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THE PROFESSIONAL EDISSUE 18G9 • NovEmbER/DEE cEmbER 2020 Resources & New Energy Development Crit ical I llness is a ll t oo c ommon. The statistics relating to critical conditions are eye-opening: 1 in 2 1 in 3 1 in 2 Canadians will Canadians will Canadians will develop cancer .1 develop strok e, be impacted by dementia, or both. 2 heart disease. 3 More people Just the f acts are surviving critical illness Certainly , the g ood news is that, despite the about Engineers Canada-sponsored fact that facing a critical illness can be frightening, more and more people are surviving these Critical Illness Insur ance days thanks to medical breakthroughs. Consider these numbers: Canc er Hear t a a ck Stroke Maybe you can relate to Jen ,* P .Eng., 200 7. Survival r ate 60 %4 95% 5 80 %6 She’s an established civil engineer , loves her job, loves her two c hildren, and she and her partner are gr ateful for their health. But what about the nancial cost? Or maybe you can relate to Ma hew ,* P .Eng., 1996. Survival is priceless. However , many cancer He’s an established c hemical engineer , loves his job, patients spend over $20,000 on various loves his daughter , and he’s gr ateful for his recovery costs during their treatment. 7 And consider the from a strok e. Unfortunately , his wife was recently lost wag es su ered by the more than 400,000 diagnosed with breast cancer . Canadians who live with long-term disability due to strok e. 6 Ma hew and his family have had a tough time, while Jen and her family have been luc ky . But that Critical Illness doesn ’t mean Jen ’s family is immune to critical illness Insur ance can help – whic h is why it ’s important to be prepared . Engineers Canada-sponsored Critical Illness Insur ance pays a lump sum upon diagnosis of a covered life-threatening condition, to help in any way you c hoose. Y ou and your spouse may apply for bene t amounts between $25,000 and $1 million . Choose one of two plans to cover 1 Canadian Cancer Society , “Nearly 1 in 2 Canadians expected to g et cancer: report, ” June 20, 201 7. either 6 or 18 conditions. 2 Heart & Strok e, “Strok e R eport 2016 just released! ”, June 9, 2016. 3 ctvnews. ca, “ The Health of Canadians: Looking bac k at 60 years of heart health, ” F ebruary 3, 2015. 4 Net 5-year survival r ate. 5 Survival r ate for those who have a heart a ac k and g et to a hospital. Heart & Strok e, “Ge ing to the To learn more and apply: Heart of the Ma er ,” 2015. 6 Heart & Strok e, “ The Heart & Strok e 201 7 Strok e R eport, ” July 19, 201 7. 7 TheR ecord. com, “Cancer patients face high out of poc ket expenses, ” April 15, 201 7. manulife. ca/apegsCI Manulife, Manulife & Stylized M Design, and Stylized M Design are tr ademarks of The Manufacturers 1 87 7 598-227 3 Life Insur ance Company and are used by it, and by its a liates under license. All rights reserved. © 2020 The Manufacturers Life Insur ance Company . 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Elsewhere - $20/year. Fan Yang - Administrative Assistant * Applicable GST/HST will be added to advertising rates. 3 Table of contents ISSUE 189 NovEmbER/DEcEmbER 2020 05 President’s message Resources & New Energy Development 18 2021 membership/License Fees 19 90th Annual meeting 6 12 21 competency-based Assessment 22 Saskatchewan Geological Society 23 call for council Nominations Helium exploration First Nation creates 24 council Notes poised to soar carbon-free electricity 25 Governance change 8 14 26 member Profile 28 continuing Professional Develpment 29 Gems of Geoscience 30 Scholarships and bursaries Making a case for Mother Nature lends a nuclear hand 31 New APEGS Ads 10 16 32 celebrating our own 33 News beyond our borders 38 News From The Field 44 calendar of Events Rooted in uranium Could lithium be next? 4 President’s message e have just come out of a provincial election and a historic election soWuth of the border. The appropriate response to climate change is a key policy topic. one item folks agree on is that greener technology can help lessen the impacts of climate change. This issue of The Professional Edge highlights several types of energy development in the province (wind, solar and small modular reactors) and the Andrew R. Lockwood, P.Eng., FEC professional engineers and geoscientists that bring these ideas to fruition. Energy is one blessing I sit here at my kitchen table, Saskatchewan has and attempting to construct my the geoscientists at president’s message while the Saskatchewan directly violating the explicit Geological Survey are investigating another. request of my editor to not Lithium required to include this same line again. power our energy- hungry devices and I acknowledge her concern and vehicles may be found in duly ignore it, unlike the rest of a unique location in our the topics in this month’s province. one article will be Professional Edge. informing our readers on this development. The aforementioned topics are important, but pale in comparison to another geological resource we have profiled - helium. Why is this so important? Two words: Party balloons! It may also be used in research centres like the canadian Light Source for cooling their magnets and as a potential ultra-clean fusion fuel source. but we all know high-pitched kids’ voices are the real draw.