An Information Service for Alberta’s Environment Industry The Week Ending February 27th, 2015

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WaterTech 2015 - 40 Delegate Spots Remaining Inside this Issue: April 20-22, 2015  Alberta Waste Control Delta Lodge at Kananaskis Regulation Review and Update With the smaller venue for 2015, there are now only 40 spots remaining for WaterTech  Environmental 2015. Have you registered? Protection Order Issued to Leduc County  AEMERA Appoints April 20-22, 2015 Science Advisory Delta Lodge at Kananaskis Panel  New CCME ESAA is pleased to announce that the program for WaterTech 2015 is now available Document online: www.esaa.org/watertech. The 2015 program includes 53 technical presentations  New Member that include  Upcoming Events  and much more ….  Special Oil Sands Session

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 12 other technical sessions focusing on Pipelines, Wetlands, Groundwater,

Municipal, Water Management, Modelling, Wastewater, and more.

The ESAA Weekly WaterTech 2015 will also feature three keynote presentations: News is published weekly by: Opening Keynote Environmental Services Association of Alberta "Hydroclimatic Change" 102, 2528 Ellwood Drive SW Robert Sandford Edmonton, AB T6X 0A9 Director of the Western Watersheds Research Collaborative, and an associate of the (P) 780.429.6363 Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan (F) 780.429.4249 [email protected] UTTTH T www.esaHTTTU Tuesday Lunch Keynote a.org UTTH T

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October 14-16, 2015 Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff

REMTECH 2015: CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT

ESAA is please to announce that Erin Brockovich will be the closing keynote speaker at RemTech 2015.

Today everyone knows all about Erin Brockovich’s unique life story because of the movie “Erin Brockovich,” for which earned an Academy Award for portraying Erin Brockovich.

Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Erin Brockovich initially attended college at before ultimately earning an associates degree from Wades Business College. At that point, she began working at before leaving the company behind to compete in beauty pageants. Erin Brockovich appearances on the beauty pageant circuit proved to be pretty successful, and she won the 1981 Miss Pacific Coast title. At that point, she moved to and has lived there ever since.

Despite not having a law degree, Erin Brockovich eventually got a job working as a clerk at a law firm. While at that job, Erin Brockovich appearances at her office and out working with the public helped her firm build a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company for damaging the water supply. Although the most famous Erin Brockovich appearances came in the form of Julia Roberts playing her in the film “Erin Brockovich,” the real Erin Brockovich has also seen her profile skyrocket. Since the film opened, there have been Erin Brockovich appearances on the ABC show “Challenge America with Erin Brockovich” and on the Zone Reality television show “Final Justice.” Erin Brockovich appearances as a consultant have also been in high demand, and many high profile law firms have been eager to work with her or keep her on as a consultant on retainer.

In addition, the Thursday lunch keynote speaker will be Mireya Mayor, National Geographic Emerging Explorer.

National Geographic Emerging Explorer Mireya Mayor is a primatologist and conservationist reporting on wildlife issues for more than a decade. As a correspondent on National Geographic’s Ultimate Explorer television series, she has gone underwater with six-foot-long Humboldt squids, tracked gorillas in Central Africa, and worked with leopards in Namibia. In 2000, Mireya co-discovered a new species of mouse lemur in Madagascar, and convinced the nation’s leaders to declare the species’ habitat a national park. Her study of other rare and endangered primates has helped to unravel their mysteries and guide conservation efforts. A Fulbright scholar and National Science Foundation Fellow, Mireya has been featured in numerous publications and on MSNBC, CNN, and NBC’s Today Show.

Registration is currently 50% sold out for RemTech 2015. To register visit: www.esaa-events.com/remtech

RemTech 2015 Delegate Rates Will Not Rise for the 5th Consecutive Year! ESAA works hard to keep costs for delegates at a minimum. Even though our costs have increased dramatically over the past 5 years we are holding delegate fees for the 5th consecutive year.

ALBERTA WASTE CONTROL REGULATION REVIEW AND UPDATE Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development has announced that work is currently underway to review and update the Waste Control Regulation. This will involve a phased approach.

