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In 2009, more than 900 working Canadians lost their lives due to work-related causes — an average of one occupational fatality every 132 minutes, every working day. We look at industrial accident investigations, which are more than just a legal necessity.

by Peter Knaack COVER PHOTO: Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi and its crew of 57 departed Faslane, Scotland, on October 4, 2004 en route to Halifax, NS, when an electrical panel fire left the sub powerless off the northwest coast of Ireland.

features 13 HAZMAT: CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS What’s in your crisis communication plan?

by Tim O’Leary

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HAZMAT: ELECTRONIC WASTE A look at Ontario Environmental Stewardship (OES).

by Leslie Walsh

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Up Front

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Environment Business

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Health & Safety

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Event Report

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Spotlight

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Ad Index

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Legal Perspective

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35 CLEANTECH: OPINION

Cleantech and non-tariff trade barriers.

by Aaron Atcheson

36 CLEANTECH: NETHERLANDS REPORT Report from the recent trade mission.

by Guy Crittenden

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42 REMEDIATION: IN SITU REMEDIATION Enhancement technologies for remedial success.

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45 REMEDIATION: OIL SANDS Capping technology for Alberta’s oil sands.

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by Guy Crittenden

“The message is filtering upwards and we can expect a role-back of the deregulation that occurred from the 1980s until recently.”

he relationship may seem obscure between the Occupy Wall Street movement and the decision in November by the US State Department to delay approval of the Keystone Pipeline project that would pump Canadian oil sands crude as far south as Texas, but a connection exists; oil and gas companies (and all industry) should pay attention.

Let’s start with the Occupy movement, which spread from Wall Street, New York to hundreds of towns and cities around the world this fall. Opinions about the right of protesters to camp in city parks is just a distraction from some pretty serious issues to which the so-called “ninety-nine percenters” are drawing attention.

Over the past quarter century people have been told prosperity would come from the removal of trade tariffs, globalization of the economy and deregulation of capital markets. Unfortunately the free-trading dream turned into a nightmare for many as international companies and banks gamed the system to the advantage of a new billionaire plutocracy.

The middle class was gutted as well-paying skilled jobs in the North American manufacturing sector were exported to the developing world. Middle America became a “rust belt” of abandoned factories as companies off-shored production to places where environment and health and safety laws are unknown or unenforced.

Ironically, unemployed or under-employed North Americans now buy many goods from Walmart manufactured in slave labor conditions in China that used to be produced locally.

While the manufacturing companies joined the race to the bottom, banks and financial service companies successfully lobbied for deregulation, then turned the investment market into a rigged casino. Thanks to documentaries like Inside Job, most of us are now familiar with the details of the subprime mortgage securities fraud and subsequent 2008 housing collapse which wiped out billions in investments. Derivatives known as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps impoverished the middle class while executives at Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase made millions, even betting against the very investments they were selling to investors.

Though these companies are now paying hundreds of millions of dollars in “no contest” U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fines, the deals result in no jail terms for the offenders, and the fines are chump change to Wall Street banks. Some of the subprime mortgage disaster’s culprits maintained secure jobs even in the supposedly reformist Obama administration, most conspicuously Ben Bernanke who was reappointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. Finally, people had had enough and took to the streets.

Sometimes timing is everything.

In the very midst of the Occupy protests the highly politicized decision loomed over the fate of TransCanada Pipelines’ proposed Keystone Pipeline System, which would transport synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen from the Athabasca Oil Sands in northeastern Alberta to refineries in Illinois, a distribution hub in Oklahoma, and refineries along the Gulf Coast of Texas.

Keystone has faced lawsuits from oil refineries and criticism from environmentalists and some members of the US Congress. The US Department of State extended the deadline for federal agencies to decide if the pipeline is in the national interest in 2010, and did so again recently during presidential election season after thousands of people demonstrated in front of the gates of the White House. The demonstrators were close cousins to the Occupy protestors, and represent part of Obama’s (increasingly alienated) base.

The pipeline proponents’ cause wasn’t helped by media reports of bully tactics being brought to bear against landowners in the pipeline’s path, including threats by TransCanada to confiscate private land even before the controversial project has received federal approval. (As of mid-October the company had 34 eminent domain actions against landowners in Texas and 22 in South Dakota. Some of the landowners gave testimony before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in May 2011.)

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has stated that because of the US dithering, Canada will start talking to other potential customers of oil sands crude, notably China and other Asian countries. The Keystone proponents, meanwhile, are considering building the first phase of the project, and changing its route to dampen the controversy.

In the end, whatever happens to the Occupy protesters’ camps or whatever new tactics they espouse, their message is filtering upwards and we can expect a role-back of the deregulation that occurred from the 1980s until recently. And with this tide will come much greater cynicism against multinational corporations and claims that their projects are in the public interest. Many vote-seeking politicians will realign themselves with the skeptical public against the large companies.

This is a tidal change that must be taken seriously. Woe betide the company that ignores those foaming wave crests on the horizon.

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n October 2011, Canada’s Ambassador to the Netherlands hosted a gala reception for delegates on a recent environmental trade mission from Canada. (See article, page 35.) The reception was held at the Canadian embassy and home — a large art deco house one a big acreage that was gifted to Canada as thanks for Canada’s involvement in liberating the Netherlands from Nazi Lambert, Canada’s Ambassador to the Netherlands (left) introduces Jim occupation in World War II. (The James Skeoch (centre) of AIM Environmental Group and Jos Bode (right) of DDM house was used for a time as a Nazi Demontage BV. headquarters.)

The highlight of the reception was the signing of a deal between AIM Environmental Group and Dutch company DDM Demontage have formed a joint venture for hazardous material abatement and demolition. AIM also has joint venture with BioSoil International BV for site remediation projects (and is currently working on projects with BioSoil in Ontario and Quebec).

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ioteQ Environmental Technologies, Inc. (TSX: BQE), a leader in the treatment of industrial waste water, has announced that Jonathan Wilkinson is now Chief Executive Officer of the company. Wilkinson takes over the role from retiring CEO, Brad Marchant.

Wilkinson is a seasoned executive in the clean technology sector and in public markets; prior to joining BioteQ, Wilkinson David Speed (left) and Jonathan Wilkinson (right). held leadership roles with Nexterra Systems Corporation, QuestAir Technologies, and Bain & Company.

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RWDI purchases AES

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n May 31, 2011, RWDI AIR Inc. (RWDI) purchased the business practice of AES Internation- Peter Klaassen (left) and Gunther Funk (right). al Environmental Consultants Inc. (AES Canada). This strategic expansion, coupled with additional new hires, enhances RWDI’s consulting capability in waste management. RWDI has the ability to offer technical services in groundwater resource investigations, surface water management, and environmental hydrogeology, as well as specialized services in waste management engineering & planning, groundwater resource evaluation & development, dewatering impact assessments, and contaminated site assessments & remediation.

RWDI is pleased to welcome Peter Klaassen, Senior Consultant. Klaassen has more than 23 years of experience working in the petrochemical and waste management fields and is a seasoned waste management specialist. RWDI also welcomes Gunther Funk, Technical Director, Hydrogeology.

Funk has acquired almost 40 years of diversified experience in groundwater resources assessment and development, dewatering evaluations, site assessment and remediation, and landfill hydrogeology.

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New chemical hazard reporting standard

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n October 25, 2011, NSF International (NSF) and the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) announced they have developed an American National Standard that provides a standardized way to define and report the environmental and human health hazards associated with a chemical product and its manufacturing process impacts.

The new standard, officially known as NSF/GCI/ANSI (American National Standards Institute) 355 Greener Chemicals and Processes Information Standard, establishes standardized criteria for comparing chemicals and processes that help chemical manufacturers and their customers make greener choices.

The standard outlines a framework that chemical manufacturers will use to develop one comprehensive, standardized NSF/GCI/ANSI 355 report to provide information to their customers throughout the supply chain. The report will be used to evaluate chemical products and their associated manufacturing processes in several key categories, including: • Chemical Characteristics: Physical chemical properties, human health effects and ecological effects; • Chemical Processes (gate to gate): Chemical efficiency and waste prevention, water, energy, bio-based carbon content, innovative manufacturing processes and technology, and process safety; • Social Responsibility: Child labor, forced and compulsory labor, and compliance with laws and regulations.

As a third-party certifier, NSF International will certify reports to this standard, meaning that users of a chemical who receive a certified NSF/ GCI/ANSI 355 report from their suppliers can be assured the report data is accurate, complete and current.

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Toxic waste export ban

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n October 21, 2011, in a major breakthrough decision at the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Basel Convention, 178 Parties agreed to allow an early entry into force of law of the Basel Ban Amendment which prohibits all exports of hazardous wastes, including electronic wastes and old obsolete ships from developed to developing countries. The deal was brokered by Indonesia and Switzerland and was strongly promoted by the developing countries, China, the European Union and Non-Governmental Organizations including Greenpeace, the Center for International Environmental Law, the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking and the Basel Action Network.

The Basel Ban Amendment was originally adopted in 1995 as a proposed amendment to the Basel Convention but has recently been stalled due to uncertainty as to how to interpret the Convention.

Now following a diplomatic working group known as the Country Led Initiative, it has been decided that the Ban Amendment will go into force when 68 of the 90 countries that were Parties to the Convention in 1995, ratify the agreement. Already 51 of these have ratified the amendment, leaving just 17 more needed. It is expected that this can be achieved in two to three years. Currently there are

178 Parties to the Convention.

Already 33 of the 41 developed countries to which the export ban applies have implemented it nationally, but this decision means that more countries will feel diplomatic pressure to ratify, and countries such as the United States who have never ratified the Convention will have to accept the ban as an integral part of the Convention once it enters force.

In another important and related development, Basel Parties also disagreed that the International Maritime Organization’s Hong Kong Convention on ship recycling, provided an equivalent level of control to that of the Basel Convention. Legal experts and developing countries in attendance voiced the concern that because the Hong Kong Convention has no intention of minimizing the movement of toxic ships to developing countries, it was not sufficient, not legally equivalent, and therefore the Basel Convention must continue to be active to prevent the dumping of old toxic ships on the beaches of developing countries.

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Investigating Industrial Accidents More than just a legal necessity

by Peter Knaack

Detail view of the raised lip of vintage 1950s iron manhole cover. A snowplow operator was injured and the manhole and the snowplow were both damaged when the plow blade connected with the raised manhole during winter snow removal operations. As a result the facility in question needed to conduct a hazardous occurrence investigation to identify the site characteristics of all other on-site manholes.

“Witnesses represent the real ‘make or break’ of any hazardous occurrence investigation.”

by Peter Knaack

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n 2009, according to statistics published by the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada, 939 working Canadians lost their lives due to work-related causes.

This translates into an average of one occupational fatality every 132 minutes of every working day in this country. In same year, some 260,284 lost-time injuries were recorded, a figure that approaches 6.6 per cent of Canada’s net labor force.

With this grave background, it’s hardly surprising that all of Canada’s fourteen primary health and safety jurisdictions require employers to file a report with their respective worker’s compensation authority, generally within three days and (depending on the severity of the occurrence) an additional report either immediately or within two, three or four days with the appropriate federal, provincial or territorial occupational health and safety regulator.

While the obligation to investigate and report workplace accidents to various authorities is clearly mandated within Canada’s extensive legislation, true compliance by individual employers can be impaired due to an incomplete understanding of contemporary legal and due diligence requirements, insufficient or deficient preparations, or both.

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INTERNAL VERSUS EXTERNAL INVESTIGATORS

More than half of Canada’s jurisdictions require employers to have in place a formal occupational health and safety policy that includes a corresponding written protocol on how workplace accidents, mishaps and close call incidents are to be investigated internally. This basic legal requirement to investigate and report an industrial accident usually applies to employers with a payroll of at least 20 individuals, but in some cases even some smaller, higher-risk employers may have such an obligation.

Unquestionably, a universal legal requirement is in place everywhere in Canada for members of joint health and safety committees (or in their absence, health and safety reps) to be in place at a workplace to support and, in many cases, spearhead an internal accident investigation. The underlying legal obligation is further reinforced by a similar universal responsibility under the law that employers provide committees or health and safety reps with proper notice that an accident has occurred, along with copies of any and all relevant reports generated in response.

The use of in-house resources to investigate a workplace accident or incident has a number of important advantages over using outside talent. An in-house team can attend (and, more importantly, secure) an accident scene almost immediately. And local resources are generally much more familiar with the intricacies associated with people and procedures, the use and operation of tools and equipment, as well as a variety of other nuances unique to an individual workplace. Members of the local health and safety community can also provide significant support in credibly communicating lessons learned to other staff upon the successful completion of an accident investigation.

