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HAZMAT: TRANSPORTATION SAFETY

Editorial

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Equipment performance monitoring for railways.

by Patrick O'Neil

Up Front

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HAZMAT: STANDARDS

Environment Business

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Global Harmonized System (GHS) awareness.

by Toni-Ann McLean

Health & Safety

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HAZMAT: SPOTLIGHT

Products

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Multi-service company Quantum Murray.

by Guy Crittenden

Ad Index

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Legal Perspective

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CLEANTECH: OPINION

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CLEANTECH: WASTE-TO-ENERGY

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BROWNFIELDS: SITE RESTORATION

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BROWNFIELDS: HEAVY METALS

Clean Up The World.

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Uncertainty over renewables.

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Dishing the Dirt on Shop Towels

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by Guy Crittenden

“The findings assume that workers wipe their lips with a laundered shop towel twice a day.”

n interesting policy and PR war erupted this summer over an offbeat possible source of contamination: used shop towels. The war was fought over a study produced by Gradient — an environmental and risk science consulting firm — and paid for by Kimberly-Clark. (Visit www.thedirtonshoptowels.com). The situation reminds us that we should be cautious about supposedly “scientific” claims made on behalf of commercial interests.

The national workplace study, released on July 11, set out to re-assess the toxicology risks associated with seemingly benign laundered cleaning cloths (a.k.a. “shop towels”) used by manufacturers across North America. Gradient researchers analyzed data from laundered shop towels submitted by 26 North American companies across various manufacturing industries. The towels were submitted to an independent lab for testing. Gradient found “significantly higher levels of contamination than in the similarly designed 2003 study.”

As a PR firm hired to publicize the results wrote, “In a nutshell, the study finds that, even though these towels are laundered after every use, they still contain modest amount of heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and cobalt and that the exposure exceeds established risk limits set by the EPA and toxicology agencies.”

According to the news release, the study, Evaluation of Potential Exposure to Metals in Laundered Shop Towels, “builds upon an earlier analysis published in 2003 and concludes that, even after commercial laundering, the towels studied retain elevated levels of metals. This could result in worker exposures that exceed agency guidelines, which are based on various health effects such as cancer.

Gradient, the release says, compared the estimated amounts of ingested metals to various health-based criteria, including from the U.S. EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, estimated metal intakes were compared to the California Environmental Protection Agency’s (CalEPA) Proposition 65 regulatory limits for cancer or reproductive effects.

“The Gradient study finds that, for the worker using the typical amount of towels per day, average exposure to seven metals (antimony, beryllium, cadmium, cobalt, copper, lead, and molybdenum) may exceed health-based exposure guidelines set by these agencies. For example, based on the calculations discussed in the 2011 Gradient study, a worker may ingest up to 3,600 times more lead on a daily basis than recommended by CalEPA. Excessive metal exposure over time may present a health concern.”

Ominously, the study pointed out that workers cannot see, smell, or feel heavy metal contaminants on “clean” laundered shop towels, so they’re unaware that the towels could contain elevated levels of tiny invisible metal particles. They could therefore touch towels with their hands and may unknowingly transfer these metals to their mouths.

However, on August 12 the Textile Rental Services Association of America (TRSA) fought back, issuing its own news release entitled “TRSA Thwarts Disposable Wiper Marketers’ Sales-Oriented ‘Research’.” Its release attempts to discredit what it calls the “disposable wiper industry’s most recent attack” on the hygiene of clean shop towels.

TRSA states that the Gradient researchers examined only 10 towels to reach their conclusions, and produced no evidence of any harm from use of these items, insinuating that metals could migrate from towels to users’ hands but offering no evidence that any such transfer occurs. (See http://bit.ly/clean-towel) TRSA says the analysis doesn’t prove the presence of metals in washed shop towels, noting that even if any were present, “they could not escape because laundering would bind them to towel fibers.”

“The findings assume that workers wipe their lips with a laundered shop towel twice a day,” observed TRSA President Joseph Ricci. “Such a baseless assumption serves no purpose other than to strike fear and create doubt.” Even the researchers noted their lack of methodology for evaluating exposure to metals from towels, Ricci says.

Ricci added that this is not a human health study and that it was commissioned by the disposable paper wiper marketers to put their product in a positive light by discrediting use of reusable textiles, and the study was self-published, not included in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

What is one to conclude from all this?

At a minimum, we must be very cautious about the use or misuse of science by commercial interests in advancing their agendas. Don’t overreact or be manipulated; maintain a skeptical stance and look at who is sponsoring what kinds of findings. And that includes big items like climate change claims, and small items like shop towels. Just because someone with a Ph.D. says it doesn’t make it so.

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ou don’t have to look far to find a community recovering from a disaster and having to manage a huge cleanup effort. Slave Lake, Alberta; Assiniboine, Manitoba; Sendai, Japan; Christchurch, New Zealand. In Coastal British Columbia the focus is on “when” rather than “if” a significant disaster happens. The likelihood of an earthquake and potential for Tsunami are great.

On June 24, 2011 the Coast Waste Management Association (CWMA) held a workshop to increase awareness and share technical expertise and knowledge regarding the planning for a natural disaster and cleaning up the debris. Rob Johns with the City of Victoria, BC visited Christchurch New Zealand in October 2010, and again March 2011. Rob was able to bring back firsthand advice on what could happen on the coast of BC. Doug Allan is the Project Advisor to the Integrated Partnership for Regional Emergency Management (IPREM) in Metro Vancouver. IPREM is an intergovernmental entity created to improve emergency management at all levels of government in BC’s Lower Mainland, including disaster debris. Doug was able to

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share with delegates the plan tasks and recommendations as IPREM move forward.

Deanna Carveth is a Project Specialist with the Solid Waste Division of Snohomish County, Washington. A 19-year veteran of the solid waste industry (both public and private sector) Deanna spoke to delegates about Snohomish County’s work to prepare for any eventuality. Snohomish County has a FEMA-approved disaster debris management plan that was activated and used in January 2009.

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Tornado debris cleanup

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round large, mangled tree stumps, long corrugated metal sheets wrinkle-wrapped like frozen wet paper towels point in the direction of the storm’s ferocious winds. The F-5 category tornado that had ripped out much of Joplin, Missouri’s core had stayed on the ground much longer than the norm; over 22 minutes it destroyed all in its path, include some old homes laced with asbestos. FEMA, EPA, OSHA and the US Army Corps of Engineers shared concerns about the manner in which this dangerous material would be removed from the mangled structures.

Given the many tornadoes that touched down in Canada and the United States in 2011, it’s worthwhile for all emergency responders to think about their cleanup plans in the event such disasters strike.

Air sampling technicians from OSHA regularly visited the Joplin sites to enforce EPA standards regarding the monitoring for asbestos fibres found in field worker’s breathing space. The Corps took every precaution, from spraying the air around the work site where

debris was loaded, to sealing the material prior to landfill disposal. The Corps ensured safety by using high-tack spray adhesive to seal together sheets of heavy ply plastic, rather than the often-used (but less secure) technique of

Tree wrapped with sheet metal from the F5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, the responders’ sector close-out map, and a plastic “burrito” sealing up asbestoscontaminated debris.

simply taping them together. Debris wrapped in bundles like this are called “burritos.”