• Phase one involves making administrative updates and adding an expiry date to the Waste Control Regulation in 2015. • Phase two will consist of undertaking a detailed policy review of the regulation; this will also incorporate feedback from the consultation conducted in 2008. • Phase three will include targeted stakeholder engagement on specific issues. This is anticipated to take place in 2016.

More information will be available shortly on the Waste Section of the Environment and Sustainable Resource Development website at: http://esrd.alberta.ca/waste.

If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact department staff by email at [email protected] or by phone at 780-427-3081 (for toll free access anywhere in Alberta, first dial 310- 000).

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ORDER ISSUED TO LEDUC COUNTY TO REMEDIATE SITE OF FORMER LANDFILL The Alberta government has ordered Leduc County to carry out reclamation of the Kavanagh Landfill site.

Incident details • In 1976, the County of Leduc received grant money from the Alberta Environment Land Conservation and Reclamation Council to fund reclamation work on four sites (including the Kavanagh Landfill). • There is no record of reclamation work having been carried out at the Kavanagh Landfill. • A 2013 site inspection found that previously deposited waste, including rusted metal car parts, glass, plastic and cinder blocks, was coming to the surface across the site. • These substances can harm to the environment, human health or safety or property.

Terms of the Environmental Protection Order

• Leduc County must: o Prepare and submit a report to assess and delineate the landfill; o obtain a qualified third party consultant to assess both soil and groundwater contamination, and submit a report of the findings to the Compliance Manager; o prepare and submit a remediation plan to reclaim the surface area and to remediate the soil and groundwater contamination identified in the report; o submit an implementation plan for remediation for the Compliance Manager’s approval; and

o provide the Compliance Manager with a final report within 30 days of the completion of the work outlined in the remediation plan.

Environmental Protection Orders are used to prevent or remediate the effects of a substance release that may cause an adverse effect on the environment under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. They are one of many tools – including education and prevention – used by the Alberta government to ensure all Albertans can continue to enjoy a safe and healthy environment.

APPOINTMENT OF AEMERA'S SCIENCE ADVISORY PANEL At the Oil Sands Science Symposium in Edmonton this morning, it was my pleasure to announce that six internationally recognized environmental science experts have been appointed to serve on a Science Advisory Panel to provide peer review and validate AEMERA’s provincial environmental monitoring, evaluation and reporting programs and activities.

The six panel members include:

Dr. Jill Baron, Chair – Founder & Co-Director of the John Wesley Powell Centre for Earth System Science Analysis and Synthesis at State University Fort Collins, Colorado

Dr. John Giesy – Faculty Member in the Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of the Toxicology Centre and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Michigan State University; and Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Dr. Joanne Nightingale – From the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom, and a Research Scientist, Sigma Space Corporation Contractor in the Terrestrial Information Systems Branch at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland London, UK

Dr. Reed Noss – Provost’s Distinguished Research Professor, Davis-Shine Professor of Conservation Biology, and Pegasus Professor in the Department of Biology at University of Central Florida; and President of the Florida Institute for Conservation Science Orlando, Florida

Dr. Russell Schnell – Deputy Director of the Global Monitoring Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Boulder, Colorado

Dr. Alexander J.B. (Sascha) Zehnder – Founder and director of triple Z Ltd. and former president of the ETH Board and Professor emeritus of ETH Zurich,

Switzerland; Visiting Professor and member of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; and Scientific Director of Water Resources of Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions Zurich, Switzerland

These scientists are all recognized as leading experts in their individual fields of science and I am pleased that each of them not only accepted our invitation to provide advice to AEMERA, but that they did so enthusiastically and despite the many other commitments and demands on their time.

AEMERA is honoured to have these individuals providing their independent oversight to assess and validate the quality of our science against global and leading edge best practices.

The appointment of the SAP is a major step forward in establishing the scientific foundation to AEMERA as it prepares to become fully administratively operational on April 1, 2015, and complements the appointment of Dr. Fred Wrona as our Vice-President and Chief Scientist effective April 7, 2015.

The Science Advisory Panel will meet up to two times a year beginning with its first meeting in June 2015. Full biographies and Terms of Reference for the Science Advisory Panel will be available at www.aemera.org.

