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“Smart companies will get up to speed quickly and be prepared for whatever system policymakers introduce.”

ecent developments in product stewardship — sometimes “extended producer responsibility” (or EPR) — may affect your business soon, if they aren’t already — and possibly in a negative way. It’s important to understand the developments, and prepare for the future.

The challenge in understanding product stewardship is that it’s complicated “inside baseball”; figuring out why one policy option is better than another is almost a full-time job; hence the hiring of consultants by many organizations.

Programs exist in many formats across Canada. What they all have in common is the goal of “diversion from disposal” (landfill or incineration) and the recycling or reuse of an increasingly large array of products and materials. The ubiquitous blue box is perhaps the most obvious product stewardship program, which primarily diverts newsprint and other fibres, as well as packaging (glass, metal and plastic). The sale of soft drinks and other beverages in deposit-refund schemes is another form of product stewardship. Soft drink deposit-refund occurs in most provinces except Ontario where, ironically, a highly effective deposit program exists only for beer and other alcohol beverage containers.

Nowadays when people talk about product stewardship they’re referring mostly to programs that manage things like scrap tires, waste electronics and electrical equipment (WEEE), used oil and household hazardous wastes (e.g., batteries, cleaning products, etc.).

In addition to preserving virgin materials via reuse and recycling, product stewardship gets the cost of managing materials at their end-of-life off of municipal tax rolls and assigns costs where they belong: with producers and brand owners (and their customers). The thinking is that if end-of-life management of products and packaging costs producers money, they’ll redesign them to be less toxic and more easily recycled. The Holy Grail for environmentalists is “design for environment” (DfE) and closed loop “cradle to cradle” systems.

Who could argue with that?

In reality, however, many of the programs introduced across Canada thus far have been plagued by problems. In Ontario, confusion over “eco fees” applied on household hazardous wastes led to a public outcry, replacement of the environment minister, and dramatic changes to the program. Ontario’s WEEE program has also been criticized for poor performance. Program defenders have more or less waived away most criticisms as implementation hiccups, but it’s arguable that a deeper problem exists, which is that what we’re getting is mild “product stewardship” when what we should demand is true “extended producer responsibility” (EPR).

A description of both kinds of programs reveal why EPR is superior to product stewardship.

In a typical product stewardship program, the government “designates” a certain material such as WEEE to be managed outside the conventional waste collection and disposal regime. Often the legislation requires that an industry funding organization (IFO) be formed. The IFO designs a program for approval by the minister, and oversees the program once it’s in place. IFO boards are usually populated by industry reps (the “stewards”) who draw up a list of approved collection and recycling contractors and assign an “eco fee” to pay for everything, which is often charged on the sale of new products.

It all sounds good, and the better programs may, in fact, increase the diversion of the designated materials. At a minimum, the environment minister gets his or her photo op announcing they’ve protected the environment, and the producers claim they’ve solved the problem.

However, there are drawbacks with product stewardship. With all the materials managed in a program funded by a uniform eco fee, there’s little incentive for producers to improve the environmental performance of their products.

Worse, the IFO collective can act like a cartel and encourage anti-competitive practices, limiting competition among approved contractors, for instance, and discouraging innovation and investment. Independent WEEE recyclers have complained about this noisily. Also, centrally-planned programs with quotas can be expensive, with mediocre results.

In contrast, in an EPR scenario the government would simply state that by a certain date (perhaps phased in over time) producers will be responsible for a designated product or package, or family of products. Individual companies would be accountable for end-of-life product management. They’d be free to form IFO-like collectives, but could also set up individual programs. Lower costs would be their incentive to encourage competition and innovation among contractors. They could hire municipalities to manage their materials for a fee. The point is that the same free market forces that make the regular economy efficient would be at work in the end-of-life economy.

But it cannot be a free for all; to avoid the proverbial “race to the bottom” policymakers would have to ban certain materials from disposal, or export to Third World countries with no health or environmental standards. They’d write the standards, and include stiff consequences if producers don’t meet those standards, but wouldn’t prescribe the details of what the industry program would look like. Producers would likely establish return-to-retail or return-to-depot programs for some products, and municipal collection for others. They might or might not charge a visible eco fee; some producers might absorb the program costs, or share them with retailers.

Smart companies will get up to speed quickly on all the forms of product stewardship and EPR, and be prepared for whatever system policymakers introduce.

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of toxic, volatile anesthetics and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. All of the hospitals that received awards have implemented Blue-Zone’s Deltasorb® Anesthetic Gas Collection Service. Through the use of this service, the hospitals have eliminated the emissions of the anesthetic gas used in operating rooms. The anesthetic gases are greenhouse gases that are much more damaging than carbon dioxide.

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(Left to right) Dave Sprinkle, Executive VP of Oil Refining, Ontario Environment Minister John Wilkinson, and Dale MacIntyre, VP of Canadian Refinery Operations, at the groundbreaking for Safety-Kleen’s facility expansion.

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afety-Kleen Canada Inc., Canada’s largest collector and re-refiner of used motor oil, recently broke ground on a $26-million expansion to its used oil re-refinery in Breslau, Ontario. The expansion will increase the facility’s processing capacity by 25 per cent, from 152 million to 191 million litres of used oil annually.

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TE Consultants Inc. (MTE) are the proud recipients of a 2010 Canadian Consulting Engineering Award of Excellence for the Joseph and Gaukel Streets Road Reconstruction and Environmental Remediation project in Kitchener, Ontario. The project was a complex combination of civil infrastructure, environmental remediation and landscaping, that transformed the heart of Kitchener’s downtown core into a grand public space. The major challenges of the project included not only cleaning up coal tar contamination, but also replacing aging infrastructure along 1.4 km of roadway. MTE was the prime consultant for the project and provided civil, environmental and structural engineering services to Kitchener.

Since its formation in 1985, MTE has grown to over 220 employees with offices in Kitchener, Burlington, Guelph and Stratford, Ontario.

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A byproduct of the coal gasification plant was coal tar, a hazardous waste, which was buried in tanks beneath the site that was part of MTE’s large project in Kitchener, Ontario.

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It’s time for “plain language” on U.S. HazMat regulations — a primer for Canadian companies

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he Government of Canada explicitly obligates its officials to use “plain language” when they communicate environmental, health, safety and other requirements.

Canadian industry faces federal regulations that are complicated, technical and expensive, but their government is at fault if it fails to spell out “musts” and “must nots” in language that is “clear, … easy to understand and useful.”

The United States government follows exactly the opposite approach. Its Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMRs), which govern the transportation of dangerous goods to, from and within the States, exemplify bureaucratic gobbledygook run amok.

It’s critical that Canadian companies and organizations operating on both sides of the border or shipping goods into the United States understand U.S. HMRs and the language around them.

It’s tempting to laugh off fractured syntax, run-on sentences and compound incorporations by reference, but the HMRs expose companies and individuals to potentially ruinous liability every day. At greatest risk is the shipping manager who decides to roll the dice after quick perusal of regulations that currently run more than 1,160 pages.

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Allegations that cozy relations between regulators and industry led to the Deepwater Horizon fiasco portend a whole new level of scrutiny for shipments of goods that could explode, burn or pollute. That makes now the best time to understand how the HMRs are structured and to make note of the most fundamental “musts” and “must nots” under U.S. law.

“At greatest risk is the shipping manager who decides to roll the dice after quick perusal of regulations that currently run more than 1,160 pages.”

by Jerry Cox

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LAWYER-CHEMIST STEW

The HMRs and the statute that created them were written by lawyers in the U.S. Congress and several federal government agencies. They had plenty of help from chemists, engineers and other technocrats in various industries. The technical group knows all about the characteristics of the products they manufacture and ship, but could never boil it down into sentences a liberal arts major could understand.

The results are not entirely bad, however. Uncle Sam deserves credit for recognizing that, with more than 3,000 different kinds of “HazMat” crossing the country in half a billion annual shipments, there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution. Unfortunately, thousands of exemptions from hundreds of requirements make this particular set of regulations look like a chunk of Swiss cheese — dropped at the center of a maze that would make a lab rat dizzy.

The best news is that HazMat shipments are extremely safe. Serious incidents in the United States declined steadily between 1998 and 2008. Nowadays, according to recent congressional testimony, the movement of hazmat produces an injury 0.00002 percent of the time. Because death occurs in a fraction of those cases — just 0.000014

percent of the time — people who work with HazMat are four times more likely to get struck and killed by lightning than to die in a HazMat-related accident.

HazMat shippers and carriers also need to avoid getting struck by legal lightning — fines, criminal sanctions and tort liability. The best way to do that is to know by heart certain basic “musts” and “must nots.”

THE “MUSTS”

U.S. government HazMat enforcement action reports are full of companies and individuals who had no clue they were subject to the HMRs. Any shipper who sends a package and any trucker, airline or other carrier who transports anything is at risk of discovering too late that the goods, in fact, show up on the Hazardous Materials Table (HMT) and are, therefore, HazMat. This enables anybody with access to the company mailroom to set his employer up

for an ugly surprise.

Accordingly, the first “must” is that anyone who so much as breathes on a HazMat shipment must become familiar with the HMT. The current version runs 141 pages (not counting appendices and the tables to the appendices), but it is the “decoder ring” for the entire compliance process.

For a shipper, the first step is simple.

A manager needs only to slide a finger to

“Unfortunately, thousands of exemptions from hundreds of requirements make this particular set of regulations look like a chunk of Swiss cheese.”

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Foolish Assumptions about Compliance with U.S. HMRs •T he hazmat laws don’t apply to us because we aren’t in the business of shipping hazmat. Unless you are the only person in your company with access to a FedEx slip, your company has shipped one of the 3,000 substances the U.S. government considers HazMat. • I can’t be held responsible for complying with regulations that don’t make a lick of sense. You can “knowingly” violate the law merely by knowing what you did, not that your action violated some requirement.

•W e can’t be held responsible for other people’s mistakes. The HMRs are worded to drag in just about anybody who had any role in any shipment that violates the regulations. Other people’s mistakes can become your mistakes in the blink of an eye.

•D OT fines are minuscule, compared to what OSHA, EPA and other U.S. agencies impose, so I can just treat them as a cost of doing business. The HazMat community found this to be true — before the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico. Look for more enforcement activity and higher penalty demands from U.S. agencies.

•T he best way to avoid enforcement action is to avoid disclosing that there’s HazMat in a shipment. You can expect future shipments to receive greater scrutiny from carriers and from government agents, especially after DOT implements new statutory authority to open and search packages, regardless of whether they’ve been declared as HazMat. •W e get our paperwork right most of the time, so we have nothing to worry about. There is nothing easier for a trained government investigator to spot than errors in filling out HazMat paperwork and there’s no greater source of fines in enforcement actions.

•O ur company doesn’t need — well, can’t afford — more than one HazMat specialist. OK. So all you have to do is make sure absolutely nothing gets shipped out until she gets back from vacation or sick leave.

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the first column to the right of the description. An infectious substance shows up as Class 6. Anhydrous ammonia is in Class 2. If the best description for a lading is an “environmentally hazardous solid,” it’s in the cats-and-dogs category, Class 9.

Classing HazMat is just the beginning for a HazMat employee. HazMat employers are required to certify that their employees were educated and tested on the whole set of rules that apply to HazMat shipments. For example, employees also need to know how to describe the shipment in ways that are useful to emergency response personnel, in case there’s an accident en route, what kinds of packaging they may use and whether a specific box or drum is compatible with the lading and permitted on a plane, train, truck or ship. Employers and employees alike must also understand just how painful and

expensive it can be to run afoul of the HMRs and face federal enforcement proceedings and possible court action.

THE “MUST NOTS”

Some HMR requirements are absolutely explicit. Oddly enough, the most plainly stated requirements in the HMRs are the rules that get broken the most.

Shipping managers should tattoo into their palms, like Sarah Palin’s “poor man’s teleprompter,” the following list of things they “must not” do: • fail to disclose in shipping papers the presence of HazMat or omit details like the proper shipping name and hazard class;

• rely on a “special permit” unless absolutely certain it is still valid and available; assume requirements for one mode of trans­ portation apply to a different mode; • omit an emergency contact telephone number or list a number they haven’t tested to make sure it works; and • rely on information posted on any website, provided in any article (including this one) or count on a Letter of Interpretation from the regulators themselves, because none of these are binding on federal enforcement officials.

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above pretty much lay out all the plain language there is to find in the U.S. HMRs. The rest is wickedly complicated.

Mandatory tattooing of HazMat employees’ palms may violate a host of other requirements, so employers need other ways to keep out of trouble with U.S. Department of Transportation enforcement officers. Effective training — from true professionals, not the CEO’s Uncle Fred — offers the best hope of success, but it costs money to keep everyone current.

The biggest “must,” therefore, for anyone subject to the U.S. HMRs is to recognize that HazMat training certificates worth paying for do not come in a quilted, multi1 9/21/10 plyRemTech2010 double roll. 1/2 page ad:LayoutHMM

Jerry Cox is an attorney in Washington, DC, and the author of Transportation of Hazardous Materials in Plain English Packaging. A cum laude graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Cox was staff counsel on transportation issues in the United States Senate. Contact Jerry at jcox@potomacstrategyassociates.com

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he Fox River cleanup project is a project near Green Bay, Wisconsin designed to reduce risk to human health and the environment due to the presence of PCBs in Fox River sediment. This multi-year cleanup effort includes dredging, capping with coarse sand, the separation of clean sand and dewatering of fine sediments with membrane presses. It’s currently one of the largest cleanup projects of its kind in the world and its unique approach will remove approximately 3.8 million cubic yards (cy) of PCB-contaminated sediments and place a protective cap or sand cover over 600 acres. In addition, billions of gallons of water removed from the river will be treated and returned.

The project approach is unique due to the single stream process where dredged sediments from three hydraulic dredges are directly piped to a land-based processing facility. Dewatering with eight membrane filter presses has been selected as the most economical and efficient means of dewatering the sediment prior to off-site disposal. The design of the sediment desanding and dewatering system required careful balancing of the flow of solids and water through the entire system, from the point of dredging through final production of sand and filter cake and water treatment.

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“Fox River sediment typically contains at least 25 percent sand, which is separated from the sediment bearing the PCBs and can be beneficially reused.”

cility began in March 2008. Process site clearing and earthwork activities were initiated in July of that year. Mechanical construction was complete by April 2009, followed by several weeks of pre-operational testing and start-up.

A six acre building encloses substantially all of the process operations. Deep concrete foundations and floor slabs, the building superstructure and all of the process equipment, piping and electrical systems were erected in about nine months time. Operations on this complex project officially started with dredging and processing on April 28, 2009, ahead of the mandated target of May 1. The first season of dredging, capping and sand covering concluded in mid-November 2009.

In terms of dredging productivity, the ambitious first season goals were exceeded by about 16 per cent with nearly 545,000 cy of impacted sediment removed from the river.

After the winter shutdown and maintenance period operations activities re-started in early April 2010 for the second season of this cleanup project. As of late August, dredge productivity is on track to exceed that accomplished during the first season, with more than 700,000 cy of sediment expected to be removed from the river by mid-November 2010. Thus, about one-third of the total amount of sediment expected to be dredged over the life of the project will be accomplished by the end of the second season.

The objective of the Fox River processing facility is to minimize the contaminated volume disposed of at the landfill by using a three-stage separation approach. The process facility screens, conditions, and de-waters the slurry.

During this process the volume of the hydraulic dredge slurry is reduced and portions are prepared for beneficial use (e.g., separated sand) or recycle to the river (treated water), significantly reducing transportation and disposal costs. This is particularly important with regard to the hazardous TSCA dredged material, which must be transported to Michigan and is disposed of there at a greater cost than the nonTSCA material. (For more information on US TSCA regulation, see the Legal Perspective column on page 54.)

Project details The scope of work includes the remediation of PCB impacted sediments from a 13.3 mile stretch of the Lower Fox River between Little Rapids Dam and the mouth of the

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Fox River at Green Bay. Note that the Fox River is unusual in that it flows from south to north and remedial activities are carried out in that sequence. The heart of the project lies at mile marker number four: the Green Bay processing facility. As noted, the remediation is designed as a combined remedy that includes the dredging of 3.8 million cy of sediments and the capping or sand covering of about 600 acres.

A JF Brennan 12-inch hydraulic cutterhead dredge is used to remove large amounts of sediments. Two smaller 8-inch dredges are then used in shallower areas and to complete dredge areas that where initial (production) dredged by the 12-inch dredge. The sediments are pumped to the processing facility through HDPE pipelines over a maximum distance of 10 miles. Booster stations are used at one-mile intervals to pump the slurry to the processing facility. (Monitoring efforts to date have determined that there is minimal re-suspension of contaminated sediment associated with the hydraulic dredging process since this is a suction operation.)

