Friday, May 2, 2025
Senate Passes Bill S-8
The Senate has passed Bill S-8, the Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act after its third reading last night and will now move to…
News
Proposed Wastewater Deal a First for City of Regina
The City of Regina recently approved a recommendation for a 45-year deal to supply Western Potash Corpwith the City’s treated wastewater. The arrangement to supply…
Parks Canada and Lakehead Join to Protect Lake Superior
Parks Canada and Lakehead University have signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration on research efforts aimed at better understanding the dynamics of Lake Superior’s…
Ontario and B.C. Lead in Green Provincial Report Card
Corporate Knights has released its third bi-annual Green Provincial Report Card, with Ontario and British Columbia leading the pack in the race to become Canada’s…
Maxxam Acquires Becquerel Labs
Canadian lab company Maxxam Analytics has acquired Becquerel Laboratories. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, Becquerel provides specialized radiological testing and neutron activation testing services. The terms…
Improving River and Watershed Management in Alberta: Report
Water Matters, an Alberta-based water policy think tank, has released a report with recommendations on how to use science-based management to ensure that Alberta’s rivers remain…
HMM Acquires Engineering Northwest
Thunder Bay, Ontario-based Engineering Northwest Ltd. (ENL), a professional consulting engineering firm, has joined Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM). ENL is focused on highway, municipal, water,…
Ontario Proposes Great Lakes Protection Act
The Ontario government has proposed a Great Lakes Protection Act, strategy, and support for local actions. Already, several groups have commented on the news. “Protecting…
Energy and Water – Two Sides of the Same Policy Coin: Report
The latest report from the Canada West Foundation focuses on the connections between the call for a Canadian energy strategy and the push for a…
Giveaway: Free Pass to the 2012 Canadian Water Summit in Calgary
The Canadian Water Summit recently launched its annual Twitter contest. Winners will be awarded a free ticket to the event, this year held in Calgary…
Cross-Canada Tour Reveals National Concern About Water
This week, the Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) released Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective on our Water Future, highlighting a 16-city cross-Canada tour conducted by…
Feds Support Preventing Bulk Water Export
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has announced the federal government’s support for Bill C-383, which proposes stronger measures to prevent the bulk removal of water…
New Study Considers Water Consumption in Oil Sands
Can Alberta’s oil sands balance environmental tradeoffs and economic returns? According to a new study from Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environmental Solutions (AI-EES), there…
Manitoba Considers New Groundwater Rules
New rules being proposed this week would replace Manitoba’s almost 50-year-old groundwater regulations as part of a strategy to better protect the 25 per cent…
Cuts Could Erode Water Progress: Report
The slow and steady decline in federal water science and management capacity may negatively affect government’s ability to protect Canada’s freshwater resources, says the Forum…
BC Solicits Opinions on Water Data Sharing: What Was Said
In March 2012, the Ministry of Environment (MOE) asked water professionals to participate in online focus groups, and to offer feedback via an online form.…
Peninsula Harbour Sediment Capping Project Awarded to Milestone
Milestone Environmental Contracting Inc. has been awarded the contract to complete the capping of historically contaminated sediment in the Peninsula Harbour, which is a Great…
Ostara Opens World’s Largest Municipal Nutrient Recovery Facility
A public-private partnership continues between Vancouver’s Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. and Clean Water Services, a water resources management utility designed to protect the Tualatin Watershed. It recently announced…
NORAM Acquires Position in ECOfluid Systems
NORAM Engineering and Constructors Ltd., a company specializing in the fields of nitration, sulphuric acid, and electrochemistry, has purchased a position in British Columbia-based ECOfluid…
Sernas Joins GHD
The Sernas Group, a 220-person firm with offices in Canada and the USA, has merged wth GHD, an Australia-based engineering, architecture and environmental consulting company.…
Ontario-China Call for Water Tech Proposals
Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation has launched its second call for proposals under the Ontario-China Research and Innovation Fund. This year’s areas of…
Okanagan Water Study Wins Award
The Okanagan Basin Water Board and 13 partnering agencies were presented with the “Award for Excellence in the Water and Waste Community” by the B.C.…
Stantec Wins for Ottawa’s RTC System
Stantec’s water team in Ottawa has been honoured with the Environment Award for their real time control (RTC) system for the City of Ottawa’s combined…
Researchers Discover Resistance in Ontario Freshwater
McMaster University researchers have discovered that floc–“goolike” substances that occur suspended in water and that host large communities of bacteria–also contain high levels of antibiotic…