Jasper County, where Joplin is located, is the locale of numerous old lead mines and is on the EPA’s national list of most polluted sites, which complicated both debris collection and where the asbestos burritos could be buried.

Information supplied by Tommy Clarkson, Public Affairs Office, US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City, Missouri.

AHMP HazMat simulation

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he US Department of Transportation (DOT) estimates there are more than 800,000 daily shipments of hazardous materials traveling throughout the United States.

This large number means there are ample opportunities for HazMat emergencies. As a result, every year the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals (AHMP), the only US organization devoted to the professional advancement of the HazMat field, simulates an emergency response scenario (ERS) at its annual conference to review and teach HazMat emergency protocols.

This year, AHMP held its 2011 Annual Conference in Austin, Texas from August 28-31, bringing together 800 leaders in health, safety, and environmental management. AHMP coordinated a realtime ERS on The University of Texas at Austin campus in one of its major waterways, Waller Creek. Similar to the recent oil spill in the Yellowstone River in Montana, the simulation featured a chemical spill in an important body of water that could affect local residents.

To simulate the scenario, a colored dye from two overturned barrels that had fallen off of a waste truck was “spilled” into Waller Creek; then AHMP, the university HazMat team and the Austin Police and Fire Departments conducted a full-scale cleanup including communicating with local residents and media through communication systems (including text messaging), dressing in HazMat suits to test the water and determine the spilled contaminant, containing the “spill” with a boom, and cleaning the contaminant

The Austin Emergency Response Team places sand bags behind a boom to contain an oil spill simulation in Waller Creek.

out of the waterway. More than 30 HazMat professionals from private industry and government witnessed the scenario, discussing step-by-step how responders contained the spill, secured the area and aided in a safe cleanup.

After the onsite ERS, attendees participated in a table-top discussion about what worked, what didn’t and how they could incorporate lessons learned into what they do every day, namely coordination, communication and preparation.

Next year, AHMP will host its 25th anniversary national conference in Anchorage, Alaska with an emergency response scenario still to be determined.

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Pipeline Emergencies

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illions of miles of pipeline crisscross North America (the United States has some two million miles of it) carrying everything from flammable liquids and gasses to chemicals. Emergencies involving these pipelines rarely happen.

In fact, pipelines are one of the safest modes of transportation for hazardous commodities.

Incidents involving pipelines are usually the result of human error and third-party damage. But emergencies can also arise from natural disasters such as floods or earthquakes, or pipeline integrity failures like corrosion.

Then there is the issue of terrorism.

Pipelines have been a target of interest to terrorists worldwide. Since the start of the war in Iraq in 2003 there have been more than 500 attacks on pipelines in that country. Chechen separatists in Russia, rebels in Colombia, and militants in Nigeria routinely target pipeline infrastructure.

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Firefighters from Industrial Emergency Services check for a leak at a hydrogen pipeline facility in “Pipeline Emergencies.”

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Following the Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City, Emergency Film Group determined that the protocols used in hazardous materials response were precisely the protocols that were needed to deal with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. There followed a series of DVD-based training programs on countering terrorism. The company

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The “8-Step Process” The “8 Step Process” for handling hazardous materials incidents was created by Michael Hildebrand and Gregory Noll and is described at length in their textbook, Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident.

1. Site Management and Control. Procedures for establishing command, safe approach and positioning, establishing the perimeter and hazard control zones, and procedures for protective actions.

2. Identifying the Problem. Recognizing the presence of hazardous materials at the incident scene, identifying the HazMat involved, HazMat containers, DOT placarding, and NFPA 704 markings.

3. Hazard and Risk Evaluation. How to evaluate risks, response objectives, sources for hazard information, air monitoring, safety, hazardous materials behavior.

4. Protective Clothing & Equipment. Selection and use of protective clothing and equipment, structural firefighting clothing and chemical protective clothing, respiratory protection, NFPA standards for protective clothing, EPA levels of protection.

5. Information Management & Resource Coordination. Information needed to manage a HazMat incident safely, evaluating information, controlling the flow of information coordinating multiple resource groups, using the Incident Command System.

6. Implementing Response Objectives. Offensive vs. defensive strategies, tactics for rescue, protective actions, spill and leak control, and fire control.

7. Decontamination. How contamination occurs, decontamination of persons and equipment after leaving the hot zone, including use of dilution, absorption, adsorption, vacuuming, degradation, neutralization, solidification, disinfection, and sterilization, setting up the decon site.

8. Termination of the Incident. Documenting the incident, post-incident analysis, conducting a debriefing, critiquing the response, focusing on lessons learned.

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New training links positions in EOC to Incident Command During times of crisis such as a flood, terrorist staffed, organized, and activated for each. The event or other natural or manmade disaster, an program also portrays how a planning meeting Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will be acti(an essential part of managing an incident) is vated as part of the Multi-Agency Coordination run. Included in the package are a 32-minute System. A well-prepared EOC can promote conDVD and a Resource CD-Rom with PowerPoint, tinuity of operations for the jurisdiction served. testing, and other materials that an instructor Emergency Film Group has produced “NIMS for can use or modify as the basis of a customized EOCs” to help organizations and jurisdictions training seminar. organize a NIMS-based Emergency Operations Technical advisors for “NIMS for EOCs” Center and implement it when needed. The recinclude Inspector Kenneth D. Honig, who ommended audience for “NIMS for EOCs” is served with the Port Authority of New York federal, state/province, tribal and local emergency manand New Jersey and was the Emergency Operations agement personnel, private industry of all sizes, and disas- Center Manager after the 9-11 attacks; Stephen Marks, of ter response organization personnel.

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“An electronic pipeline control system may be slow to detect a remote leak and then take time to shut down the lines.”

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gained national attention following the infamous 2001 anthrax letters that sickened 19 and left five dead. The company’s video “Response to Anthrax Threats” had been released just weeks before and became the principal source of information for HazMat teams throughout the country who were besieged by what become known as white powder calls.

Eventually training videos were produced for incident command, hazardous chemicals, decontamination, and pipelines. In addition to “Pipeline Emergencies” the company has produced pipeline training for law enforcement and a DVD-based program for pipeline employees on IEDs, both sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security.

The first edition of “Pipeline Emergencies” was completed in 2004. Since that time, 43,000 textbooks and 28,000 videos have been distributed. The text was written by Michael Hildebrand and Gregory Noll, long time collaborators with Emergency Film Group, who bring to the project forty years of experience in firefighting, hazardous materials response, and incident command. They both serve on the NFPA Technical Committee on Hazardous Materials Response Personnel and are the authors of Hazardous Materials: Managing the Incident, a leading text on the subject.

The latest edition is a unique training package which includes an Instructor Guide, an e-book with embedded video, testing modules, and companion slide presentations. The Pipeline Emergencies curriculum can be used by fire departments or pipeline industry operators to help fulfill federal guidelines requiring outreach and training of first responders. (The e-book is also available on line at www.pipelinemergencies.com) The video for “Pipeline Emergencies” was shot on location by Emergency Film Group crews in Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas and featured live burns as well as extraordinary access to pipeline facilities.

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Conoco-Phillips firefighters work to control a simulated pipeline leak in “Pipeline Emergencies.”