Capping is performed in areas with lower levels of PCBs and where dredging would not be effective or economically

feasible. Capping is often performed in conjunction with areas that have been dredged, i.e., dredging of the more highly contaminated shallow sediment followed by the installation of an engineered cap over the lower contaminated level, with deeper sediment left in place. The initial layers of the engineered cap consist of sand and gravel. These layers are placed with a patented broadcast system to reduce mixing and over placement in terms of area or thickness. The larger armor stone (e.g., quarry spall) is placed mechanically on top of the previous two layers to protect them against erosion or displacement from the effects of propeller action impacts.

Site characterization and treatability testing Sediment sampling and bench-scale testing was performed in November 2007. The objectives of the testing included the development of a proper characterization of the sediment properties as well as selection and sizing of the appropriate sediment processing approach and equipment.

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Perhaps the most critical pieces of equipment that needed to be specified and purchased early due to delivery lead time, were the eight large membrane filter presses manufactured in Europe. Transportation and disposal costs and beneficial reuse options were considered and evaluated during the selection process, while the estimated dredge production rate was critical when sizing the equipment.

Particular attention was given to redundancy of equipment items or trains in both the sediment desanding and dewatering process and the water treatment plant with regard to ensuring that the rate of dredging would not be impacted. The added expense of designing and installing surplus or redundant processing capacity has proven to be worthwhile.

Thousands of core samples were taken over the stretch of the river to map levels of PCBs, in terms of depth and area, and to determine the sediment characteristics in the river. This extensive chemical characterization of the river bottom is needed to perform geostatistical modeling of the 1 ppm cleanup level and produce a neatline profile. The GPS based computer controls on the hydraulic dredges can then remove target sediments along the neatline much more precisely than would be accomplished by typical mechanical dredging, saving project operational costs and preserving landfill space. The neatline design and hydraulic dredging combination is significantly more efficient in

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A detailed analysis of available sediment data was performed to design an appropriate sediment desanding and dewatering system that would be able to accommodate the range of anticipated dredge production rates and the overall project schedule. Based on this analysis, a system of eight large membrane filter presses with a total maximum filter cake production of 14 cubic yards per hour was selected.

The membrane filter presses dewater the filter cake at a pressure of 225 psig, achieving a typical solids percentage of nearly 55 per cent.

Pilot-scale testing was performed at the Fox River OU 2-5 sediment processing site in June 2008. The objectives of the pilot testing were to evaluate the performance of polymers and filter cloth materials that could be utilized for the dewatering operation, and to evaluate the quality of the filter cake produced by each filter cloth. The pilot testing at the site was performed using scaled-down versions of key process components, including a scalping screen, slurry tank, hydrocyclone separator, pre-thickener tank, polymer dosing system, and filter press. For each pilot test perCleanusing Eartha different 1/4 ad Sept 12:03sediment PM Page 1 formed filter2010 cloth, 9/28/10 representative

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samples were obtained from the Fox River and slurried with river water to feed the pilot plant.

Each filter cloth was tested by running at least 55 gallons of slurried sediment through the process, producing filter cake, and obtaining filtrate samples for total suspended solids (TSS) analysis. The filter cloth materials evaluated included woven polypropylene filters. The filtration efficiency of each material was evaluated based on the TSS present in the filtrate from the pilot filter press. The quality of the filter cake produced was evaluated by performing a suite of analytical and geotechnical tests, including total PCBs, grain size, density, percent solids, and shear strength. As a result of the pilot testing it was determined that a combination of coagulant and polymer would provide optimal results in terms of filter cake properties and filtrate quality and acceptable cycle times for the equipment.

Processing plant The SDDP and WTP are installed within a 250,000 square foot building that was erected for the purpose of this project. The building also has a large area for indoor storage and handling of the filter cake and houses administrative

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office space for project staff. Boskalis Dolman designed, mobilized and constructed the SDDP within a short eightmonth period to meet the overall project schedule. TtEC procured and constructed the filter cake storage and handling systems and the WTP during the same time period.

In order to ensure a safe working environment within the building and minimize operator exposure to airborne PCBs, the interior volume of the building is exchanged eight times per day. The air drawn from the building is treated using many vapour phase filters containing activated carbon so that PCBs will not be discharged to the surrounding environment.

Sediment hydraulically dredged by the three dredges is pumped directly to the sediment desanding and dewatering facility. The SDDP is designed to accommodate a maximum flow of 6,000 gallons per minute (gpm) with approximately five to ten percent solids. The dredge pipeline routes the sediments on a vibrating screen that removes oversized particles larger than 6 mm. Particles smaller than 6 mm pass through the scalping screen and are pumped to a slurry thickener system that separates the sand size fraction from the finer sediment using cyclonic action provided by several hydrocyclones.

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Fox River sediment typically contains at least 25 percent sand, which is separated from the sediment bearing the PCBs and can be beneficially reused. Coarse and fine sand separation units then separate sand in the ranges of 150 microns to 6 mm and 63 microns to 150 microns. Sand separation is performed by using various sizes of hydrocyclones. Separated sand is polished in upstream classifiers.

The fines (silt and clay) removed during desanding operations are pumped to the dewatering process equipment, which includes pre-thickener tanks, sludge holding tanks, and membrane plate and frame filter presses.

The filter presses designed for the Fox River are sized to process approximately 14 cubic yards of solids per hour per press, with a compression factor of 1.3 and a cycle time of 75 minutes. The number of presses needed was calculated based on the anticipated range of flow rates through the dewatering system, an assumed uptime for the presses ranging from 75 to 100 percent, a range of 20 to 40 percent sand removal, and the hourly production rate for each press. It was determined that eight presses will be needed; however, space has been allocated and foundations installed for two additional presses.

Process water is re-used in the operation. Surplus water from the SDDP is treated and analyzed before being discharged to the river or re-used in the processing facility.

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Some of the treated water is used for dust control purposes on the large sand storage piles outdoors. The water treatment plant consists of three treatment trains each capable of handling 3,000 GPM. Treatment includes sand filtration, carbon filtration and bag filtration.

After treatment the water is returned to the river under regulations set by the State of Wisconsin. These include treatment goals or goal ranges for PCBs, TSS, pH, mercury, ammonia and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). The treated water is returned to the river through a multi-port diffuser, which was modeled to assure acceptable dilution characteristics based on the expected flow rate range and concentration goal for ammonia in the effluent.

Bastiaan Lammers is Business Development Manager for Stuyvesant Environmental Contracting Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey.

Contact Bastiaan at b.m.lammers@boskalis.nl Note: This article was written with contributions from Richard Feeney (Tetra Tech EC, Inc.), Bart Hiemstra and Harry van Dam (Stuyvesant Environmental Contracting Inc.) and Greg Smith (JF Brennan).

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A V Systems, Inc. – MIRS 4657 Platt Rd Ann Arbor MI 48108-7913 734 973-3000 Dir-Mktg Julie Lasko

Abacon Environmental Consultants Inc.

62 Ventana Way Woodbridge ON L4H 1L8 905 893-9609 Fax: 905 893-4020.

Mgr Mark Jakubczyk

aboutREMEDIATION.com

2070 Hadwen Rd Unit 201A Mississauga ON L5K 2C9 905 822-4133 Fax: 905 822-3558.

Project Mgr Wayne Coutinho

Academy Savant Inc.

PO Box 3670 Fullerton CA 92834 714 870-7880 Fax: 714 526-7400.

Toll-Free: 800 472-8268 Pres Rabin D Lai

Achieve Technologies Ltd. 130-8191 Westminster Hwy Richmond BC V6X 1A7 604 272-9840 Toll-Free: 888 833-7233 Mgr Norm Kerray

Acme Engineering Prod Ltd.

2330 State Rte 11 PMB 10 Mooers NY 12958 518 236-5659 Fax: 518 236-6941.

ACR Systems Inc.

210-12960 84 Ave Surrey BC V3W 1K7 604 591-1128 Fax: 604 591-2252.

Toll-Free: 800 663-7845 Commun Mgr Jason Rock

Actio Corporation

30 International Dr Suite 201 Portsmouth NH 03801 603 433-2300 Fax: 603 433-2302.

Toll-Free: 866 522-8102 Pres Russell McCann

Activation Laboratories Ltd.

1336 Sandhill Dr Ancaster ON L9G 4V5 905 648-9611 Fax: 905 648-9613.

Toll-Free: 888 288-5227 Gen Mgr Eric Hoffman

AECOM

300 Water St Unit 1

Whitby ON L1N 9J2 905 668-9363 Ext. 2207 Fax: 905 668-0221.

Toll-Free: 800 559-6238 Toll-Free Fax: 800 576-7886 Sls Mgr Wayne Fox

Toll-Free Fax: 888 267-3551 Mktg Asst Irene Guilbault

Aeromix Systems Inc.

Allen Vanguard

Aevitas Inc.

Allu Group

1100 Sheppard Ave W Suite 200 Toronto ON M3K 2B3 416 635-5882 Ext. 118 Fax: 416 6355353.

Toll-Free: 877 635-5882 Sr Hydrogeologist Thom Kewen

7135 Madison Ave W Minneapolis MN 55427 763 746-8400 Fax: 763 746-8408.

Pres Peter Gross 75 Wanless Crt Ayr ON N0B 1E0 519 740-1333 Fax: 519 740-2320.

Toll-Free: 800 324-8997 Sls Mgr Tom Maxwell

AGAT Laboratories Ltd.

2910 12 St NE Calgary AB T2E 7P7 403 735-2005 Fax: 403 735-2771.

Toll-Free: 866 764-7554

Aim Environmental Group

400 Jones Rd Stoney Creek ON L8E 5P4 905 560-0090 Fax: 905 560-0099.

AiMS Environmental

1020 Denison St Unit 111 Markham ON L3R 3W5 905 474-0058 Ext. 103 Fax: 905 4740601.

Pres Mohamed Jagani

Air Earth & Water Environmental Consultants Ltd. 423 Ireland Rd Simcoe ON N3Y 5J1 519 426-7019 Fax: 519 426-5035.

Pres Robert Lovegrove

Air Liquide America Specialty Gases LLC

PO Box 310 Plumsteadville PA 18949 Location: 6141 Easton Rd 215 766-8860 Fax: 215 766-2476.

Toll-Free: 800 217-2688 Pres Steve Diaz; Project Mgr Michele Haurin

Air Liquide Canada Inc.

1250 boul René-Lévesque O bureau 1700 Montréal QC H3B 5E6 514 933-0303 Fax: 514 846-7700.

Toll-Free: 800 817-7697 Pres/COO Luc Doyon

Aird & Berlis LLP

181 Bay St Brookfield Place, Box 754 Toronto ON M5J 2T9 Location: BCE Place 181 Bay St Suite 1800 416 863-1500 Fax: 416 863-1515.

Lawyer Scott Stoll

ALARA Industrial Hygiene Services Limited 103 Parkview Hill Cres Toronto ON M4B 1R5 416 759-9579 Pres Charles Pilger

Alaron Instruments

1111 Davis Dr Unit 1- Suite 402 Newmarket ON L3Y 9E5 905 989-0277 Fax: 905 989-0279.

2400 St Laurent Blvd Ottawa ON K1G 6C4 613 739-9646 Fax: 613 739-4536.

Toll-Free: 800 644-9078 700 Huyler St Teterboro NJ 07608 201 288-2236 Fax: 201 288-4479.

Pres Mardi Ohanessian

Alp & Associates Incorporated 87 Topham Cres Richmond Hill ON L4C 9E9 905 508-2595 Fax: 905 508-2679.

Principal Ertugrul Alp

Alpha Controls & Instrumentation 361 Steelcase Rd W Suite 6 Markham ON L3R 3V8 905 477-2133 Fax: 905 477-4219.

Toll-Free: 800 567-8686 Sls Mgr Marc Brand

ALTECH Environmental Consulting Ltd.

12 Banigan Dr Toronto ON M4H 1E9 416 467-5555 Fax: 416 467-9824.

Toll-Free: 800 323-4937 Pres Brian Bobbie

ALTECH Technology Systems Inc. 12 Banigan Dr Toronto ON M4H 1E9 416 467-5555 Ext. 223 Fax: 416 4679824.

Toll-Free: 8437 Pres/CEO Alex Keen

American Compactor, Inc.

PO Box 1303 Mansfield OH 44901 419 522-9550 Fax: 419 522-1807.

CEO David Shook

Anachem Ltd.

255 rue Norman Lachine QC H8R 1A3 514 481-8010 Fax: 514 481-6340.

Pres Richard Zieba

Analytical Measurements

100 Hoffman Pl Hillside NJ 07205 973 399-1444 Fax: 973 399-1446.

Toll-Free: 800 635-5580 Pres W Richard Adey

Analytical Technology, Inc.

6 Iron Bridge Dr Collegeville PA 19426 610 917-0991 Fax: 610 917-0992.

Toll-Free: 800 959-0299 Natl Sls Mgr Bill Popp

Ancal, Inc.

PO Box 530100 Henderson NV 89053-0100 702 434-1501 Fax: 602 532-7018.

Pres Bud Wood

Ansell Canada Inc.

105 rue Lauder Cowansville QC J2K 2K8 450 266-1850 Fax: 450 266-6150.

Toll-Free: 800 363-8340

Aqua Terre Solutions Inc.

Arbortech Corporation

3607 Chapel Hill Rd Johnsburg IL 60051-2515 815 385-0001 Fax: 815 385-0089.

Pres Raymond J Graffia Jr

Arcus Absorbents Inc.

75 Deerhide Cres Unit 3 Toronto ON M9M 2Z2 416 745-7947 Fax: 416 745-1174.

Toll-Free: 877 227-6727

Argus-Hazco

6541 Mississauga Rd N Unit A Mississauga ON L5N 1A6 905 858-3215 Fax: 905 858-3192.

Toll-Free: 800 361-3201 Gen Mgr Rose Calabrese

Armstrong Insurance Brokers Ltd. PO Box 880 Barrie ON L4M 4Y6 Location: 65 Cedar Pointe Dr Suite 803A Barrie ON L4N 5R7 705 722-8377 Fax: 705 722-8896.

Toll-Free: 800 461-4286 Principal Todd Armstrong

Associated Environmental Site Assessors of Canada Inc. (AESAC) PO Box 490 Fenelon Falls ON K0M 1N0 Fax: 705 887-2213.

Toll-Free: 877 512-3722 Pres Bruno Luzak

AVAR Environmental Inc. 12 Baldwin St Dundas ON L9H 1A6 289 238-9098 Pres Justin Lewis

Barenco Inc. – A Trow Global Company

PO Box 295 Gormley ON L0H 1G0 Location: 2561 Stouffville Rd Suite 202 905 887-6661 Fax: 905 887-1999.

Pres Jim Phimister

Battery Broker Environmental Services Inc. 11 Tupper Ave Toronto ON M8Z 5H5 416 255-3321 Fax: 416 255-7707.

Battery Council International (BCI)

401 N Michigan Ave Chicago IL 60611-4267 312 644-6610 Fax: 312 527-6640.

Exec VP James Kendzel

Becquerel Laboratories Inc. 6790 Kitimat Rd

WINTER 2011 HazMat Management 27

Unit 4 Mississauga ON L5N 5L9 905 826-3080 Fax: 905 826-4151.

Mgr Steven Simpson

2011 Annual Buyers’ Guide

Bel-Art Products

6 Industrial Rd Pequannock NJ 07440 973 694-0500 Fax: 973 694-7199.

Toll-Free: 800 423-5278 Pres David Landsberger

Bennett Environmental Inc.

1540 Cornwall Rd Unit 208 Oakville ON L6J 7W5 905 339-1540 Fax: 905 339-0016.

Toll-Free: 800 386-1388 CEO Jack Shaw

Best Glove Manufacturing Limited

253 rue Michaud Coaticook QC J1A 1A9 819 849-6381 Fax: 819 849-6120.

Pres Michael Everett

BGI Incorporated

BW Technologies by Honeywell 2840 2 Ave SE Calgary AB T2A 7X9 403 248-9226 Fax: 403 273-3708.

Toll-Free: 800 663-4164 Inside Sls Mgr Richard Coté

C Tech Development Corporation 45-001 Lilipuna Rd Unit A Kaneohe HI 96744-3019 808 447-9751 Fax: 714 844-9255.

Toll-Free: 800 669-4387 Pres Reed D Copsey Sr

C V Environmental Services

23 East 27th St Hamilton ON L8V 3E6 905 389-2624 Fax: 905 389-2624.

Pres Stephen Toplack

Can-Am Instruments Ltd.

2851 Brighton Rd Oakville ON L6H 6C9 905 829-0030 Fax: 905 829-4701.

Toll-Free: 800 215-4469 Pres Mark Reeves

58 Guinan St Waltham MA 02451 781 891-9380 Fax: 781 891-8151.

Sls Rep T McEachern

BOMA Environmental & Safety Inc. 203-2621 Portage Ave Winnipeg MB R3J 0P7 204 889-5275 Fax: 204 889-2348.