However, there are also disadvantages from using local health and safety resources. As a rule, most in-house investigative resources cannot be expected to have sufficient experience in all crucial aspects involved with the investigation of a workplace mishap or near accident, including how to gather, secure and process physical evidence at the scene, localize and interview witnesses, review procedures and internal documentation, and (lastly) understand and master the analytical methodology required to develop workable con-

Plastic outdoor “butt” cans are a feature common to most workplaces in Canada. A metal pail located inside a flue equipped plastic drum is used to collect ash and spent cigarette butts. When properly installed the device can be used to reduce the chance of fire associated with the collection of ash and discarded cigarette butts. While many workplaces choose to install such flue equipped butt cans they are not self cleaning and require regular monitoring and maintenance to ensure that accumulations of cigarette buts, garbage and other flammable debris are not allowed to fill up to the level of the inlet port which will defeat the original design of the device. The beige butt can shown was subject to the outbreak of a major fire which burnt and melted its way through at base of the flue leading to the development of a intense roman candle like fire.

clusions and author preliminary and final reports.

Local resources may be subjected to internal pressures and influences through their colleagues, associates, managers and other interested parties, each of which can significantly impair the impartiality of an investigation (and by extension negatively impact the conclusions developed).

A common consequence of investigative inexperience is conclusions based either directly or loosely upon the principle of “divine intervention”, an idea at odds with Canadian statutes, regulations and current accident theory.

APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATION

Two basic approaches can be used to delve into the driving factors of a hazardous occurrence.

The use of pre-printed forms and questionnaires is likely the most common investigative tool used in Canada to report on workplace mishaps and fatalities, as well as to postulate causes. The uncritical use of questionnaires as an investigative instrument, though, can impair the successful conclusion of an investigation. Questionnaires by definition are only designed to account for a limited number of probable or known causes, and as such can hamstring an investigation.

Hence, a more analytical and openended approach is recommended such as that outlined in the CSA Z796-98 (R2008) “Accident Information” standard; this is generally a safer and more prudent approach to critically reviewing workplace mishaps, localizing root causes and thereafter developing suitable solutions (and written recommendations for corrective action).

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Investigating a Hazardous Occurrence: Seven Crucial Steps Preparation and Training Stage

Includes the development of a corporate accident / incident investigation policy, team selection and personnel training, as well as the acquisition of all necessary investigative tools required to initiate an investigation in the field and collect and document evidence in the field.

Investigators Visit and Secure Accident Scene

As scene integrity can be extremely transitory for instance due to the impacts of weather, time and productivity (operations), it is vital that investigators move to immediately secure control of one or more site locations involved with a potential accident scenario. Site control must be maintained until otherwise authorized by the federal, provincial or territorial authority having jurisdiction.

Interview Stage

Interviews are the most important aspect of completing an investigation into a hazardous occurrence. Possible witnesses and other interview partners including subject material experts must be identified and interviews with them prioritized.

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Process the Scene and Collect Data

Investigators must move to expeditiously gather, package and document all relevant evidence found at an accident site or sites including, physical evidence and exhibits, scene sketches and measurements, photographs, videos and drawings as well as any appropriate records and documents such as instruction manuals, maintenance logs and the like.

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Evaluate Evidence.

Determine Causation.

Develop Evidence Based Conclusions.

Likely the most difficult task faced by investigators is the need to uncover all the driving causes and contributing factors of a hazardous occurrence. Existing standard operating procedures must be established and contrasted with potential malfunctions and deviations from the norm.

In advance of generating a final report with detailed recommendations for change investigators must first develop a detailed causation model and draw conclusions based on evidence.

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The final report generated by investigators should contain sufficient detail to provide management and the joint health and safety committee with insight into what the true driving causes of an accident were and how a recurrence might be controlled or prevented moving forward.

Once approved, the details of any anticipated corrective actions envisioned then must be communicated to the workforce as part of an overall implementation strategy.

The effectiveness of corrective actions implemented following the completion of an investigation into a hazardous occurrence must be subject to a regular technical review.

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The analytical approach involves no less reporting to all necessary authorities, than seven major steps. together with the maintenance of scene The first — the initial training and integrity, represent the two most importpreparation stage — requires that select ant initial compliance requirements for investigative staff be appropriately trained, employers confronted by an unexpected equipped and certified to competently and industrial accident. While it’s legally perconfidently conduct a hazardous occur- missible to disturb an accident scene to rence investigation from start to finish. facilitate rescue or any other necessary Employers must ensure that suitable inves- emergency operation, as a rule employtigative staff are recruited, generally from ers must employ every effort possible to the ranks of the joint health and safety secure an accident scene unless otherwise committee, and receive proper in-depth instructed. training. The provision of such training, Even where sufficient evidence can be though, is a necessary pre-requisite for the localized, it’s not always possible to fully real test: the unexpected need for the team understand its real significance or meaning. to visit, secure and suitably process an acci- As such, witnesses represent an investigadent scene at their place of work. tor’s most important evidentiary resource.

Elemental to Canada’s internal Once an indoor or outdoor accident scene responsibility system is a legal obligation has been suitably secured potential witthat employers suitably secure, isolate nesses must be identified and processed and manage an accident scene; this must concurrent to the gathering and collection be done in concert (and communication) of evidence. Hence stages three and four of with any authority that has jurisdiction, an accident investigation are most generincluding law enforcement as well as any ally conducted simultaneously. requisite provincial, territorial or federal Scene integrity can be lost quickly GroundTech1-2 page ad:Layout 1 6/8/11 PM and Pagetime, 1 health and safety regulators.

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that investigators speedily collect, gather, itemize and record all evidence discovered in strict accordance with established Canadian principles of evidence collection.

Advancements in digital technology such a GPS-enabled digital imagery have made it easier to capture an accident scene through pictures, videos, sketches, maps and other metrics. Many accident investigations, however, have been derailed not by a shortage of properly-assembled physical exhibits, but because inadequate attention was paid to conducting interviews expeditiously and effectively.

Due to all of the sensitivities involved, previous instruction and certification to conduct witness interviews in the field is an absolute prerequisite. Witnesses represent the real “make or break” of any hazardous occurrence investigation.

Interviewers must ensure that witnesses are interviewed individually and treated with respect, focus and compassion during an interview; any information so collected must be kept under the strictest confidence post-interview.

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The importance of previous training is amplified during the final three stages of such an investigation: stage five involves an evaluation of the evidence in search of root causes; stage six is primarily concerned with the development and implementation of recommendations for change; and, the seventh and final stage involves regular review and reevaluation of the effectiveness of the proposed corrective actions.

During the crucial evaluation stage, investigators must emphasize the development of solid, evidence-based conclusions.

Only suitably trained accident investigators will be able to competently determine the root causes and contributing factors of a workplace mishap; all the different strands uncovered during the investigation must then be carefully reassembled (to reconstruct a plausible chain of events).

Thereafter, deviations from standard operating procedures are localized by contrasting intended functions (as driven by established workplace practice and policy)

with actual functions (as evidenced through witness testimony and physical exhibits collected in the field). By carefully delving into the practical ramifications of all identified deviations it becomes possible for a team of investigators to isolate and model all relevant causal factors, including the ultimate root cause of a workplace accident.

A firm understanding of the true sequence of events combined with understanding an accident’s driving causes are the necessary preconditions for the development of authoritative final conclusions. The publication of a final report must be accompanied by the timely implementation of an approved action plan (coupled with an appropriately-structured internal and external communications strategy). Following the release of their final report, investigators must regularly revisit and reevaluate the effectiveness of all corrective actions originally proposed (to ensure their traction HMM and continued validity).

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HazMat and Social Media

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What’s in your crisis communications plan?

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ocial media and the internet have changed forever how government agencies and companies can manage information during HazMat spills, chemical releases, fires and other significant (or routine) incidents. HazMat industry professionals understand the importance of an informed public before, during and after an incident. You may have a great response, but without communications it can be as if there was no response at all.

Do you or someone else in your company Facebook, Tweet or Skype? Can you even access these applications from your company computer? Does your organization have, or even need, a policy on social media? If you don’t have a social media policy during normal “peacetime” oper-

ations, then trying to use them for the first time in a response will be very problematic, and you’ll be denied the use of some of the planet’s most powerful communications technology. Using social media, in and of itself, doesn’t make you a better communicator now that you have the ability to launch a blizzard of Tweets; you still need to come up with quality content. Quality should not be confused with quantity.

Social media applications can be an unparalleled source of situational awareness. Through social media applications you have a great opportunity to understand what is really going on outside the lifelines of your company in real time. Merely sending out a press release or giving an interview to a reporter should not be considered

IT’S BEST TO MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

“Merely sending out a press release or giving an interview to a reporter should not be considered communications — that’s just transmitting.” communications — that’s just transmitting.

Communications occurs when it is a twoway conversation; that is the real power of social media.

By now, “Twitter” has entered into the vocabularies of most people. Some of us use it as a verb, others as a noun. Twitter, or “to tweet,” of course, refers to the free micro blogging service that has powered revolutions during the so-called Arab Spring. The power of mass communication in the hands of people should not be underestimated.

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Your customer data?

Let’s face it. These assets are best managed safely and securely.

When your used or unwanted electronics are nearing their end-of-life, think about all the information they may be storing. Think about the risk to your business – even to your reputation – should they ever be compromised or inadvertently exposed.

Whether your end-of-life electronics are going to be reused or recycled, it’s crucial to have a management strategy for the information that they store. Be comprehensive in erasing records and content from your hard drives, digital copier data systems and any SIM cards. Check your manual for details on information destruction, visit the manufacturer’s website or contact a data destruction expert or service provider.

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HAZMAT: CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS

during the summer of 2011 seemed to be marching through the pine forests straight for my house. How did I keep up with the fire’s progress? I checked my county’s office of emergency management (OEM) website (which, by the way, is a PIER site, an O’Brien’s product) and my county OEM’s Twitter site. Between these two outlets, I was able to keep up with the latest breaking news from these authoritative local sources. As long as my phone was up on the network, I had access to the type of real-time information for which military commanders of the past would have sold their souls.

Clearly, social media is here to stay and it should be incorporated into your crisis communications plan. So, let’s take a look at how you can take advantage of social media.

The first step is to develop a social media policy, and then incorporate that policy into an updated crisis communications plan.

Having a robust communications platform such as PIER, a webbased communications platform with integrated social media applications, is essential. PIER now has social media “connectors” allowing a smooth, two-way experience sending and receiving communications

between PIER and social media apps.

The next step is to develop a crisis communications plan. A crisis communications plan should be explicit enough so everyone knows their roles and the plan can be used for training the team. Such a plan should contain, at a minimum: • a description of the process for internal notification of an incident and clear statements of who gathers information and generates communications materials; • who approves communications materials; • who distributes communications materials (how and through which channels, including social media) and finally, • who monitors the external environment (social media included).

These roles mirror the communications process in an incident command’s Joint Information Center. Train the way you fight.

Fight the way you train.

Social media applications should be just another channel your incident information moves out onto, but the real strength of social media apps is enabling a two-way conversation. Now that’s communicating!

HMM

Tim O’Leary is Vice President, Communications with O’Brien’s Response Management Inc. in Houston, Texas.

Contact Tim at toleary@obriensrm.com

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HAZMAT : WASTE BUSINESS

New Tools for Chlorinated Solvents

T

rust me, being responsible for a site contaminated with chlorinated solvents is something you prefer not to do if you like a good night’s sleep.

They are among the most difficult groundwater contaminants to remediate, especially at sites with dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL).

DNAPLs — typical dry cleaning solvents and degreasing chemicals — are heavier than water and sink below the water table, working their way into the fractures in the bedrock below.

Complete restoration of a DNAPL-contaminated site requires prolonged treatment (i.e., 20 years) and may involve several remediation technologies.

GUIDANCE Recently, the U.S. Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council (ITRC), a public-private coalition working to reduce barriers to the use of innovative environmental technologies and approaches, released a technical & regulatory guidance manual on an integrated contaminated site strategy for DNAPLs.

The Integrated DNAPL Site Strategy (IDSS) guidance document describes the key concepts and recent developments to assist in developing successful integrated strategies for chlorinated-solvent sites.

An IDDS contains five key steps as described below: 1. A conceptual site model (CSM).

2. Remedial objectives and performance metrics. The typical time frame for cleanup can range from decades to centuries. Reasonable expectations are needed.

3. Treatment technologies applied in sequence or in parallel.

4. Monitoring strategies based on interim and final cleanup objectives.

5. Re-evaluating the strategy repeatedly and modifying the approach as required.

The challenge for remediation engineers is conveying the complexity of the problem with cleanup of chlorinated solvents at contaminated sites. Characterization of the extent of chlorinated solvents in the subsurface can be described in four phases: as free product, sorbed onto soil, dissolved in groundwater, and as a vapour.

by John Nicholson

“IDSS utilizes a more comprehensive approach where multiple technologies are integrated.”

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By focusing on recycling and recovery, we push beyond conventional thinking and find cost-effective ways to transform industrial residues back into valuable products. Our experience and innovative solutions help our customers improve efficiencies and reduce costs, while improving their environmental performance. These solutions are provided through our network of 80 facilities across Canada and at our customers’ facilities where we mobilize our people and equipment to process residues directly onsite. There’s a better way to think about waste.

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Technology Category

Example Technologies

Physical Removal

Excavation Multiphase Extraction Thermal conductivity/electrical resistance heating

NEW TECHNOLOGIES The traditional approach to site cleanup involved the selection of one favoured technology that would be applied individually to the entire site. IDSS utilizes a more comprehensive approach where multiple technologies are integrated in both time and space to meet cleanup objectives.