The new edition’s video looks at the latest pipeline issues with segments on pipelines that carry anhydrous ammonia, carbon dioxide, ethanol, hydrogen, and liquefied petroleum gases. A DVD release is planned to include all the video materials in a stand alone package.

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“Pipeline Emergencies” recommends a systematic response to control the incident and to protect the public and the environ-

ment. It recommends use of the Incident Command System and the “The Eight Step Process” — a systematic approach to managing HazMat incidents developed by Hildebrand and Noll. (See page 11.)

Emergency responders are encouraged to meet and train with pipeline company personnel and work with them when an incident occurs. An electronic pipeline control system may be slow to detect a remote leak and then take time to shut down the lines, so responders learn it’s

essential to get directly in touch with the pipeline company at once and to keep an open line of communication until pipeline personnel arrive.

A number of factors contribute to the hazards of a particular pipeline emergency, including the health effects of exposure to the material, the flammability and reactivity of the material, its physical and chemical properties, the products of combustion (if the material is burning) and hazards to HMM the environment.

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Rollin’ Performance monitoring for railway safety

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ailinc announced in August that the first phase of the Comprehensive Equipment Performance Monitoring (CEPM) program is underway and on-target for implementation in January 2012. A multi-phase, multi-year industrywide initiative, CEPM will result in an entirely new database of railcar equipment component information.

This data will provide better information that can be used to develop faster and more cost-effective component recalls, prevent derailments, lower operating costs and improve equipment maintenance planning.

To accomplish this, the railroad industry is developing a new process and related technology tools that will be

introduced, starting with wheelsets, in 2012. CEPM will later be expanded to cover other components.

“CEPM will now track component-level data that the rail industry has never had,” said E. Allen West, president and CEO. “We have many milestones ahead, but CEPM will be an important step in the development of a comprehensive component health solution that will improve safety, increase productivity and reduce costs across the industry.”

The program’s first phase, CEPM-Wheelsets, centralizes the registration of wheelset component details and identifies the application of wheelset components, including AAR and non-AAR repairs. Railinc

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plans to release an update to its Umler™ system in mid-August to enable wheel shops to register wheelsets in the Umler Component Registry.

In January 2012, manufacturers will begin providing wheel shops with the data required to begin registration of wheelsets. In July 2012, pending industry rule changes will require that all new wheelsets be physically tagged with an AAR component ID and registered in Railinc’s Umler system. And in January 2013, any wheelset applied to equipment must be reported to Railinc with the associated AAR Component ID. HMM Railinc will provide updates on CEPMWheelsets as the implementation date gets closer. For more information, visit www.railinc. com/cepm

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HAZMAT : STANDARDS

Post-GHS Safety Data Sheet acceptance in North America and Europe

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“Every SDS in Canada, the United States and around the world will have to be changed to accommodate the GHS.�

he Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling (GHS) began in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). In 2011, the GHS has now been implemented in several countries around the world, including in Japan, China, New Zealand and the European Union (EU), and in others, is about to be implemented. In the US, for example, proposed changes to the current Hazard Communication Standard have been published and a final rule is expected out in the fall of this year.

Currently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the US emphasizes flexibility to meet the needs of both suppliers and users.

Therefore, OSHA allows suppliers to prepare Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) in various formats, as long as the minimum required content appears in the MSDS. Similarly, in Canada, Health Canada also permits some flexibility and allows suppliers to prepare MSDSs in various formats (nine headings or 16 headings); again, as long as the minimum required content appears in the MSDS. In contrast to Canada and the U.S., however, the EU has only permitted the use of a 16 heading format Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for several years now and will continue to do so, post-GHS.

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The question now for an SDS author in the U.S. or Canada is, will my one, single SDS be accepted in Canada, the United States and the EU, once the GHS becomes law in the US and Canada? In short, yes it will be... but there are still some important points to consider.

The GHS system requires SDSs to be in a 16-heading format, which has been based on the SDS Standard recommended by the International Labour Organization (ILO). All three regions of the world, post-GHS, will require a 16 section GHS-style safety data sheet (SDS), once the GHS becomes law in each region.

Inconsistencies or issues for an SDS will be in how specific sections of the SDS are treated in each region.

In the US and Canada, some sections will be identified as not falling under the jurisdiction of OSHA or Health Canada (e.g., Section 14 will fall under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Transport and Transport Canada, Section 12 will fall under the jurisdiction of the US Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada). The content of those sections, therefore, will not be mandatory and will likely be highly variable in format. In the EU, however, every section of an SDS is required and has mandatory minimum information that must appear in each section. For an SDS author then,

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every section of an SDS must be extensively reviewed, even those not mandatory, in order for the SDS to be accepted in all three regions.

Other considerations are in some differing information requirements (i.e., US OSHA and ACGIH exposure limits vs. EU Member Country exposure limits), hazard classification differences (e.g., US proposed “Simple asphyxiant” hazard class is not currently regulated by the EU), and other more minor considerations such as units of measure (i.e., Farenheit vs. Celsius).

Every SDS in Canada, the United States and around the world will have to be changed to accommodate the GHS. However, the light at the end of the tunnel is in the fact that all regions will be adopting the exact same general format, and a single SDS will be possible, if a little longer. The same base set of hazard criteria will be used, the same base set of hazard symbols will be used and terminology will more closely match between the three regions than it has in the past.

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Uncertainty in Renewables

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by Aaron Atcheson

“The Progressive Conservative leader that he would cancel the program and terminate the contract with Samsung.”

ot surprising for an emerging sector such as renewable energy, the industry continues to require incentives of some kind to promote private development in Canadian jurisdictions. And so, in a year with a federal election, five provincial and two territorial elections, not to mention the PC Alberta leadership race and the “will she/won’t she” questions in British Columbia, there is considerable uncertainty within the renewable energy development community in Canada. But in particular, the sprint for the premiership of Canada’s lead jurisdiction in renewable energy development — Ontario — has both slowed the progress of the industry in Canada and threatened its future.

Whether you support Ontario’s feed-in tariff (FIT) program and its significantly elevated electricity purchase prices, or the Liberal government’s deal with international player Samsung to build production facilities for the wind and solar industries, it is clear that both of these initiatives have had a hand in progressing the development of a renewable energy sector in Canada’s most populous province.

While the program is imperfect — with goals as diverse as the replacement of carbon intensive energy production to the creation of “green jobs” (not to mention struggles relating to connecting new power production to the grid and changes in the regulatory environment) — the first significant feed-in tariff program in North America has received significant international attention, and many global players are now involved in Ontario in some way.

Unfortunately for the program, development has been slowed significantly by transmission capacity constraints and by regulators, and also because of the statements of the Progressive Conservative

leader that he would cancel the program and terminate the contract with Samsung, not to mention put in a moratorium on new wind development to allow for additional health studies. Prior to the writ being dropped, the PC party had a significant lead in the polls, resulting in these threats being taken seriously. Add to this the Liberals’ own changes in direction — such as their withdrawal of support for offshore wind — plus application processing delays at several levels, and a chill has been cast over the entire renewable energy development sector in the province.

In order to limit the damage, the Ontario government has taken some extraordinary measures.