P Eng/Dir Dinko Tuhtar

Bowie Environmental Edge Management & Assessment Ltd. PO Box 592 Brockville ON K6V 5V7 613 345-4337 Fax: 613 345-0358.

Pres James S Bowie

Brady Canada

355 Apple Creek Blvd Markham ON L3R 9X7 905 764-4236 Fax: 905 764-3670.

Toll-Free: 800 263-6179 Toll-Free Fax: 800 387-4935 Cust Ops Mgr Jamie Button

Braun Intertec Corporation

11001 Hampshire Ave S Minneapolis MN 55438 952 995-2000 Fax: 952 995-2020.

Briggs Canada Limited

60 Centurian Dr Suite 104 Markham ON L3R 9R2 905 479-1277 Fax: 905 479-1318.

Pres Rick Greenly

Brown Bear Corporation

PO Box 29 Corning IA 50841 Location: 2248 Avenue of Industries 641 322-4220 Fax: 641 322-3527.

Pres Stan Brown

BSI Group Canada Inc.

6205 Airport Rd Suite 102 Mississauga ON L4V 1E6 416 620-9991 Fax: 416 620-9911.

Toll-Free: 800 862-6752 Marketing Carine Delorme 28 www.hazmatmag.com WINTER 2011

Canadian Brownfields Network (CBN)

200 North Service Rd Unit 1 No 351 Oakville ON L6M 2Z2 905 469-9548 Fax: 905 469-4909.

Toll-Free: 877 787-7714 Exec Dir Bonnie Prior The CBN is a national advocacy network that represents the interests of brownfield practitioners and stakeholders who want to effect change and address the barriers associated with brownfield redevelopment in Canada The CBN was officially launched on March 1, 2004 and was federally incorporated in 2009 and now operates as an independent autonomous not-for-profit national organization. The CBN operates with a Board of Directors providing the framework and structure for daily operations. The CBN executives include members from the founding organizations. The vision of the CBN is that brownfield property reuse be the preferred solution by developers.

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

Mississauga ON L5A 3P2 905 949-2741 Fax: 905 272-1866.

Toll-Free: 800 265-0182 Mgr Ross Humphry

Toll-Free: 800 356-3072 VP-Mktg Henry Castameda

Cancoppas Limited

5211 Preservation Cir Mississauga ON L5M 7T3 905 820-6126 Fax: 905 820-1245.

VP Tahir Khan

2595 Dunwin Dr Unit 2 Mississauga ON L5L 3N9 905 569-6246 Fax: 905 569-6244.

Toll-Free: 800 595-0514 Pres Jake Alaica

The Cannington Group Inc.

4 Fortecon Dr RR 1 Unit 4 Gormley ON L0H 1G0 905 841-1848 Fax: 905 841-1062.

VP Frank Apollinaro

Cartier Chemicals Ltd.

445 21e Av Lachine QC H8S 3T8 514 637-4631 Fax: 514 637-8804.

Toll-Free: 800 361-9432 Pres E W Robins

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP Scotia Plaza 40 King St W Suite 2100 Toronto ON M5H 3C2 416 869-5300 Fax: 416 360-8877.

Partner James Ayres

CDS Analytical, Inc.

465 Limestone Rd Oxford PA 19034 610 932-3636 Fax: 610 932-4158.

Mktg Gary Deger

CEA Instruments Inc.

160 Tillman St Westwood NJ 07675 201 967-5660 Fax: 201 967-8450.

Toll-Free: 888 893-9640 VP-Sls/Mktg Steven Adelman

Century Environmental Services – a Wolseley Company PO Box 76 Grp 200 RR2 Stn Main Winnipeg MB R3C 2E6 Location: 34 Roy Roche Dr 204 633-7213 Fax: 204 694-7228.

Toll-Free: 888 466-6658 Gen Mgr Glen Cotton

Century Group Inc.

PO Box 228 Sulphur LA 70664-0228 Toll-Free: 800 527-5232 Ext. 118 Toll-Free Fax: 800 887-2153 Pres/CEO Railroad Prod Div Jon Russ Vincent

135 Hunter St E Hamilton ON L8N 1M5 905 572-2981 Fax: 905 572-2206.

Toll-Free: 800 668-4284 Commun Mgr Eleanor Westwood

CETCO

Canadian Industrial Emergency Conference & Expo

Chem Solv

PO Box 398 Sundre AB T0M 1X0 403 638-4410 Fax: 403 638-4413.

Toll-Free: 877 534-7285 Pres Arnie Gess

Canadian Safety Equipment Inc. 2465 Cawthra Rd Suite 114

1001 S Linwood Ave Santa Ana CA 92705 714 384-0111 Natl Sls Mgr James Wang PO Box 608 Sutton West ON L0E 1R0 Location: 20848 Dalton Rd 905 722-6035 Fax: 905 722-5195.

Chemist Peter Robertson

CHEMetrics, Inc.

4295 Catlett Rd Calverton VA 20138 540 788-9026 Fax: 540 788-4856.

Chemical Emission Management Services (CEMS)

Chemical Safety Software

5901 Christie Ave Suite 502 Emeryville CA 94608 510 594-1000 Fax: 510 594-1100.

Sls/Mktg Mgr Robert Dunn

Chlorinators Incorporated

1044 SE Dixie Cutoff Rd Stuart FL 34994-3436 772 288-4854 Fax: 772 287-3238.

Owner Diane Haskett

Church & Trought Inc.

885 Don Mills Rd Suite 106 Toronto ON M3C 1V9 416 391-2527 Fax: 416 391-1931.

Partner John Trought

Circul-Aire Inc.

3999 boul de la Cote-Vertu Saint-Laurent QC H4R 1R2 514 336-3330 Fax: 514 337-3336.

Toll-Free: 800 800-1868 VP-Bus Dev Harry Topikian

Clean Air Engineering

500 W Wood St Palatine IL 60067-4975 847 991-3300 Fax: 847 991-3385.

Toll-Free: 800 627-0033 Sls Mgr Jim Pollack

Clean Air Instrument Rental

500 W Wood St Palatine IL 60067 847 991-3300 Fax: 847 934-8260.

Toll-Free: 800 553-5511 VP-Mktg Steve Rees

Clean Earth Solutions Ltd.

178 Pennsylvania Ave Unit 4 Concord ON L4K 4B1 905 482-2149 Fax: 416 913-1610.

Toll-Free: 866 885-2706 Pres Kevin Sharfe

Clean Harbors Canada, Inc.

4090 Telfer Rd RR 1 Corunna ON N0N 1G0 519 864-3894 Fax: 519 864-3866.

Toll-Free: 800 444-4244 VP-Sls Michael La Rocque

Clear Edge Filtration

16779 boul Hymus Kirkland QC H9H 3L4 514 694-1132 Fax: 514 694-3828.

Toll-Free: 800 363-6612 Office Mgr Debbie Gale

Clements Assoc. Inc.

1992 Hunter Ave Newton IA 50208 641 792-8285 Fax: 641 792-1361.

Pres James M Clements

Coast Waste Management Association 1185 Rolmar Cres

Cobble Hill BC V0R 1L4 250 733-2213 Fax: 250 733-2214.

Toll-Free: 866 386-2962 Exec Dir Will Burrows

2011 Annual Buyers’ Guide Davis Controls Ltd.

Conformance Check Inc.

56 South Main St Chadwick IL 61014 Toll-Free: 800 578-1245 Toll-Free Fax: 800 578-1246 Mktg Coord David Anderson

52 Harrop Ave Etobicoke ON M9B 2G9 416 620-0846 Toll-Free Fax: 866 306-5084 VP-Fin Louise Kolanko Reduce your EHS Compliance Audit Costs! Ensure ongoing compliance with EHS Auditor®, the leading Canadian software solution. Prepare regulatory compliance audits in minutes with EHS Auditor’s pre-built customizable audit protocols based on regulations and key standards. Build an EHS legal registry for each facility! Evaluate results with audit scoring and risk assessment capability. Empower operations with Self Assessment Module, then track and resolve findings with Audit Response Tracking Program.

Explore: www.conformancecheck.com.

Free web demo: info@conformancecheck.com.

CompreVac Inc.

Containment Corporation

Coastal Environmental Systems, Inc. 820 First Ave S Seattle WA 98134 206 682-6048 Ext. 133 Fax: 206 6825658.

Toll-Free: 800 488-8291 Ext. 133 Product Mgr Jim McGregor

Communications-Applied Technology 11250 14 Roger Bacon Dr Reston VA 20190 Fax: 703 471-4428.

Toll-Free: 800 229-3925 Pres Seth G Leyman

Compliance Signs, Inc.

3067 Jarrow Ave Mississauga ON L4X 2C6 905 624-4096 Fax: 905 624-4099.

Toll-Free: 888 603-6172 Gen Mgr Jonathan Snook

10887 Portal Dr Los Alamitos CA 90720 714 821-6570 Fax: 714 821-9949.

Toll-Free: 800 235-7421 VP-Sls/Mktg John Beaver

Control Instruments Corp.

Conestoga-Rovers & Associates 651 Colby Dr Waterloo ON N2V 1C2 519 884-0510 Fax: 519 884-0525.

Toll-Free: 800 265-6102 Bus Dev Mgr Bruce McConnell Branches: 110-3851 Shell Rd Richmond BC V6X 2W2 604 214-0510 Fax: 604 214-0525 601-5920 1A St SW Calgary AB T2H 0G3 403 271-2000 Fax: 403 271-3013 179 Colonnade Rd Suite 400 Ottawa ON K2E 7J4 613 727-0510 Fax: 613 727-0704 4610 boul de la Côte-Vertu Saint-Laurent QC H4S 1C7 514 336-0510 Fax: 514 336-9434 45 Akerley Blvd Dartmouth NS B3B 1J7 902 468-1248 Fax: 902 468-2207 CRA provides comprehensive engineering, environmental, construction, and information technology (IT) services. CRA employs 3,000 people in over 90 offices across North America, Argentina, Brazil, and England. Since 1976 CRA has provided clients with responsive, high quality, practical, and effective solutions in such areas as environmental site assessment and remediation, solid and hazardous waste management, regulatory compliance, air quality management, municipal infrastructure planning and design, and design, and many others.

25 Law Dr Fairfield NJ 07004 973 575-9114 Fax: 973 575-0013.

Mktg Mgr Patty Gardner

ConVault, Inc.

4109 E Zeering Rd Denair CA 95316 209 632-7571 Fax: 209 632-4711.

Toll-Free: 800 222-7099 VP-Mktg David P Harris

Corolon Coatings & Corrsion Control Technologies Inc.

2 Haas Rd Toronto ON M9W 3A2 416 401-8855 Fax: 416 401-8878.

Pres Stan Buchowski

cr/x environmental services, inc.

1026 Fourth Ave Coraopolis PA 15108 412 262-0730 Fax: 412 262-0731.

Sls Rep Tim Benedict

Dakota Technologies

12th St N Unit 2201A Fargo ND 58102 701 237-4908 Fax: 701 237-4926.

Pres Randy St. Germain

Danatec Educational Services Ltd. 201-11450 29 St SE Calgary AB T2V 3V5 403 232-6950 Fax: 403 232-6952.

Toll-Free: 800 465-3366

DangerousGoods.com Inc.

PO Box 60543 AMF Houston TX 77205-0543 281 821-0859 Fax: 281 821-6558.

2200 Bristol Cir Oakville ON L6H 5R3 905 829-2000 Exec Asst Barbara Smith

DEG Environmental Ltd.

PO Box 3024 Brighton ON K0K 1H0 613 475-1996 Fax: 613 475-5249.

Site Mgr John Crowe

Delta Piping Products Canada Inc. 48 Centennial Rd Unit 1 Orangeville ON L9W 3T3 519 942-8888 Fax: 519 942-8808.

VP Ian Thomas

Demesa, Inc.

458 Morden Rd Oakville ON L6K 3W4 905 842-6985 Fax: 905 842-0226.

Toll-Free: 866 333-6372 Credit Dept Mgr Diana Kovacevic

Devcon

3421 Fairview Crt Westbank BC V4T 1C1 250 768-4851 Fax: 250 768-5969.

Intl Bus Mgr Ian Goodland

Dillon Consulting Limited

235 Yorkland Blvd Suite 800 Toronto ON M2J 4Y8 416 229-4646 Fax: 416 229-4692.

Donley Technology

PO Box 152 Colonial Beach VA 22443 Location: 220 Garfield Ave 804 224-9427 Pres Elizabeth Donley

DQE, Inc.

9910 North by Northeast Fishers IN 46037 317 295-9770 Fax: 317 295-9822.

Toll-Free: 800 355-4628 Pres Howard Levitin

Draeger Safety Canada Ltd.

7555 Danbro Cres Mississauga ON L5N 6P9 905 821-8988 Fax: 905 821-2565.

Toll-Free: 877 372-4371 Toll-Free Fax: 800 329-8823 Mktg Asst Lynn Scharfe

Eagle Technology, Inc.

11019 North Towne Square Rd Meguon WI 53092 262 241-3845 Fax: 262 241-5248.

Toll-Free: 800 388-3268 Pres Harshad Shah

ECO Canada

200-308 11 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G 0Y2 403 233-0748 Fax: 403 269-9544.

Mktg/Commun Mgr Chris Stewart

Eco Waste Solutions

5195 Harvester Rd Unit 14 Burlington ON L7L 6E9 905 634-7022 Fax: 905 634-0831.

Toll-Free: 866 326-2876 CEO Steve Meldrum

EcoLog Environmental Resources Group

12 Concorde Pl Suite 800 North York ON M3C 4J2 416 510-6867 Fax: 416 510-5133.

Toll-Free: 888 702-1111 Ext. 5 Gen Mgr Carol Bell-LeNoury The EcoLog Group includes HazMat Management and Solid Waste & Recycling magazines as well as environmental and safety legislation services, newsletters and websites for the busy EHS professional. We are Canada’s largest publisher of business information for environment and occupational health & safety. EcoLog also produces the annual Environmental Compliance Conference each November. EcoLog’s ERIS division provides environmental risk information and property data from over 440 different government and private databases in a fast, accurate and convenient manner. For more information, visit EcoLog and it’s group of websites: www.ecolog.com, www. hazmatmag.com, www.solidwastemag. com, www.eris.ca.

Egmond Associates Ltd

27 Hall Rd Georgetown ON L7G 0A4 416 782-7227 Toll-Free: 877 755-7227 Toll-Free Fax: 877 755-7227 Principal John VanEgmond

Ellicott Dredges, LLC

1425 Wicomico St Baltimore MD 21230 410 545-0232 Fax: 410 545-0293.

Dir-Sls Paul P Quinn

Emergency Film Group

PO Box 1928 Edgartown MA 02539 508 627-8844 Fax: 508 627-8863.

Pres Gordon Massingham

ENV Treatment Systems Inc.

70 High St Toronto ON M8Y 3N9 416 503-7639 Fax: 416 503-8925.

Enviro Hazmat Emergency Response Inc.

Bay 12 2180 Pegasus Way NE Calgary AB T2E 8M5 403 236-4901 Fax: 403 236-1759.

Toll-Free: 866 249-7583 Pres Barry Lesiuk

Enviro-Sol Plus

PO Box 64001 Oakville ON L6L 0A1 Location: 466 Speers Rd Floor 3 Oakville ON L6K 3W9 Toll-Free: 888 767-2268 Toll-Free Fax: 866 593-3002 Admin Don Wright WINTER 2011 HazMat Management 29

Enviro-Stewards Inc.

2011 Annual Buyers’ Guide

1 Union St Elmira ON N3B 3J9 519 578-5100 Fax: 519 669-5002.

Pres Bruce Taylor

EnviroCare Environmental Services Ltd.

19 McNaughton Ave Regina SK S4R 4L9 306 545-1021 Fax: 306 545-3411.

Pres Jeff Wszolek

Envirochem Services Inc.

310 Esplanade E North Vancouver BC V7L 1A4 604 986-0233 Fax: 604 986-8583.

Toll-Free: 866 321-3311 Dir/Partner Thomas Finnbogason

Environmental Accident Protection Inc.

PO Box 929 Petrolia ON N0N 1R0 Location: 4156 Petrolia Line 519 882-3542 Fax: 519 882-3562.

Pres Mark S Braet

Environmental Business Consultants 33 Wanita Rd Mississauga ON L5G 1B3 905 271-2845 Pres James Sbrolla

Environmental Products Inc.

5350 Evergreen Pky Sheffield Village OH 44054 440 934-2180 Fax: 440 934-4052.

Sls Mgr Laurie Benko

Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESAA)

102-2528 Ellwood Dr SW Edmonton AB T6X 0A9 780 429-6363 Fax: 780 429-4249.

Toll-Free: 800 661-9278 Dir-Prog/Event Dev Joe Chowaniec; Dir-Industry/Govt Rel Joe Barraclough

EQ-The Environmental Quality Company 36255 Michigan Ave Wayne MI 48184 734 329-8000 Fax: 734 329-8140.