In addition to the SAP, in the Spring of 2015 AEMERA will also be appointing a Traditional Ecological Knowledge Panel to bring similar advice and insight to ensure traditional knowledge is integrated into its science and monitoring programs.

RYLEY RESIDENTS CONCERNED OVER INCINERATOR PLAN (Source: Edmonton Journal) Joe Wigington builds steel storage tanks near Ryley and most of the work is done outdoors.

That’s why he’s worried about plans to put a large incinerator to burn medical waste almost next door.

Edmonton-based G-M Pearson wants to start construction in April of the incinerator, to be built with private money, and is awaiting approval from federal and provincial environmental authorities.

But Wigington and some other residents of Ryley, about 85 kilometres east of Edmonton, are concerned that potentially harmful pollutants will be emitted.

These include dioxins, furans and heavy metals such as mercury, which can be produced by burning plastic, old vaccines, needles, body parts and other medical waste.

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“It’s not just my employees, it’s about air in the community, and my kids, and wanting to ensure we are all safe,” Wigington says.

“The health risk has to be assessed by a third party.”

Concern about air pollution was first raised last year at an open house the company held in Ryley.

It was attended by Alberta Health Services (AHS), which now has a contract with G-M Pearson to burn waste at an aging Wainwright facility.

“Air emissions, risk of cancer and bioaccumulation in food and the environment” were residents’ issues, the company noted in a report to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.

The company responded that “only filtered exhaust gases” will be emitted and high heat will “burn any residual organic particles.”

But Wigington says the company’s record running the smaller incinerator in Wainwright raises troubling questions.

In December 2012, Alberta Environment fined G-M Pearson $11,000 for allowing emissions of mercury, dioxins and furans above the legal limit and for late filing of their air emissions reports for 2007, 2008 and 2009.

The company also failed to monitor carbon monoxide at the main incinerator smokestack.

Also, the new facility would have to shut down at least once a year for maintenance.

At that time, pollutants would be sent directly into the atmosphere through a bypass smoke stack.

Wigington questions the company’s conclusion that “contaminants from the bypass stack are considered to be insignificant,” according to the report by Worley Parsons for the federal assessment agency.

Joe Kress, owner of G-M Pearson, declined to comment on the 2012 fines.

The project would have “minimal environmental impact” overall because it would be located in an industrial park, meet Alberta’s air quality standards and have “state-of-the-art technology,” concludes the Worely Parsons report.

Ryley already has two waste sites, a municipal landfill that takes Edmonton waste and hazardous waste landfill.

The new 24-hour incinerator would be three times the size of the Wainwright facility, which G-M Pearson has run since 1997 under a contract with AHS.

The Wainwright incinerator will be closed in January 2016.

Alberta Environment is currently assessing G-M Pearson’s application.

At the same time, it is considering a request from the taxpayer-owned Swan Hills Waste Treatment Plant to amend its licence to handle biomedical wastes, spokesman Parker Hogan says.

Swan Hills is operating at only 40 per cent of capacity and could handle the extra material, plant managers said.

Environment Minister Kyle Fawcett is not involved in either decision and won’t comment on whether Swan Hills is a preferred option, Hogan says.

But Wigington and some of his neighbours wonder why Swan Hills, about 220 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, isn’t the obvious place to send medical waste.

The plant is underused and far from populated areas and farmland, Wigington says.

“Why doesn’t all this material go to Swan Hills? This just doesn’t make sense.”

The World Health Organization recommends putting such incinerators away from populated areas and where food is grown.

Area residents have until March 1 to make submissions to Alberta Environment on the project.

An Alberta Environment staff engineer notified G-M Pearson in a Feb. 27, 2014 letter that an environmental impact assessment will not be done, though that decision could change “should different or new information come to light.”

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has received 31 submissions from the public in the last month. It has until March 12 to decide whether to undertake an environmental impact assessment, communications adviser Karen Fish said.

That review would deal with federal issues such as dangers to fish, waterways and migratory birds.

AHS declined to comment on the new facility, saying its only role is to sign a contract with the operator.

SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS MIX WITH WATER IN NEW WETLANDS RESEARCH PROJECT EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Feb 24, 2015) - Water will soon return to selected drained wetlands in Alberta, thanks to an innovative research project supported in part by a $390,000 investment by Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions. Today, the Alberta Land Institute launched the "Alberta's Living Laboratory - Wetlands Project", which will work in partnership with private land owners to better understand wetland restoration.

"At AI-Bio, one of our focus areas is integrating land and environmental management," said Steve Price, CEO of Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions. "We are delighted to join with the Alberta Land Institute and its private and public partners in launching this research project that helps to address priorities in the Provincial wetlands policy and advances ecosystem services approaches to land management."

Leading the project will be three researchers from across Canada: resource economist Dr. Peter Boxall and scientist Dr. Shari Clare from the University of Alberta, and scientist Dr. Irena Creed, based at Western University, in London, Ontario. This multi-disciplinary team will work to improve the scientific understanding of what wetlands contribute to their watersheds, while also examining the practical economic costs of their restoration.

"The Alberta Land Institute relies on an innovative, multi-disciplinary process to connect research with policy for better land management," explains Dr. Vic Adamowicz, the Institute's Research Director. "By bringing together leading experts, and conducting research in the field, this project will expand our understanding of wetlands, and wetlands policy, from the perspective of both natural sciences and social sciences."

The consideration of both social and natural scientific perspectives makes this project unique. Instead of focusing exclusively on a better understanding of the 'functional values' of wetlands -- benefits such as flood mitigation and water purification -- the study will also address the practical question of compensation for land owners who agree to restore wetlands on their land.

"Until we know how much it costs to compensate land owners, we don't know what it truly costs to restore wetlands," Dr. Boxall explains. "We're going to test a market-based system for restoring wetlands, so that land owners can set the price, and we can make the most of our restoration budget."

In addition to these immediate scientific and economic findings, this project will offer lasting benefits to wetlands research in Alberta. Because they will be designed and installed in a scientific manner, the restored wetlands will become living laboratories, allowing a wide array of research for years to come.

Funded by the Government of Alberta, Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions is a research agency that collaborates with partners to invest in science and innovation. The agency's objective is to grow prosperity in Alberta's agriculture, food and forest sectors through new technologies, products, services or industry practices, and its areas of focus are sustainable production, bioindustrial innovation, food innovation, prion diseases and ecosystem services.

SASKATCHEWAN GAS STATION ORDERED TO PAY $27,000 FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS Gas station sentenced for violating federal environment law

A numbered company, 101195638 Saskatchewan Ltd., operating as Blackhawk’s Gas, located on the Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation Reserve, pleaded guilty on February 18, 2015, in Saskatchewan Provincial Court and was ordered to pay $25,000 for failing to comply with an order given by an enforcement officer. The company was fined an additional $2,000 for not having a compliant emergency plan and for failing to perform required inspections.

Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA, 1999), as amended by the Environmental Enforcement Act, this company received a mandatory minimum fine of $25,000. The mandatory minimum penalty is aimed at promoting compliance with federal environmental legislation. These fines will be directed to the Environmental Damages Fund. In addition, the court ordered the company to perform an environmental audit, repair any deficiencies, and prepare an adequate emergency plan. As a result of the conviction, the company’s name will be added to the Environmental Offender’s Registry.

On September 9, 2013, enforcement officers from Environment Canada issued an Environmental Protection Compliance Order (EPCO) to address violations identified during an earlier inspection. The EPCO required that specific measures related to sections of the Storage Tank Systems for Petroleum Products and Allied Petroleum

Products Regulations under CEPA, 1999, be taken no later than November 19, 2013. A follow-up inspection revealed that most of the measures outlined in the EPCO had not been implemented.

Quick Facts

• Blackhawk’s Gas is registered as numbered company 101195638 Saskatchewan Ltd. and operates on Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation Reserve. • EPCOs are orders that Environment Canada’s enforcement officers may issue to put an immediate stop to a CEPA 1999, violation, prevent a violation from occurring in the first place, or require action to be taken to address a violation. • The Environmental Damages Fund, administered by Environment Canada, was created in 1995 to provide a mechanism for directing funds received as a result of fines, court orders and voluntary payments for the repair of the actual harm done to the environment. • The Environmental Offenders Registry contains information on convictions of corporations, with regard to offences committed under certain federal environmental legislation. The Registry contains records dealing with convictions registered for offences committed since June 18, 2009, when the Environmental Enforcement Act received Royal Assent.

