newly amended regulatory package. PGO would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the work of the Environmental Geoscience Subcommittee in this area since 2014. Their work involved putting together submissions for proposed amendments to regulations pertaining to excess soil and management of brownfields.
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Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
Check out the newly updated best practice guidelines on estimation of mineral resources and mineral reserves.
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Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks
Ontario is proposing changes to O. Reg. 153/04 that would provide flexibility for a qualified person (a licensed professional engineer or geoscientist) to exercise professional judgement regarding the need for ground water testing where there is no soil and under key conditions. Deadline for submission of comments is Jan. 13, 2020.
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GeoConvention 2020
Deadline for submission is Jan. 15, 2020
GeoConvention 2020 will host a wide variety of earth science sessions, hosted by some of the brightest minds and though leaders in industry and academia.
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CIM
Jan. 29-31, 2020 at Ryerson University
At the time of a continuing rebound of metal markets, learn how the application of new digital technologies that can add substantial value to strategic mine planning and asset valuation.
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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.
Financial Post
The Trudeau government is digging for intelligence on the role Canada’s mining sector could play in providing the United States and other key trading partners with crucial minerals and metals — from cobalt to tellurium — considered building blocks of the new economy.
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Government of Ontario
To mark this year's World Soil Day, the governments of Canada and Ontario are launching a $5.75 million, multi-year project to help the province's farmers strengthen environmental stewardship, enhance water quality, improve soil health, and better protect our environment.
The On-Farm Applied Research and Monitoring (ONFARM) project will support a host of new activities to be carried out with farmers and other partners to make our agri-food sector greener and more competitive.
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CBC News
As Toronto deals with fluctuating winter weather, environmental advocates say excessive road salt is harming Ontario wildlife — and they're urging people to use less.
Salt used to melt icy roads and sidewalks can end up flowing into rivers, lakes and soil, creating dangerously salty environments for some freshwater plants and animals.
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NOW Magazine
Ontario’s moratorium on new permits to bottle water will be extended for nine months.
Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks Jeff Yurek “proposed” the extension on Nov. 19. Just weeks earlier, he had signalled through the media his government's intention to allow the moratorium imposed by the previous Liberal to expire at the end of the year.
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Sudbury.com
Two forest-product companies are on the hook for maintaining a mercury waste site near Ontario's Grassy Narrows First Nation, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.
The 4-3 decision recently brought some clarity to a dispute that bubbled up decades after serious environmental contamination took place in the region.
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Globe and Mail
Environmentalists are raising concerns about an Ontario plan to scrap a series of 25-year-old environmental standards for some large water polluters, but the province argues its proposal would not weaken the rules for dumping toxins into lakes and rivers.
The elimination of what are known as the Municipal-Industrial Strategy for Abatement standards are part of a drive by the Progressive Conservative government of Ontario Premier Doug Ford to reduce red tape for businesses.
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Kiel University
The Antarctic is one of the parts of earth that we know the least about. Due to the massive ice shield, the collection of geophysical information on site is extremely difficult and expensive. Satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA) has now been used as the basis for new insights on the deep structure of the continent.
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Phys.org
Researchers at EPFL's Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory and the Weizmann Institute of Science have modeled the onset of slip between two bodies in frictional contact. Their work, a major step forward in the study of frictional rupture, could give us a better understanding of earthquakes — including how far and fast they travel.
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