Toll-Free: 800 592-5489 Toll-Free Fax: 800 592-5329 Bus Dev Mgr Nanette Myers

ERIS (Environmental Risk Information Service)

12 Concorde Pl Suite 800 North York ON M3C 4J2 416 510-5204 Fax: 416 510-5133.

Toll-Free: 866 517-5204 Reg Serv Mgr Isabel Pereira; Rsch/Dev Mgr Mark Mattei ERIS can provide you with site and neighbourhood specific environmental information from over 440 different government and private databases! This allows you to focus environmental site assessments, maintain company records and/or address liability issues prior to property tansactions. ERIS 30 www.hazmatmag.com WINTER 2011

provides high quality and reliable environmental reports and additional services for historical records review in a fast, accurate and convenient manner.

Etcos Environmental

96 Terrosa Rd Markham ON L3S 2N1 905 471-9890 Fax: 905 471-6439.

Project Mgr Ravi Sharma

Exova

2395 Speakman Dr Mississauga ON L5K 1B3 866 263-9268 Fax: 905 823-1446.

Cust Care Liz Summerfield

Fabco Plastics Wholesale (Ontario) Limited

2175A Teston Rd Maple ON L6A 1T3 905 832-0600 Fax: 905 832-0992.

Toll-Free: 800 565-6189 Toll-Free Fax: 800 668-8415 Sls Mgr Mike Fallis

Fabricated Plastics Limited

2175 Teston Rd Maple ON L6A 1T3 905 832-8161 Fax: 905 832-2111.

VP-Sls G Landry

Fanchem Ltd.

3228 South Service Rd Suite 207 Burlington ON L7N 3H8 905 637-7034 Fax: 905 637-7037.

Sls Mgr Brian Malcolm

FCM’s Green Municipal Fund

24 Clarence St Ottawa ON K1N 5P3 613 214-5221 Fax: 613 244-1515.

Commun Mgr Lorie Boucher

Filter Innovations Inc.

744 Gordon Baker Rd Toronto ON M2H 3B4 416 490-7848 Fax: 416 490-0974.

Toll-Free: 877 803-0878 Pres/CEO John Dragasevich

First Response Environmental

899 Nebo Rd Hamilton ON L0R 1P0 289 639-2020 Fax: 289 639-2167.

Toll-Free: 866 774-5501 Air, Land & Sea and everything in between. First Response Environmental’s got you covered.

Fisher Environmental

400 Esna Park Dr Unit 15 Markham ON L3R 3K2 905 475-7755 Fax: 905 475-7718.

Pres Dave Fisher

Fluid Metering, Inc.

5 Aerial Way Suite 500 Syosset NY 11791 516 922-6050 Fax: 516 624-8261.

Toll-Free: 800 223-3388 Mktg Mgr Herb Werner

Forestry Suppliers, Inc. PO Box 8397

Jackson MS 39284-8397 Location: 205 W Rankin St Jackson MS 39201-6126 Fax: 601 355-5126.

Toll-Free: 800 360-7788 Toll-Free Fax: 800 543-4203

FPI

151 Kalmus Dr Suite A202 Costa Mesa CA 92626-5999 714 513-2100 Fax: 714 513-2111.

Pres Stephen VanValkenburgh

Gardner Denver, Inc.

1800 Gardner Expy Quincy IL 62305 217 222-5400 Fax: 217 228-8243.

Toll-Free: 800 682-9868 Mktg Coord/Serv Coord Heather Glascock

Gator Canada

439-8840 210 St Langley BC V1M 2Y2 604 857-9048 Fax: 604 857-9049.

Toll-Free: 866 444-9048 CEO Ron Van Luven

Gemtor, Inc.

1 Johnson Ave Matawan NJ 07747-2595 732 583-6200 Fax: 732 290-9391.

Toll-Free: 800 405-9048

Geneq Inc.

8047 rue Jarry E Anjou QC H1J 1H6 514 354-2511 Fax: 514 354-6948.

Toll-Free: 800 463-4363 Pres Maurice Parise

General Carbon Corp.

744 Gordon Baker Rd North York ON M2H 3B4 Fax: 416 490-0974.

Toll-Free: 800 269-3445 Pres Robert Muller

General Equipment Company

620 Alexander Dr SW Owatonna MN 55060 507 451-5510 Fax: 507 451-5511.

Toll-Free: 800 533-0524 Pres Dennis Von Ruden

GENIVAR Consultants LP

600 Cochrane Dr Suite 500 Markham ON L3R 5K3 905 475-7270 Fax: 905 475-5994.

Geonics Limited

1745 Meyerside Dr Unit 8 Mississauga ON L5T 1C6 905 670-9580 Fax: 905 670-9204.

Tech Sls Rep Mike Catalano

Global Hazmat, Inc.

423 505-8840 210th St Langley BC V1M 2Y2 604 882-4999 Fax: 604 882-4980.

Toll-Free: 877 744-4999 Toll-Free Fax: 888 882-4980 Pres Kevin Swinden

GlobalTox, a Division of MTE Consultants Inc.

255 Speedvale Ave W Guelph ON N1H 1C5 519 766-1000 Fax: 519 766-1100.

Dir-Rsch/Dev Mark Goldberg

Golden Environmental Services 2207 Simcoe Road 93 RR 1 Barrie ON L4M 4Y8 705 726-3921 Fax: 705 721-1599.

Toll-Free: 800 414-2404 Dir-Sls/Mktg Chad Trivett

Gorman – Rupp of Canada Limited

70 Burwell Rd St Thomas ON N5P 3R7 519 631-2870 Fax: 519 631-4624.

Mktg Mgr Mark Neal

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP PO Box 121 Stn 1st Can Place Toronto ON M5X 1G5 Location: 1 First Canadian Place 100 King St W Suite 1600 416 862-4300 Fax: 416 863-3410.

Grayling Industries, Inc.

1008 Branch Dr Alpharetta GA 30004 770 751-9095 Fax: 770 751-3710.

Toll-Free: 800 635-1551 Mktg Mgr Ben Greene

GrayWolf Sensing Solutions LLC 6 Research Dr Shelton CT 06484 203 402-0477 Fax: 203 402-0478.

Toll-Free: 800 218-7997 Mktg Admin Laura Lee

Green-Port Environmental Services & Recyclers 64 Todd Rd Georgetown ON L7G 4R7 905 873-8561 Ext. 2001 Fax: 905 873-8561.

Toll-Free: 866 252-8645 VP-Ops Marc Mittleman

Green-Tech Environmental Engineering Ltd.

250 Consumers Rd Suite 307 Toronto ON M2J 4V6 416 364-1760 Fax: 416 253-8901.

Toll-Free: 519 913-0696 Toll-Free Fax: 519 913-0787 Pres/Eng Thomas W Davis P Eng

Greenflow Environmental Services Inc.

4151 Morris Dr Units 2 & 3 Burlington ON L7L 5L5 905 333-3004 Fax: 905 333-1306.

Partner Al Pettman

Greenspoon Specialty Contracting

42 Stafford Dr Brampton ON L6W 1L4 905 458-1005 Fax: 905 458-4149.

VP-Enviro Servs JP Marini

GroundTech Solutions

PO Box 1271 Stn K Toronto ON M4P 3E5 416 410-3130 Fax: 416 410-1249.

Toll-Free: 877 877-1862

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VP-Sls/Mktg Sven Dean Branches: GroundTech Solutions – Div. of MPI Inc. PO Box 102 Red Deer AB T4N 3T2 Location: 4819C 48 Ave 403 588-7011 Fax: 403 277-1115 GroundTech Solutions is the exclusive distributor of Geoprobe direct push machines and technologies in Canada.

With locations in Toronto, Ontario and in Red Deer, Alberta we provide Genuine Geoprobe equipment, service, training, and field demonstrations of the very latest Geoprobe Models specially designed for the tougher soil conditions found throughout Canada.

Hannay Reels Inc.

Pickering ON L1W 3V1 905 427-0220 Fax: 905 427-9901.

Toll-Free: 877 747-7117 Pres Randy Myers; Mktg Mgr Jan Beattie

Hetek Solutions, Inc.

2085 Piper Lane London ON N5V 3S5 519 659-1144 Fax: 519 453-2182.

Toll-Free: 888 432-8422 VP/Gen Mgr Andy Pauley

Hotz Environmental Services Inc. 239 Lottridge St Hamilton ON L8L 6W1 905 545-2665 Fax: 905 545-7822.

Toll-Free: 888 333-4680 VP-Bus Dev Pamela McAuley

553 State Route 143 Westerlo NY 12193 518 797-3791 Fax: 518 797-3259.

Toll-Free: 877 467-3357 Toll-Free Fax: 800 733-5464 Dir-Sls/Mktg Edward Rash

HQN Industrial Fabrics Inc.

Harold Marcus Limited

Hydro-Thermal Corp.

15124 Longwoods Rd Bothwell ON N0P 1C0 519 695-3734 Fax: 519 695-2249.

Pres Denis Marcus

760 Chester St Sarnia ON N7S 5N1 519 344-9050 Fax: 519 344-5511.

Toll-Free: 800 361-7068 VP Steve Reese 400 Pilot Crt Waukesha WI 53188 262 548-8900 Fax: 262 548-8908.

Toll-Free: (Canada) 800 952-0121

Hassco Industries Inc.

223 Ashland Ave London ON N5W 4E3 519 451-3100 Fax: 519 451-3102.

Toll-Free: 800 668-0814 Pres David Hassan

HAZCO Emergency Services

1650 Upper Ottawa St Hamilton ON L8W 3P2 905 383-5550 Fax: 905 574-0492.

Toll-Free: 800 327-7455 Bus Dev Mgr Ralph H Clayton Providing Emergency Response North America Wide. True multiple response locations. Highly trained and outfitted crews and response units. Most dedicated response agency in Canada.

Low level or high hazard, TEAM HAZCO can mitigate all issues. CERCA verified.

All classes of dangerous goods. Marine, Road and Rail. 17 Response units and 11 HazMat equipment Trailers. 2 mobile Decontamination Trailers. 1 mobile Lab. Numerous Response sites (owned) all across Canada and into the US. Only company that operates a CBRNE Response Truck and system.

HAZCO Environmental Services 103-3355 114th Ave SE Calgary AB T2Z 0K7 403 297-0444 Fax: 403 253-3188.

Toll-Free: 800 667-0444 Pres David Mattinson

Hazmasters

1915 Clements Rd Units 1-2

Imbibitive Technologies Canada, Inc. 8 Hiscott St Suite 1 St Catharines ON L2R 1C6 905 641-2323 Fax: 905 641-3601.

Toll-Free: 888 843-2323 Toll-Free Fax: 877 439-2323 Pres John S Brinkman

Incinerator Consultants Incorporated 20755 Crescent Point Pl Ashburn VA 20147 703 437-1790 Fax: 703 891-9350.

Pres Charles Brunner

Indumark 16 N Franklin St Suite 201A Doylestown PA 18901 215 348-5105 Owner Clifford Lebowitz

Industrial Scientific Corporation 14845 Yonge St Suite 197 Aurora ON L4G 6H8 905 727-5595 Fax: 905 727-1594.

Toll-Free: 800 338-3287 Reg AB/Cdn Mgr Scott Hayzelden

INFICON ICC The Compliance Center Inc.

205 Matheson Blvd E Unit 7 Mississauga ON L4Z 1X8 905 890-7228 Fax: 905 890-7070.

Toll-Free: 888 977-4834 Toll-Free Fax: 888 821-0735 Acct Mgr Greg Monette Branches: ICC The Compliance Centre Inc. 3452 78th Ave Edmonton AB T6B 2X9 ICC The Compliance Centre Inc. 88 Lindsay Ave Dorval QC H9P 2T8 ICC The Compliance Centre Inc. 16445 Air Center Blvd Suite 350 Houston TX 77032 ICC The Compliance Centre Inc. 2150 Liberty Dr Niagara Falls NY 14304 ICC The Compliance Center Inc. has been training and providing products to comply with dangerous goods regulations to handle and transport dangerous goods by air, ground or sea.

We have been operating for over 20 years throughout Canada and the US, and have developed products that have become the de facto standard of the chemical industry. Our regulatory expertise, plus an extensive range of shipping and compliance products, makes us the clear industry leader. The company manufactures placards and labels, stocks packaging, signs and transportation accessories such as logbooks and regulatory publications.

ImageWave Corporation

PO Box 4504 Lago Vista TX 78645 512 267-9705 Fax: 512 267-9703.

Two Technology Pl East Syracuse NY 13057-9714 315 434-1100 Fax: 315 437-3803.

Mktg Comm Supvr Naomi Kissel-Johns

Insitu Contractors Inc. 150 Stevenson St S Guelph ON N1E 5N7 519 763-0700 Fax: 519 763-6684.

CEO Harry Oussoren

Instrumentation Northwest, Inc. 8902 122nd Ave NE Kirkland WA 98033 425 822-4434 Fax: 425 822-8384.

Toll-Free: 800 776-9355 Sls Rep Romey Gilbert

Intelex Technologies Inc. 905 King St W Suite 680 Toronto ON M6K 3G9 416 599-6009 Fax: 416 599-6867.

Toll-Free: 877 932-3747

International Environmental Products 2 Villanova Center 795 E Lancaster Ave Suite 280 Villanova PA 19085 610 520-7665 Fax: 610 520-7663.

VP-Sls Joe Dougherty

International Press Publications Inc. 90 Nolan Crt Unit 21 Markham ON L3R 4L9 905 946-9588 Fax: 905 946-9590.

International Products Corp.

201 Connecticut Dr Burlington NJ 08016 609 386-8770 Fax: 609 386-8438.

Intrinsik Environmental Sciences Inc.

6605 Hurontario St Suite 500 Mississauga ON L5T 0A3 905 364-7800 Fax: 905 364-7816.

Contact Glenn Ferguson Branches: Location: Calgary AB Location: Guelph ON Location: Ottawa ON Location: Halifax NS Intrinsik Environmental Sciences Inc. is a leading science-based consulting firm, providing expert advice on toxicology, human health and ecological risk assessment, risk communication, public consultation and regulatory affairs. With five offices in Canada and more than 40 highly qualified professionals, we are uniquely positioned to apply our diverse expertise and experience in the fields of biology, toxicology, aquatic toxicology, environmental toxicology and environmental studies to help our clients manage their diverse environmental issues and challenges.

Investigative Science Incorporated

1050 Cooke Blvd Unit 2 Burlington ON L7T 4A8 905 634-4200 Fax: 905 634-1966.

Pres James Ford

InVitro International

17751 Sky Park E Suite G Irvine CA 92614 949 851-8356 Fax: 949 851-4985.

Toll-Free: 800 246-8487 Pres/CEO W Richard Ulmer

Ivey International Inc.

PO Box 706 Campbell River BC V9W 6J3 250 923-6326 Fax: 250 923-0718.

Toll-Free: 800 246-2744

J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc.

PO Box 368 Neenah WI 54957-0368 Location: 3003 Breezewood Lane Neenah WI 54956 920 722-2848 Fax: 920 727-7516.

Toll-Free: 800 327-6868 Toll-Free Fax: 800 727-7516 Dir-Bus Dev David Ellis

Jacques Whitford Limited

7271 Warden Ave Markham ON L3R 5X5 905 474-7700 Fax: 905 479-9326.

VP Bill Stiebel

JFM Environmental Limited

318 Neptune Cres Unit 1 London ON N6M 1A1 519 951-9191 Fax: 519 452-3089.

Hydrogeologist Frank Colozza WINTER 2011 HazMat Management 31

JLM Systems Ltd.

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23091 Westminster Hwy Richmond BC V6V 1B9 604 521-3248 Fax: 604 521-1244.

Toll-Free: 888 736-8645 Pres Dick Gangnon

Kam Biotechnology Ltd. 101-9710 187th St Surrey BC V4N 3N6 604 888-4336 Fax: 604 888-6623.

Pres Aline Ferchichi

Kapejo Inc. PO Box 7250 Talleyville DE 19803-0250 302 322-4222 Pres/CEO Peter C Martinez

KBU Environmental Technologies Inc. 5 Canary Crt Hamilton ON L9A 2M3 905 690-2835 Fax: 905 383-0600.

Pres Ken Unkerskov

Keystone Environmental Ltd. 320-4400 Dominion St Burnaby BC V5G 4G3 604 430-0671 Fax: 604 430-0672.

Toll-Free: 866 417-8007 Principal William R Donald

Kidde Canada Inc. 340 Four Valley Dr Concord ON L4K 5Z1 905 695-6060 Fax: 905 660-4670.

Toll-Free: 800 667-0423 Toll-Free Fax: 877 545-6555 VP Joe Di Filippo

Kilmer Brownfield Equity Fund L.P. Scotia Plaza 40 King St W Suite 2700 Box 127 Toronto ON M5H 3Y2 416 814-3437 Fax: 416 635-7697.