Many technologies exist for chlorinated-solvent site remediation. They can be categorized according to the primary mechanism by which they impact individual chlorinated phases (e.g., DNAPL, sorbed, dissolved, and vapour phases).

The key questions with respect to a choosing a specific technology are: first, will it work for the site conditions; and, second, what is the cost relative to other alternatives?

It will be a challenge for a remediation consultant to convince a client that a mix of technologies, used at different locations on a site and different times, is the best course of action. One means of convincing a skeptical client is to educate them about how and why specific technologies work in specific cases.

One of the best methods of managing chlorinated solvents is not to use them in your processes. The evolution of green chemistry has resulted in replacement products that can replace typical chlorinated solvents.

Chemical/biological

In situ chemical oxidation In situ chemical reduction In situ bioremediation Monitored natural attenuation

Containment

Pump and Treat Low-permeability barrier walls Permeable reactive barriers Solidification/stabilization

NSF International, the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute, recently developed a standardized way of define and report the environmental and human health hazardous with a chemical product and its manufacturing process impacts.

The new standard, 355: Greener Chemicals and Process Information Standards, establishes standardized criteria for comparing chemicals and processes that help in making greener choices.

The move toward IDSS in managing contaminated site combined with replacement of chlorinated solvents with greener alternatives will, in the future, afford remediation specialists and owners a good nights’ sleep.

HMM

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

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HAZMAT : HEALTH AND SAFETY

Reporting Every Incident Blue Mountain tragedy refines “Person” vs. “Worker” in the OHSA

T

he Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) is set up to outline the rights and duties of all parties in the workplaces. Typically when one thinks of “workplace parties” the employer, managers/ supervisors, and employees come to mind. As such, most employers consider the OHSA to protect only workers of the workplace, but based on some of the specific wording in the Act, this may not be the case.

In Ontario, under subsection 51 (1) of the OHSA, the Ministry of Labour (MOL) must be notified immediately after the occurrence of a death or injury at the workplace. The belief has been that this only relates to deaths or injuries of a person employed by the workplace, but a recent OLRB case involving an Ontario resort reveals this is not, in fact, the case.

In December of 2007, an unsupervised guest at the Blue Mountain Resort near Collingwood drowned in the indoor swimming pool. When the incident occurred, no workers were present in the pool area. Blue Mountain decided not to report the fatality to the Ministry of Labour since the incident did not involve a worker. Four months later an MOL inspector visited the resort to conduct a workplace compliance audit, and soon found out about the drowning. As a result Blue Mountain was issued an order under Ontario’s subsection 51 (1) of the OHSA which states that: Where a person is killed or critically injured from any cause at a workplace, the constructor, if any, and the employer shall notify an inspector, and the committee, health and safety representative and trade union, if any, immediately of the occurrence by telephone or other direct means...

Based on the literal wording of the Act, Blue Mountain was given an order since they failed to notify an inspector of the death of a person. Blue Mountain appealed the order to the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) and further sought judicial review, but both the board and the court upheld the order.

Subsection 51 (1) is not the only instance of the use of the word “person” in the OHSA. While the term person is not defined in the Act, “worker” is defined as “a person who performs work or supplies services for monetary compensation...” therefore the OLRB held that the term “person” was more expansive than “worker” and that the OHSA wouldn’t have used the word “person” if they only meant “worker.” The main reason for why the

MOL requires non-worker fatalities and injuries to be reported is that the workplace hazards that injure nonworkers may also endanger workers.

What does this mean for employers?

While the responsibility under the OHSA to report deaths or critical injuries hasn’t changed or been revised, the outcome of the Blue Mountain case has broadened the understanding of OHSA’s definitions.

This new understanding runs the risk of turning almost any place into a workplace, and any injury or fatality as an incident to report. What is and isn’t a reportable injury to the MOL under the OHSA? Currently the answer really can only be left to, “It depends on the circumstances.”

The Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations Section 15.3 state: Where an employee becomes aware of an accident or other occurrence arising in the course of or in connection with the employee’s work that has caused or is likely to cause injury to that employee or to any other person, the employee shall, without delay, report the accident or other occurrence to his employer, orally or in writing.

Manitoba’s legislation is very close to Ontario’s in that “persons” are referred to in the Act and the Division must be called should a critical injury or death occur.

PEI is in a similar position. Although both provinces do not have case law similar to Blue Mountain (that they’re aware of), the Blue Mountain Case will likely set a precedent in other jurisdictions.

BC’s legislation, specifically under Section 172 of the Workers Compensation Act, states: “172 (1) An employer must immediately notify the Board of the occurrence of any accident that (a) resulted in serious injury to or the death of a worker…”

While some provinces make reference to person and some do not, what all employers across Canada need to do is take every precaution when dealing with any type of workplace accident; this should also include when a non-worker accident occurs. Proper accident and incident reporting procedures should be developed and in place complete with employer, employee, manager/supervisor, and health and safety representative responsibilities in order to ensure health and safety legislation and provincial governance compliance is met.

HMM

by Lynne Bard

“Workplace hazards that injure nonworkers may also endanger workers.”

Lynne Bard is President of consulting firm Beyond Rewards Inc. in Guelph, Ontario.

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HAZMAT: ELECTRONIC WASTE

Electronic Waste A look at Ontario Electronic Stewardship

E

lectronic waste is by far the greatest recycling challenge facing North America and the largest growing segment of the current waste system.

The good news is that 90 per cent of the material contained in electronic equipment can be recycled.

Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES) is a good example of stewardship programs for e-waste currently being offered in various Canadian jurisdictions. OES was established as a non-profit, industry-funding organization (IFO) to oversee the responsible reuse and recycling of end-of-life electronics in the province.

The OES program was developed on behalf of the provincial government under the Waste Diversion Act and is based on the concept of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) — the idea that the makers and importers of electronics, not ratepayers, should ensure these items are properly handled when no longer in use.

In operation since April 2009, OES accepts 44 types of home, office and portable electronics. The provincewide network of credentialed collectors, transporters and processors includes hundreds of approved collection sites, in addition to many affiliate sites. The system is convenient for consumers, with eighty-five per cent of Ontarians living within 10 kilometers of a drop-off facility. For businesses, the program offers the choice of working with one of the program’s approved processors to arrange for end-of-life electronics management services, for pickup of e-waste, or holding a collection event for their organization or tenants.

Working with the OES network means that from the time unwanted electronics are dropped off, they’re man-

aged according to the highest standards at each stage of the process. Every OES-approved processor is required to adhere to the Electronic Recycling Standard (ERS), which ensures that proper environmental and health and safety practices are followed. In addition, all OES service providers must abide by strict regulations and use a variety of techniques to ensure sensitive data is destroyed in the recycling process.

Items collected by the OES network are shipped to an Ontario facility where they’re inspected and weighed. They’re then sent to an approved processor for manual dismantling and/or mechanical processing.

Hazardous materials are sent for further processing, ensuring that components like batteries, leaded glass and mercury-containing bulbs are safely and responsibly recycled.

At the same time, valuable components are recovered and turned into commodities such as steel, aluminum, copper, glass and plastic for use in new products such as water pipes, coins or glass for new monitors or TVs. The program also extends beyond recycling to reuse.

OES partners with numerous organizations focused on reuse, including not-for-profit organizations, which refurbish the computer equipment it collects and provides this renewed technology to businesses, groups and individuals across the province.

OES partnered with Going Green for Green to outline Ontario’s e-waste solutions in a video program format.

Together with a stellar partner network, OES continues to focus on its mission of environmentally responsible and cost effective end-of-life electronics collection.

HMM

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Toll-Free: 800 363-8340 Toll-Free Fax: 888 267-3551

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.

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

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

905 893-9609 Fax: 905 893-4020.

AiMS Environmental

aboutREMEDIATION.com

1020 Denison St Unit 111 Markham ON L3R 3W5

Mgr Mark Jakubczyk

2070 Hadwen Rd Suite 101A Mississauga ON L5K 2C9

905 474-0058 Ext. 103 Fax: 905 474-0601.

905 822-4133 Fax: 905 822-3558.

Pres Mohamed Jagani

Academy Savant Inc.

Air Earth & Water Environmental Consultants Ltd.

Project Mgr Wayne Coutinho

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

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

423 Ireland Rd Simcoe ON N3Y 5J1 519 426-7019 Fax: 519 426-5035.

Pres Robert Lovegrove

Air Liquide America Specialty Gases LLC Accuworx Inc. 40 Advance Blvd Brampton ON L6T 4J4 416 410-7222 Fax: 416 410-7405.

Toll-Free: 877 898-7222 Pres Jason Rosset

Accuworx provides 24/7 emergency response services and equipment to minimize impact on road, rail, water and more. Accuworx operates an extensive fleet of equipment from wet/dry powervacs, coded tanker trailers, yellow iron, lugger trucks, water treatment systems, roll off trucks, dump trailers, steamer units, high pressure water blaster and

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

Toll-Free: 800 217-2688

Pres Steve Dziak; Project Mgr Michele Haurin

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

Pres Charles Pilger

Alaron Instruments 1111 Davis Dr

Sls Mgr Wayne Fox

Pres Bud Wood

105 rue Lauder Cowansville QC J2K 2K8

Mktg Asst Irene Guilbault

201 288-2236 Fax: 201 288-4479.

Toll-Free: 800 939-2558

Arbortech Corporation

Alp & Associates Incorporated

815 385-0001 Fax: 815 385-0089.

Pres Mardi Ohanessian

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

Principal Ertugrul Alp

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

Toll-Free: 800 323-4937

3607 Chapel Hill Rd Johnsburg IL 60051-2515 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

Armstrong Insurance Brokers Ltd.

ALTECH Technology Systems Inc.

PO Box 880 Barrie ON L4M 4Y6 Location: 65 Cedar Pointe Dr Suite 803A Barrie ON L4N 5R7

12 Banigan Dr Toronto ON M4H 1E9

705 722-8377 Fax: 705 722-8896.

Toll-Free: 800 461-4286

416 467-5555 Ext. 223 Fax: 416 467-9824.

Toll-Free: 866 734-8437

AVAR Environmental Inc.

Pres Brian Bobbie

Pres/CEO Alex Keen

Ambio Biofiltration Ltd. PO Box 644 Stn Main Rockland ON K4K 1L4 Location: 224 Montée Outaouais Rockland ON K4K 1G2

Pres Todd Armstrong

12 Baldwin St Dundas ON L9H 1A6 289 238-9098

Pres Justin Lewis

Avensys Solutions

613 446-0274

422 Consumers Rd Toronto ON M2J 1P8

American Compactor, Inc.

VP-Sls/Mktg Pierre Michaud

Pres Calvin Pride

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 22 Mountain View Dr Chester NJ 07930 908 755-7170 Fax: 908 755-7170.

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

Ancal, Inc. PO Box 530100 Henderson NV 89053-0100

416 499-4421 Fax: 416 499-0816.

Toll-Free: 888 965-4700

Battery Council International (BCI) 401 N Michigan Ave Chicago IL 60611-4267 312 644-6610 Fax: 312 527-6640.

Exec VP Mark Thorsby

Becquerel Laboratories Inc. 6790 Kitimat Rd Unit 4 Mississauga ON L5N 5L9 905 826-3080 Fax: 905 826-4151.

Mgr Steven Simpson

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

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2012 Annual Buyers’ Guide Toll-Free: 800 386-1388

Pres/CEO Lawrence Haber

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

Ops Mgr Jacqueline Bernais

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

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

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.

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

Chem Solv

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.

PO Box 608 Sutton West ON L0E 1R0 Location: 20848 Dalton Rd

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

Chemical Safety Software

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

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

Canadian Safety Equipment Inc. 2465 Cawthra Rd Suite 114 Mississauga ON L5A 3P2

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

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

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

Sls/Mktg Mgr Robert Dunn

CIAL Group 119 Concession 6 Rd Fisherville ON N0A 1G0

C Tech Development Corporation

2595 Dunwin Dr Unit 2 Mississauga ON L5L 3N9

45-001 Lilipuna Rd Unit A Kaneohe HI 96744-3019

905 569-6246 Fax: 905 569-6244.

Toll-Free: 800 595-0514

808 447-9751 Fax: 714 844-9255.

Toll-Free: 800 669-4387

The Cannington Group Inc.

514 336-3330 Fax: 514 337-3336.

Toll-Free: 800 800-1868

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 Harbors Canada, Inc.

2851 Brighton Rd Oakville ON L6H 6C9

905 841-1848 Fax: 905 841-1062.

4090 Telfer Rd RR 1 Corunna ON N0N 1G0

905 829-0030 Fax: 905 829-4701.

Toll-Free: 800 215-4469

Cartier Chemicals Ltd.

VP-Sls Michael La Rocque

Pres Mark Reeves

2610 boul Jean-Baptiste Lachine QC H8T 1C9

Canadian Brownfields Network 2175 Sheppard Ave E Suite 310 North York ON M2J 1W8

519 864-3894 Fax: 519 864-3866.

Toll-Free: 800 444-4244

Clear Edge Filtration

514 637-4631 Fax: 514 637-8804.