Within one week in August, the Minister of Energy ordered the Ontario Power Authority to offer waivers of termination rights in FIT contracts where projects had procured components, the Ministry of Finance proposed new rules clarifying the property tax assessment of renewable energy projects, and the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Natural resources and Ministry of Tourism and Culture all announced efforts to speed up the project approval process. However, it appears that these measures have come too close to the election and the biannual review of FIT pricing to have had much of an impact.

Combine the situation in Ontario with the delays in moving forward with Clean Energy Act initiatives in B.C., the possibility of a number of provincial government changes, and the lack of a significant federal program to support the industry, and many sector participants are questioning their decision to expand into Canada. It promises to be an interesting year ahead!

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Aaron Atcheson is a Partner and Chair of Miller Thomson LLP’s CleanTech Group in London, Ontario.

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CLEANTECH: WASTE TO ENERGY

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aste-to-energy (WTE) plants are very complex technical systems, and Hitachi Zosen Inova AG is among the world’s leading experts in the generation of energy based on waste as fuel. More than 500 plants throughout the world show the company’s professionalism in planning, engineering, dependable project management, commissioning, and onschedule handover of facilities, with comprehensive packages of services and plant operation on request.

But in order to ensure stable, energy efficient and sustainable operation of WTE plants several subsystems are required: the monitoring process is therefore of key importance to ensure that they work correctly and that all operations are properly integrated.

Hitachi Zosen Inova recently decided to test a new solution to monitor one of their WTE plants: the wireless sensor network solution by Paradox Engineering.

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HARSH WTE ENVIRONMENTS After the start up of the plant, systems have very often to be optimized, and in this phase the monitoring of process parameters is of major importance. Additionally, distances within the plant are often long, which makes troubleshooting and testing operations complex and time consuming.

In the WTE plant in Lausanne, Switzerland this was exactly the situation: it required a reliable monitoring system which also had to withstand (as in any of such plants) extreme operating conditions. High temperatures, thick concrete walls, moisture, steam; in such environments, monitoring systems must guarantee easy set up, minimal operations, reliability, and help to keep maintenance costs under control.

From among others on the market, Hitachi Zosen Inova selected Paradox Engineering’s Industrial Wireless Sensor Network (PE.WSNi) to overcome these challenges. A first test to verify the reliability of PE.WSNi in the plant in Lausanne was performed: the PE.WSNi node was installed in the waste bunker. It was attached to two microwave radar level measurements via 4-20 mA transmitters. The PE.WSNi gateway was installed in the plant control room, separated

from the bunker trough a thick concrete wall.

The gateway stored one-minute level measurements of the waste level in the feed hopper. In this test phase, data was downloaded into .csv format and used first of all as an indicator of system reliability, and secondly for statistics and monitoring.

The expectations of Martin Steiner, R&D project manager, and of Urs Hugentobler, manager project engineering tools, not only related to swift and easy systems monitoring and cost reduction, but the ability to go beyond local data collection and get to the next level of data penetration and measurement.

After a smooth installation phase, the test gave positive results. The only obstacle was the two 4-20mA analog input channels on the I/O module that are not galvanically separated. To overcome this, it was enough to pay particular attention to the connection of external power supplies. A discussion with PE engineers clarified this matter, and the problem was solved using a second 24V supply.

“For troubleshooting and optimization, PE.WSNi allows us to monitor important parameters of the system in a very easy way,’’ Steiner says. “It allows us to reduce the costs for experimental installations for R&D projects, enabling us to avoid cables and local data collection.’’

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NEXT STEPS As a consequence of the successful first testing phase, Hitachi Zosen Inova has decided to implement a second phase in order to evaluate the deployment of the solution on a larger basis. In this phase, PE.WSNi will be integrated with Hitachi Zosen Inova’s data analysis tool, called Pamela: outcoming data will be used for an R&D project studying how to mitigate fouling in WTE boilers.

This time, the analysis will consider data from thermocouples, flow sensors, and pressure sensors, a more complex set of information to handle and a more challenging working environment.

“We are really satisfied with the excellent results of this implementation,” says Gianni Minetti, CEO at Paradox Engineering. “Hitachi Zosen Inova calculated that around 20,000 wired data points are needed to reliably monitor each waste-to-energy plant, estimating an investment of around $ 4,000 per point. Thirty per cent of these can be replaced with wireless data collection nodes, which is quite a substantial saving — and that’s thanks to the PE.WSNI solution.”

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Remedial excavation next to Main Street.

by Derek Stewart

“Rather than remaining underutilized, this property will be used for land redevelopment to improve rail and roadway traffic.�

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n the past, some municipalities have shied away from using brownfield sites due to perceived or real environmental contamination of the land and the fear of risks associated with the property. While there are situations where these sites are too costly to clean, most brownfield properties can be effectively utilized when proper measures are taken and should not be overlooked. Specifically, in growing urban areas where infrastructure needs to be continuously upgraded to accommodate growth, brownfield properties may be ideal for infrastructure improvements.

Making use of a brownfield property to improve transportation infrastructure is exactly what the Town of Milton, Ontario decided to do when it undertook a rail grade separation design and construction project involving the CP rail line crossing its Main Street. At this location, a three-hectare former industrial property was

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directly impacted by the grade separation, as the project required a deep cut through a portion of the industrial property to allow the road to pass beneath the railway, and the placement of a storm sewer in advance of the main grade separation. Since the grade separation would only impact the west portion of the property, the town decided to sever the property into two parcels, with the west parcel remaining under the town’s ownership to accommodate the grade separation and the east parcel transferred to a property developer for commercial and residential redevelopment.

Unused in recent years, this former industrial property manufactured zinc oxide from the mid-1950s to 1991. More recently it was occupied by six buildings including a manufacturing building, a baghouse, and a furnace production and storage building, as well as two underground storage tanks (with capacities of 1,140 and

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4,550 litres, used for storage of gasoline and diesel fuels).

The principle contaminants of concern were heavy metals, and to a lesser extent, petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), with the majority of the contamination confined to the upper few metres of soil across a large portion of the property. (See article on heavy metals remediation, page 30.)

McCormick Rankin Corporation (MRC) — a member of MMM Group Limited — was hired by the town in 2009 to complete the grade design and provide contract administration for this project. Ecoplans (also a member of MMM Group) worked with MRC to complete an investigation of the property to define the extent of the contamination in preparation for the cleanup tender. The investigation included completing 31 boreholes across the property, a comprehensive sampling and analysis program, and a remedial options evaluation study.

During this investigation, a large area of contaminated soil was identified and delineated. The contaminated soil included an area of hazardous soil based on lead levels exceeding the hazardous criterion. A remedial evaluation assessed a number of options including encapsulation with solidification/stabilization; however the town decided to proceed with the excavate and dispose option due to project timing and environmental liability issues, especially given the fact that the town wanted to sever the east portion of the property for residential/commercial redevelopment, which would necessitate the filing of a Record of Site Condition.

In March 2010, Ecoplans was retained to provide contract administration and environmental field supervision during the excavation of contaminated soil and restoration at the site by a remediation contractor. The cleanup resulted in the removal and off-site disposal of approximately 5,500 tonnes of hazardous soil and 28,000 tonnes of non-hazardous soil. The confirmatory sampling program identified contaminated sections at the property limits of the remedial excavation along the CPR ROW and Main Street ROW. These property limits were lined with a PVC geomembrane barrier to minimize potential contaminant migration back into the clean backfill on

Storm sewer to be buried during the remedial excavation.

the property. The final step in the cleanup was the filing of a Record of Site Condition with the provincial environment ministry in support of the change in land use from industrial to residential. (The grade separation work started this fall.)

