Sunday, October 26, 2025
New Treatment System at Nipissing First Nation
Ontario’s Nipissing First Nation welcomes its new Garden Village Water and Wastewater Treatment facilities, built using $14 million in federal funding and $2.1 million of…
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Nexterra and ANDRITZ Partner
Vancouver-based Nexterra Systems Corp., a supplier of biomass gasification solutions, and Austrian company ANDRITZ, working in customized plants, process technologies, and services for the hydropower,…
NRC Supports Clear Flow
Clear Flow Consulting Inc. has received a contribution from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program. The funding supports a research and…
Prentice Announces New Regs for Municipal Wastewater
Plans discussed at this past February’s CCME meeting are now coming to fruition. Today minister of the environment Jim Prentice announced new regulations for managing…
$93.3M for York, Durham Wastewater Improvements
The governments of Canada and Ontario have set aside a total of $93.3 million in funding to support the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant…
Cold Snap
Just south of the Arctic Circle in the small Nunavut hamlet of Chesterfield Inlet—or in Inuktitut, Igluligaarjuk—a sewage truck dumps its potent—smelling load into a…
Dawson Signs with Corix
The City of Dawson and Yukon government announced yesterday that a contract has been signed with Vancouver-based Corix Water Systems for the design and construction…
Wastewater Funds for Montreal
Canada and Quebec are partnering to improve a wastewater treatment facility in Montreal with a federal-provincial investment of up to $127.5 million. The funds will…
MBR Market Will Reach $1.3B by 2015
The global membrane bioreactors (MBR) market will reach $1.3 billion by 2015, says a new report by Global Industry Analysts. The technology’s growth will be…
Trojan Wins Stockholm Industry Water Award
London, Ontario-based Trojan Technologies, a developer and proponent of large-scale ultraviolet (UV) water disinfection systems used worldwide, has won the 2009 Stockholm Industry Water Award.…
Capital Regional District Votes for Four Sewage Plants for $1.2B
British Columbia’s Capital Regional District’s Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee (CALWMC) has selected a refined distributed wastewater management strategy for the Region’s Core Area.…
Can We Rely on Technology to Guarantee Future Water Resources?
During this year’s Rivers to Oceans Week (June 8 to 14), the Canadian Museum of Nature is running a café scientifique—a forum in an informal setting—that asks this very question in several locations around the country.
BIOREM Awarded $1.3M in New Orders
BIOREM Inc. announced this week the receipt of two recent orders totaling $1.3 million for projects in the midwest and western coast of the United…
Suncor Subcontractor Sentenced
Subcontractor Rodney McCabe has been ordered under house arrest for 11 months for his role in sewage being released into the Athabasca River. In 2005…
FCM’s GMF: $2.1M for Quebec
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has announced a Green Municipal Fund (GMF) grant of $2.1 million for sustainable development projects in 14 Quebec municipalities.…
Seair Expands Beyond Canada
Seair Inc. has sold its first Seair 20-foot portable wastewater treatment unit to SunTerra Oil & Gas LP. This transaction is not only the first…
Constructed Wetlands
Picture a wetland treatment system. Do you see the man-made equivalent of a natural marsh-open water with some cattails and maybe a few ducks? If…
EPCOR Takes on Banff
In more EPCOR news, the Town of Banff has agreed to make EPCOR Utilities Inc. as the new operator for its wastewater treatment plant. Under…
Gold Bar Now Owned and Operated by EPCOR
EPCOR Utilities Inc. (EPCOR) officially became the owner and operator of the Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant today. Edmonton City Council authorized the transfer of…
Manitoba Assaults Phosphorus
New measures were announced last week by Manitoba’s Conservation Minister Stan Struthers as part of an aggressive plan to reduce phosphorus that promotes growth of…
Five NS Water Projects Receive Funding
Five communities in the Kings County, N.S. area will have better drinking water and wastewater treatment systems with funding from three levels of government. More…
Calgary Continues to Conserve
The total amount of water used in Calgary continues to stay below 2003 levels despite 120,000 new Calgarians being connected to the city’s water system…
Water Winners at 2008 CEAs
The Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards, honouring projects by Canadian engineering firms, were announced on February 24. The winners were selected from 67 entries by a…
BWI Signs EPCOR Contract
BWI Holdings, Inc. (operating as Budget Waste Inc.) has signed a five-month contract with EPCOR Water Service Inc. (EWSI). The contract includes hauling of biosolids…