Toll-Free: 800 361-9432

16779 boul Hymus Kirkland QC H9H 3L4

CEA Instruments Inc.

Office Mgr Debbie Gale

Pres Bill Robins

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

Toll-Free: 888 893-9640

514 694-1132 Fax: 514 694-3828.

Toll-Free: 800 363-6612

Coast Waste Management Association

VP-Sls/Mktg Steven Adelman

416 491-2886 Fax: 416 491-1670.

1185 Rolmar Cres Cobble Hill BC V0R 1L4

Natl Spokesperson Angus Ross

Century Group Inc.

The CBN is a national advocacy

PO Box 228

250 733-2213 Fax: 250 733-2214.

Toll-Free: 866 386-2962

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

C-AT products are designed and built to withstand the demands of civilian and military first responders. Since 1982 C-AT has manufactured radio intercoms and interoperability equipment for use in hazardous environments.

Compliance Signs, Inc. Toll-Free: 800 578-1245 Toll-Free Fax: 800 578-1246

VP-Bus Dev Harry Topikian

VP Frank Apollinaro

11250 14 Roger Bacon Dr Reston VA 20190 Fax: 703 4714428.

Circul-Aire Inc.

Pres Colin Isaacs

Cancoppas Limited

Can-Am Instruments Ltd.

Communications-Applied Technology

56 South Main St Chadwick IL 61014

Pres Stan Brown

4 Fortecon Dr RR 1 Unit 4 Gormley ON L0H 1G0

Product Mgr Jim McGregor

416 410-0432 Fax: 416 362-5231.

641 322-4220 Fax: 641 322-3527.

Pres Reed D Copsey Sr

206 682-6048 Fax: 206 682-5658.

Toll-Free: 800 488-8291

Chemist Peter Robertson

3999 boul de la Côte-Vertu Saint-Laurent QC H4R 1R2

Pres Jake Alaica

820 First Ave S Seattle WA 98134

905 722-6035 Fax: 905 722-5195.

905 949-2741 Fax: 905 272-1866.

Toll-Free: 800 265-0182 Mgr Ross Humphry

Coastal Environmental Systems, Inc.

Exec Dir Will Burrows

Mktg Coord David Anderson

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

205-3445 114th Ave SE Calgary AB T2Z 0K6

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 Montréal 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, South America,

2012 Annual Buyers’ Guide and the United Kingdom. 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, emergency response, regulatory compliance, air quality management, municipal infrastructure planning and design, and design, and many others.

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.

Davis Controls Ltd. Conformance Check Inc. 52 Harrop Ave Etobicoke ON M9B 2G9 416 620-0846 Toll-Free Fax: 866 306-5084 VP-Fin Louise Kolanko

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Explore: www.conformancecheck. com.

Free web demo: info@conformancecheck.com.

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

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

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

Pres Elizabeth Donley

North York ON M3C 4J2 416 510-6867 Fax: 416 510-5133.

Toll-Free: 888 702-1111 Ext. 5

Chairman James Sbrolla

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.

Environmental Products Inc.

Egmond Associates Ltd 27 Hall Rd Georgetown ON L7G 0A4 416 782-7227 Toll-Free: 877 755-7227 Toll-Free Fax: 877 755-7227

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

Control Instruments Corp.

25 Law Dr Fairfield NJ 07004

905 821-8988 Fax: 905 821-2565.

Toll-Free: 877 372-4371 Toll-Free Fax: 800 329-8823

1001-1166 Alberni St Vancouver BC V6E 3Z3

Corolon Coatings & Corrsion Control Technologies Inc. 2 Haas Rd Toronto ON M9W 3A2

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

Toll-Free: 800 388-3268

604 681-0989 Toll-Free: 888 577-0911 Pres Mike Morrow

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

Pres Harshad Shah

Envirochem Services Inc.

Pres Stan Buchowski

Eco Waste Solutions

cr/x environmental services, inc.

5195 Harvester Rd Unit 14 Burlington ON L7L 6E9

310 Esplanade E North Vancouver BC V7L 1A4

416 401-8855 Fax: 416 401-8878.

1118 Fourth Ave Coraopolis PA 15108 412 262-0730 Fax: 412 262-2250.

Sls Rep Tim Benedict

905 634-7022 Fax: 905 634-0831.

Toll-Free: 866 326-2876 CEO Steve Meldrum

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

Pres Randy St. Germain

EcoLog Environmental Resources Group 12 Concorde Pl Suite 800

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

Ellicott Dredges, LLC

7555 Danbro Cres Mississauga ON L5N 6P9

Mktg Asst Lynn Scharfe

5350 Evergreen Pky Sheffield Village OH 44054

Principal John VanEgmond

EmerGeo Solutions Inc.

Mktg Mgr Patty Gardner

905 271-2845

Gen Mgr Carol Bell-LeNoury

Draeger Safety Canada Ltd.

973 575-9114 Fax: 973 575-0013.

33 Wanita Rd Mississauga ON L5G 1B3

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.

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 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

Pres Mark S Braet

Exova

Environmental Business Consultants

2395 Speakman Dr Mississauga ON L5K 1B3 WINTER 2012 HazMat Management 27

2012 Annual Buyers’ Guide 866 263-9268 Fax: 905 823-1446.

Cust Care Liz Summerfield

Fabricated Plastics Limited 2175 Teston Rd Maple ON L6A 1T3

remediate without the need for excavation. Our focus is to provide sustainable, cost effective, and verifiable remedies, whereby contaminants are converted to harmless end products.

905 832-8161 Fax: 905 832-2111.

Gemtor, Inc.

Fanchem Ltd.

1 Johnson Ave Matawan NJ 07747-2595

VP-Sls G Landry

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

Sls Mgr Jeff Fakes

732 583-6200 Fax: 732 290-9391.

Toll-Free: 800 405-9048

Geneq Inc. 8047 rue Jarry E Anjou QC H1J 1H6

905 873-8561 Ext. 2001 Fax: 905 873-8561.

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

Green-Tech Environmental Engineering Ltd.

HAZCO Emergency Services

250 Consumers Rd Suite 307 Toronto ON M2J 4V6

1650 Upper Ottawa St Hamilton ON L8W 3P2

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

514 354-2511 Fax: 514 354-6948.

Toll-Free: 800 463-4363 Pres Maurice Parise

First Response Environmental

General Equipment Company

899 Nebo Rd Hamilton ON L0R 1P0

620 Alexander Dr SW Owatonna MN 55060

GroundTech Solutions

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.

507 451-5510 Fax: 507 451-5511.

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

PO Box 1271 Stn K Toronto ON M4P 3E5

Global Hazmat, Inc.

Fluid Metering, Inc.

423 505-8840 210th St Langley BC V1M 2Y2

5 Aerial Way Suite 500 Syosset NY 11791

604 882-4999 Fax: 604 882-4980.

Toll-Free: 877 744-4999 Toll-Free Fax: 888 882-4980

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

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.

Gorman – Rupp of Canada Limited 70 Burwell Rd St Thomas ON N5P 3R7 519 631-2870 Fax: 519 631-4624.

Mktg Mgr Mark Neal

Grayling Industries, Inc. Frac Rite Environmental Ltd. 2-4416 5th St NE Calgary AB T2E 7C3 403 265-5533 Fax: 403 265-5648.

Dir-Remediation Serv Gordon H Bures

Frac Rite Environmental Ltd. is a Canadian service company that specializes in providing in situ remediation services to clean-up sites in challenging subsurface environments. Frac Rite has developed a process using hydraulic fracturing and injection technologies (our FRAC RITE® and BIO-FRAC® processes), with non-intrusive geophysical mapping technology, to 28 www.hazmatmag.com WINTER 2012

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

Toll-Free: 800 635-1551

416 410-3130 Fax: 416 410-1249.

Toll-Free: 877 877-1862 VP-Sls/Mktg Sven Dean

Branches:

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.

PO Box 102 Red Deer AB T4N 3T2 Location: 4819C 48 Ave

HAZCO Environmental Services – A Div. of CCS Corporation

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.

103-3355 114th Ave SE Calgary AB T2Z 0K7

Hannay Reels Inc.

Hotz Environmental Services Inc.

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

403 297-0444 Fax: 403 253-3188.

Toll-Free: 800 667-0444 Dir-Sls Tony Ciarla

Hazmasters Inc. 1915 Clements Rd Unit 1-2 Pickering ON L1W 3V1 905 427-0220 Fax: 905 427-9901.

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

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

Toll-Free: 888 333-4680

Mktg Mgr Ben Greene

Dir-Sls/Mktg Edward Rash

GrayWolf Sensing Solutions LLC

Harold Marcus Limited

HQN Industrial Fabrics Inc.

15124 Longwoods Rd Bothwell ON N0P 1C0

487 Polymoore Dr Corunna ON N0N 1G0

6 Research Dr Shelton CT 06484 203 402-0477 Fax: 203 402-0478.

Toll-Free: 800 218-7997 Mktg/Commun Mgr Denise Gagne

Green-Port Environmental Services & Recyclers 64 Todd Rd Georgetown ON L7G 4R7

519 695-3734 Fax: 519 695-2249.

Pres Denis Marcus

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

VP Pamela McAuley

519 344-9050 Fax: 519 344-5511.

Toll-Free: 800 361-7068 VP Steve Reese

IBS America, Inc. 24 Hartwell Ave Lexington MA 02421 781 862-9002 Fax: 781 862-9003.

Sls/Mktg Rep Brenda Pearson

2012 Annual Buyers’ Guide

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 Sr Bus Dev Mgr Greg Monette

Branches: ICC The Compliance Centre Inc.

3506 78th Ave NW Edmonton AB T6B 2X9

ICC The Compliance Centre Inc.

88 Lindsay Ave Dorval QC H9P 2T8

INFICON

Toll-Free: 800 821-3859

Two Technology Pl East Syracuse NY 13057-9714

Kam Biotechnology Ltd.

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. 425 822-4434 Fax: 425 822-8384.

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

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.

Imbibitive Technologies Canada, Inc. 8 Hiscott St Suite 1 St Catharines ON L2R 1C6

905 364-7800 Fax: 905 364-7816.

VP Eastern Region 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.

InVitro International

Lakeview Engineered Products Inc. 2500 W Jefferson Blvd Fort Wayne IN 46802

Kapejo Inc.

260 432-3479 Fax: 260 432-6239.

PO Box 7250 Talleyville DE 19803-0250 302 322-4222

Pres/CEO Peter C Martinez

Ops Mgr Jim Woolf

Lambton College Fire & Public Safety Centre of Excellence 1457 London Rd Sarnia ON N7S 6K4

Kestrel Pocket Weather Meters

Pub Rel/Mktg Monica Devlin

6605 Hurontario St Suite 500 Mississauga ON L5T 0A3

Gen Mgr Peter Brasseur

Pres Aline Ferchichi

610 447-1555 Fax: 610 447-1577.

Intrinsik Environmental Sciences Inc.

519 757-0700 Fax: 519 757-0799.

Toll-Free: 800 489-9131

604 888-4336 Fax: 604 888-6623.

21 Creek Cir Boothwyn PA 19061

16445 Air Center Blvd Suite 350 Houston TX 77032

2150 Liberty Dr Niagara Falls NY 14304

101-9710 187th St Surrey BC V4N 3N6

8902 122nd Ave NE Kirkland WA 98033

ICC The Compliance Centre Inc.

ICC The Compliance Centre Inc.

Pres/Owner David R Poole

Kestrel Pocket Weather Meters are the world’s most relied-upon personal weather instruments. Pocket-sized and extremely durable, Kestrel meters let you instantly monitor the environmental conditions wherever you are. A range of models measure: wind speed, temperature, relative humidity, density altitude, evaporation rate, humidity ratio, wet bulb temperature, volume air flow, dew point, barometric pressure, and more.

In-depth data storage, charting, and wireless Bluetooth® data transfer for instant upload to PC. Five-year warranty. Made in USA.

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

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

519 336-4552 Ext. 22 Fax: 519 336-4537.

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 Mgr 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.

905 641-2323 Fax: 905 641-3601.

Toll-Free: 888 843-2323 Toll-Free Fax: 877 439-2323

17751 Sky Park E Suite G Irvine CA 92614

Incinerator Consultants Incorporated

Pres/CEO W Richard Ulmer

Pres Rick G Kozuch

JP Specialties, Inc.

Lakeland Protective Wear Inc.

Branch Office:

59 Bury Crt Brantford ON N3S 0A9

The Head Office for LEHDER is located in Point Edward, Ontario and our Western division is based in

Product Mgr J Chris Polis

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

Pres Charles Brunner

949 851-8356 Fax: 949 851-4985.

Toll-Free: 800 246-8487

551 Birch St Lake Elsinore CA 92530 951 674-6869 Fax: 951 674-1315.

905 628-3232 Fax: 905 628-2529.

Toll-Free: 866 577-2326

LEHDER Environmental Services provides totally integrated solutions to industrial clients throughout North America.

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Toll-Free: 800 382-6940 Mgr Bob Blaskovic

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

Unit 10-11 Barrie ON L4N 6C6

Miller Thomson LLP

705 797-8426 Fax: 705 797-8427.