Associated Links

• CEPA, 1999 • Current Regulations under CEPA, 1999 • Environmental Offenders Registry • Environmental Damages Fund

NEW CCME DOCUMENT: SOIL QUALITY GUIDELINES FOR THE PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN HEALTH – BERYLLIUM CCME has published Canadian Soil Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Environmental and Human Health – Beryllium. The guideline and its scientific criteria document can be found at CEQG Online and the guideline can be searched by using the Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines Summary Table.

Please click on the following link for details: CEQG Online

DUKE ENERGY IS CHARGED IN HUGE COAL ASH LEAK (Source: Times) RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against Duke Energy, the nation’s largest electric utility, accusing the company of violating the federal Clean Water Act by illegally dumping millions of gallons of toxic coal ash into the Dan River in North Carolina. They also accused the company of failing to maintain equipment around at least two plants.

The misdemeanor charges are the result of an investigation that began about a year ago and quickly became a major political scandal in a state whose governor, Pat McCrory, has longstanding ties to the Charlotte-based energy giant.

The charges were announced Friday shortly before 5 p.m. by the United States attorney’s offices for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina, along with the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section.

Duke said Friday that it had already negotiated a plea agreement under which it expected to pay fines.

Duke’s fourth-quarter earnings estimate, issued Wednesday, included notice of a charge of “approximately $100 million, or 14 cents per share, related to the company’s assessment of probable financial exposure.”

An animated graphic by the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University shows the aftermath of the coal ash pond rupture at Duke Energy’s Dan River Steam Station.

“We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event,” said Lynn J. Good, Duke’s president and chief executive.

Environmental watchdogs in the state were already suing Duke to force it to safely remove ash ponds when, on Feb. 2, 2014, a company employee discovered a major leak in the Duke Energy plant on the Dan River in Eden, N.C.

Duke engineers quickly realized that millions of gallons of toxic coal-ash slurry were pouring through a rupture in a 48-inch concrete storm pipe that ran underground. It took six days to plug the leak. In that time, 35 million gallons of slurry had leaked, coating the riverbank as far as 70 miles down the river toward Danville, Va.

It took a day for the company to properly notify the Danville city manager of the contamination, officials said at the time. Coal ash, a waste product from generating electricity, contains heavy metals including lead, arsenic, selenium and mercury, and is toxic to humans and wildlife. Many of the plants found to be improperly handling the waste were near poor and black communities in the state.

At the time of the Dan River spill, activists accused regulators with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources of protecting the energy company, noting that the state had intervened in previous attempts to enforce the Clean Water Act. In that case, the company, which currently has a $55.7-billion market capitalization, had been allowed to pay a settlement of less than $100,000, with no cleanup required. Officials of the environment and natural resources agency said at the time that they had properly enforced the law.

The department had recently gone through a series of budget cuts and layoffs. Mr. McCrory, a Republican, had appointed as its new head a businessman whose former company specialized in cleaning up fracking sites. The governor’s opponents charged cronyism: Mr. McCrory himself had continued working for Duke Energy even while serving as mayor of Charlotte, where the company is headquartered. He resigned from the company to run for governor.

Duke Energy and Duke Energy subsidiary employees spent about $300,000 on his campaigns for governor, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics.

Since then, Mr. McCrory has been highly critical of Duke Energy. In December, he told the CBS News show “60 Minutes” that the company’s record on coal-ash disposal had been “quite poor — because frankly, it’s been out of sight, out of mind.”

A spokesman for the governor’s office referred requests for comment to the environment agency. The agency said it was pleased with the criminal counts, but said the proposed settlement would not resolve the state’s civil litigation over violations at coal ash ponds.

The case will be heard in the Eastern District of North Carolina, which is based in Raleigh, the state capital.

