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RemTech 2025
October 15-17, 2025
Fairmont Banff Springs
Call for Abstracts / Early Bird Registration – 55% Sold Out
ESAA is pleased to announce that early bird registration is open for the 24th edition of RemTech.
RemTech 2025 will feature technical talks, 2 receptions, 55 exhibits, networking opportunities and three great keynotes.
Keynotes:
Opening Keynote
Robert Bilott, Environmental Lawyer
Robert was instrumental in the lawsuit against Dupont over PFAS exposure in a community in West Virginia and resulted in a $1B settlement against Dupont and the basis of the movie – Dark Waters.
Thursday Lunch Keynote
Kate Moore – Author of Radium Girls
The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
Friday Lunch Keynote
Julie Angus – Explorer, Scientist, Author
First person / Woman to row solo across the Atlantic.
Registration
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Call for Abstracts
Complete details for the 2025 call for abstracts is available at: https://esaa.org/remtech/call-for-abstracts/. Submission deadline is June 13th, 2025.
Full RemTech 2025 details can be found at: https://esaa.org/remtech/
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Report charts path to addressing mature assets in Alberta
Alberta’s government is taking a leadership role to address mature energy assets in our province.
Today, the government released the Mature Asset Strategy: What We Heard and Recommendations Report, which outlines 21 recommendations to help manage the growing number of oil and gas assets nearing or at the end of their productive life.
The strategy supports Alberta’s goal of maintaining economic growth, attracting investment and enhancing its reputation as a responsible energy producer. It focuses on the long-term management of inactive wells, orphan wells and other legacy infrastructure, particularly in communities affected by the shift from conventional oil and gas to oilsands and fracking in northern Alberta.
“Supporting the work of cleaning up orphan wells and implementing a new mature asset strategy will complement the efforts that Alberta is already taking to help accelerate the clean up of inactive wells and sites across Alberta. That said, I am committed to ensuring that no taxpayer dollars go to private companies to clean up their wells.”
The report reflects some of the perspectives of a diverse range of stakeholders, including municipal governments, landowners, Indigenous communities, regulators, producers and industry experts. Alberta’s government is reviewing the recommendations and will provide more information on which recommendations it intends to implement and how, in the coming months.
“Alberta’s energy industries have changed faster this century than the ability of all stakeholders to keep pace and adapt. The major shift from mature conventional production to non-conventional resources like oil sands and shale gas – and how it has affected many Albertans – required a thorough investigation. Responsible management of where we’ve been is an essential foundation for where we’re going.”
“The Alberta Small Producers Group is appreciative of the opportunity to participate in the development of the mature asset strategy. As a group, we are very excited to continue to help the province grow while maximizing the resources for the benefit of Canadians and Albertans.”
The oil and gas sector has helped establish Alberta as the economic engine of Canada. While most companies meet their obligations, some fail due to economic challenges, leaving orphan wells and unpaid taxes or landowner surface rents. Addressing these liabilities is a government priority to ensure long-term environmental and economic sustainability.
Quick facts
- The Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) most recent progress report shows that the number of inactive wells is decreasing.
- As of December 2024, there were 78,000 inactive wells in Alberta compared to 97,000 in 2020 when the new liability management framework was introduced – a reduction of almost 20 per cent.
- The AER report also shows that most companies are meeting or exceeding their “mandatory minimum spend” responsibility to manage oil and gas liabilities.
- In 2023, total industry-funded spending on closure activities exceeded the $700-million requirement set by the AER by 10 per cent.
- The number of sites the OWA fully closed (reclaimed) increased 44 per cent to 622 in 2023-24, compared with 431 the year before.
- This closure number represents 1,155 hectares of land returned to Albertans, about the size of Edson.
Related information
Alberta finalizing flood maps at lightning speed
Alberta’s has finalized more flood maps in the past five years than in the previous thirty-five years combined.
Flood maps help keep people safe and play a critical role in informing local emergency response plans and guiding future Indigenous community and municipal development decisions. In the past five years, flood mapping has launched in 100 municipalities and Indigenous communities.
Now, seven new flood map studies are underway for the communities of: Carbon, Chateh, Crowsnest Pass, Lethbridge Rycroft, Thorsby and Two Hills. Work will begin immediately, with results expected before the end of next year.
In addition, Alberta is soliciting feedback on four flood map studies nearing completion, including: Hinton, Vegreville, Stettler, Red Deer County and Markerville. Mapping from these studies covers about 250 kilometres of rivers and creeks through seven municipalities. Albertans can provide feedback at https://www.alberta.ca/flood-study-engagements until May 12.