This project for the Town of Milton required proper integration of transportation design, property acquisition and environmental due diligence, but provides an excellent example of the effective utilization of a brownfield property. Rather than remaining underutilized, this property will be used for land redevelopment to improve rail and roadway traffic (through grade separation), and to provide residential and commercial growth (through land severance) in an ever expanding urban area.

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Derek Stewart is a Senior Project Manager and Hydrogeologist with MMM Group Limited in Mississauga, Ontario.

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Heavy Metal

Recovery or immobilization of heavy metals in soil?

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by Mike Shiralian

“Emerging technologies known as bioremediation and phytoremediation have been demonstrated to be effective in metal recovery.�

bnormal levels of heavy metals in soils represent a health and environmental hazard; hence their remediation may be required. Yet some heavy metals in minor concentration are essential nutrients (minerals), and some are valuable in medical, nuclear, and mining industries. Therefore, their recovery is beneficial.

It can be argued that we need new technologies to extract or recover heavy metals rather than just relocating them to the landfills or immobilizing them by chemical or physical methods (fixation or stabilization).

Immobilization either in situ or in the landfill doesn’t address sustainability, and some toxicity risk still exists.

From the viewpoint of chemistry, heavy metals never die and their toxicity and chemical behaviours change by alterations in their oxidation states; these in turn change their solubility, leaching, mobility, precipitation, reactivity, etc. under different environmental conditions.

So, recovery is ultimately beneficial.

The soil matrix is a major reservoir for heavy metals, because both soil and heavy metals have rich and diverse binding characteristics. Unlike organic pollutants, metals do not biodegrade and bioaccumulate in the environment. Typical heavy metals that exist naturally in the ecosystem in low concentrations are Cr, Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn, N. The same metals at high concentration become toxic; others like Pb, Cd, and Hg are toxic at any concentration.

Soil can play a major role in transporting or changing the behaviour and characteristics of contaminants.

Typical soil consists of a mixture of weathered minerals, varying amounts of organic matter, and water. In general the soil matrix may adsorb, exchange, oxidize, reduce, catalyze or precipitate metal ions depending on several factors such as: water content, pH, temperature, the nature of the metal itself (e.g., oxidation state and its solubility in water), particle size distribution, and clay content (clay particles are usually negatively charged).

This composition dictates the solubility, mobility, and toxicity of heavy metals in soil. Therefore, customized or site-specific technologies must be selected for their effective and economical remediation.

Soil and ground water contamination by heavy metals commonly results from spills or direct infiltration of sewage discharges from industrial activities, leachate from mine tailings or from industrial waste lagoons, airborne emissions, processed solid wastes/sludge, and purification of metals (e.g., smelting of copper, nuclear wastes, or electroplating for extraction of metals).

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contain organic pollutants. The remediation of organic contaminants from soil (such as petroleum and halogenated hydrocarbons) is well advanced and there are many sustainable alternatives available. But for heavy metals, there are few alternatives; most involve extensive soil handling and are overall much more expensive than the organic remediation. Under normal climate conditions, heavy metals that exist in soil can also enter the groundwater. Therefore, the remediation of heavy-metal contaminated sites almost always involves both solid phase matrix and the liquid phase (organic pollutants and water) handling.

CURRENT AND EMERGING OPTIONS The following technologies are commercially available and commonly used on many Canadian and US Superfund sites, costing in a range of $100-$500 per tonne: Landfilling (dig and dump): Contaminated soil is physically relocated, long time monitoring is required.

Capping/ Subsurface Barriers (Risk Assessment): Pollutants are contained/controlled, continuous risk assessment and monitoring required.

Solidification/Fixation: Metals immobilized by reagents in-situ or ex-situ, long time monitoring required.

Vitrification: The entire contaminated ground is melted by high temperature electrolysis, metals immobilized in matrix.

Existing and emerging recovery cleanup alternatives include isolation, physical separation, and extraction (from both soil and water matrices). Soil washing and soil flushing remediation technologies are the only metalsrecovery soil remediation alternatives that are currently commercially available. The principals of both technologies are exactly the same and are based on extraction of heavy metals from the soil matrix by solubilising them into the water phase by use of reagents such as chelates or PH adjusters, etc.

The difference between the two methods is that soil washing is an ex-situ process whereas soil flushing is an in-situ process (where additional force is used to make the solution penetrate through the ground and into trenches or collecting wells). Although soil washing (ex situ) is the most commonly or preferred alternative over the in-situ approach, both methods require extensive site preparation, equipment mobilization, soil handling, and huge volumes of water that then need treatment. The cost is at the high end of the scale in comparison with all the non-recoverable alternatives already mentioned.

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Electrokinetic treatment is another technology currently used on a site-specific basis. In this method, electrodes are used in-situ or ex-situ in a slurry to transfer metal ions and localize them as a solid mass on the surface of the pre-selected electrodes (i.e., an electrochemical reaction). The yield and universal application of this technology still needs improvement, but promising and useful results have been obtained on site-specific projects, where other methods have failed. (An example is the removal of heavy metals from underground water phase in difficult areas to reach such as underneath buildings.)

In recent years, emerging technologies known as bioremediation and phytoremediation have been demonstrated to be effective in metal recovery, and are more economical than all others discussed above. These two technologies are very similar in principal: bioremediation involves the use of microorganisms to bioaccumulate the heavy metals; phytoremediation is by use of certain plants to transfer the metals

to biomass. Although, both bio- and phyt- offer economical solutions, unfortunately both methods are climate dependent, and the process rate and yield of recovery require significant improvement.

So, given all the challenges, what is one to do? It’s most logical to take a site-specific approach for each project, until universal alternatives are developed. Ideally the processes will be in-situ as oppose to ex-situ and involve direct extraction from the soil’s solid matrix. They will require minimum washing or liquid phase handling and utilize more effective/ improved chemical treatment. We should hope for a permanent solution that requires no ongoing monitoring, and that recovers metals in their pure, elemental form. Improved time and cost-effective methods should need less energy, with minimum adverse environmental impacts from polluting energies, noise, traffic, soil handling, emissions, etc.)

Note: The author currently seeks sponsorship/funding for a comprehensive research study in this field.

HMM

Mike Shiralian, Ph.D., C.Chem., is a Brownfields Remediation & Redevelopment Consultant/Broker with Eco Realty, Environmental Real Estate Brokerage, in Toronto, Ontario. Contact Mike at ecorealty@rogers.com

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Getting Personal Air sampling pumps to detect asbestos

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isturbing asbestos-containing materials can cause hazardous fibres to become airborne and adversely affect the health of employees. When inhaled, these microscopic fibers may result in a number of ailments, including mesothelioma, fibrosis, asbestosis, pneumoconiosis, or respiratory cancer.

Personal air monitoring tests, conducted using a pump worn by the employee, are ideal in accurately assessing individual exposure to airborne asbestos fibres. This type of testing also ensures the correct respiratory protection is issued.