Dev Mgr Pamela Kraft

Kodiak Drilling 871 Equestrian Crt Unit 1A Oakville ON L6L 6L7 905 825-2943 Mgr Randall Goodwin

KPR Adcor VCI Inc. PO Box 57130 RPO Jackson Sq Hamilton ON L8P 4W9 Location: 2 King St W 905 628-3232 Fax: 905 628-2529.

Toll-Free: 866 577-2326 Pres Rick G Kozuch

Lakes Environmental Software 60 Bathurst Dr Unit 6 Waterloo ON N2V 2A9 519 746-5995 Fax: 519 746-0793.

Pres Jesse The

Lakeview Engineered Products Inc. 2500 W Jefferson Blvd Fort Wayne IN 46802 260 432-3479 Fax: 260 432-6239.

Ops Mgr Jim Woolf 32 www.hazmatmag.com WINTER 2011

Lambton College Fire & Emergency Response Training Centre

1457 London Rd Sarnia ON N7S 6K4 519 336-4552 Ext. 22 Fax: 519 3364537.

Toll-Free: 800 791-7887 Ext. 22

Layfield Geosynthetics & Industrial Fabrics Ltd.

11603 180 St NW Edmonton AB T5S 2H6 780 453-6731 Fax: 780 455-5218.

Toll-Free: 800 840-2884 Mktg Coord Tim Starchuk

LEHDER Environmental Services Limited

704 Mara St Suite 210 Point Edward ON N7V 1X4 519 336-4101 Fax: 519 336-4311.

Principal Mark Roehler Branches: 9954 67th Ave Edmonton AB T6E 0P5 780 462-4099 Fax: 780 462-4392 Principal Daryl Zander LEHDER is one of the largest Air Quality Management companies in Canada. At LEHDER we recognize our client’s need to make decisions that provide for operational flexibility while meeting regulatory economic and social requirements. All Air Quality aspects – source testing, emission inventories, air dispersion modeling, data interpretation and approval applications – are managed internally without outsourcing and partnering. LEHDER Environmental Services provides totally integrated solutions to industrial clients throughout North America.

Branch Office: The Head Office for LEHDER is located in Point Edward, Ontario and our Western division is based in Edmonton, Alberta.

LEHDER Environmental Services 9954-67th Avenue Edmonton, AB T6E 0P5.

LEX Scientific Inc.

2 Quebec St Suite 204 Guelph ON N1H 2T3 519 824-7082 Fax: 519 824-5784.

Toll-Free: 800 824-7082 Dir Michael Hoffbauer

Lineman’s Testing Laboratories of Canada Limited 41 Rivalda Rd North York ON M9M 2M4 416 742-6911 Fax: 416 748-0290.

Toll-Free: 800 299-9769 Gen Mgr Robby Borda

Logical Data Solutions, Inc.

31 Windward Isle Palm Beach Gardens FL 33418 561 694-9229 Fax: 561 694-9131.

VP Bill J King

MPSI – Marketing & Product Services Inc.

4223 Rundlehorn Dr NE Calgary AB T1Y 2K3 403 285-9809 Fax: 403 280-0384.

Pres Jack M Qually

MacSema, Inc.

62971 Plateau Dr Suite 400 Bend OR 97701 541 389-1122 Fax: 541 389-1888.

Sls/Cust Supp Rose Sellew

Malroz Engineering Inc.

308 Wellington St Floor 2 Kingston ON K7K 7A8 613 548-3446 Fax: 613 548-7975.

Pres David Malcolm

Mandel Scientific Co Inc.

2 Admiral Pl Guelph ON N1G 4N4 519 763-9292 Fax: 519 763-2005.

Toll-Free: 888 883-3636

MAPA Professional

2834 Schoeneck Rd Macungie PA 18062-9679 Toll-Free: 800 537-2897 Toll-Free Fax: 800 537-3299 Mktg Mgr Carmen A Castro

Markland Specialty Engineering Ltd. 305 Armstrong Ave Unit 9 Georgetown ON L7G 4X6 905 873-7791 Fax: 905 873-6012.

Gen Mgr Scott Langstaff

McGill AirClean LLC

1777 Refugee Rd Columbus OH 43207 614 829-1200 Fax: 614 445-8759.

Natl Sls Mgr Jerry Childress

MEGTEC Systems

830 Prosper Rd De Pere WI 54115 920 337-1579 Fax: 920 339-2793.

Toll-Free: 800 558-5535 Mktg/Admv Asst Heidi Taylor

Mil-Ram Technology, Inc.

4135 Business Center Dr Fremont CA 94538 510 656-2001 Fax: 510 656-2004.

Toll-Free: 888 464-5726 Pres Carlos B Ramirez

718 392-1112 Fax: 718 786-1008.

Pres Reed Margulis

Monalt Environmental Inc.

73 Railside Rd Unit 4 North York ON M3A 1B2 416 391-3241 Fax: 416 391-3815.

Pres Cornel Monaru

MTE Consultants Inc.

520 Bingemans Centre Dr Kitchener ON N2B 3X9 519 743-6500 Fax: 519 743-6513.

VP/Sr Hydrogeologist Peter Gray

MTS Sensors

3001 Sheldon Dr Cary NC 27513 919 677-0100 Fax: 919 677-0200.

Product Mktg Mgr Lee Aiken

My green workplace

159 Ridout St S London ON N6C 3X7 519 645-7733 Fax: 519 317-7733.

Pres Paul van der Werf

Nelson Environmental Remediation Ltd.

26519CA Township Rd 530 Spruce Grove AB T7X 3L5 780 960-3660 Fax: 780 962-6885.

Toll-Free: 888 960-8222 Pres Darryl Nelson

Nett Technologies Inc.

6707 Goreway Dr Unit 2 Mississauga ON L4V 1P7 905 672-5453 Fax: 905 672-5949.

Toll-Free: 800 361-6388 Tech Exec Abhinav Dhingra

Network Environmental Services Inc. 31 Golden Gate Crt Scarborough ON M1P 3A4 416 299-0116 Fax: 416 299-9649.

Toll-Free: 800 272-6118 Pres Mike Aston

Netzsch Canada Inc.

740 Huronia Rd Unit 10-11 Barrie ON L4N 6C6 705 797-8426 Fax: 705 797-8427.

Toll-Free: 866 683-7867 Adv/Mktg Mgr Diane Balcerczyk

Millennium Enterprises, Inc.

PO Box 683186 Marietta GA 30068 770 926-9994 Fax: 770 926-9949.

Toll-Free: 800 382-6940 Mgr-Spill Containment Prods Bob Blaskovic

Miller Thomson LLP

PO Box 1011 Toronto ON M5H 3S1 Location: 40 King St W Suite 5800 416 595-8500 Fax: 416 595-8695.

Toll-Free: 888 762-5559 Sr Mgr-Mktg/Bus Dev Martha Hartwick

ModuTank Inc.

41-04 35th Ave Long Island City NY 11101

Newalta Corporation

211 11 Ave SW Calgary AB T2R 0C6 403 806-7000 Fax: 403 806-7348.

Toll-Free: 800 774-8466 Dir-Corp Commun/Community Rel Greg Jones Newalta provides cost-effective solutions to industrial customers to improve their environmental performance with a focus on recycling and recovery of products from industrial residues. We push beyond conventional thinking about waste, finding solutions that transform it into new products that will contribute to our customer’s bottom line and reduce the environmental footprint. Where by-product recovery

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isn’t possible, we find ways to reduce the production of waste at the source.

Newalta Industrial Service Inc.

1100 Burloak Dr Floor 5 Burlington ON L7L 6B2 Fax: 905 315-2204.

Toll-Free: 800 263-8602 Dir-Corp Commun/Community Rel Greg Jones

NexGen Enviro Systems, Inc.

190 E Hoffman Ave Lindenhurst NY 11757 631 226-2930 Fax: 631 236-3125.

Toll-Free: 800 842-1630 Pres Michael N Robbins

Norditrade Inc.

132 Banff Rd Toronto ON M4P 2P5 416 469-8438 Fax: 416 489-4168.

Pres Lars Henriksson

NorthWest Occupational Health & Safety 1174 Chamberlain Dr North Vancouver BC V7K 1P3 604 980-8512 Consultant Neil McManus

NovaLynx Corporation

PO Box 240 Grass Valley CA 95945 530 823-7185 Fax: 530 823-8997.

Toll-Free: 800 321-3577 Pres Joseph R Andre

Occupational Hygiene Association of Ontario (OHAO) 6519B Mississauga Rd Mississauga ON L5N 1A6 905 567-7196 Fax: 905 567-7191.

Exec Mgr Peter Fletcher

Oil Skimmers Inc.

PO Box 33092 Cleveland OH 44133-0092 Location: 12800 York Rd 440 237-4600 Fax: 440 582-2759.

Toll-Free: 800 200-4603 Pres Mike Guadiani

Ontario Environment Industry Association 330 Adelaide St W Suite 218 Toronto ON M5V 1R4 416 531-7884 Exec Dir Alex Gill

20 Arthur Hall Dr Sharon ON L0G 1V0 905 478-8042 Fax: 905 478-8010.

Pres Craig Lindsay 4961 King Street St. East, Unit T1 Beamsville ON L0R 1B0 905 563-9097 Fax: 905 563-9283.

Toll-Free: 866 840-0014 Toll-Free Fax: 866 425-0015

PAP Engineering Services 34 Jasmine Rd Toronto ON M9M 2P9 416 743-9601 Fax: 416 747-9058.

Owner Pat Priorello

Paracel Laboratories Ltd. 2319 St. Laurent Blvd Suite 300 Ottawa ON K1G 4J8 613 731-9577 Toll-Free: 800 749-1947 Sls Mgr Dan Barton

Parkson Corporation 1000 boul Saint-Jean bureau 205 Pointe-Claire QC H9R 5P1 514 636-8712 Fax: 514 636-9718.

Reg Mgr Jean Grenier

Pentek, Inc. 1026 Fourth Ave Coraopolls PA 15108 412 262-0725 Fax: 412 262-0731.

Sls Rep Tim Benedict

Photovac, Inc. 300 Second Ave Waltham MA 02451 781 290-0777 Fax: 781 290-4884.

VP-Sls/Mktg Lon Loken

Pilot Performance Resources ISO Management PO Box 68584 Brampton ON L6R 0J8 Location: Box 68584-25 Great Lakes Dr 905 792-3130 Pres Jayne Pilot

Pinchin Environmental

47 Morton Ave Paris ON N3J 1R4 519 720-9664 VP-Sls Jacques Decarie

Optimum Sciences Inc.

Plasco Energy Group Inc.

1874 Hwy 206 Unit 2 Fonthill ON L0S 1E6 905 892-1800 Fax: 905 892-4359.

Pres Paul Couture

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

PO Box 50 Toronto ON M5X 1B8 Location: 1 First Canadian Pl 416 362-2111 Fax: 416 862-6666.

Partner Daniel Kirby

Quantum Murray LP – Remediation Division

Pacwill Environmental

2470 Milltower Crt Mississauga ON L5N 7W5 905 363-0678 Fax: 905 363-0681.

Toll-Free: 888 767-3330 Mktg Mgr Robin Connelly

Opta Minerals Inc.

905 681-8832 Fax: 905 637-6267.

Toll-Free: 800 932-6232 Pres Jay Berman

Pacesetter Sales and Associates

1145 Innovation Dr Suite 100 Ottawa ON K2K 3G8 613 591-9438 Fax: 613 591-9441.

Exec VP Christopher Gay

Procyon Consulting Inc. 238 Hickling Tr Barrie ON L4M 5W5 705 739-9738 Fax: 705 739-8448.

Mgr Doreen Chamberlin

Proeco Corporation

7722 9 St NW Edmonton AB T6P 1L6 780 440-1825 Fax: 780 440-2428.

Toll-Free: 800 661-5792 We opened Canada’s first fully licensed private sector PCB waste management facility in 1989. Field PCB services include: spill sampling, clean-up planning, collection, packaging, transportation, non destructive removal of PCB from cement and associated services; in addition, we have had the experience of cleaning up after five fires involving PCB electrical equipment.

Public Services Health and Safety Association

4950 Yonge St Suite 902 North York ON M2N 6K1 416 250-8005 Fax: 416 250-9190.

Toll-Free: 877 732-3726 Dir-Prog Dev Jim Bell

Publishing and Depository Services, Public Works and Government Services Canada 350 Albert St Floor 5 Ottawa ON K1A 0S5 Toll-Free: 800 635-7943 Toll-Free Fax: 800 565-7757

Purifics ES Inc.

340 Sovereign Rd London ON N6M 1A8 519 473-5788 Fax: 519 473-0934.

Pres Brian Butters

Qikiqtaaluk Environment Inc.

3333 ch Queen Mary suite 580 Montréal QC H3V 1A2 514 940-3332 Fax: 514 940-3435.

VP Jacques Dion

1749 Woodward Dr Ottawa ON K2C 0P9 613 820-9622 Fax: 613 820-9623.

Toll-Free: 800 251-7773 Pres Remediation Brian Stuckert

Quantum Murray LP – Training Division 10 Kenmore Ave Unit 4 Stoney Creek ON L8E 5N1 905 388-4444 Fax: 905 643-3106.

Toll-Free: 877 378-7745 Mark Jasper

Quatrex Environmental Inc. 1011 Haultain Crt Unit 16 Mississauga ON L4W 1W1 905 848-1039 Fax: 905 848-9323.

Toll-Free: 866 782-8739 Pres Patrick Paradis

R & R Laboratories Ltd. 1557 Fair Ave Peterborough ON K9K 1T1 705 748-9564 Fax: 705 748-9564.

Pres Ramesh Makhija

R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited 15 Townline Orangeville ON L9W 3R4 519 941-5331 Fax: 519 941-8120.

Toll-Free: 800 265-9662

R Plus Industries Inc. 3616 14A St SE Calgary AB T2G 3L2 403 265-1700 Fax: 403 233-9145.

Pres Patrick Windle

Ram Lining Systems Inc. RR 1 Bayfield ON N0M 1G0 519 524-1904 Fax: 519 524-6721.

Pres Frank Kunc

Raw Materials Company Inc. Quantum Murray LP – Demolition Division 345 Horner Ave Suite 300 Toronto ON M8W 1Z6 416 253-6000 Fax: 416 253-6699.

Toll-Free: 800 565-7054 Pres Demolition Antonio Cicconi

Quantum Murray LP – Hazardous Materials Abatement Division 100-3600 Viking Way Richmond BC V6V 1N6 604 270-7388 Fax: 604 270-7389.

Toll-Free: 800 251-7773 Pres Haz Mat Division Doug Wynn

Quantum Murray LP – Metals Division 961 Zelco Dr Burlington ON L7L 4Y2

PO Box 6 Port Colborne ON L3K 5V7 Location: 17 Invertose Dr 905 835-1203 Fax: 905 835-6824.

Dir Richard Unyi

RegScan, Inc. 800 W Fourth St Williamsport PA 17701 570 323-1010 Ext. 1415 Fax: 570 323-8082.

Toll-Free: 800 734-7226 Coord Glenda Rutherford

Response Biomedical Corporation 1781 75th Ave W Vancouver BC V6P 6P2 604 456-6010 Ext. 6057 Fax: 604 456-6083.

Acct Mgr Biodefense Michael Bayliss WINTER 2011 HazMat Management 33

2011 Annual Buyers’ Guide Restoration Environmental Contractors – REC DemolitionREC Disaster Recovery

PO Box 746 Gormley ON L0H 1G0 Location: 10 Stalwart Industrial Dr Unit 5 905 888-0066 Fax: 905 888-0071.

Toll-Free: 800 894-4924 Pres/CEO Don Bremner Branches: Restoration Environmental Contractors – REC Demolition 124 Garden Ave Brantford ON N3S 7W4 519 757-1126 Fax: 519 756-8721 Restoration Environmental Contractors – REC Demolition 240 McLeod St Ottawa ON K1P 6P4 613 567-1173 Fax: 613 567-4853 Restoration Environmental REC Disaster Response 106-1st St E 109 Tierra Verde FL 33715 We’re the Abatement, Demolition and Remediation Experts: Specializing in Disaster and Emergency Response, Structural Building Demolition, Removal of all Hazardous Materials; including Asbestos, Mould-Mold Remediation (Microbial Decontamination), Fire Flood Water Damage Restoration, Lead Paint, Lead and Heavy Metal Dust, Industrial Plant Decommissioning, PCB’s and Infectious Disease Control. Since 1989, our staff has had over 980,000 hours on-site experience and completed over 9,000 projects from emergency service and maintenance calls to multi-million dollar projects. REC Staff has CPIC Security Clearance. 1-800-894-4924 Canada/USA.

