Industry Update — LaRocque opens new
manufacturing of
fields oiurban drainage, instrumen tation and control, remote monitor ing and WPCP troubleshooting and design. Company founder. Randy McLean, says that Monitario can calibrate most types of flow meter ing systems, from venturi tubes to velocity: area meters. Calibrations
laboratory equipment for soil, geo-
are carried out in accordance to the
facilities LaRocque Drilling Supplies and LaRocque Geotek Inc. recently opened new facilities in Blainville, Quebec. LaRocque Geotek specializes in the sale
and
same standards used in developing pollution control and monitoring, , the MISA regulations. For further details contact biodegradable drilling fluids as well Monitario Tel:(519) 748-8024. as soil bentonite membranes for
technical instrumentation, water
municipal and industrial waste disposal. LaRocque Drilling Supplies caters to exploration diamond dril ling and well monitoring industries. For further details, contact L. Normand Beaulieu, Tel:(514)430-6666.
New monitoring and calibration service
company formed Monitario Technical Services Inc.
has been formed to supply technical expertise and service to environ mental consulting professionals. The company can support an engine ering firm with expertise in the
PEOPLE George Crawford, former chair man of Gore & Storrie, has won this year's Carson F. Morrison award. Presented by Canadian Consulting Engineer magazine, the award honors George's technical, business and ethical contribution to
the engineering profession, particu larly in the environmental field. Now a senior consultant with G&S, he is also on the editorial advisory board of Environmental Science &
Engineering.
The federal government has named representatives from industry, government, academic and citizens'
groups to serve on the Priority Sub stances Panel under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Members include: Dr. Don
MacKay of the University of Toronto; Dr. Don Ecobichon of McGill University; Jack Siemia-
tycki of Quebec's Institut Armand Frappier; Daniel Green of MontreG-based Societe pour vaincre la pollution (SVP); Carol Rubin of the BC Coalition for Alter
natives to Pesticides; Dr. Ann Robinson of the Ontario Labor
Ministry; Bill Neff ofthe Canadian Chemical Producers' Association; Charles Ferguson, head of environmental affairs for Inco; and Dr. Ross Hume Hall of McMaster
University, panel chairman. The panel is to provide federal Environ ment
and
Health
and
Welfare
Ministers a list of 50 priority sub stances having such characteris tics as: toxic; persistent; exposed to humans; dispersed over a wide geographical area; detected in the Canadian environment; in Canadian commerce, with the potential to enter the environment in significant quantities; and those substances known to bioaccumulate in the food chain.
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Circle reply card No. 103 Environmental Science & Engineering, June 1988