The pump must be worn for extended periods by the worker and not interfere with the tasks being performed. Therefore, a key feature of any sampling pump is a comfortable, low-noise and lightweight design. Quick recharge times and a choice of power supply options to get the pump back up and running after each use are important, as well. A quality-made pump will hold the selected flow rate over the duration of the run. In addition, it will offer a linear flow rate over a wide range to give the user the chance to collect samplers at a faster rate where circumstances dictate. Other features of a pump to seek out are: long-term stability between calibrations,

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the ability to store runs in memory, fixed duration for sampling times, TWA mode and an included software package.

Personal air sampling works by the pump drawing air at a constant flow rate through a filter specially designated by the manufacturer for asbestos analysis. Asbestos is often found, not as single fibres, but as very complex structures, which may or may not also be aggregated with other particles, making its collection more challenging than with other airborne elements. One litre per minute (1 L/min) is suggested for general sampling but for office environments use a flow rate up to 5 L/min. Low sample volumes are frequently encountered for personal sampling and during compliance testing. For this reason each test should be carried out for a minimum period of 30 minutes. Try to sample the air for as long a time as possible without overloading the filter. Also, when you give the filter to the lab it is good practice to include a sample of the material suspected to be in the air. If the site shows the presence of asbestos fibres, a contractor should re-clean the entire area and then follow with another visual inspection and air test.

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Finding the Answer Faster Advances in analytical testing

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“For everything else, including contaminated site cleanup, fast is the future.”

aseball is the only thing in the world that seems to be bucking the trend toward speeding up.

Games that once took two and half hours to play are now upwards to three hours or longer. For everything else, including contaminated site cleanup, fast is the future.

The delays created between a Phase I environmental site assessment (ESA) in which an educated guess is made as to the presence of the contamination through Phase II (determination on the extent of contamination) and Phase III (cleanup) can often be tracked to the time to get analytical testing results back from the laboratory.

With the remediation market in North America estimated to be greater than $7.7 billion according to the Environmental Business Journal, consultants and contractors with innovative analytical methods for testing for contamination that are faster and cheaper will gain a competitive edge.

An obituary on the analytical lab is premature at this

stage as the use of instruments that can measure contaminants in the field in real time is still relatively new.

Nonetheless, there have been major developments over the years that have blurred the lines between Stage 1 and Stage 11 ESAs and the sped-up confirmatory sampling performed in Stage III ESAs.

CELL PHONE AND NAPLS An innovative method that demonstrates how environmental monitoring is getting faster and cheaper won a U.S. student the 2011 Stockholm Junior Water Prize.

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the her project “ has the potential to revolutionize our ability to monitor water quality in a way that is fast, accurate, more flexible and less expensive than existing technologies.

One of the major issues at contaminated sites is non-aqueous phase liquids — either light or dense. An example of an LNAPL is gasoline and an example of a DNAPL is the chlorinated solvent TCE. A new system was recently introduced in the remediation market that allows for the quick identification for the presence of NAPL in sediments and soils. Developed by Dakota Technologies, the patented “Dart” system consists of fiberglass rods coated with solid-phase extraction media.

When contamination is suspected at a site, Darts can be inserted into the sediment by hand, slide hammer, or extension pole. Over a period ranging from 24 to 48 hours, the solid-phase extraction coating sorbs any existing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

Since PAHs have a high affinity for SPE material, the Darts will indicate whether they are present in the tested sub-surface.

The major advantage of the Dart system is that it can be deployed in areas where mechanized soil-boring techniques are not practical or feasible. Although not as accurate as the conventional method of collecting samples and subsequently sending them to a

laboratory, it is does have a purpose.

Time and cost are two of the major advantages of Dart that needs to be traded off against the quality of the data collected.

The typical purpose of Dart is would be to locate contamination.

Dart and similar technologies could be used during the course of Phase I, II, or III environmental site assessments. In the case of a Phase I, testing would provide an indication of contamination.

Phase II deployment would be used to indicate where boreholes should be drilled. For Phase III work, the Dart could be used for confirmatory sampling.

A recent article in American Laboratory noted that the incredibly sophisticated technologies that have been developed to detect and treat human health are not equaled when it comes to the environment. This lamentable fact can be seen as a challenge and opportunity for innovation in measuring and monitoring contaminated sites. The past 20 years has been the development of multiparameter instrumentation, process automation to on-line systems for measuring and monitoring the status of groundwater cleanup.

Over the next 20 years, the utilization of rapid test methods that are more accurate, cheaper, and faster than the traditional sampling and laboratory analysis will be developed. Waiting two weeks for the lab results will be a thing of the past.

HMM

John Nicholson, M.Sc., P.Eng., is a consultant based in Toronto, Ontario. Contact John at john.nicholson@ebccanada.com

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Environmental Impacts Planning for business continuity

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e have been hearing for years about climate change and a warming planet and increased storm warnings: “Climate change is already with us. Scientific evidence shows that past emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) are already affecting the Earth’s climate,” stated in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Policy Brief February 2008. (as posted on oecd.org) This news has been ringing in our ears long before 2008; but have we really been listening?

Scientists are warning us and have for years that the weather is changing. A storm happens with its devastation and destruction and then it is gone, we clean up and we soon forget. Beyond the environmental climate the shadow of 9/11 is 10 years behind us and we have forgotten how devastating that day was and so easily fallen back to our

old ways, or as the National Post said on September 6, 2011 “The United States has returned to its congenial pre-9/11 ways.” We don’t plan for these devastating events and then they are upon us unprepared. The weather is no different than the terrorist attacks they happen without much warning. (See Cover Story, page 8.)

What does this have to do with your business, you ask? Everything!

Without an emergency response or emergency action plan (often called a business continuity plan with the emergency response or action plan as an extension of the business continuity plan) your business will not as easily be able to survive or revive after a disaster occurs.

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For businesses that are able, set up for business continuity outside of the physical location — a satellite offices/ locations, working from home, remote offices/locations, etc. If one location is down you can continue to work. If you server is backed up in multiple locations in multiple cities your data is backed up and you can continue to work but if it is in one location, you may be down for weeks, months or indefinitely.

Sample steps to take in the development of your Emergency Response Plan are: hazard identification/risk assessment;

identification of emergency resources; development of your communication system; development of an administration plan; emergency response policy, procedure and program; communication of policy, procedures and program training; debriefing and post-traumatic stress procedure; rebuilding, restructuring, and regrouping (what that might entail if the business is partially or totally destroyed).

Accountability is important in the emergency response program you develop. Set up an Emergency Response Team. Ensure that your team is properly trained in their roles and responsibilities.

Train all staff in emergency procedures.

The Occupational Health and Safety Act refers to emergency planning that is required for your workplace under certain jurisdictions; in Ontario, under Bill 168 Violence and Harassment, and in BC under OHSA 4.13-4.18; beyond

that it is a good business practice to have a Business Continuity Plan in place.