Rivercourt Engineering Inc. 4 Beechwood Cr Toronto ON M4K 2K8 416 421-4419 Pres Andrew Hellebust

Rochester Midland Limited

851 Progress Crt Oakville ON L6J 5A8 905 847-3000 Fax: 905 847-1675.

Toll-Free: 800 387-7174 Serv/Support Mgr Annette Kieft

Rocky Mountain Energy & Safety Equipment Ltd. 3155-21331 Gordon Way Richmond BC V6W 1J9 604 275-1346 Fax: 604 241-0995.

Toll-Free: 888 677-4556 Pres/Gen Mgr Brian Woodcock

Rocky Mountain Environmental Ltd. 3155-21331 Gordon Way Richmond BC V6W 1J9 604 275-1346 Fax: 604 241-0995.

Toll-Free: 888 677-4556 Pres Ron MacMillan

Ronco

267 North Rivermede Rd Concord ON L4K 3N7 905 660-6700 Fax: 905 660-6903.

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Toll-Free: 877 663-7735 Toll-Free Fax: 877 663-7735 Mktg Mgr Vani Kshattriya

RPR Environmental Inc.

164 South Service Rd Stoney Creek ON L8E 3H6 905 662-0062 Fax: 905 662-9607.

Toll-Free: 800 667-5217 Sls Mgr Patrick Whitty

Rubb Inc.

1 Rubb Lane Sanford ME 04073 207 324-2877 Fax: 207 324-2347.

Toll-Free: 800 289-7822 Dir-Mktg Gordon Collins

SNC-Lavalin Inc.

2200 Lake Shore Blvd W Toronto ON M8V 1A4 416 679-6116 Fax: 416 231-5356.

VP-Environment Douglas B Hodgins

Safety House

267 North Rivermede Rd Concord ON L4K 3N7 605 660-8794 Fax: 905 660-6903.

Toll-Free: 877 663-7735 Toll-Free Fax: 877 663-7735

519 746-1798 Fax: 519 885-5262.

Mktg Mgr Martin Draeger

Science Applications Inter­national Corporation – SAIC Canada 60 Queen St Suite 1516 Ottawa ON K1P 5Y7 613 563-7242 Fax: 613 563-3399.

VP/Div Mgr SAIC Canada Kenneth F Donovan

Seaman Corporation

1000 Venture Blvd Wooster OH 44691 704 987-0055 Fax: 704 987-0140.

Toll-Free: 800 927-8578 Toll-Free Fax: 800 649-2737 Mktg Mgr Bill Shehane

SEIMA

2341 McIntyre St Regina SK S4P 2S3 306 543-1567 Fax: 306 543-1568.

COO Kathleen Livingston 417 Exeter Rd London ON N6E 2Z3 519 680-3868 Fax: 519 680-3870.

Pres Marc B Trudell 121 Granton Dr Unit 12 Richmond Hill ON L4B 3N4 905 764-9380 Fax: 905 764-9386.

Pres Don Gorber

25 Regan Rd Brampton ON L7A 1B2 905 633-7792 Fax: 905 633-7793.

Sensaphone Inc.

901 Tryens Rd Aston PA 19014 610 558-2700 Fax: 610 558-0222.

Toll-Free: 877 373-2700 VP-Sls/Mktg Robert Douglass

Servomex Company Inc. Sanexen Environmental Services Inc. 1471 boul Lionel-Boulet bureau 32 Varennes AB J3X 1P7 450 652-9990 Fax: 450 652-2290.

Toll-Free: 800 263-7870 Sanexen is a Canadian Service and technology company specialising in fully integrated PCB waste management, site remediation, biotreatment, water treatment, risk assessment, as well as rehabilitation of underground watermains using trenchless technologies. Sanexen’s team of experienced professionals can provide turnkey solutions to a wide range of environmental problems. Over the last fifteen years, Sanexen has also developed a significant expertise in environmental work in the arctic.

Sarva Bio Remed, LLC

870 North Broadway Greenville MS 38701 662 378-0383 Fax: 419 710-5831.

Toll-Free: 877 717-2782 Ext. 1 Pres/CEO Satya Ganti

Schlumberger Water Services 460 Phillip St Suite 101 Waterloo ON N2L 5J2

449 Eisenhower Blvd Suite 300 Harrisburg PA 17111-2302 717 232-0593 Fax: 717 232-1799.

Toll-Free: 800 892-6532 Pres John Gunnett

Smiths Detection – Danbury 21 Commerce Dr Danbury CT 06810 203 207-9700 Fax: 203 207-9780.

Toll-Free Fax: 888 473-6747 Mktg Coord Andrew Edwards

SNC-Lavalin Environment 20 Colonnade Rd Suite 110 Ottawa ON K2E 7M6 613 226-2456 Fax: 613 226-9980.

Sr Geoscientist Austin Sweezey

Sendex Environmental Corp.

SENES Consultants Limited

Safety-Kleen Inc.

Skelly and Loy, Inc.

525 Julie Rivers Dr Suite 185 Sugar Land TX 77478 281 295-5800 Fax: 281 295-2834.

Toll-Free: 800 862-0200 Mktg Specialist Tina Igunbor

Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine 12 Concorde Pl Suite 800 Toronto ON M3C 4J2 416 510-6798 Fax: 416 510-5133.

Toll-Free: 888 702-1111 Editor Guy Crittenden Solid Waste & Recycling magazine is published six times a year by the Business Information Group. The magazine provides strategic information and perspectives on all aspects of Canadian solid waste collection, hauling, processing and disposal.

Readers include municipal waste managers, recycling coordinators and haulers, as well as waste managers from the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors, consultants and operators of landfills, transfer stations, MRFs, incinerators, composting and other facilities.

SGS Environmental Services (Laboratory)

Solocks.com Training Inc.

185 Concession St Lakefield ON K0L 2H0 705 652-2111 Fax: 705 652-6365.

Toll-Free: 877 747-7658 Sr Project Specialist Chris Sullivan

PO Box 44502 Westside RPO Vancouver BC V6S 2N5 604 221-8339 Fax: 604 224-4237.

Toll-Free: 877 977-8339 Pres John French

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments

Solution Soil Treatment Facility

7102 Riverwood Dr Columbia MD 21046 410 381-1227 Fax: 410 381-1222.

Toll-Free: 800 477-1227 Pres Takeshi Kawami

236 Glasgow St N Guelph ON N1H 4X2 519 763-2227 Fax: 519 763-9887.

Dir-Bus Dev Neil Ryan

Sick Ltd.

668 Millway Ave Units 15-16 Concord ON L4K 3V2 905 660-0501 Fax: 905 660-7143.

Toll-Free: 877 897-6642

250 West Beaver Creek Rd Unit 6 Richmond Hill ON L4B 1C7 905 771-1444 Fax: 905 771-1616.

Sr Project Mgr Paul Jedynak

Skedco, Inc.

PO Box 3390 Tualatin OR 97062 Location: 10505 SW ManRasset Dr 503 691-7909 Fax: 503 691-7973.

VP/Gen Mgr Bud Calkin

Sonic Soil Sampling Inc.

Specialty Technical Publishers 306-267 Esplanade W North Vancouver BC V7M 1A5 604 983-3434 Fax: 604 983-3445.

Toll-Free: 800 251-0381 Pres Chris Heming

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Spez-Tech Engineered Fluid Power Technology

2144 Burbank Dr Mississauga ON L5L 2T8 905 828-5579 Fax: 905 828-8189.

Sls/Tech Mgr Lou Speziale Quick couplings for toxic, hazardous gaseous and liquid media transfer, including acids, solvents, hot oil, steam, high and low temperature: –50 to +320 degrees C. ATEX explosion proof certification available. Clean-Break, 100% spill and squirt free valves.

Stainless steel, PTFE, PVDF Viton, Kalrez, Kemraz, materials. Emergency release couplings for spill avoidance, proximity sensor for process control signaling. Pharmaceutical CIP, SIP sterile FDA, desalinated, ultra pure applications.

Spill Management Inc.

45 Upper Mount Albion Rd Stoney Creek ON L8J 2R9 905 578-9666 Fax: 905 578-6644.

Pres/Owner Cliff Holland

Standard Safety Equipment Company

PO Box 189 McHenry IL 60051 Location: 1407 Ridgeview Dr McHenry IL 60050 815 363-8565 Fax: 815 363-8633.

Toll-Free: 888 345-4773 Pres/CEO Scott R Olson

Stanley Vidmar

11 Grammes Rd Allentown PA 18103-4760 Location: 11 Grammes Rd Toll-Free: 800 523-9462 Toll-Free Fax: 800 523-9934 Mktg Mgr Jerry Comtois

Stantec Consulting Ltd.

49 Frederick St Kitchener ON N2H 6M7 519 579-4410 Fax: 519 579-6733.

Eng David Flynn

Staplex Air Sampler Division

777 Fifth Ave Brooklyn NY 11232-1626 718 768-3333 Fax: 718 965-0750.

Toll-Free: 800 221-0822 Sls Mgr Doug Butler

Strata Soil Sampling Inc.

147 West Beaver Creek Rd Unit 2 Richmond Hill ON L4B 1C6 905 764-9304 Fax: 905 764-1124.

Toll-Free: 866 778-7282 Ops Mgr Johan Fenelius

T. Harris Environmental Management Inc.

93 Skyway Ave Suite 101 Toronto ON M9W 6N6 416 679-8914 Fax: 416 679-8915.

Toll-Free: 888 275-8436

Pres/COO John C Fisher Branches: Location: 931 Commissioners Rd E Suite 100 London ON N5Z 3H9 Location: 19 Fairmont Ave Suite 305 Ottawa ON K1Y 1X4 Location: 5 Place du Commerce bureau 100 Brossard QC J4W 3E7 T. Harris Environmental Management Inc. (THEM) Is a diverse group of engineering, scientific, technical and industrial hygiene professionals providing consulting services to a variety of industrial, commercial, and institutional clients since 1979. THEM is committed to providing our clients with high quality services at cost effective prices, and in a time-efficient manner.

TIGG Corporation

1 Willow Ave Oakdale PA 15071 724 703-3020 Fax: 724 703-3026.

Toll-Free: 800 925-0011 Bus Dev Mgr Jeff Marmarelli

TankTek Environmental Services Ltd. 970 Third Concession Rd RR 1 Pickering ON L1V 2P8 905 839-4400 Fax: 905 839-6600.

Toll-Free: 877 789-6224 Gen Mgr Thomas Burt

Terrafix Environmental Technology Inc.

178 Bethridge Rd Toronto ON M9W 1N3 416 674-0363 Fax: 416 674-7346.

Gen Mgr John Mooney

Terrapex Environmental Ltd.

49 Coldwater Rd Toronto ON M3B 1Y8 416 245-0011 Fax: 416 245-0012.

Toll-Free: 888 330-8739 Contact Jennifer O’Grady Branches: Location: Burlington ON 905 632-5939 Contact George Kosztyo Location: Ottawa ON 613 745-6471 Contact Paul Hubley Our Values: Integrity – Technical Excellence – Personal Service – Practical Approach Our Vision: Terrapex will be the preferred provider of environmental consulting services, and the preferred employer of environmental practitioners. Terrapex will set the standard to which our competition aspires.

Terratechnik Environmental

2355 Royal Windsor Dr Unit 12 Mississauga ON L5J 4S8 905 855-4943 Fax: 905 855-4936.

Pres Barry Harris

Tetra Tech

250 Shields Crt Unit 15 Markham ON L3R 9W7 905 470-6570 Ext. 140 Fax: 905 4700958.

Dir-Bus Strategic Bus Execution Chris MacEachern

Torys LLP

Toll-Free: 800 634-8368 Business Dir Tom Nesfeder

URS Canada Inc.

75 Commerce Valley Dr E Markham ON L3T 7N9 905 882-4401 Fax: 905 882-4399.

VP-Enviro Serv Mahmood Ghinani

TD Centre PO Box 270 Stn Toronto Dominion Toronto ON M5K 1N2 Location: 79 Wellington St W Suite 3000 416 865-0040 Fax: 416 865-7380.

Toll-Free: 800 505-8679 Partner Dennis Mahony

Visual Planning Corporation

Trans-Cycle Industries Ltd. – Subsidiary of Aevitas

5250 Satellite Dr Unit 8 Mississauga ON L4W 5G5 416 444-1358 Fax: 905 209-1142.

Contact Munish Sood

PO Box 518 Kirkland Lake ON P2N 2P9 Location: 455 Archer Dr Kirkland Lake ON P2N 3J5 705 567-9997 Fax: 705 567-9979.

Toll-Free: 800 224-6812 Ext. 222 Sr Sls Dir Peter Demeter Branches: Material Resource Recovery Inc. PO Box 683 Stn Main Cornwall ON K6H 5T5 Location: 2425 Industrial Park Dr Cornwall ON K6H 7M4 800 224-6812 Fax: 613 938-0660 Web: www.mrri.com Récupère Sol Inc. (RST)

Treatment Products Corporation PO Box 72444 Thorndale PA 19372 610 384-6279 Fax: 610 384-6239.

Pres/Owner Donald R Zimmerman

Tri-Arrow Industrial Recovery Inc. 13364 Comber Way Surrey BC V3W 5V9 604 597-7334 Fax: 604 597-7382.

Toll-Free: 877 579-9988 Gen Mgr Herb Locke

Trow Global Inc.

56 Queen St E Suite 701 Brampton ON L6V 4M8 905 796-3200 Fax: 905 793-5533.

Toll-Free: 866 989-8769 Contact Janet Atkins-Dauphirais

TSL Aerospace Technologies

15724 Hurontario St Caledon Village ON L7C 2C4 905 838-3156 Fax: 905 838-2039.

Pres Wes Armstrong

TSL Response Technologies Ltd. 15724 Hurontario St Caledon ON L7C 2C4 905 838-3156 Fax: 905 838-2039.

Pres Wes Armstrong

TurboSonic Inc.

550 Parkside Dr Unit A-14 Waterloo ON N2L 5V4 519 885-5513 Fax: 519 885-6992.

Pres Egbert vanEverdingen

Universal Fabric Structures, Inc. 2200 Kumry Rd Quakertown PA 18951 215 529-9921 Fax: 215 529-9936.

6805 boul Décarie Montréal QC H3W 3E4 514 739-3116 Fax: 514 739-0085.

Toll-Free: 800 361-1192 Toll-Free Fax: 888 563-8730 Man Dir Joseph P Josephson

Voghel Enviroquip Inc

WESA Envir-Eau

160 boul de l’Hôpital bureau 204 Gatineau QC J8T 8J1 819 243-7555 Fax: 819 243-0167.

Pres Andre D’Astous

Waterline Environmental Inc.

4151 Morris Dr Unit 4 Burlington ON L7L 5L5 905 333-6604 Fax: 905 333-0368.

Pres Stu A Ferguson

Waterloo Biofilter Systems Inc. PO Box 400 Rockwood ON N0B 2K0 Location: 143 Dennis St 519 856-0757 Fax: 519 856-0759.

Pres Craig Jowett

Wells Cargo

PO Box 728 Elkhart IN 46515-0728 Location: 1503 McNaughton Ave Elkhart IN 46514-0728 574 264-9661 Fax: 574 264-5938.

Toll-Free: 800 348-7553 Adv Mgr Scott Samuels

WESA Inc.

4 Kern Rd Suite 1 Toronto ON M3B 1T1 416 383-0957 Fax: 416 383-0956.

Principal David Hopper

Wessuc Inc.

1693 Colborne St. E Brantford ON N3T 5L4 519 752-0837 Fax: 519 752-0840.

Toll-Free: 866 493-7782 Toll-Free Fax: 866 493-7782 VP Hank Van Veen

West Coast Spill Supplies Ltd. 105-1763 Sean Heights Saanichton BC V8M 0A5 250 652-4549 Fax: 250 652-5052.

Toll-Free: 888 548-3800 VP D’arcy Anderson

Westech Industrial Ltd.

2830 Argentia Rd Unit 1 Mississauga ON L5N 8G4 905 812-3993 Fax: 905 812-3995.

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5812 48th Ave Olds AB T4H 1V1 403 556-9497 Fax: 403 556-9487.

Toll-Free: 800 665-2099

Wilks Enterprise, Inc.

25 Van Zant St Suite 8F East Norwalk CT 06855 203 855-9136 Fax: 203 838-9868.

Pres Sandra Rintoul

Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP 4 King St W Suite 900 Toronto ON M5H 1B6 416 863-0711 Fax: 416 863-1938.

Partner John Willms

Winter Walking, A Jordan David Company 400 Babylon Rd Horsham PA 19044 215 441-9595 Fax: 215 441-9642.

Toll-Free: 888 667-5477 Pres/CEO Jonathan Bell

Wizard Drum Tool Company

400 Pilot Crt Waukesha WI 53188 262 548-8910 Fax: 262 548-8915.

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Toll-Free: 800 628-8628 Mktg Rep/Graphic Designer Allison Zeszutek

WorleyParsons

4500 16 Ave NW Calgary AB T3B 0M6 403 247-0200 Fax: 403 247-4811.