FOOD WASTE IS BECOMING SERIOUS ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE, REPORT SAYS (Source: New York Times) WASHINGTON — With millions of households across the country struggling to have enough to eat, and millions of tons of food being tossed in the garbage, food waste is increasingly being seen as a serious environmental and economic issue.

A report released Wednesday shows that about 60 million metric tons of food is wasted a year in the United States, with an estimated value of $162 billion. About 32 million metric tons of it end up in municipal landfills, at a cost of about $1.5 billion a year to local governments.

The problem is not limited to the United States.

The report estimates that a third of all the food produced in the world is never consumed, and the total cost of that food waste could be as high as $400 billion a year. Reducing food waste from 20 to 50 percent globally could save $120 billion to $300 billion a year by 2030, the report found.

“Food waste is a global issue, and tackling it is a priority,” said Richard Swannell, director of sustainable food systems at the Waste and Resources Action Program, or Wrap, an antiwaste organization in Britain that compiled the new report. “The difficulty is often in knowing where to start and how to make the biggest economic and environmental savings.”

The food discarded by retailers and consumers in the most developed countries would be more than enough to feed all of the world’s 870 million hungry people, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

But it is not just those countries that have problems with food waste. The report showed that it is also an issue in African countries like South Africa.

The problem is expected to grow worse as the world’s population increases, the report found. By 2030, when the global middle class expands, consumer food waste will cost $600 billion a year, unless actions are taken to reduce the waste, according to the report.

Food waste is not only a social cost, but it contributes to growing environmental problems like climate change, experts say, with the production of food consuming vast quantities of water, fertilizer and land. The fuel that is burned to process, refrigerate and transport it also adds to the environmental cost.

Most food waste is thrown away in landfills, where it decomposes and emits methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Globally, it creates 3.3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases annually, about 7 percent of the total emissions, according to the report.

The United Nations agency points out that methane gas from the world’s landfills are surpassed in emissions by only China and the United States.

“Seven percent is not the largest contributor of greenhouse gasses, but it’s not an insignificant amount,” said Helen Mountford, the director of economics at the World Resources Institute. “But this is one area — reducing food waste — where we can make a difference.”

Over the last several years, some cities and counties in the United States, including New York City, have started programs to tackle the issue. Hennepin County, Minn., the state’s most populous county, provides grants from $10,000 to $50,000 to local business and nonprofits to help recycle food products or turn them into compost.

“There is still a lot in the waste stream,” said Paul Kroening, supervising environmentalist at Hennepin County Environmental Services. “We are just scratching the surface.”

A coalition of food industry trade groups, the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, has also increased effort to combat food waste. Meghan Stasz, the director of sustainability for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a member of the alliance, said the group was working with supermarket chains to reduce waste by clarifying expiration dates and selling smaller portions of food.

Ms. Stasz said the group was also getting its members to donate more food and make changes in manufacturing processes to reduce the amount of wasted food. One member, the giant food company ConAgra, changed the way it placed dough in shell for its pot pies and saved 235 tons of dough in a year.

Mr. Swannell, of the antiwaste group Wrap, applauded those efforts, but said more still needed to be done.

“Awareness of food waste has risen, but we need to do more to tie that awareness to actions on the ground,” he said. “We need to find better ways to deal with food waste, but we need to prevent it in the first place.”

New ESAA Member

ESAA’s Board of Directors and staff would like to welcome the following new members:

Full Member:

Formation Fluid Technology 100, 298 Burnt Park Way Red Deer Country Red Deer, AB T4S 0K7 Phone: (403) 348-5077 Fax: (403) 348-5049 Web: http://www.formationfluid.com

Chance Radford, Chief Operating Officer e-mail: [email protected]

Profile: Formation Fluid Technology (FFT), the operating division and wholly owned subsidiary of FFM, is the developer and operator of industrial wastewater treatment facilities and commercial mobile systems designed and engineered in-house for today’s energy clients and tomorrow’s opportunities. Our focus is delivering cost-effective technology and innovative solutions for wastewater treatments by delivering a new source of water, which meets or exceeds regulatory and operational requirements for reuse, surface discharge, or aquatic release and offers safer environmental alternatives.