A few Canadian Resources to guide you in development of your Business Emergency Response and Business Continuity Planning are: www.worksafebc.com/publications/ health_and_safety/by_topic/assets/ pdf/emergency_response_guide.pdf www.ccohs.ca/products/publications/ emergency.html www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/em/gds/ bcp-eng.aspx www.csao.org/health_and_safety_ program/E11.emergency/resources/ Emergency_Plan_Guidelines.rtf www.emergencymanagementontario. ca/english/home.html www.gov.nf.ca/fes/emo/ 12Stepswithtemplate.pdf Visit www.getprepared.gc.ca/_fl/pub ep-gd-prprtn-eng.pdf

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HAZMAT: SPOTLIGHT

If It Doesn’t Move, Recycle It! A look at Quantum Murray LP

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by Guy Crittenden

“The company recycles what it can from projects, rather than just sending debris to landfill.”

uantum Murray LP (QMLP) is a full-service decommissioning, environmental contractor and waste management company that started in the demolition business and grew internally and via mergers and acquisitions into one of the strongest industrial services companies in Canada. In 2005 it was selected as being among Canada’s 50 best-managed companies.

The most significant merger occurred in 2007 when Murray Demolition, Quantum Environmental and Thomson Metals and Disposal joined forces. With the merging of these three entities, a powerful network of suppliers, sub-contractors and strategic partnerships created a new company that delivers unique capabilities to clients and their various technically complex projects.

Quantum Murray now has offices across the country and at times employs more than 700 employees. The company’s divisions provide services to the public and private sector in site decommissioning and environmental remediation, hazardous waste management, scrap metal salvage and investment recovery, soil management, and emergency response. services to all market sectors from institutional and governmental to commercial and industrial.

A perusal of the media file on Quantum Murray reveals a wide range of projects.

An example of its demolition work is TransAlta’s Wabamun, Alberta power plant, which Quantum Murray tore down in 2010 and early 2011. In March the company brought down its stacks in an “engineered, controlled drop.” Fifteen 15 kilograms of dynamite and 75 blasting caps placed in strategic areas of each stack brought down the three, 100-metre reinforced concrete stacks in seconds.

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illustrated by its razing of the Olds High School in Red Deer, Alberta, which has yielded two prime pieces of property suitable for redevelopment in the heart of Olds.

The school was built in the 1950s and closed last year after students moved to a new campus. Quantum Murray had to deal with 60 tonnes of asbestos found at the school (in the drywall compound, tile, pipe insulation and elbows). It aimed to recycle 85 per cent of building materials removed from the demolition such as concrete and cement block, metals and hardwood from the gymnasiums.

Quantum Murray emphasizes recycling in its projects, rather than just sending debris to landfill. When it demolished an old shopping complex, for instance, it dismantled the buildings instead of just knocking everything over; anything that could be salvaged was sent for recycling, a good example being ceiling tiles that were sent to Armstrong World Industries for incorporation into new products.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS In 2002, Shawn Murray obtained ownership of a national demolition and abatement services company and called it Murray Demolition. Many of the employees had been with the company since the 1990s and remained on board, and Murray Demolition soon became the largest industrial services contractor in Canada.

Meanwhile, Quantum Environmental Group was founded in 1992 by President Jeff Westeinde and HazMat division President Doug Wynn (who, along with Brian Stuckertand were the principal shareholders).

Quantum became one of Canada’s leading environmental remediation and haz-waste contracting firms, specializing in site remediation and the treatment of soil, water and other waste materials.

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Typical Quantum Murray jobs may include spill control, asbestos remediation in a school, or conventional demolition and recycling.

Thomson Metals and Disposal was founded in 1980 by President Gary Thomson and developed worldwide connections for the salvage and recycling of scrap metals. The company offered a full spectrum of integrated metal and recycling services from demolition to collection, processing, management, transportation and sales.

In March 2006 things changed when Murray Demolition underwent financial structure changes because of an investment by Newport Partners Income Fund (now called Tuckamore). At that point the company was named Murray Demolition LP. Tuckamore

Capital (Newport Inc.) is a publicly traded diversified fund that invests in Canadian private businesses, so far having invested over $700 million in successful private businesses since its inception in 2004. (As of June 29, 2011 there were 71,631,431 total shares outstanding.) An initial investment of $30.5 million bought Newport an 80 per cent interest in the company, leaving the remaining 20 per cent for two years in the hands of the (then) 45-year-old founder Shawn Murray.

As of August 31, 2005, Murray Demolition had $57 million of revenues and $7.9 million of normalized EBITDA. This investment was expected to add approximately $6.4 million of annual sustainable distributable cash flow to Newport.

Then, in December 2006, Murray Demolition LP signed an agreement to invest $50 million for the assets of privately-owned Quantum Environmental Group Inc. The deal closed in January 2007. The purpose of this, according to company documents, “was to expanded service offering and cross-selling opportunities, reach a broader geographical scope and customer penetration and provide significant opportunities for organic growth.” As Quantum was Vancouver-based, the company instantly gained a broader national presence. It also gained cash flow; for its fiscal year ended October 31, 2006 Quantum generated revenues and normalized EBITDA of approximately $76 million and $11.3 million, respectively.

Quantum Murray had a solid relationship with the Burlington bases of Thomson Metals and Disposal.

So, in March 2007 the company moved to strengthen its overall service offerings and acquired 100 per cent of the assets of Burlington-based Thomson Metals and Disposal and its $49.7 million annual revenue and $5.3 million in EBITDA. Quantum Murray gained access to employees and equipment from Thomson’s demolition business, its waste transfer station and its fleet of 30 trucks and 1,000 containers (that could be used on demolition and remediation projects.)

Integration was aided by the fact that Thomson had historically been the buyer of about 30 to 40 per cent of Quantum Murray’s demolition projects. At the time, Newport’s president stated that the investment in Quantum Murray was delivering a 21 per cent annualized yield on its invested capital, and tripled the company’s EBITDA. HMM

Guy Crittenden is editor of this magazine. Contact Guy at gcrittenden@hazmatmag.com FALL 2011 HazMat Management 43

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Avalanche Explosives Portable grounding kit

In August, Sunshine Village Ski & Snowboard Resort in Banff National Park selected Field ID, a leading provider of cloud-based inspection and safety compliance management software, to track and manage explosives used in avalanche control. The resort acquired Field ID safety inspection software along with mobile devices with scanners, and metal bar codes. Sunshine Village is now placing the bar codes on magazines used to store explosives for winter-time avalanche control and summer-time rock blasting. (The magazines, placed at various remote locations around the resort, must be checked daily by resort employees under strict regulations governing explosives.)

The Field ID solution replaces the previous paper-based record-keeping with a more reliable, efficient and cost-effective way of ensuring regulatory compliance. A record of each inspection is uploaded to a special server, and is permanently available for review by government inspectors. In addition to regulatory compliance, Sunshine Village will use Field ID to track and manage its explosives inventory, and to track security checks throughout the resort. Sunshine also plans to track inspections of other critical safety equipment such as ropes used in rescues and chairlift evacuations.

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Kilmer Brownfield Equity Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

ALLU Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Lacombe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

BioSolGreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Lind Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

CERCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-35

MMM Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Coastal Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Miller Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

CWRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Pinchin Environmental Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Danatech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Proactive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Dupont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Quantum Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

EACO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Scott Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Enviro Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

SiREM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

ERIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Strata Soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

exp Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Stuyvesant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Frac Rite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Veolia Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

T Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

XCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Hazco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Zurich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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HAZMAT: LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

Extra soil: what can go where?