Toll-Free: 800 668-6772

X-treme Energy Group

PO Box 6239 Stn Main Innisfail AB T4G 1S9 Location: 3600 61 Ave 403 227-5400 Fax: 403 227-4073.

Toll-Free: 800 661-3747 Mgr Tony Smethurst

offers comprehensive services in water and wastewater treatment, infrastructure management, water resources, site assessment and remediation, risk assessment, solid waste, and training and operations.

York Fluid Controls Ltd. 2 Westwyn Crt Brampton ON L6T 4T5 905 454-4013 Fax: 905 454-8423.

Toll-Free: 877 454-6066

Young’s Environmental Cleanup, Inc. G-5305 N Dort Hwy Flint MI 48505 810 789-7155 Fax: 810 789-3606.

Toll-Free: 800 496-8647 Pres R S Young

XCG Consultants Ltd.

2620 Bristol Cir Suite 300 Oakville ON L6H 6Z7 905 829-8880 Fax: 905 829-8890.

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YOW Canada Inc. 1306 Algoma Rd Ottawa ON K1B 3W8 613 688-2845 Fax: 613 248-0711.

Toll-Free: 866 688-2845

Sls/Mktg Coord Marie-Chantale Perron Branches: Location: Ottawa ON Provides easy-to-use, OH&S ONLINE TRAINING & materials, including: – WHMIS Online (French/English) – TDG Online – Confined Spaces Online – Fall Protection Online – WHMIS DVD Training – Posters, Pocket Guides, Regulation Binders – Safety Meeting Kits; and more!

Website: www.yowcanada.com Email: info@yowcanada.com Phone: 1 (866) 688-2845.

ZCL Composites Inc. 6907 36 St NW Edmonton AB T6B 2Z6 780 466-6648 Fax: 780 466-6126.

Toll-Free: 800 661-8265 Mktg Asst Kirsten Hamilton

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. 400 University Ave Toronto ON M5G 1S7 416 586-2953 Fax: 416 586-2538.

Toll-Free: 800 387-5454

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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CARBON MARKET R

ecently, the voters of California overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 23, a ballot proposition seen by residents from Arnold Schwarzenegger to State Democrats as a tactic to delay the state’s existing law aimed at curbing global warming by putting tough limits on greenhouse gas emissions. However, on the same day, the Republican Party took control of the U.S. House of Representatives, threatening any national effort to control global warming or implement federal cap-and-trade legislation.

How will this affect efforts to control emissions in Canada?

The defeat of Proposition 23 means that Arizona and other states will likely follow through on existing commitments and put in place their own climate change regulations. Now that California has cleared this hurdle, there is renewed momentum within the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), a collaboration of jurisdictions working together to identify, evaluate, and implement policies to tackle climate change at a regional level, and, more importantly, independent of national regimes. The WCI consists of 11 partners including seven U.S. states and four Canadian provinces (Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia), together with observers consisting of five U.S. states, five Canadian provinces (the Yukon, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia) and five Mexican states.

On July 27, 2010, the WCI released its “Design for the Regional Program” document, which outlined a detailed framework for cap and trade programs to use in implementing cap and trade legislation in each of WCI partners’ home jurisdic-

tions. Even before the most recent round of voting took place south of the border, Ontario and BC had passed enabling legislation to allow for the implementation of WCI mandated programs, and provincial authorities had commenced work to move toward WCI compliance. In particular, the BC Ministry of Environment is moving forward to that end in establishing its own regional emissions cap and trade and carbon-offset system and is currently consulting on two proposed regulations that will enable implementation of its own cap and trade system pursuant to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Cap and Trade) Act, S.B.C. 2008, c. 32 and supporting regulations.

On October 25, the BC government issued two white papers on the system and is currently seeking comments from stakeholders, First Nations, and the general public on proposed Emissions Trading and Offsets Regulations. This public comment period on the proposed system will end December 6, 2010. All information, consultation documents/papers, and response forms, are available online. (www.env.gov.bc.ca/cas/mitigation/ggrcta) In particular, the B.C. Government is seeking comments on the Emissions Trading Regulation with respect to: 1. Specifying the subjected facilities (i.e., facilities emitting more than 25,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent), based on greenhouse gas emissions source and overall greenhouse gas emissions; 2. Defining the process by which the cap for regulated emitters and distribution of allowances is established; 3. Defining the functions and operation of the registry; and 4. providing a foundation for linking other emissions trading systems.

The government is also seeking comments in reference to the companion Offsets Regulation with respect to: 5. Defining the criteria for eligible offsets;

“Despite what the Canadian or U.S. federal governments do nationally on curbing global warming ... action at the provincial or state level may provide the conditions necessary to make your project a success.”

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6. Establishing a process to recognize valid emission reductions as offsets; 7. Establishing accreditation requirements for third-party validators and verifiers; and 8. Defining the obligations of project developers, including the requirement to replace deficient offsets.

BC’s cap and trade system as proposed would apply to activities/businesses/facilities, some of which are not otherwise already subject to carbon tax. In theory, because the cap and trade system is designed to fit with the WCI, the market price of carbon allowances and offsets will be set broadly across the entire region potentially allowing qualified businesses in BC to buy, trade, or sell allowances or offsets with other WCI partners.

In brief, a company’s total allowable CO2E emissions become the “cap” under the proposed BC system. The total number of allowances for all facilities will be set through the government’s nine-year allowance forecast and three-year compliance period; however, the number of allowances on a per facility basis will be issued annually and will be reduced over time. The cap on overall CO2E emissions will be based on projected emissions in 2012 and subsequent years. There will be no restriction on the

ownership of allowances and offsets — i.e., they will be tradable between and among facilities or third parties. Additionally, allowances and offsets could be banked indefinitely for later use if they are not sold.

Despite what position the Canadian or U.S. federal governments may take nationally on curbing global warming, the influence of California and its bolstering of the WCI means that if you are considering an offset project or implementing carbon efficiency measures for your business, action at the provincial or state level may provide the conditions necessary to make your project a success.

Sarah Hansen is a Partner with Miller Thomson’s Vancouver, BC office. Contact Sarah at shansen@millerthomson.com Aaron Atcheson is a Partner with Miller Thomson’s London, Ontario office. Contact Aaron at aatcheson@millerthomson.com The authors wish to thank student Andrew Kowalchuk for his assistance in preparing this article.

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CleanTech Canada A LOOK AT GLOBAL WIND GROUP

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ncorporated in 2008 by Justin Phillips and Alex Stuart, Global Wind Group Inc. (GWG) is a Winnipeg, Manitoba-based CleanTech company. GWG designs and sells vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) technology. Global Wind Group’s value proposition is to bring the customer dependable, clean wind energy at the best possible price.

GWG expertise is in the micro-wind energy sector and we use a vertical-axis wind turbine design. The concept of VAWT is quite old (100+ years); however, modern manufacturing has finally enabled the design to become costeffective.

As with all wind turbines the technology converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

GWG has developed a stand-alone, turn-key 1kW VAWT called the ZüS™. The ZüS Modular Power System is a stand alone source of energy for use where grid-tied energy is either unavailable or costly. A solution to the customers energy needs, the ZüS has been designed to function as an energy platform to which a variety of accessories are mounted, including street lamps, wireless cameras, and telecommunications hardware. The customer always has the option to use the ZüS as a direct source of energy for residential or commercial use.

Some of the features are:

All-in-one system: The system comes standard with the turbine, pole and batteries, and leaves the distributor with the turbine pre-assembled. It mounts to a pile and can be hoisted into place by three workers, thereby eliminating the expense of machinery.

Other competitors can’t match the flexibility and versatility of the system since customers have the option to purchase new attachments or use the ZüS to power their pre-existing lighting, telecommunications or security hardware.

Omni-directional: Instantaneously accept wind from any direction as opposed to HAWTs (Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines, which require an on-board motor to rotate the unit relative to wind direction).

Turbulent-wind friendly: The turbine is less affected by turbulent air, making it suitable for areas where buildings and trees may disturb airflow.

Low rotation speed: Quiet operation is an important feature of the ZüS, and maintaining a low rotation speed relative to HAWT’s reduces noise production.

Warranty: three-year parts warranty is available on the ZüS Modular Power System. We will also offer extended warranty packages to our customers.

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Customer James Kron finds the web service of great benefit.

“Until I discovered Check-It, I kept a dedicated laptop computer running 24 hours a day to record the data from the energy monitors,” Kron says. “Check-It now does all of the things that the dedicated computer did without the unnecessary associated electricity demand and administrative headaches. I can now view my energy data from anywhere I can connect to the Internet.”

Historical analysis can show the owner progress being made over time as well as seasonal peaks and valleys. The energy information provides a benchmark for properties to easily identify areas of wasteful usage, then boost efficiency and conserve power. Major lifestyle changes can be avoided via the implementation of automation systems to schedule and remotely control lights, electrical devices and thermostats as well as monitor motion and door sensors. Check-It will send notifications by text or email when energy reaches a pre-defined budget or threshold and when an automated device changes its status. This detailed information leads, as in Manastyrski’s case, to direct reduction in energy consumption and lower power bills. Customers can now manage their energy before they get their monthly bill.

Treat Hull from Ontario uses the Check-It solution and says, “Our ground source heat had some kind of problem this winter and the compressor switched off like it was supposed to, leaving the house heating with the built-in emergency heater. Normally we would have only discovered the problem when we got the hydro bill a month later, but with the Check-It service, we identified the issue the next day, saving hundreds of dollars.”

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VEHICLE RETROFIT SAVES FUEL, GHG AND EXTENDS BRAKE LIFE

EFFICIENT EFFENCO

Rendering of HEAD system

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ffenco Development is a Montreal-based company that develops and markets technology solutions for improving the energy efficiency of heavy vehicles and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Effenco’s aim is to become a model in green technology for the transportation industry.

In operation since 2006, Effenco’s multidisciplinary team has developed a hybrid system for heavy-duty trucks equipped with hydraulic auxiliary systems, such as refuse and cement trucks.

Designed with high-quality components, the hybrid system that was developed generates 20 per cent savings in fuel, triples brake lifecycles and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 19 tonnes per truck per year. Effenco’s hybrid HEAD™ system is installed alongside the vehicle’s propulsion system in a parallel configuration, and saves up to $10,000 per year in operating costs.

Says Effenco President David Arsenault, “In a context of rising fuel prices, the idea of saving 20 per cent annually on total fuel costs becomes very interesting for fleet operators. Additionally, being recognized as a leader in durable development isn’t too bad either. It’s a win-win situation.”

A patent application has been filed for the unique architecture of Effenco’s hybrid system. This system was designed to be installed on both new vehicles and vehicles already in service (retrofit) and includes an interactive dashboard that displays ecodriving tips. In addition, using its unique service that characterizes vehicle fleets, the Effenco team estimates the potential savings in operating costs prior to installing the systems to pinpoint routes where performance is optimal. This informs operators of the real potential of the hybrid system. Once the 42 www.hazmatmag.com WINTER 2011

Effenco’s system on a Gaudreau Environment truck

system has been installed, an interactive dashboard providing ecodriving tips helps maximize the system’s performance, thus reducing the time to achieve profitability.

Because it doesn’t affect how the vehicle is driven, operators can make the switch very easily. The system recovers the energy generated during braking through a hydraulic pump connected to the drive shaft via a transfer gearbox. The pump compresses the oil in a hydraulic accumulator that stores energy in the form of a pressurized fluid. The energy is then transmitted to the truck’s auxiliary hydraulic equipment (compactor, automated arm or concrete bucket, for example). This limits the solicitation of the internal combustion engine, generating fuel savings.

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emergency-response

Pressure to Perform Understanding the dynamics of air pressure in your HazMat suit

by Peter Kirk

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n the fleeting moments while donning a HazMat suit during an emergency situation, it’s natural for first responders to feel a sense of anxiety. A host of questions can enter the first responder’s mind while preparing to combat both known and unknown chemicals. Will I be able to maneuver myself effectively in this suit? How can I be sure the exhaust valves in my suit are working properly? How often does my suit need to be pressure tested?

The answers to these questions lie in understanding the engineering behind your protective garment. While each protective garment is engineered differently, a lot can be understood about the properties and performance of your suit through examining its exhaust valves. Taking the time to consider a suit’s valves will not only help first responders to select a HazMat suit, but ultimately provide peace of mind to them when in the “hot zone.”

tion. These suits can be engineered to slightly inflate using the air that is exhaled through the SCBA. The user’s exhalation pressurizes the suit, creating a comfortable distance between the emergency responder and the material of the suit. Ultimately, this design makes the suit more comfortable by decreasing the impact of the suit’s weight on the head, shoulders, and mask, which increases user mobility. While inside a suit that’s slightly inflated, first responders are more easily able to withdraw their hands for access to radios, gauges, and cloth for wiping a potentially fogged visor.

It’s important to note that internal air pressure levels can vary by suit design and manufacturer. The best way to test your suit is by trying it on and checking that there is a comfortable space between your body and the suit’s material.

WHAT’S THE PRESSURE?

THE POTENTIAL FOR USER-ERROR

For our purposes here, we’ll examine Level A suits, To further understand the dynamics of air pressure within which are built for chemical and gas protection, using a your suit, take time to examine your suit’s exhaust valves. self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) for respira- There are several types of technology on the market.

The most common exhaust valve systems employ a small diaphragm which seats against a set of holes to regulate airflow and prevent leakage of air from outside of the suit.

This system, while effective, requires diligent maintenance.

Maintenance entails manually dismantling and reassembling each valve to be inspected and pressure tested.

This technology should be used with caution, as it leaves the potential for user error during the process, posing the threat of inadvertently damaging the valve’s diaphragm during testing or reassembling it incorrectly. There’s typically no way to accurately verify that the valve has been reassembled correctly and will function as intended during use. This clearly poses a risk, as the first responder’s protection against inward leakage and harmful gases could be compromised.

To mitigate this risk, it’s important to look for HazMat suits with exhaust valves that cannot be disassembled and do not require maintenance. Consider suits that incorporate valves of a completely sealed design.

Servicing is not required on closed construction valves, rendering them tamper proof. To be sure your valve is tamper proof, look for a closed construction and verify with your manufacturer that their exhaust valves are 100 per cent factory tested against inward leakage and outward flow.

CHECK OUT THOSE VALVES

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Pressure valve.

is constructed. Valve diaphragms can consist of silicone or more traditional rubber, which can cause a difference in shelf life and performance.

Depending on storage conditions, diaphragms made from traditional rubber can become compromised. Extreme temperature fluctuations and dry conditions increase that risk, making the valve diaphragms susceptible to cracking over time.

For a more reliable alternative, consider exhaust valves that utilize of silicone rubber diaphragms. Silicone is a strong, highly inert polymer, resistant to the effects of environmental exposure. It can be difficult to visually confirm your valve’s diaphragm material, so be sure to check with the suit manufacturer for specific information.

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PRESSURE TESTING

Even with the highest quality exhaust valves, it’s crucial to ensure your HazMat suit is ready for use through routine pressure testing. Requirements for pressure testing are specified through the NFPA 1991 standard.

Suits certified to NFPA 1991 must be tested annually or after each time the suit is used (whichever comes first). It’s important to point out that exhaust valves requiring disassembly for pressure testing present risk for damaging the valve diaphragm’s integrity through user error. To avoid this risk, look for a suit that utilizes permanently sealed construction valves — they will not need to be disassembled for pressure testing.

In addition, some models of exhaust val­ves, often those with traditional rubber dia­phragms, require that the diaphragm

be replaced every two years due to manufacturer specifications. This contributes to added maintenance and logistics during the suit’s lifecycle. Be sure to check if the suit you own or are looking to purchase has such requirements.

While physically a small component of your suit, you can see how exhaust valves are a critical component to your performance, comfort, and ultimate safety while in the hot zone. Whether you are looking to purchase a new hazmat suit, or donning an old favorite, understanding the dynamics of your suit should provide peace of mind, which is something every first responder deserves!

HMM Peter Kirk is Market Manager for Saint-Gobain Performance-Plastics. Contact Peter at peter.a.kirk@saint-gobain.com

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Emergency Supplies Storing enough an oft-overlooked item

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o, your company has a disaster management plan in place. You’ve got evacuation procedures, contact info for local relief organizations like fire depts, ambulance and police. Your staff has been trained to respond accordingly and written procedures are in place for a reaction plan to deal with emergency situations from some sort of natural or manmade disaster.

Wait a minute, what’s missing here? Have you considered the key need of having adequate, food, water, first aid, hygiene and sleeping supplies to ensure the well being of staff stranded in the workplace for an extended 1. period of time?

If you said “no” you are not alone.

