Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Feds Announce $70M for St. Lawrence River
The feds announced a 15-year commitment to protect the St. Lawrence River this morning. The agreement, known as the St. Lawrence Action Plan 2011-2026, will continue…
Quebec
GENIVAR Acquires Dakins
Montreal consulting firm GENIVAR Inc. has acquired Ontario-based Dakins Engineering Group Ltd., an instrumentation control and automation systems consulting engineering firm specialized in water and…
SNC-Lavalin Acquires Aqua Data
Engineering and consulting group SNC-Lavalin has acquired Aqua Data, a company of about 100 employees specializing in the computerized diagnosis and analysis of water distribution…
IJC Recommends Focus on Human Health Concerns for Great Lakes
The International Joint Commission provided 32 recommendations for action at the federal, state, provincial and local levels of government in its 15th biennial report, released…
McGill Researchers Develop Silver Nano Filter
Chemistry researchers at Montreal’s McGill University have developed a key step towards making a cheap, portable, paper-based filter coated with silver nanoparticles to be used…
Quebec Woman Honoured for Water Work in Mali
Today, at the 2011 Canadian Edition of its Women of the Earth Awards, the Yves Rocher Foundation honoured three women for their commitment to preserving…
Xebec Turns Sewage into Clean Energy
Blainville, Quebec-based Xebec Adsorption Inc.is using its new technology to purify biogas from a wastewater treatment facility in California. The new biogas purification plant at…
St. Lawrence: A Prozac Nation for Fish?
Around one in four Montrealers take some kind of antidepressant, and according to new research, the drugs are passing into the waterways and affecting fish.…
Holiday News Roundup
Happy New Year! A brief news roundup following a two-week break: 1. Shortly after the Royal Society of Canada released its oil sands report and…
GENIVAR Acquires Aquapraxis
Montreal’s GENIVAR engineering firm has acquired Laval-based Aquapraxis Inc., which offers recognized expertise in the areas of urban hydrology, urban networks and water resource management.…
Research Chair Honoured
Rajeshwar Dayal Tyagi, Canada Research Chair in Bioconversion of Waste Water and Sewage Sludge into High-Value-Added Products, has won the International Water Association’s (IWA) 2010…
Feds, Province Invest Nearly $6M in River Turbine Project
Both federal and provincial governments made investments totalling nearly $6 million to demonstrate the power of water using modular river turbines in the St. Lawrence…
H2O Innovation Wins $4.5M in Contracts
Quebec City-based H2O Innovation Inc., a water treatment solutions company, has been awarded new contracts totaling $4.5 million. These contracts will see the company provide…
More First Nations Water Investments Announced
During a trip to Quebec, the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, announced…
Great Lakes, Wasted
More than 580 billion litres of drinking water, the equivalent of 236,000 Olympic swimming pools, are being wasted every year by homeowners in the Great…
$5M for Quebec Pipe Renewal
Quebec’s program for the renewal of drinking water and wastewater pipes (PRECO) has received a joint financial contribution of $4,655,500 for the municipalities of Roberval…
Anishinabek Nation and Ontario Partner for Water
As of yesterday, the Anishinabek Nation and Ontario have agreed to continue to work together to strengthen collaboration on natural resource management. The Anishinabek Nation,…
$8.5M for Longue-Rive Water Works
The Municipality of Longue-Rive will receive $8,564,486 in joint government financial assistance under the Communities Component of the Building Canada Fund – Quebec (FCCQ) for water…
Watermain, Sewer Upgrades for Disraeli, Quebec
Disraeli, Quebec is receiving a joint federal-provincial financial contribution of $1,943,334 for the repair and extension of watermains and sewer lines. With the town’s contribution,…
Water Funds for Quebec
Two municipalities in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Region, Saint Félix d’Otis and L’Anse Saint Jean, will share $532,273 under the federal-provincial gas tax agreement. The communities will…
KSB Opens Montreal Office
KSB Pumps Inc. has opened a new regional office in Montreal that will focus on customers and consulting engineering firms in Quebec. Located nearby Montréal-Trudeau…
$10M for Quebec Water Infrastructure
The municipality of Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies will receive over $10.5 million in joint funding under the Communities component of the Building Canada Fund–Quebec, for drinking water supply,…
DGI to Acquire MFC Division of Mueller Canada
Canadian-owned Deschenes Group Inc. (DGI) has signed an Asset Purchase Agreement to acquire the Mueller Flow Control (MFC) division of Mueller Canada Ltd. from Anvil…
GLV Acquires Christ Water
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec announced yesterday that it has finalized its $39.8-million investment in Quebec company GLV Inc., as part of…