We offer consulting, fabrication, commissioning, and operation of equipment for new projects as well as troubleshooting services for existing systems. Our mobile Hydro-Cycle System is highly flexible and can be scaled to treat varying flow rates and contamination levels. Using a minimal environmental footprint, our equipment delivers cost-effective solutions for optimization and remedial treatment of source water, produced water, fracturing flow back water, and industrial effluents for reuse.

Upcoming Events

An Evening with Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE presented by Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESAA) Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 Winspear Centre, Edmonton

Tickets and Great Seats Still Available. Family Event.

The Environmental Services of Association of Alberta (ESAA) is pleased to announce An Evening with Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE in support of the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada (JGI Canada) and the Ilsa Mae Research Fund at Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

Full proceeds from the event will be split between JGI Canada and the Ilsa Mae Research Fund. ESAA is making no proceeds from this event and donating all time and efforts to both causes.

The event will include a presentation by Dr. Jane Goodall, followed by a Q & A session with the audience, and a book signing in the Winspear Lobby. Ticket prices start at $41 (incl. GST) and will go on sale via the Winspear Centre website and box office at 10 am on January 5th, 2015.

A limited number of VIP Tickets will also be available and will include a private meet and greet with Dr. Goodall and wine & cheese reception.

Full event details also available online at: http://www.esaa.org/events/#id=163&wid=401&cid=153 or https://tickets.winspearcentre.com/event/performance/4693

Air & Waste Management Association / Canadian Prairie and Northern Section

EDMONTON LUNCHEON ANNOUNCEMENT 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. Friday, March 6, 2015 University of Alberta Faculty Club (11435, Saskatchewan Drive),

Indicator Trends for Canadian Climate Changes During the Last 60 to 140 Years Trends in weather data changes (at 16 Canadian stations with long-term records) will be presented for the arctic, sub-arctic and southern climatic regions of Canada. Trend analyses are specific to annual average and extreme temperature and precipitation variables, and within year similar variables, that are based on author-developed indicators of climate change trends. Major finding is that average temperatures have been on the increase at all stations (for the period of record) albeit at different rates of increase for different periods of the record. The rate of increase is dominated by the autumn and winter period (as opposed to the spring and summer period). The rate of increase tends to be larger at arctic and sub-arctic stations. Precipitation trends tend to be less pronounced, but mostly towards more total annual precipitation.

Presenter: Kurt J. Hansen. M.Sc., P.Eng., President of Green Inc., Calgary Kurt graduated as a Civil and Environmental Engineer in 1974 at the Technical University of Denmark. He has 40 years of Canadian and international environmental service experience and is the author of many articles and presentations. He has been a volunteer for several community and technical organizations, including CPANS and the A&WMA. He was the Calgary CPANS Luncheon Director during 2007 and 2008. Kurt’s exposure to weather station data processing and analysis started in 1976, with raw chart data processing for a station in Faro, Yukon.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New for the Luncheons This Year ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To speed up registration this year, we asked that attendees sign up online, in advance, at the following link: http://cpans.org/events/ Advance registration is quick and easy. Payments will be processed with a credit card through PayPal and receipts are printable right away. Note, only cash or cheque will be accepted at the door this season. No credit cards will be accepted at the door.

AESAC Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessment training course and certifications AESAC (Associated Environmental Site Assessors of Canada) is a nationwide association providing benefits and services to Canadian Environmental Site Assessors, and has been developing and providing Environmental Site Assessment training courses in accordance with the CSA guidelines since 1993. AESAC has recently redeveloped its Alberta Phase I and II training course to accommodate provincially (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan) significant guidelines, regulations, and specifics. Successful completion of AESAC's Phase I and/or II course(s) will allow attendees to be eligible for application of the C.E.S.A. (Certified Environmental Site Assessor) Designation.

Don't miss out on our upcoming Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) Phase I and IItraining courses in Alberta!

Alberta Spring 2015 Training Course dates:

ESA Western specific Training courses Phase I (One) ESA Certification Course: March 27th – 29th 2015 Venue:Sawridge Inn, Edmonton, AB

Phase II (Two) ESA Certification Course: April 10th –12th 2015 Venue:Hotel Blackfoot, Calgary AB

More information and course registration can be found at www.aesac.ca