Scour the many emergency planning websites and you’ll find plenty of consulting and planning companies 1. BX Bison Chili, meal out there providing you myriads of pointers for emerrations. gency procedures; but try to find one strong on stocking 2. Pure water filter and up stores of essential supplies so these procedures can be storage system. applied and maintained. Does your company have any 3. BX Toasterz for emerlong life food supplies that can be stored for years until gency warmth. needed? If the water gets cut off, do your have water rations or the ability to filter local water (nearby ponds, rivers, even your own rain catchment) with portable filtering products? What about heat? If the power is out in 3. winter, how will your staff stay warm should the gas or electricity be out? Where will staff sleep and with what?

Lastly, where do you get these needed supplies? are key in maintaining safe living conditions within a There is help out there. Entities like Braidnor group of people. Do you have stores of water for runSurvival, InCaseof, Krysicki & Ward, toasterz.net, usaening toilets or a portable outhouse on site? How can mergencysupply.com, and readyfor2012.net carry mulemployees wash up, if someone was hurt and needed a tiple products to fulfill sheltering needs at the worksite wound dressed, do you have water for this? until its possible for staff to go home. Outdoor stores armth/cooling: do you have adequate blankets, like REI and Cabelas can also supply you with essential • W sleeping bags, candles, portable heat (or cooling), survival supplies. alternate fuel or energy stores to maintain a healthy HOW MUCH DO YOU NEED? temperature? Solar, propane heat, generators etc.

Both FEMA (USA) and GetPrepared.ca (Canada) gov- • A ccommodation: How long do you feel you should ernment bodies says have a three-day supply on hand plan on housing staff? You can always replenish spent but recently chains have started selling kits that provide inventory but you definitely wouldn’t want run out food for two weeks, three months and even a whole year! because you didn’t have enough.

The key points to consider when determining your own Companies are comprised of people, people need food, needs are these: water, and shelter to survive and implement your corpo• What calamity’s are the most likely to befall your area, rate emergency plan, if you don’t have physical assets on are you in an earthquake zone, are you in a drought site to ensure their well-being, do it now.

HMM prone region, can you get long cold snow storms or are you in a remote area making Has your disaster plan accounted for overnight guests? transport in and out an issue?

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spill-cleanup

Boom!

HazMat spill response on Lake Champlain

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n June 2010, a fuel delivery truck accidentally tipped over in South Hero, Vermont, spilling massive amounts of heating oil and contaminating a large portion of Lake Champlain. Containment of the spill required the services of specially trained emergency response remediation specialists who worked carefully to mitigate the environmental damage and prevent the spilled oil from spreading any further.

Thankfully, this disaster didn’t really happen. It was only a drill.

In a joint effort by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Vermont HazMat Response Team (VHMRT), the South Hero Fire Department, and ENPRO Services, Inc. (ENPRO), an environmental services firm with almost 30 years of waste remediation and management experience, this drill was designed to ensure applicable emergency response teams would be equipped to handle a similar scenario. Using remediation equipment provided by ENPRO, the drill allowed personnel to train with the same hazardous waste remediation tools that would be utilized in the event of a real spill.

The contractor team assisted with specialized equipment and personnel for a mock boom deployment: the strategic placement of a specially designed, vinyl-covered boom onto the surface of the lake, in order to simulate how an actual oil spill would be contained. In place of oil, hundreds of gallons of water were released from a water

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tanker provided by the South Hero Fire Department onto the land abutting Lake Champlain. While dikes and dams were assembled to stop the “spill” on land, ENPRO personnel and members of the DEC and VHMRT simultaneously deployed 650 feet of boom onto the lake.

Placed perpendicular to the path of how the “oil” would spread, members of the DEC and VHMRT then shortened the boom to approximately 400 feet to demonstrate how the accumulation and product collection process would work. The team then removed the boom from the water and repositioned it in its trailer, successfully completing the exercise.

The drill was designed to prepare the DEC and VHMRT for this type of situation should a spill occur in the area. Members of each group prepared by spending hundreds of hours in classrooms prior to the effort. Once onsite, they proved beyond a doubt that they were fully equipped to handle such an emergency in the future.

This mock deployment was beneficial not only to the state agencies, but also to the local community. Lake Champlain is one of the state’s biggest tourist attractions, and the surrounding area is home to thousands of Vermont and New York residents, as well as fragile ecosystems. Local citizens can rest assured knowing that if a disaster like this were to occur, their government has the expertise and resources to handle it quickly and efficiently.

HMM

environment-business

Green Chemistry & Brownfields Photocatalytic membrane systems at contaminated sites

by John Nicholson & Kathleen Bai, M.Sc., B.Sc.(Eng.)

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ike any chemical, 1,4-Dioxane sounds potentially dangerous. It’s a synthetic industrial chemical used as a solvent for extracting animal and vegetable oils and in the formulation of inks, coatings, and adhesives. If spilled or released into the environment, Dioxane does not readily bind to soils and leaches easily into groundwater.

Anyone familiar with familiar with 1,4-Dioxane knows that it’s a challenge to treat at brownfield sites. It doesn’t respond to conventional treatment methods such as air stripping, granular activated carbon treatment, or biological processes.

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY There is one technology that does work very well on 1,4-Dioxane. It’s actually a system that incorporates three technologies — a photocatalytic ceramic membrane system. The key advantage of a photocatalytic ceramic membrane system is that the whole system works better than the sum of its parts.

Photocatalytic ceramic membrane systems consist of ultra-filtration with a ceramic membrane and an advanced oxidation process that incorporate a catalyst with ultra-violet radiation. The result is a system that destroys all organics.

A leading company in photocatalytic ceramic membrane systems is Purifics ES Inc., located in London, Ontario. The company co-founders, Brian Butters and Tony Powell, hold a patent for the technology. They refer to their specific system as PHOT-CAT®.

A key component of Photo-Cat is the ceramic membrane. The advantage of a ceramic membrane over other membrane systems is that they don’t need to be cleaned and need no replacement resins (whereas conventional UF membranes do).

For those who forget what photocatalysis is all about, it involves the introduction of a catalyst that speeds up a reaction but without itself being part of the final product.

In the most part, the catalyst is titanium dioxide (a very common compound found in toothpaste and suntan lotion). Ultraviolet (UV) radiation supplies the energy to kick-start the oxidation process that leads to the disintegration of organic contaminants.

There are a number of compelling attributes to Photo-Cat systems that make them superior to conventional treatment train systems found at brownfield sites.

3. Green chemistry (no consumables required); and 4. Universal treatment (works on any type of organics).

A major strength of the system developed by Purifics is that it doesn’t create new problems solving the original one. Unlike air strippers or activated carbon systems, neither air pollution nor solid waste is created that must be subsequently treated.

Conventional methods of treating contaminated groundwater can involve numerous steps including biological treatment, air stripping, and physical adsorption. Photo-Cat is a multi-barrier approach within one system. Photo-Cat can replace the need for chemical oxidation and granular activated carbon. Reducing the complexity of the treatment train reduces capital costs, operational costs, and the footprint of the treatment solution.

The system doesn’t rely on potentially harmful chemicals (i.e., chlorine, ozone, or peroxide) for treatment, which is a huge relieve from an occupational health and safety perspective, not counting the piece-of-mind on accidental spills. It can be considered green chemistry.

Photo-Cat can be used, with only minor modifications, for a wide variety of water treatment applications.

It can be used to make ultra-pure water required in the nuclear industry to treating heavy oil/tar water from petroleum processing. The other great feature of the technology is its scalability. It range can go from a few gallons to minute (gpm) to a flow rate of a million gpm.

SUPERFUND SITE Proof that the system works can be found at the W.R. Grace Superfund Site in Concord, Massachusetts. The site is the location of a former chemical manufacturing facility. Over the years, effluent wastes from the manufacturing process were disposed of into several unlined lagoons contaminating the soil and groundwater. The current focus of the remediation efforts is on cleaning the contaminated groundwater. The Photo-Cat solution was selected because “it is a once-through process that treats all organic contaminants of concern, saving us operating cost and time,” according to David Fuerst of O&M, Inc. project manager for the site.

HMM

John Nicholson, M.Sc., P.Eng. is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Contact John at john.nicholson@ebccanada.com Kathleen Bai, M.Sc., B.Sc.(Eng.), is an expert in GHG emisADVANTAGES: sions reduction validation, having worked at Lloyd’s 1. Doesn’t create air pollution or solid waste; Register Quality Assurance as a CDM validator and 2. Reduces the treatment train (three technologies pack- Bureau Veritas Certification as an environmental and aged together); quality lead auditor. She currently works at SNC Lavalin.

“Proof that the system works can be found at the W.R. Grace Superfund Site in Concord, Massachusetts.”

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TDG Update Training requirements in Canada’s Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations

by Lynne Bard

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“In order to verify the basic knowledge and skills of any person who transports dangerous goods a six component competency checklist has been developed.”

his year, 2010, has been a year of heightened enforcement and awareness in health and safety within the labor ministries, Transportation Canada and the various health & safety associations across Canada. With the introduction of the CSA 2010 (Comprehensive Safety Analysis), looking at compliance safety and accountability in the United States, Canada’s transportation industry is under scrutiny, and the TDG regulations will not be overlooked in the review process that is to follow.

The goal of Transport Canada’s TDG Act Regulations is to ultimately promote safety in the transportation of all dangerous goods across the country/continent. The act explicitly states that: “No person shall handle, offer for transport, transport or import any dangerous goods unless: • The person complies with all applicable prescribed safety requirements; • The goods are accompanied by all applicable prescribed documents; and • The means of containment and transport comply with all applicable prescribed safety standards and display all applicable prescribed safety marks.”

In order to meet these basic requirements under the Act, training is a key requirement in compliance for anyone “who handle, offers transport and /or transports dangerous goods be trained, or is under direct supervision of someone who is trained.”

Training must be facilitated through a qualified trained person/course “based on the duties that the person is expected to perform and to the dangerous goods that they are expected to handle, offer for transport or transport in accordance with Part 6 of the TDG Regulations” and training certificates issued by the employer to all trainees upon successful completion of the course. Self employed persons who transport or ship dangerous goods must also be adequately trained and issue themselves a training certificate. It is the employers responsibility to determine what constitutes adequate training for their workers and if it is required at all.

There are four basic guidelines to training of persons under the TDG Regulations: 1. Guidelines A: Training for all persons involved in the handling offering for transport and/or transporting of

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dangerous goods. (Refer to the 10 training requirements under the Act.) 2. Guideline B: Additional training for all persons involved in the handling of dangerous goods meaning: “loading, unloading, packing or unpacking dangerous goods in a means of containment or transport for the purposes of, in the course of or following transportation, and includes storing them in the course of transportation.”

(Refer to the five training requirements under the Act.) 3. Guideline C: Additional training for all persons involved in offering for transport of dangerous goods.

Offering for transport meaning — “dangerous goods not in transport, to select or to allow the selection of a carrier to transport dangerous goods; to prepare or allow the preparation of dangerous goods so that a carrier can take possession of them for transport.” (Refer to the five training requirements under the Act.) 4. Guideline D: Additional training for all persons involved in the transporting of dangerous goods — meaning a person who has possession of dangerous goods while in transport. (Refer to the three training requirements under the Act).

5. In order to verify the basic knowledge and skills of any person who transports dangerous goods a six component competency checklist has been developed to complement the training requirements found in Part 6 of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations: 6. Training Certificates: Persons transporting dangerous goods must be trained and hold a valid certificate or be under direct supervision of someone who is trained and holds a valid training certificate issued by their current employer.

7. Shipping Documents: Shipping documents are required and must include the required information i.e., UN # and kept in a specified location during the transportation process.

8. Means of Containment for the Dangerous Goods: Containment safety marks identify that the dangerous goods meet or exceed safety standards in the containment and in some cases the completion of periodic inspection and testing.

9. Dangerous Goods Safety Marks (Part 4 of TDG Regulations): identify the dangerous goods and nature of the danger depending on the capacity of the means of

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containment — a lesser of 450L will have displayed on it the primary and subsidiary class labels, shipping name and the UN number; a capacity of the means of containment with greater than 450L will display a placard and a UN number. A recent proposal to amend Part 4 has been drafted and awaits public consultation to clarify when placards and UN numbers must be displayed on large means of containment.

10. Proper Utilization of Equipment for Handling Dangerous Goods: TDG Regulations do not address what equipment must be used but that equipment used in the handling of and transport of dangerous goods must be used properly.

11. Accident Reporting and Taking Reasonable Emer­gency Measures: In the case of accidental release or imminent accidental release, the person(s) who have charge of the dangerous goods at the time, must take all reasonable emergency measures necessary to eliminate or reduce any danger to public safety; notify the proper authorities and parties; and the employer is to write a

follow-up report and send to Transport Canada within 30 days.

Amendments to the enforcement of TDG Regulations are under review in collaboration with the Contraventions Project Division of the Department of Justice. Currently inspectors pursuant to section 10 (1) of the TDG Act enforce 18 statues with regulations under the Contraventions Act that are ticketable offences. The goal of the amendments to the TDG Regulations is to enhance the effectiveness of the response in securing future compliance through different means other than the current prosecution in court to which is too severe for minor infractions as well as lengthy in its process, allowing for a more fair and adequate ticketing scheme.

Stay tuned for updates on TDG and the US CSA 2010 impact on the Canadian transportation sector.

HMM

Lynne Bard is President and Senior Consultant of Beyond Rewards Inc. in Guelph, Ontario. Contact Lynne at info@ beyondrewards.ca

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legal-perspective

Talking about TOSCA US Toxic Substances law overhaul underway

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“Fifty-one organizations that manage a total of $35 billion in assets wrote to Congress endorsing the proposed toxic substances reform.”

ost modern toxic substances control laws are based on the 1976 US Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. §2601 et seq. (TSCA).

It provides the US Environmental Protection Agency with authority to require reporting, record-keeping and testing requirements, and restrictions relating to certain kinds of chemical substances and/or mixtures, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos, radon and lead-based paint. Substances already regulated under other statutes, such as food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and pesticides, are excluded from TSCA. 34 years after its initial adoption, TSCA is badly in need of an overhaul. For the last year, US regulators, businesses, and others interested in toxic substances have been negotiating a new version of TSCA. Progress will likely be delayed by the new Republican Congress, but the November 2 elections will not make the issues go away. (Some of these issues are better regulated in Canada, but in other respects we have even farther to go.)

In April 2010, the Chair of the US Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health introduced the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 (SCA).

In July, a similar Bill, the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010 (TCSA), was introduced in the House of Representatives. Both Bills reflect core principles to strengthen U.S. chemical management laws, released last September 29, 2009 by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

They are designed to provide better chemical control, because: • Manufacturers would be required to submit a minimum data set for each chemical; the EPA would be able to require additional safety data. (At present, US manufacturers are only required to submit data if they already have it. This has put Canadian manufacturers at a major disadvantage.)

• The EPA would be required to prioritize chemicals by risk, based on how they will be used, amount produced, toxicity, environmental persistence, bioaccumulation and other properties, and to take expedited action to reduce use of or exposure to chemicals of highest concern. (Canada is trying to do this through our Chemicals Management Plan).

• Chemical manufacturers and users would have the burden of proving their chemicals safe, instead of EPA having to prove harm. (Thus, the new TSCA would be more similar to the Canadian New Substances

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Regulation under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.) So far, EPA has only required testing for 200 of over 80,000 chemicals registered on the US Domestic Substances List, and has only banned 5 dangerous substances. It would establish a public database that provides access to reliable information about chemicals; conditions under which an industry can claim data are confidential business information would be narrowed.

• It would promote innovation and incentives for use of green chemistry and less harmful chemicals.

In September 2010, 51 organizations that manage a total of $35 billion in assets wrote to Congress endorsing the proposed toxic substances reform, to alleviate the drag on the US economy caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, e.g., through costs of increased health problems. The Investor Environmental Health Network and the American Sustainable Business Council reminded politicians that better control of toxics should increase productivity, reduce health care costs, promote international competitiveness, and stimulate/reward innovation.

They also ask Congress to make toxics regulation simpler and more predictable for the regulated community — a message that Canadian regulators also need to hear (see Cover Story page 8): • For chemicals that have been well-studied, in particular those targeted for restriction or elimination in Europe, regulatory action should be fast-tracked; • More information about the chemical toxicity and substitutes should be publicly available to decrease the research burden on manufacturers and retailers; • Regulators should encourage green chemicals, e.g., expedite approval of less toxic substitutes; On environmental justice, another area almost ignored in Canada, the investors ask regulators to: • Identify and reduce hazards in “hot spots”, communities (e.g., Mossville, Louisiana) particularly affected by toxic chemicals; and • Set a safety standard to protect vulnerable populations from exposure to low doses of chemicals and mixtures in daily life.

Wouldn’t it be great if we did the same?

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Dianne Saxe, Ph.D. in Law, is one of Canada’s leading environmental lawyers with her own practice in Toronto.

Contact Dianne at dsaxe@envirolaw.com

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