Toll-Free: 866 683-7867

LEX Scientific Inc. 2 Quebec St Suite 204 Guelph ON N1H 2T3

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

519 824-7082 Fax: 519 824-5784.

Toll-Free: 800 824-7082

MMM Group Limited

Logical Data Solutions, Inc.

5151 3rd St SE Calgary AB T2H 2X6

31 Windward Isle Palm Beach Gardens FL 33418

ModuTank Inc.

Dir Michael Hoffbauer

561 694-9229 Fax: 561 694-9131.

VP Bill King

Loraday Environmental Products 142 Commerce Park Rd Unit 1 Barrie ON L4N 8W8 705 733-3342 Fax: 705 733-3352.

Toll-Free: 888 853-6600 Pres Peter Lorimer

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

Toll-Free: 888 883-3636

41-04 35th Ave Long Island City NY 11101 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

2834 Schoeneck Rd Macungie PA 18062-9679

3001 Sheldon Dr Cary NC 27513

Mktg Mgr Carmen A Castro

McGill AirClean LLC 1777 Refugee Rd Columbus OH 43207

919 677-0100 Fax: 919 677-0200.

Product Mktg Mgr Lee Aiken

Nelson Environmental Remediation Ltd.

614 829-1200 Fax: 614 445-8759.

26519C Township Rd 530 Spruce Grove AB T7X 3L5

MEGTEC Systems Inc.

Natl Sls Mgr Jerry Childress

PO Box 5030 De Pere WI 54115 Location: 830 Prosper Rd

Newalta Corporation 1100 Burloak Dr Unit 500 Burlington ON L7L 6B2 905 315-6300 Fax: 905 315-2204.

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

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

NexGen Enviro Systems, Inc. 190 E Hoffman Ave Lindenhurst NY 11757

1874 Hwy 206 Unit 2 Fonthill ON L0S 1E6

905 892-1800 Fax: 905 892-4359.

Toll-Free: 866 803-5133 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

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

Pres Craig Lindsay

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

412 262-0725 Fax: 412 262-0731.

Nett Technologies Inc.

132 Banff Rd Toronto ON M4P 2P5

Network Environmental Services Inc.

530 823-7185 Fax: 530 823-8997.

Toll-Free: 800 321-3577

31 Golden Gate Crt Scarborough ON M1P 3A4

Occupational Hygiene Association of Ontario (OHAO)

905 672-5453 Fax: 905 672-5949.

Toll-Free: 800 361-6388

Millennium Enterprises, Inc.

416 299-0116 Fax: 416 299-9649.

Toll-Free: 800 272-6118

PO Box 683186 Marietta GA 30068

Netzsch Canada Inc.

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440 237-4600 Fax: 440 582-2759.

Toll-Free: 800 200-4603

Norditrade Inc.

Pres Michael N Robbins

PO Box 240 Grass Valley CA 95945

770 926-9994 Fax: 770 926-9949.

PO Box 33092 Cleveland OH 44133-0092 Location: 12800 York Rd

Pres/CEO Darryl Nelson

780 960-3660 Fax: 780 962-6885.

Toll-Free: 888 960-8222

Tech Dir Abhinav Dhingra

Pres Carlos B Ramirez

Oil Skimmers Inc.

Pentek, Inc.

Mil-Ram Technology, Inc. 510 656-2001 Fax: 510 656-2004.

Toll-Free: 888 464-5726

ON Region Mgr Gerry Parrott

631 226-2930 Fax: 631 236-3125.

Toll-Free: 800 842-1630

920 337-1579 Fax: 920 339-2793.

Toll-Free: 800 558-5535

4135 Business Center Dr Fremont CA 94538

905 820-1210 Fax: 905 820-1221.

Optimum Sciences Inc.

6707 Goreway Dr Unit 2 Mississauga ON L4V 1P7

Mktg/Admv Asst Heidi Taylor

3715 Laird Rd Suite 100 Mississauga ON L5L 0A3

Pres Mike Guadiani

403 269-7440 Fax: 403 269-7422.

MAPA Professional Toll-Free: 800 537-2897 Toll-Free Fax: 800 537-3299

Adv/Mktg Mgr Diane Balcerczyk

O’Connor Associates Environmental Inc.

Pres Mike Aston

740 Huronia Rd

416 469-8438 Fax: 416 489-4168.

Pres Lars Henriksson

NovaLynx Corporation

Pres Joseph R Andre

6519B Mississauga Rd Mississauga ON L5N 1A6 905 567-7196 Fax: 905 567-7191.

Exec Dir Jason Boyer

1026 Fourth Ave Coraopolls PA 15108 Sls Rep Tim Benedict

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 2470 Milltower Crt

2012 Annual Buyers’ Guide Mississauga ON L5N 7W5 905 363-0678 Fax: 905 363-0681.

Toll-Free: 855 746-2446

514 940-3332 Fax: 514 940-3435.

VP Jacques Dion

17 Invertose Dr Port Colborne ON L3K 5V5

Mktg Mgr Robin Connelly

Plasco Energy Group Inc.

905 835-1203 Fax: 905 835-6824.

Toll-Free: 888 937-3382

1000 Innovation Dr Suite 400 Ottawa ON K2K 3E7

Dir Richard Unyi

RegScan, Inc.

613 591-9438 Fax: 613 591-9441.

800 W Fourth St Williamsport PA 17701

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

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

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.

Quantum Murray LP – Hazardous Materials Abatement Division

Provincial Environmental Services Inc

905 681-8832 Fax: 905 637-6267.

Toll-Free: 800 932-6232

PO Box 843 Hamilton ON L8N 3N9 Location: 505 Kenora Ave N Hamilton ON L8E 3P2 905 577-0575 Fax: 905 577-0842.

Toll-Free: 800 263-9762 Gen Mgr John Daneliuk

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

Raw Materials Company Inc.

100-3600 Viking Way Richmond BC V6V 1N6 604 270-7388 Fax: 604 270-7389.

Toll-Free: 800 251-7773 Pres Haz Mat Div Stephen Custeau

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

Quantum Murray LP – Remediation Division 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

570 323-1010 Ext. 1415 Fax: 570 323-8082.

Toll-Free: 800 734-7226 Coord Glenda Rutherford

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

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 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

Rocky Mountain Soil Sampling Inc. PO Box C-23 Bowen Island BC V0N 1G0 Location: North Vancouver BC V7J 1G1 604 947-7677 Fax: 604 947-9500.

Pres Andrew Thompson

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

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

Purifics ES Inc.

R & R Laboratories Ltd.

340 Sovereign Rd London ON N6M 1A8

1557 Fair Ave Peterborough ON K9K 1T1

1 Rubb Lane Sanford ME 04073

Pres Brian Butters

Pres Ramesh Makhija

Qikiqtaaluk Environment Inc.

Ram Lining Systems Inc.

3333 ch Queen Mary suite 580 Montréal QC H3V 1A2

RR 1 Bayfield ON N0M 1G0 519 524-1904 Fax: 519 524-6721.

Pres Frank Kunc

905 840-0118 Fax: 905 840-7957.

Safety-Kleen’s focus is conserving natural resources and protecting the environment while providing dependable parts washer and industrial waste management services to meet the needs of our customers and communities we serve.

Rochester Midland Limited

Rubb Inc.

705 748-9564 Fax: 705 748-9564.

25 Regan Rd Brampton ON L7A 1B2

Pres Andrew Hellebust

Chair Mark Jasper

519 473-5788 Fax: 519 473-0934.

Safety-Kleen Inc.

207 324-2877 Fax: 207 324-2347.

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

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

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 specializing in fully integrated PCB waste management, brownfield cleanup and site closure, biotreatment, water treatment, risk assessment, as well as rehabilitation of underground watermains using trenchless technologies. Sanexen’s team of experienced prefessionals 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 310 B Emig Rd Emigsville PA 17318 717 779-0040 Fax: 419 710-5831.

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

Schlumberger Water Services 72 Victoria St S Unit 202 Kitchener ON N2G 4Y9 519 746-1798 Fax: 519 885-5262.

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

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2012 Annual Buyers’ Guide 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

Sendex Environmental Corp.

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

Pres Marc B Trudell

SENES Consultants Limited 121 Granton Dr Unit 12 Richmond Hill ON L4B 3N4 905 764-9380 Fax: 905 764-9386.

Pres Don Gorber

SGS Canada Inc. (Laboratory) 185 Concession St Lakefield ON K0L 2H0 705 652-2111 Fax: 705 652-6365.

Toll-Free: 877 747-7658 Sr Proj Eng Chris Sullivan

Sierra Monitor Corporation 1991 Tarob Crt Milpitas CA 95035

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.

Skelly and Loy, Inc. 449 Eisenhower Blvd Suite 300 Harrisburg PA 17111-2302

450 929-1234 Fax: 450 929-2547.

Toll-Free: 800 571-3904 NA Sales Mgr Michael Winterbourne

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

Toll-Free: 877 977-8339 Pres John French

519 763-2227 Fax: 519 763-9887.

Dir-Bus Dev Neil Ryan

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

Toll-Free: 877 897-6642

Pres John Gunnett

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

Sr Geoscientist Austin Sweezey

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

Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine 12 Concorde Pl Suite 800 32 www.hazmatmag.com WINTER 2012

Standard Safety Equipment Company PO Box 189 McHenry IL 60051 Location: 1407 Ridgeview Dr McHenry IL 60050 Pres/CEO Scott R Olson

7070 Mississauga Rd Suite 160 Mississauga ON L5N 7G2

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,

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 Mike Bickel

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

905 817-2074 Fax: 905 858-4426.

Principal Bill Stiebel

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

Toll-Free: 800 221-0822

Terrapex Environmental Ltd. 49 Coldwater Rd Toronto ON M3B 1Y8

Sls Mgr Doug Butler

416 245-0011 Fax: 416 245-0012.

Toll-Free: 888 330-8739

Systems Plus

Branches:

1451 Gingerich Rd Baden ON N3A 3J7 519 634-5708 Fax: 519 634-5779.

Toll-Free: 800 604-3645 Pres Garry Ruttan

Peter Sutton

Location: Burlington ON 905 632-5939

Contact George Kosztyo

Location: Ottawa ON 613 745-6471

Contact Rod Rose

416 679-8914 Fax: 416 679-8915.

Toll-Free: 888 275-8436

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.

Branches:

Tetra Tech

T. Harris Environmental Management Inc. 93 Skyway Ave Suite 101 Toronto ON M9W 6N6

717 232-0593 Fax: 717 232-1799.

Toll-Free: 800 892-6532

SNC-Lavalin Environment

Pres/Owner Cliff Holland

Stantec Consulting Ltd

Skedco, Inc.

VP/Gen Mgr Bud Calkin

905 578-9666 Fax: 905 578-6644.

2801 boul Marie-Victorin Varennes QC J3X 1P7

236 Glasgow St N Guelph ON N1H 4X2

503 691-7909 Fax: 503 691-7973.

45 Upper Mount Albion Rd Stoney Creek ON L8J 2R9

815 363-8565 Fax: 815 363-8633.

Toll-Free: 888 345-4773

408 262-6611 Fax: 408 262-9042.

PO Box 3390 Tualatin OR 97062 Location: 10505 SW ManRasset Dr

Spill Management Inc.

Solmax International Inc.

Solution Soil Treatment Facility

VP-Mktg Steve Ferree

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.

Pres/CEO John C Fisher

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

6835A Century Ave Mississauga ON L5N 2L2 905 369-3000 Fax: 905 369-3200.

Dir- Strategic Bus Chris MacEachern

Thomas Lift Truck Service Ltd. 30 Devon Rd Brampton ON L6T 5B5 905 791-0007 Fax: 905 791-0282.

Toll-Free: 800 651-5850 Gen Mgr John Gowland

2012 Annual Buyers’ Guide Treatment Products Corporation PO Box 72444 Thorndale PA 19372 610 384-6279 Fax: 610 384-6239.

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

Pres/Owner Donald R Zimmerman

Voghel Enviroquip Inc

Tri-Arrow Industrial Recovery Inc.

1681 rue de l’Industrie Beloeil QC J3G 4S5

13364 Comber Way Surrey BC V3W 5V9 604 597-7334 Fax: 604 597-7382.

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

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

514 990-6636 Fax: 450 446-6401.

Wallace, Van Egmond Spankie Inc. 27 Hall Rd Georgetown ON L7G 0A4 Toll-Free: 877 755-7227 Toll-Free Fax: 877 755-7227 Pres John Van Van Egmond

Waterloo Biofilter Systems Inc.

Westeel Storage Systems

York Fluid Controls Ltd.

5812 48th Ave Olds AB T4H 1V1

2 Westwyn Crt Brampton ON L6T 4T5

403 556-9497 Fax: 403 556-9487.

Toll-Free: 800 665-2099

905 454-4013 Fax: 905 454-8423.

Toll-Free: 877 454-6066

Wilks Enterprise, Inc.

Young’s Environmental Cleanup, Inc.

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

Pres Sandra Rintoul

4 King St W Suite 900 Toronto ON M5H 1B6 416 863-0711 Fax: 416 863-1938.

Partner John Willms

PO Box 400 Rockwood ON N0B 2K0 Location: 143 Dennis St

Branches:

XCG Consultants Ltd.