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by Dianne Saxe

“Regulators are developing more sophisticated rules to manage excess soil and the price is going up.”

s surplus soil from construction sites a waste or a resource? Who is responsible for managing it? What rules should apply? Does it matter what the construction site was previously used for?

Given the vast amounts of soil moved to and from construction projects, these questions have huge financial and environmental consequences. The European Union Waste Framework Directive (Directive 2008/98 EC) requires that all surplus soil from all construction sites be treated as waste, whether contaminated or not, but several jurisdictions make exceptions. For example, Northern Ireland allows the reuse of some uncontaminated soils: Excess soils from development sites are generally regarded as a waste and their end use must be regulated under a waste management license or an exemption from waste licensing. The Duty of Care controls also apply …. The guidance allows movement outside of the regulatory controls where it can be demonstrated that excess greenfield soil is uncontaminated and that it can be put to agreed specific re-use.

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs also publishes a Construction Code of Practice for the Sustainable Use of Soils on Construction Sites and some very useful “Toolbox Talks” on managing surplus soils.

New York State allows some reuse of contaminated and decontaminated soils through a series of “Beneficial Use Determinations” and Best Management Practices (BMP). For example, soil contaminated with non-petroleum products, but which is not ignitable, corrosive, reactive and/or toxic, may be used as backfill for the same excavation or for excavations containing similar contaminants at the same site, without a waste management licence. (6 NYCRR Part 360 – 1.15(b)(8)) Canadian jurisdictions have struggled with the same soil/waste questions for decades, with different ministry officers taking inconsistent positions about what the law requires. In Ontario, in theory the strict soil movement limits imposed by Regulation 153/04 on July 1, 2011 have clarified the rules, but at considerable expense. Strictly speaking, the new rules only apply if the destination wishes to someday obtain a Record of Site Condition. However, since only a foolish property owner would give up the option of obtaining an RSC for future sale or development, many owners follow the new rules. That usually means that they will only accept soil that meets Schedule I (background) levels.

This, plus the differences in soil management rules between municipalities, is causing some havoc in the construction industry. In a recent review, Hatch, Mott, McDonald found that 23 of 85 municipalities have a bylaw that mentions soil quality. Of these, 14 prohibited unacceptable material without reference to either the Environmental Protection Act or Reg. 153/04; eight referred to the EPA, but not to 153/04; and only one (the Town of Georgina) used the current Reg. 153/04 standards to define acceptable fill. As a result, reusable soil can end up expensively in landfills, increasing the cost of infrastructure and other public and private projects, while other fill sites become unwittingly contaminated. According to the Ontario’s environment ministry, they “encourage the reuse of excess soil as fill, where appropriate, provided that the use of the excess soil does not have a potential to cause an adverse effect or impair water quality as described under the ministry’s Acts and Regulations.”

Since that simply begs the question of what soil can be moved where, the environment ministry is considering developing its own BMP, to ensure that major soil movements would be of known and recorded quality. The BMP could have a structure similar to Reg. 153/04, i.e., 1. The whole process would be overseen by a Qualified Person, as defined in 153/04; 2. based on detailed characterization, both of the receiving site and the soil to be moved; 3. in accordance with a formal Soil Management Plan for the source of the soil and a Fill Management Plan for the receiving site; 4. whose implementation is recorded in detail; 5. the receiving site would be managed much like a transfer site for solid waste, with signage, security, dust and noise controls, traffic management, storm water management, a contingency plan, etc., and possibly public consultation and financial assurance.

In theory, municipalities and government will incorporate the BMP into their tendering process, at least for large projects dealing with previously contaminated sites.

So, is surplus construction soil a resource? Or a waste?

Since neither blanket label is a good fit, regulators are developing more sophisticated rules to manage it. And the price of it all is going up.

HMM

Dianne Saxe, Ph.D. in Law, is a leading Canadian environmental lawyer with her own practice in Toronto, Ontario.

Contact Dianne at dsaxe@envirolaw.com 46 www.hazmatmag.com FALL 2011

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Veolia ES Industrial Services introduces the Gator™ a remote, manless entry cannon for tank cleaning.

The Gator™ is designed to enter any Above Ground Storage Tank via the standard 24inch Manway and “attack” the sludge. The system is designed for remote operation, greatly reducing (if not eliminating) the need for manned entry into the tank. It is mounted on a track drive system so it can move throughout the tank interior. Hot cutter (water, diesel, LCO, etc.) is fired from the cannon in a steady stream to cut/slurry and move the sludge/solids to a sump and/or pump suction. It uses an infrared light and camera/video system to monitor and control the movement of the robot and direction of the cannon stream.

The Gator™ , offers a very efficient and effective use of the powerful cutter stream – greatly reducing the duration of the sludge removal/ processing operation and greatly increasing the SAFETY of the entire operation (less or no confined space entry).

Veolia ES Industrial Services proudly uses the Armadillo Cleaning System, one of the fastest and most-efficient systems for tube cleaning projects in the world. Veolia ES Industrial Services owns the majority of the systems on the market today. The Armadillo system utilizes large volumes of water, moderate pressure and high rotating speed to drill out and clear plugged tubes. The design of the system is what makes it so effective – the entire Armadillo hose rotates, compared to other designs in which only the tip of the hose moves. The Armadillo system is also more compact than other cleaning systems, highly efficient and maintains the highest safety standards, making

it the ideal solution for Veolia ES Industrial Services. Remote control of the unit by the operator eliminates any exposure to the water stream. No accidents recorded while cleaning over 1,000,000 tubes since its inception.

The BenefiTs l Increases efficiency and effectiveness l Fully automated cleaning solution l Reduces cutter solution needed l Doubles spraying forces l Cleans tank in one entry session l Washes sludge towards point of suction l Significantly reduces risk of injury

The BenefiTs Great results in just one pass Flexible set up configuration Packaged for portability Can be configured to clean two tubes simultaneously l Compact design compatible with most "clean in place" applications l l l l

Veolia Industrial Services employs the largest and most diverse fleet of wet and dry vacuum equipment in the industry to remove a wide variety of materials with differing viscosities and densities from tanks, vessels, water treatment ponds, basins, sewers, drains, septic and holding tanks. Our fleet consists of:

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The BenefiTs l Air machines for wet and dry applications l Vacuum units with swing-out detachable cyclone units

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Veolia ES Industrial Services proudly uses chemical formulations that are based on years of research and testing supported by our Technical Research and Development Center. Our Toolbox has unlimited options. We combine a wide variety of chemicals such as mineral acids, organic acids, oxidizing agents, alkaline materials and proprietary blends. Our equipment is specially manufactured to provide effective cleaning within a broad spectrum of environments.

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Jet-rodder units with automatic take-up reels for sewer cleaning Liquid ring and rotary vane machines for handling materials with low flash point temperature Stainless steel units for handling corrosive material Vapor Recovery Scrubber Trucks

The BenefiTs Qualitative and Quantitative Scale/Deposit Analysis l Solvent Compatibility Study l Metallurgy Compatibility Study l Corrosion Testing and Evaluation l Waste Profile l Cleaning Procedure Development l Engineering and Flow Dynamics l Onsite Project Management and Solvent Analysis l

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