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REMTECH 2014 - CALL for ABSTRACTS • Job Board DEADLINE MAY 30, 2014 • and Much More … An Information Service for Alberta’s Environment Industry The Week Ending April 25th, 2014 STAFF CHANGES AT ESAA After ten years with the Association, Joe Barraclough has decided that the time has come for him to step aside from full time work and enjoy time with his family. His last day with ESAA will be June 30, 2014, but will be on vacation starting on April 22nd. During Joe’s tenure, ESAA achieved the financial self-sufficiency independent of U government funding that enabled ESAA to purchase its office space in south Edmonton. In addition to maintaining strong ties with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Inside this Issue: Development, Joe helped to build strong working relations with other provincial sister • Alberta Tier 1 and Tier 2 associations such as Quebec's Reseau enivronnement and local organizations like the Guidelines – 2014 Recycling Council of Alberta. Version Released • CEMA Optimistic for ESAA's Board of Directors and staff wish Joe all the best and thank him for the efforts 2014 after Rocky Year made at ESAA. • AER Permits CNRL to Resume Steam Injection The Board of Directors is currently evaluating the position and is in the process of Near Primrose Leaks beginning the recruitment process. Further details will be released later this year. In the • Forty-Four Years of meantime, Joe Chowaniec will be the main point of contact for all ESAA matters. Earth Day • New ESAA Member • Upcoming Events REMTECH 2014 - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS • Job Board DEADLINE MAY 30, 2014 • and much more …. October 15-17, 2014 Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel U The Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESAA) invites you to submit The ESAA Weekly abstracts for technical presentations focusing on technologies for the remediation of News is published contaminated soil. weekly by: Environmental Services Presentations are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following areas: Association of Alberta 102, 2528 Ellwood In-situ treatment, Ex-site treatment, Physical treatment, Biological treatment, Chemical Drive SW treatment, Soil washing and scrubbing, Thermal desorption, Incineration, Stabilization, Edmonton, AB T6X 0A9 (P) 780.429.6363 Solidification, Immobilization, Aeration, Soil Venting, Air Stripping, Membranes, Encapsulation, (F) 780.429.4249 Vitrification, Natural Attenuation, Regulatory Issues, Modelling, Mapping, Oil Sands Remediation, Oil Spills, New Technology and Difficult Locations. [email protected] UTTTH T www.esaa.orgHTTTU UTTH T The preliminary selection of presentations will based on submitted abstracts and Comments & submissions reviewed by a committee of peers. are welcome! Please submit your Abstracts should be no more that 500 words, should include a presenter biography (not announcement part of the word count), and must be received by Friday, May 30, 2014. Submissions via e-mail to: should only be submitted as word documents. [email protected] UTTTH T ...environmental Please send submissions to Joe Chowaniec via e-mail: [email protected] integrity through innovative Notification of acceptance will be given by July 4, 2014. Full presentations must be business solutions submitted by September 26, 2014. ADDITIONAL DETAILS: • Full details are available online at: www.esaa-events.com/remtech/ • Past presentation archive can be found at: http://www.esaa-events.com/remtech/proceedings.htm • Delegate Registration still availabe (85% Sold Out): www.esaa-events.com/remtech/ ALBERTA TIER 1 AND 2 GUIDELINES - 2014 VERSION RELEASED Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development has released revised versions of the Alberta Tier 1 Soil and Groundwater Remediation Guidelines and the Alberta Tier 2 Soil and Groundwater Remediation Guidelines. Most of the guideline revisions are due to the recent release of the Environmental Quality Guidelines for Alberta Surface Waters (released April 14, 2014). Updates have also been made where CCME Environmental Quality Guidelines have changed. A set of tables is attached showing revised Tier 1 guidelines in red. The Tier 2 document has been updated to ensure consistency with Tier 1. A number of minor revisions have been made in the text to update references, etc. The following changes have also been made for clarification. • Section 2.3.4 – use of subsoil guidelines • Section 2.4.2 has been revised in both the Tier 1 and Tier 2 documents to provide guidance on the use of anthropogenic background in site assessments. A number of minor revisions have been made in the text for clarification. • Tier 1 Tables– a footnote has been added to clarify analysis of phenol (Tables 1 and 2) and sulphide (Table 2 only) Revisions to the Subsoil Salinity Tool are underway and the new version will be announced when it is ready. The 2014 editions of the Alberta Tier 1 and 2 guidelines and the Subsoil Salinity Tool come into effect on December 1, 2014. Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development and the Alberta Energy Regulator will continue to accept applications for reclamation certificates and remediation certificates that are compliant with the 2010 edition of the Alberta Tier 1 and 2 guidelines provided the laboratory analytical data report(s) from a Phase 2 environmental site assessment or confirmatory sampling event is dated on or before November 30, 2014. The Alberta Tier 1 and Tier 2 guidelines are available at: http://esrd.alberta.ca/lands-forests/land- industrial/inspections-and-compliance/alberta-soil-and-groundwater-remediation-guidelines.aspx The Environmental Quality Guidelines for Alberta Surface Waters are available at: http://esrd.alberta.ca/water/education-guidelines/surface-water-quality-guidelines-and-objectives.aspx Questions and comments should be sent to: Land and Forestry Policy Branch 10th Floor, 9820 - 106 Street NW Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2J6 Phone: (780) 427-6210 Email: [email protected] CALGARY PLANS TO BAN COMMERCIAL DUMPING OF CARDBOARD BY 2018 (Source: Calgary Herald) Calgary plans to ban businesses from dumping cardboard at landfills by 2018 and compostable organic waste by 2019, but officials hope lighter inducements will get businesses to green their waste systems before then. A recycling company urged a council committee Wednesday to speed up plans to get easily recycled paper products out of the landfill — where they make up nearly one-eighth of everything dumped. “If there’s no legislation that’s telling you not to throw it in the garbage, there’s a good chance you just will,” said Spencer Kennedy of Urban Impact. “And it has surprised me that one can go to the (city) landfill and unload a truck of cardboard boxes.” The 78,000 tonnes of cardboard and paper businesses trash each year has such a value on the recycling market that Kennedy said he’d scavenge for it at the landfill if he could. But the city and councillors prefer a softer approach before landfills actually begin turning away paper or cardboard loads. Next January, city landfills would begin charging $150 per tonne for paper or cardboard, instead of the regular $107 rate. Then the city would mandate recycling for all businesses in 2017, and then follow that with a ban. Many companies that still don’t recycle may when they’re faced with financial signals to do so, said Christina Seidel, executive director of the Recycling Council of Alberta. “The ban then becomes the last piece for those last organizations that just won’t play otherwise. So you save that in your back pocket for the end,” she said. Major companies are generally good at recycling, and will have strategies. A Delta Hotels official came to committee to say they divert the majority of waste they produce, as part of a corporate plan. Coun. Peter Demong said setting up multiple waste programs can be difficult for smaller, stand-alone businesses. “When you’re a mom-and-pop shop or a restaurant that has one or two employees and two part-timers, this is something that hangs on the edge. And you’ve got space concerns and how do you go about doing this?” He also prefers the gradual approach the city has taken. Councillors were surprised to hear how much cardboard is trashed each year by businesses. “Why is that such a huge component when we all know to do it, and it’s the easiest thing?” Coun. Brian Pincott said. Gilles Catellier’s interior contracting company, Ice-House Enterprises, is one firm that doesn’t yet recycle cardboard He recycles paper and boxes at home, but the time it would take for his crews to separate materials at work sites and find places to divert them isn’t worthwhile. Sometimes he will bring full trucks of cardboard to the landfill. He’ll pay what he has to. “It kind of makes me feel bad, but what do I do?” Catellier said. He was enticed once by a city landfill program that offered discounted tipping fees for recycling boxboard. But crews made him feed by hand pieces into a community depot-style green bin, and it was too tedious, Catellier said. Dave Griffiths, the city’s director of waste and recycling services, agreed his landfills do need to devise a more convenient option for business customers that want to do the right thing. Calgary has had some success getting construction companies to keep recyclable materials like concrete, asphalt or wood out of the waste stream with a higher surcharge, Seidel said. “The private sector is if you want to encourage something, make it economically attractive,” she said. “That’s the language they’d really understand and respond to.” Education programs, which are also part of the city’s plan, are vital, she added. Calgary, which aims to divert 80 per cent of waste from city landfills by 2020, has been a laggard on this front before — it was one of the last major Canadian cities to offer curbside recycling pickup, and still lacks rules for condo buildings.
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