URS Canada Inc.

8355 Riverbend Crt Burnaby BC V3N 5E7 604 451-8900 Fax: 604 451-8999.

2620 Bristol Cir Suite 300 Oakville ON L6H 6Z7

905 882-4401 Fax: 905 882-4399.

VP-Enviro Serv Mahmood Ghinani

Wells Cargo PO Box 728 Elkhart IN 46515-0728 Location: 1503 McNaughton Ave Elkhart IN 46514-0728

Veolia Environmental

574 264-9661 Fax: 574 264-5938.

Toll-Free: 800 348-7553

4390 Paletta Crt Unit K Burlington ON L7L 5R2

West Coast Spill Supplies Ltd.

905 296-6700

Visual Planning Corporation 6805 boul Décarie

Adv Mgr Scott Samuels

105-1763 Sean Heights Saanichton BC V8M 0A5 250 652-4549 Fax: 250 652-5052.

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

1306 Algoma Rd Ottawa ON K1B 3W8 Sls/Mktg Coord Marie-Chantale Perron

519 856-0757 Fax: 519 856-0759.

Mktg Coord/Media Coord Kirsten Allen

YOW Canada Inc. 613 688-2845 Fax: 613 248-0711.

Toll-Free: 866 688-2845

Weatherhaven

75 Commerce Valley Dr E Markham ON L3T 7N9

810 789-7155 Fax: 810 789-3606.

Toll-Free: 800 496-8647

Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP

215 529-9921 Fax: 215 529-9936.

Toll-Free: 800 634-8368 Bus Dir Mike Belisle

G-5305 N Dort Hwy Flint MI 48505

905 829-8880 Fax: 905 829-8890.

Branches:

Location: Edmonton AB Location: Kingston ON Location: Kitchener ON Location: Cincinnati OH

Expert People. Better Decisions.

XCG Consultants Ltd. is an environmental engineering firm that has earned a reputation for excellence.

Our staff is committed to delivering innovative, practical and sustainable solutions. XCG offers comprehensive services in water and wastewater treatment, infrastructure management, water resources, site assessment and remediation, risk assessment, solid waste, and training and operations.

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.

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd 400 University Ave Toronto ON M5G 1S7 416 586-2765 Fax: 416 586-2538.

Toll-Free: 800 387-5454

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CLEANTECH: OPINION

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he CleanTech sector is being built on efforts to reduce the carbon intensity of modern society.

As governments around the world support this sector, many are concentrating efforts on developing a CleanTech manufacturing base. While green job creation plans may excite voters, they risk creating conflicts that could lead to larger trade disputes.

A good example is Ontario’s Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program for renewable energy (implemented in 2009), which has garnered world attention and investment in the province. However, the program’s domestic content requirements, which mandate a minimum amount of local component manufacture and assembly, has caused consternation in certain world capitals. Japan filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) in September, 2010, and the resulting process has been joined by the US and EU. (The accusation is that the Ontario policy discriminates against foreign products.)

The Finnish Foreign Ministry has identified over 400 international green trade or investment barriers, including technical restrictions, tariffs and fees, customs pro-

cedures, taxes and restriction on movement of persons.

CleanTech companies encounter frequent problems with product certification, high duties, domestic content requirements and trademark infringement.

The United States is a good example of a country with a diverse base of CleanTech companies selling products globally. The US government has objected to the alleged dumping of Chinese-manufactured wind turbines and solar panels onto its markets, as it moves forward with another “Buy American” program. However, according to a recent article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a considerable amount of the installed equipment in most renewable energy projects is manufactured in the US, whether subcomponents for solar panels or mounting equipment for turbines. A trade war with China or other low-cost manufacturing jurisdictions is not in the interest of the US, or the world.

Canada is a trading nation and its wealth has increased significantly with the reduction of global trade barriers — something our governments must keep in mind as we wade into the murky waters of incentivizing the growth of a developing industry.

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Environment and Waste Technology in the Netherlands Report from a recent trade mission

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n the second week of October, 2011, I had the privilege of joining a dozen or so other Canadian environment and waste industry professionals on a trade mission hosted by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. On the trip — which lasted a week — our group crisscrossed the country for a close-up view of a range of facilities and processes to deal with everything from municipal solid waste to the recycling of old mattresses, from technologies to remediate contaminated soil to incinerators for hazardous materials.

Our trade mission included meetings with government officials at The Hague, attendance and “matchmaking” at the large Milieubeurs environmental trade

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“ATM Moerdijk operates the world’s largest hazardous waste treatment plant.”

(Clockwise): Traditional Dutch windmill; recycled plastic pellets at the Van Werven plant; the trade mission group gathered at the top of the VAR Recycling landfill mound, which they dubbed the “Dutch Alps” (due to the rest of the country being completely flat). Author is fifth from the right.

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show in Den Bosch, a reception at the Canadian Embassy (where Aim Environmental signed an agreement with another company) and numerous site visits.

The trip reaffirmed my long-standing conviction that Northern countries have much to teach and share with their circumpolar peers; indeed, many Dutch technologies and equipment arrays are available to solve environmental problems in Canada, just as Canadian solutions could be commercialized and exported there.

LAND AND LIMITATIONS

There are interesting things about the Netherlands that make it uniquely qualified to develop environmental technologies and export them overseas, starting with its land mass, which is in large part recovered from the sea or shoreline bogs.

If there’s a country that understands soil, it’s the Netherlands, and Dutch companies such as Boskalis International (a.k.a. Stuyvesant) are demonstrating soil cleanup technologies in Alberta’s oil sands. (See article, page 45.) At points on the tour our guide would mention that the bus was crossing onto land reclaimed from the ocean a few decades ago; an hour later he’d point out that we were now exiting that land — the bus had

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driven 100 kms per hour all that time.

With the country networked with dykes and much of it below sea level, it’s not surprising that landfilling is banned; thirty-five waste streams are banned and currently less than five per cent of waste is landfilled these days (mostly asbestos that was once used, among other things, by farmers to create pathways on their lands).

Land pressures have forced the Dutch to invest in every alternative to landfilling, including aggressive recycling and other forms of waste diversion.

As one would expect, wherever landfill is banned, incineration is used. Upwards of a dozen waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration plants dot the landscape of the Netherlands, most of them state-of-the-art affairs with emissions at non-detect levels. Indeed, incineration overcapacity was cited several times on our tour as a problem, with the plants competing for waste and, in fact, necessitating the import of waste from places such as the United Kingdom.

A highlight of our tour was visiting the brand new OMRIN WTE plant scheduled to treat 210,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of waste from 36 municipalities (27 of them local Friesen jurisdictions) or about 173,000 households. Built at a cost of € 150 million, the plant will be paid for by the end of its 15-year contract. A common concern with such plants is that they may compete with recycling programs for high-BTU wastes such as plastic soda bottles; it was reassuring to discover that such wastes are diverted from the waste that’s fed into the incinerator (I visually saw none in the feedstock), largely because the government pays a generous € 390/tonne for separated plastics — much higher than the tip fee for the incinerator. Indeed, the Packaging Directive states that 42 per cent of plastic packaging must be recycled by 2012, and municipalities are paid incentives to divert this material from disposal.

The plant’s bottom ash is incorporated into road aggregate; the toxic fly ash, meanwhile, is shipped to underground salt mines in Germany.

In support of waste diversion, several financial instruments are available. The fee for disposing combustible waste in the Netherlands is, at the moment, € 107/tonne; landfilling the same waste costs about € 120/tonne. Some municipalities use a volume-based variable fee to charge for waste services, typically € 250 per household. Most jurisdictions in the country encourage source-separation of organic waste, paper and cardboard, plastics and glass. Many use wheeled containers, and every municipality must offer residents public drop-off depots.

All of this has led to impressive results: iIn 2010 around 80 per cent of the Netherland’s waste was recycled, 16 per cent incinerated and only a small fraction (three to four per cent) was landfilled.

Top: Inside the Retour Matras mattress recycling plant in Lelystad. Bottom: CEO Wim Hulshof holding soil recycled at ATM Moerdijk, the world’s largest hazardous waste treatment plant.

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

The Netherlands has imposed some nation-wide legislation that waste managers in other jurisdictions can only dream of, as these have spurred technological innovation. For example, in the early 1990s separate collection of organics was mandated, which led to investment in composting and anaerobic digestion technology and techniques. Requirements to recycle plastics has led to investment in better equipment to recover those materials, and the need for recycled soil has led to an explosion of expertise in soil washing and other forms of site remediation.

As anyone who has visited the busy port of Amsterdam would know, Holland is one of the world’s leading export nations, so most investments in domestic technologies are made with one eye on foreign markets, and most of the companies with whom we met spoke at length about demonstrating their solutions at home, then selling them around the world.

At the Milieubeurs environmental trade show we met with Luc Klunder of Gicom Composting Systems whose company took tunnel composting from the mushroom industry and adapted it for large-scale municipal purposes.

Gicom has since built more than 70 facilities worldwide.

Similarly, Ward Janssens of Orgaworld described his company’s anaerobic process for organics wastes, which is in operation near London, Ontario, is constructing another in Ottawa and has plans for two more in Quebec. Frank Geerts and Henk Roeven of the Christiaens Group described their in-vessel system that’s finding favour in towns and cities across Canada, most recently with a plant that just opened in the City of Guelph that was built by a consortium WINTER 2012 HazMat Management 37

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of BioRem, Christeans Group and Maple Reinders, and will be operated by Aim Environmental. We also met with Christel Bockting of Trisplast at the company’s exhibit on the trade show floor; Trisoplast produces an interesting landfill liner made with bentonite clay, the even settling properties of which provide advantages over synthetic landfill liners, which could be especially of interest to customers in the solid waste and mining industries.

At VAR Recycling our group was treated to the Dutch idea of a landfill, which was primarily a place where waste is sorted and recycled. As Ruurd van Schaik, Director of Engineering, explained, the facility manages and diverts construction and demolition (C&D) waste, with rubble being valuable in Holland; compost and biomass are processed onsite in organic digesters that generate 80,000 tpy of compost for the potting industry and green fuels. Refuse-derived fuel pellets are sold to cement kilns The facility also recycles artificial turf, separating the sand, the green “grass” from the black rubber backing. VAR also has a soil washing facility as part of its extensive landfill excavation and reclamation project.

Later in the week we were able to view the downstream fate of plastics diverted from disposal via places like VAR Recycling. Ton van der Giessen and Rob Labots showed us around the Van Werven plant, which specializes in plastics recycling, especially the difficult resins from which garden furniture (for instance) and large children’s toys may be made. The company processes 10,000 kilos of garden furniture per week, among 15 to 20 trucks that drop off mixed plastic each day. The plant employs 60 people who work around the clock six days per week producing plastic pellets that can be half the price for manufacturers than virgin resin. We later visited the manufacturing plant of Lankhorst Recycling in Sneek, a subsidiary of a large conglomerate that started out in marine rope and now makes everything from large nautical buoys to plastic decking to pipe protective sleeves

(Left to right): Computerized control room of the OMRIN waste-to-energy plant; the author (left) with Herman Huisman from the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation at the Van Werven plastic recycling plant; typical commercial waste and recycling cart set up in Amsterdam. used in offshore oil & gas drilling operations. Huge “Van Werven” totes full of recycled plastic pellets were present throughout the plant.

In Lelystad we visited a mattress recycling plant operated

by Retour Matras, which designed all its own specialized equipment and collects mattresses via a system of transport containers deployed at retailers and waste depots across the country, paying haulers a percentage of a recycling fee.

Another highlight of the trade mission was our visit to ATM Moerdijk — operator of the world’s largest hazardous waste treatment plant. Our host, CEO Wim Hulshof explained the complicated history of the company which overcame economic and technical hurdles to become the profitable enterprise it is today, currently as a subsidiary of UK-based Shanks. ATM receives and processes all kinds of hazardous wastes, but is especially effective at treating contaminated soils in its large rotary kiln. With prices in the range of just 50 to 60 Euros per tonne, it’s arguable that in some instances it could make sense to send tanker ship loads all the way from North America to the Netherlands for treatment at ATK. (In fact, the company receives such shipments from all over the world.)

Another company we visited was Biolake, whose Jan Pronk showed us a small-footprint system designed to turn about 8,000 tpy of agricultural waste into energy, and garner greenhouse gas credits for clients. No trip to Holland would be complete without visiting an equipment manufacturer in the recycling plant space; Dutch equipment suppliers like Bollegraaf are well known in Canada; we visited a company called Nihot, whose manager Cees Dujjn showed us around.

About 95 per cent of the plant’s operation is geared to export.

The company got its start making simple small single-burner stoves in the aftermath of WWII and gradually developed into a manufacturer of recycling equipment of different types (e.g., drum separators, balers, shredders, etc.). One of Nihot’s

“The Dutch Rainmaker is a high-tech windmill adapted to condense moisture out of the air and turn it into drinkable water.”

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(Left to right): Inside the new 210,000 tpy OMRIN waste-to-energy plant; the ATM Moerdijk rotary kiln; totes filled with recycled plastic at Van Werven.

specialities is air-knife air separators, which accurately sort light from heavy fractions in recycling streams.

Separate excursions on the trade mission included a discussion in Leeuwarden on sustainable water technology with Hein Molenkamp, director of the Water Alliance of the Netherlands, plus a visit to a demonstration site for desalination operated by Blue Energy; some remarked on the very interesting apparatus called a “Dutch Rainmaker,” which

was a high-tech windmill adapted to condense moisture out of the air and turn it into drinkable water.

On the last day a delegation of those with a special interest in soil visited the largest soil remediation project in the Netherlands — a former dumping ground in Volgermeerpolder that was transformed, in part from peatHMM forming, into a park.

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HAZMAT: EVENT REPORT

2011 International Sites & Spills Expo The inaugural International Sites and Spills Expo, presented by HazMat Management magazine and parent company Business Information Group, was a success with over 350 delegates plus 60 exhibiting companies attended the two-day event at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario on November 3 and 4, 2011. The event, the first of its kind to combine hazardous materials management and site remediation with the common threads of cleanup and sustainability, featured a training workshop, plus three tracks of conference speakers and a trade show.

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Nick Hickson (left), HazMat Instructor of Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) in College Station, Texas, with Kent Gardiner (right), Training Manager with TEEX.

At the Lakeland Protective Wear, Inc.’s booth.

Staff at the Coastal Environmental Systems, Inc., booth demonstrated HazMat weather stations for industrial and chemical facilities.

Geoprobe equipment from GroundTech Solutions in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

HazMat workers with Quantum Murray LP of Stoney Creek, Ontario.

Michael MacDonald (left), manager of technical sales with Hazco in Hamilton, Ontario, with Jeff Bibbings (right), national sales manager with GroundTech Solutions in Richmond Hill, Ontario in front of GroundTech’s Geoprobe.

Rob Van Meer (left) of the Department of Defence with Jim Galea (right), business development, with Quantum Murray LP in Stoney Creek, Ontario.

Heather Lothien (left), sales & marketing coordinator with Scott Environmental Group Ltd. in Kingston, Ontario, with Ken Lothien (right), I.C.I. consultant to Scott Environmental.

Jennifer Culver (left), business development, with First Response Environmental in Hamilton, Ontario, with First Response’s Justin Bower (right).

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Brett Herman (left), director of site services, with Clean Harbors Environmental Services in Burlington, Ontario, with Clean Harbors’ field service specialist Jonathan Depeuter (right).

Gordon Bures (left), director of remediation services, Frac Rite Environmental Ltd. in Calgary Alberta, with Heather Sturm (right), Frac Rite environmental engineer.

Sean Van Doorselaer (left) with Lind Equipment in Markham, Ontario, with Lind’s Brian Astl (right).

International Sites & Spills Environmental Awards The International Sites and Spills Environmental Awards were presented to the following individuals for their excellence in their promoting new concepts, technology and furthering environmental sustainability.

Mike Laberge (left), VP of business & development, Environmental Solutions in Ottawa, Ontario, with Michael the company’s LeBlanc (centre), branch manager, and Torgny Vigerstad (right), director for scientific investigations.

Toronto’s Mark Sepic, musician and recycling entrepreneur, played on a harp, a xylophone and other instruments made from recycled materials at the gala reception.

Guy Crittenden, Editor of HazMat Management magazine (left) presents Mike Harcourt, Sustainable Solutions (right), former BC Premier and Vancouver Mayor with the Leadership Award for his quest to make all cities more livable.

Carol Bell-Lenoury (left), general manager of the EcoLog Environment Group, with Dec Doran (right) oil spill and firefighting coordinator, Oil Spill Control Services in Richmond Hill, Ontario, who won the HazMat Professional of the Year Award for (among other things) the response to the Enbridge Spill in Tallmadge Creek, Michigan.

Carol (left), with David Harper (right), of the Kilmer Brownfield Equity Fund in Toronto, Ontario, who received the 2011 Brownfields Award for the company’s large restoration project using Zero Valent technology on the Toronto waterfront.

Carol and Jamie Ross (right), national account manager, HazMat Management magazine accepting the award for CleanTech Award on behalf of Brad Marchant, BioteQ Environmental Technologies in Vancouver, BC, won for its work with Sulphide precipitation on acid mine drainage at the Wellington Oro Mine.

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In Situ Remediation Enhancement technologies for remedial success

Reductions in TCE concentrations in groundwater over a nine-month period following emplacement of 100 tons of Micro ZVI/Carbon amendment into bedrock sediments.

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n situ remediation techniques are becoming more prominent among environmental practitioners due to their cost-effectiveness, innovation, and environmental sustainability (i.e., they convert contaminants into natural, innocuous byproducts).

In particular, placement of biological or chemical treatment amendments into impacted subsoils is gaining favor for soil and groundwater remediation.

However, in situ remediation is still perceived by many end-users and consulting professionals as a technically

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“Monitoring of groundwater quality across the site has shown over 94 per cent TCE mass reduction to below risk based clean-up criteria of 100 ppb TCE in the former source area.�

constrained remediation approach, due to unfamiliarity or inexperience with new or emerging treatment technologies. This view is especially entrenched for sites where contaminants are present in low-permeability soils and bedrock, in which conventional in situ approaches have demonstrated only limited success. Furthermore, in situ technologies are often mistakenly assumed to be more costly than other approaches, when in fact emerging in situ techniques can result in significant cost savings.

Innovative in situ technologies can overcome geologically-imposed limitations and achieve successful remediation and site closure. Techniques can be optimized for the delivery and contact of treatment amendments with subsurface contaminants for mitigating contaminants to site-closure concentrations. Remedial enhancement and verification technologies can include hydraulic soil fracturing, permeation injection, surfactant-enhanced chemical/biological remediation, and subsurface amendment mapping tools. A systematic approach must be taken, based on consideration of the applicable design factors, which aid in the determination of an appropriate amendment emplacement strategy specific to the particular geologic, hydrogeologic, contaminant characteristics, and logistical factors for any given site.

Hydraulic fracture-emplacment of micro Zero Valent Iron slurry into bedrock sediments between depths of 20 to 30 metres below ground surface.

FRACTURE EMPLACEMENT OF ZERO VALENT IRON An in situ pilot remediation project was carried out on behalf of the US Army Corps of Engineers (Omaha District) at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB) Former Atlas “E” Missile Site No. 12 (Atlas 12) in Colorado, that featured an innovative application of drilling, treatment, fracture-emplacement, and geophysical technologies to mitigate impacts from chlorinated volatile organic hydrocarbons.

The former missile site complex is underlain by silty sandstone bedrock sediments impacted by trichloroethene (TCE) of upwards to 4,000 micrograms per litre (ug/L), and associated volatile organic hydrocarbons. The purpose of the pilot test was to evaluate the performance of fracture-emplacement and amendment mapping technologies prior to developing the proposed remedy. The pilot work involved the emplacement of over 100 tons of a zero valent

micro-iron/complex carbon treatment amendment (EHC-G™) into deep bedrock sediments to attain optimal distribution throughout the contaminant plume.

Geophysical data from ground tilt sensors were analyzed using inverse parameter modeling to determine fracture geometry (modeled as planar disk features) defined by length, width, thickness, asymmetry, orientation, and angle of ascent from horizontal (measured in degrees). The fracture plots were correlated with operational fracturing data (pressure and flow vs. time plots) and transformed into three dimensional, dynamic computer graphics. The entire fracture network was incorporated into three-dimensional graphical output files which depict both individual fracture borehole plots, and the entire fracture network, in any dimensional viewing perspective.

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98 per cent of the total design mass of 205,550 lb. (93,237 kg) of “EHC-G� zero valent micro-iron/carbon (ZVMI) within TCEimpacted bedrock sediments to enhance the reductive dechlorination of TCE contaminants in groundwater within the source area and dissolved phase plumes. The results of fracturing and tiltmeter geophysics demonstrated that the vertical and lateral extensiveness of the fracture network resulted in a uniform distribution of ZVMI across the entire target interval of impacted bedrock sediments, including underneath the missile silo bunker.

This hydraulically connected network of ZVMI fractures provides significant contact with TCE impacted bedrock and long-term ZVMI diffusion into natural, secondary porosity features within bedrock sediments. This appears to be supported by results from groundwater quality sampling which has shown an overall decrease in TCE concentrations of between 47 per cent and 93 per cent six months after ZVMI emplacement. After nine months, TCE concentrations had declined an order of magnitude from original values with only two of 18 wells exhibiting concentrations above 400 ug/L. The results of pilot work was used to optimize the design of a full-scale ZVMI fracture network, which was carried out in August

of 2011. This work involved the drilling of a further six fracture boreholes to emplace an additional 40 tons of ZVMI in the distal, west portion of the TCE plume. Monitoring of groundwater quality across the site to date has shown that over 94 per cent TCE mass reduction has been achieved to below risk based clean-up criteria of 100 ppb TCE in the former source area, with some locations being reduced to below the drinking water criteria of 5 ppb.

Based on the success of this innovative in situ remedial approach, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering the use of fracture-emplaced ZVMI at similar sites in the region.

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REMEDIATION: OIL SANDS

Oil Sand Tailings Dredging technology provides a sustainable alternative for handling fine oil sand tailings

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he management of large quantities of oil sand tailings has long presented a challenge to the oil sands industry. The Directive 074 has made it urgent to find a solution to stockpiled Mature Fine Tailings (MFT).

At the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, large quantities of fine tailings (i.e., low-density mixtures of clay, silt and residual bitumen) have accumulated over the years in extensive tailings ponds. The low-strength (10s–100s Pascal) and rather slow self-weight consolidation process, which typically takes hundreds of years, clearly hamper the reclamation of MFT stockpiled in ponds.

The Directive 074 is encouraging oil companies to find better and faster ways to clean up their oil sands tailings ponds.

“When small quantities of MFT are being processed, traditional means of treatment are sufficient,” according to Walter Jacobs, Project Engineer at Hydronamic, the environmental engineering arm of the Dutch-based company Royal Boskalis Westminster. “But when the quantities grow larger, so do the challenges.”

The difficulty of reclaiming large MFT ponds is

widely acknowledged among the oil companies, and various approaches to accelerate consolidation are currently being tested. Mechanical methods are being tried as well as the addition of chemicals such as gypsum or flocculants. These solutions are complex and require multiple operational steps.

Boskalis International BV (BKI), a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster, one of the world’s major dredging companies, and North American Construction Group (NACG), the premier dry-earth contractor in the oil sands, have combined forces to provide services to the oil sands industry. After extensive R&D, BKI-NACG have taken a proven, environmentally-sound technique used by the dredging industry for reclaiming deposited slurries, and adapted it specifically to the in situ reclamation of MFT. “BKI and NACG have combined their knowhow and developed a new method that provides an innovative, sustainable treatment for large-scale areas of MFT,” says Jacobs, adding, “and it complies with Directive 074.”

This unique process, plus the expertise of other Boskalis subsidiaries like in-house ground improvement

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“Within a few years you can achieve undrained shear strengths in the order of 10 kPa over the full depth of a pond.”

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techniques from Cofra, soil remediation technology from Boskalis Dolman, and engineering services from Hydronamic, add up to a total tailings solution.

HYDRAULIC CAPPING The method known as hydraulic capping or subaquatic placement consists of “spraying,” or gently distributing, successive thin layers of sand over fine tailings using floating equipment.

“Boskalis used this technique successfully at, amongst other projects, the Port of Melbourne Deepening Project in Australia,” says Jacobs. “Based on dredging expertise and by applying software specially developed by Deltares (a research institute in The Netherlands) it’s possible to guide both the design of the work method as well as the choice of equipment.”

As part of a monitoring campaign, sediment cores were taken at the capped area after the operations had finished. These cores showed a distinct transition between the sand cap and the (consolidated) slurry, which clearly illustrated the applicability of the technique.

This exclusive software also makes it possible to predict the shear strengths of slurries during and after consolidation, using material-specific relations.

Advanced monitoring techniques allow the optimization of the process, before, during and after the installation of the cap.

“But given that slurry characteristics are rather sitespecific,” Jacobs adds, “more R&D was required to adjust the work method for the Canadian oil sands industry. Now that these adaptations have been tested, BKI-NACG is ready to apply them to MFT.” In addition to the overburden of the final sand layer, which is a few meters thick, consolidation is further accelerated by dewatering the pond — which generates an additional vertical load by the cap — and by installing vertical drains. These combined effects change the character of the MFT from liquid to plastic/solid.

Jacobs clarifies that, “This expedites the process.

Within a few years — short by anybody’s standards — you can achieve undrained shear strengths in the order of 10 kPa over the full depth of a pond. After capping, the pond is accessible for land-based equipment, which further facilitates reclamation and reforestation.”

Unlike the more complex techniques currently being

used, hydraulic capping occurs in situ, so large quantities of MFT are efficiently reclaimed in a relatively short time frame. This increases the efficient use of the pond storage capacity. It also makes it possible to recycle the process water which otherwise evaporates in areas where water is a precious commodity. And, last but not least, it reduces costs drastically.

“For example,” says Jacobs, “hydraulic placement of a sand cap with a 2.5 m thickness on an existing tailings pond with a 2 km diameter takes about two operational seasons. Drains may be installed simultaneously and/or in the following season. Taking some time for consolidation and strength gain, and assuming a pond-depth of 40 m, the previous experience indicates that using hydraulic capping allows the reclamation of over 40 million m3 of MFT within a five-year period.”

For active ponds which are being filled with tailings, intermediate layers of sand (0.3 m thickness) can be installed to create a so-called “sandwich” structure.

The sand layers shorten the drainage path length of the pore water, significantly accelerating consolidation. This allows recycling of process water and provides more storage capacity for tailings.

SUSTAINABLE AND ECONOMICAL “All in all the in situ capping of fine tailings facilitates reclamation after filling, and therefore helps to decrease the footprint of the industry. And the limited operational steps result in less CO2 output,” says Jacobs.

In situ hydraulic capping provides a sustainable solution for addressing the large-scale operations required in the oil sands industry, transforming the way in which both existing and active oil sands tailings ponds in Canada are reclaimed, at lower costs and in less time.

HMM

Marsha Cohen is with The Hague Academic Press, Ltd. In the Netherlands. Contact Marsha at hagueacademic@pipeline. com Contact Walter Jacobs, Project Engineer, Hydronamic, at w.jacobs@boskalis.nl Contact Bastiaan Lammers, Project Development Manager, Boskalis Canada Dredging and Marine Services Ltd, at b.m.lammers@boskalis.nl 46 www.hazmatmag.com WINTER 2012

HAZMAT : SPOTLIGHT

What if Waste Weren’t?

A look at environmental multi-service company Newalta Newalta’s oil re-refinery in North Vancouver, BC.

the pulp & paper industry.

The company has benefited from growing environmental regulations and society’s desire to stop just sending waste to landfill. For instance, when Ontario introduced strict Land Disposal Restrictions, hydrocarbon sludges and still bottoms from industrial processes could no longer simply be land-farmed. Newalta introduced a process that dewaters the sludge and separates out the hydrocarbons for reuse, thereby reducing by up to 95 per cent the amount that needs to be sent for disposal.

Newalta can also treat wastewater from a refinery’s operations and recycle this through the tank-cleaning process. This kind of added-value is appreciated by customers such as the chemical firms in the Sarnia area. (The company has spent $12 million in R&D over the past three years to improve wastewater treatment solutions.)

SERVICES AND FACILITIES The lead-acid battery recycling plant in Ville Ste-Catherine, Quebec.

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algary, Alberta-based Newalta Corporation is a leading multi-service environment and industrial waste management company with 80 facilities across North America; the company annually recovers an average of $400 million in reusable products from materials including used oil, liquid and sludge wastes, and other recyclable byproducts. Newalta partners with customers to provide engineered environmental solutions to solve their most difficult waste management challenges, minimizing waste, maximizing the recovery of valuable products and reducing the environmental impact of industry.

In addition, when recovery isn’t possible, the company focuses on helping customers reduce or eliminate their wastes in the first place, with disposal used only as a last resort.

The company started in 1993 as an industrial services and oilfield company with 100 employees working in six facilities, turning over just $8 million in revenue.

Today, the company turns over annual revenues of about $500 million with more than 2,000 staff serving a varied client base. (150 scientists, engineers and technical staff manage the company’s innovative chemical solutions.)

Newalta is projecting to add 700 new people by 2013.

Customers include companies in everything from the oil & gas sector to mining, from the automotive and construction industries to petrochemicals, refining and

Across the country, Newalta provides a broad range of industrial waste management, recycling and environmental services to various industry sectors.

In Canada and the U.S., Newalta has significant presence in major unconventional, shale oil and gas plays, where it provides waste minimization, drilling fluids recovery and water treatment and recycling services.

In key chemical, petrochemical and refinery markets across Canada, Newalta provides tank management services that reduce waste volumes and recover product to be returned to customers processes.

A cornerstone of Newalta’s business is the recovery via centrifuge of about two million barrels of crude oil from “slop oil” — produced from oil sands and conventional drilling operations. In Alberta’s oil sands region, Newalta partners with companies in both the steamassisted gravity drainage (SAGD) and traditional mining sectors. In SAGD, Newalta recovers crude from producers’ slop oil as well as water for reuse in the drilling process. On the oil sands mining side, Newalta recently signed a three-year, $60-million contract to design, build and operate a commercial-scale pilot facility to process mature fine tailings (MFT) for Syncrude to recover oil and water from tailings ponds.

Other product lines include the recycling of used oil into valuable products such as base oil via re-refining at its re-refinery in North Vancouver, BC, and the recovery of lead from spent lead-acid batteries at a facility in Ville Ste-Catherine, Quebec.

In 2010, the company recovered 1.9 million barrels of crude oil, 68,000 tonnes of lead and 22 million litres

by Guy Crittenden

“Today, the company turns over annual revenues of about $576 million with more than 2,000 staff.”

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HAZMAT: SPOTLIGHT

BARRIE FUEL BLENDING PLANT Newalta works with an increasing number of customers to achieve its zero-landfill objectives. One such example is a customer whose facility has undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce, recycle and reuse waste as a fuel feedstock and in fact achieved its zero-landfill objectives two-and-a-half years ahead of schedule (in March 2011).

Newalta provides an avenue for the customer’s high-solid content wastes that remain after all recycling opportunities have been exhausted. This includes caulking sludges and industrial solvents, which have a residual heat value that can be incorporated into the industrial fuel blending process employed at Newalta’s facility in Barrie, Ontario, just north of Toronto.

Some of the waste materials processed include: off-spec or expired consumer products such as shampoos, cosmetics, and personal hygiene products; as well as pharmaceuticals; solvents; paints and paint sludges. In 2010, Newalta Barrie diverted 420,000 litres of material that would previously have been disposed of by producing alternate fuels. In addition to not entering landfill, diverting this material benefits the environment by recovering energy value in waste to derive a beneficial reuse, thus conserving non-renewable resources.

The recipient of fuel produced in Barrie is a cement plant in Mississauga, Ontario, west of Toronto. The plant is one of the largest, most environmentally responsible suppliers of cement in Canada. This plant pioneered the concept of using of base oils and lubricants. In addition, the company treats and recovers drilling fluids from oil and gas drill cuttings, water from industrial wastewater, solvents and glycols from industrial waste materials, metals from mining tailings and waste, and a number of other valuable materials.

FINANCES AND GROWTH Since 1993, Newalta (TSX: NAL) has delivered steady, profitable growth, with revenue and adjusted EBITDA increasing an average of 30 per cent per year. In 2010, the company had revenue of $576 million and $119 million adjusted EBITDA. Its stock is up currently about 500 per cent from its low price in early 2009.

From 1993 to 2006, the company developed and commercialized new technologies, expanded services and added facilities across Western Canada. Then from 2006 to 2008, the company made a number of strategic acquisitions throughout Eastern Canada to give it a coast-to-coast national footprint. More recently, over the past two years, Newalta has made significant inroads into the U.S. market. Today the company employs over 200 people south of the border with regional business offices in Houston, Texas and Williamsport, Pennsylvania, plus operations in Texas, Wyoming, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania (primarily in the oil & gas sector).

Worker at Newalta’s Barrie, Ontario fuel blending plant.

alternate fuels produced from waste materials with residual heat values in the early 1970s. The company subsequently received a unique Certificate of Approval from the Ontario environment regulator to use chlorinated solvents and waste oils as alternate fuels to power its kiln. In fact, the regulator considers the chlorinated solvent as a product in terms of its transport, storage and use — as opposed to a waste material — and Newalta has specific language in its facilities’ permits referencing the supply of this material to the customer.

The alternate fuels produced by Newalta result in lower greenhouse gas emissions for the customer than the nonrenewable fossil fuels traditionally burned to provide heat energy to the kiln, while also reducing energy consumption costs.

Over the past four years, the company has extended its operations to increasingly operate directly on customer sites. This approach decreases transportation costs and related environmental impacts, reduces waste and recovers resources at the source.

In 2009, Newalta established a Technical Development group to search world-wide for innovative new technologies and processes to recover more materials from more industrial wastes for more customers. This strategy will be a key driver of growth over the next several years.

The company has entered into a number of strategic partnerships over the past two years to expand its service offerings and geographic coverage. Most notably, this includes: BioteQ Environmental Technologies, a water treatment company. Newalta is currently pilot testing several technology solutions with BioteQ, primarily focused on the mining and oil & gas sectors.

TerrAqua Resource Management (TARM) — a water treatment company that provides services to shale gas producers in the Marcellus Shale play in Pennsylvania. The partnership will focus on the development and construction of new TARM recycle/reuse facilities for treating flowback and produced waters from Marcellus hydraulic fracturing gas development. HMM For more information about Newalta, visit www.newalta.com

Guy Crittenden is editor of this magazine. Contact Guy at gcrittenden@hazmatmag.com 48 www.hazmatmag.com WINTER 2012

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HAZMAT: LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

Get the Lead Out!

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by Dianne Saxe

“Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of lead from gasoline lie in urban soils and along highways.”

his spring, friends of mine renovated an old house. Because they’re committed to recycling, they saved the old doors and decided to refinish them themselves. In a bare patch of their backyard, they merrily stripped and sanded 14 layers of paint off the old doors, marveling at the many colors the house had gone through over the century. They raked up the dust and thought nothing more about it.

What’s wrong with this picture?

It never occurred to my friends that the dried paint and the dust from sanding them could be dangerous to their health.

Lead-safe renovation of older houses, which is now mandatory in the United States, could make a significant contribution to public health. Recent health Canada documents (such as Proposed Risk Management Strategy for Lead, July 2011) confirm that lead is ubiquitous in Canada, and in Canadians, but that there is no safe threshold for lead exposure. Small children and pregnant women are most at risk. (Babies and infants often suck on objects, including their unwashed hands. Lead has a sweet taste, making it tempting; children absorb lead more easily, and are more susceptible to its adverse effects.)

As the Canadian Public Health Association put it, lead exposure in children can cause cognitive deficits, developmental delays, hypertension, impaired hearing, attention deficit disorder, reduced intelligence, and learning disabilities. In the elderly, accumulated lead is released into the blood, contributing to various health effects, including cataracts, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, other forms of dementia, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and impaired kidney function.

Compared to adults with low levels of lead in their blood, adults with elevated blood lead levels are two-anda-half times more likely to die of a heart attack, 89 per cent more likely to die of a stroke, and 55 per cent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease. Even more frightening, higher blood lead levels in preschoolers are linked with higher rates of violent crime later in life.

Removing lead from gasoline, from paint, and from incinerator emissions was a huge public health success that has also reduced crime. According to the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS), every Canadian has lead in their blood, but average blood lead levels have dropped by two thirds in the last 30 years. The most lead is now found in: older people (60 to 79 years); people with lower household incomes; those born outside Canada; people living in older homes; current or former smokers (lead may be present in tobacco); drinkers (lead

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is present in several types of alcohol, especially wine, and may also leach from containers).

The current “action level” for intervention to reduce lead is 10 mcg/dL, but there’s good evidence that this number is still too high.

Where is today’s lead coming from? Lead is still found in consumer products like lead acid car batteries, mini-blinds, toys and inexpensive jewellery, and in some folk medicines. Health Canada issues frequent advisories about lead hazards of children’s jewellery, and some steps are being taken to improve regulation of these products.

Under the new Children’s Jewellery Regulations of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, it’s illegal to import, advertise or sell jewellery for children that contains high levels of lead. Similar rules now apply, under the Hazardous Products Act, Consumer Products Containing Lead (Contact with Mouth) Regulations, to consumer products that contain lead in a part that may be touched, licked, mouthed or swallowed during normal use.

Lead has also been found in cosmetic products, like lipsticks; Health Canada is developing a guidance document on heavy metal impurities in cosmetics; the proposed maximum levels of lead in cosmetics is 10 parts per million (ppm). In May, Environmental Defence reported that cosmetic products tested for lead and other heavy metals found that the majority of products tested contained at least two heavy metal contaminants; one lipgloss containing 110 ppm!

But most of the lead that shows up in our blood is there because we used to scatter it blithely around. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of lead from gasoline lie in urban soils and along highways, and may be moved from place to place during construction. Lead arsenate may contaminate former apple orchards; there is lead in some old industrial areas and near large painted structures, like bridges.

And housing built before 1980 may still have dangerous levels of lead from old plumbing and paint.

For these reasons, there are potential benefits to human health if everyone were to follow the good lead hygiene recommendations of the CMHC, the Canadian Association of family physicians, and Women’s College Hospital. These include lead safe renovations, as well as making sure children wash their hands frequently; not wearing outdoor shoes indoors; checking for lead content in toys, children’s jewelry, folk medicines, and hobby products; and keeping bare areas sodded. If you hire a renovator for an older home, remember to ask them about lead safety. And if you sand or strip old paint yourself, assume that it contains a dangerous level of lead.

HMM

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

Contact Dianne at dsaxe@envirolaw.com 50 www.hazmatmag.com WINTER 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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