All rivers, streams and lakes in Alberta have the potential to flood. Knowing where the water will flow during a flood is critical to understanding where it’s safe to farm, safe to build, and how to best prepare for emergency situations.
“Our government is committed to creating more than 3,000 kilometres of new and updated flood mapping by 2028. So far, we’ve completed 1,600 kilometres. This commitment has resulted in more flood maps being finalized in the past five years than in the previous thirty-five years combined. Alberta’s proactive work will help protect communities, families and businesses in the decades to come.”
“The Rural Municipalities of Alberta appreciates the Government of Alberta working to create new flood mapping in recent years. Floodwaters do not recognize jurisdictional boundaries, and rural municipalities must plan carefully how to use their limited resources to best protect their residents, businesses and the environment. Having access to the data provided by these flood maps will enable rural municipalities to plan appropriately and mitigate the impacts of flooding for years to come.”
“Alberta Municipalities congratulates the provincial government for accelerating its flood mapping for communities of all sizes throughout Alberta. Our members count on accurate, up-to-date flood maps to guide their communities’ development and assist with their emergency management planning.”
Quick facts
- Since 2020, the Alberta government has released new or updated flood mapping spanning more than 1,600 kilometres.
- Flood mapping is a highly technical and collaborative process that requires significant investment. Co-funded by the Government of Canada, these studies will be completed under the provincial Flood Hazard Identification Program, with the goal of enhancing public safety and reducing future flood damages by identifying potential hazards.
- All finalized and draft flood maps can be found at: floods.alberta.ca
AER: New Edition of Directive 060
Today we released a new edition of Directive 060: Upstream Petroleum Industry Flaring, Incinerating, and Venting. This directive sets out requirements for flaring, incinerating, and venting in Alberta at all upstream petroleum industry wells and facilities.
The directive includes the following revisions:
- The section numbers have changed from previous editions, and requirements that used to be in various appendices have been moved, unchanged, into the main body of the document.
- The new “General Requirements” section (section 2) contains much of the text that existed in section 1 of the previous edition.
- The content from previous sections 4, 5, and 6 have been consolidated into a single new section 6 titled “Gas Facility and Infrastructure Flaring, Incinerating, and Venting.”
- A new “Emissions Research and Innovation” section (section 5) has been added, addressing emission research and innovation at emissions testing facilities.
- Section 7, “Performance Requirements,” has been updated to allow signoff from a qualified person in lieu of AER approval in some instances.
- Requirements around alternative fugitive emissions management programs (Alt-FEMPs) and FEMPs have been revised by expanding the current number of acceptable FEMPs and providing additional approaches and criteria for what acceptable alt-FEMPs need to include.
- CSA Z620.3 performance requirements for flaring, incineration, and enclosed combustion have been incorporated.
- Clarification has been added around how these requirements relate to geothermal operations and brine-hosted minerals.
- The definitions of flaring, incineration, and enclosed combustion have been updated.
Additionally, we are publishing a “what we heard” document containing our responses to comments received during the public comment period.
The revised edition of Directive 060 and the “what we heard” document is available on our website. If you have any questions, contact our Customer Contact Centre by phone at 1-855-297-8311 or by email at inquiries@aer.ca.
Alberta Energy Regulator strengthens Board of Directors with the addition of three new directors
CALGARY, AB – The Alberta Energy Regulator is pleased to announce the Government of Alberta has appointed Lee Deibert, Roderick Graham, and Richard Piche, to its Board of Directors, effective today, for a five-year term. Current board member, Gary Leach has been reappointed for another five-year term.
In addition, current board member, Corrina Bryson, will be completing her term as a member of the Board on April 14, 2025. The Board of Directors would like to thank Corrina for her service and contributions to governance of energy regulation in Alberta.
“It’s a pleasure to welcome Lee, Rod, and Richard to the Board,” said Duncan Au, Chair of the AER Board of Directors. “Their collective experience and insight will further strengthen our governance and support the AER in fulfilling its regulatory mandate. These appointments reflect our commitment to a diverse, skilled Board providing strong oversight to navigate an increasingly complex energy landscape.”
Rob Morgan, Chief Executive Officer commented “With the Board composition now complete, I look forward to their guidance and support as the AER strives to deliver on the high expectations of stakeholders and Indigenous communities.”
Lee Deibert
Lee Deibert is a professional geologist with a Master of Science and a proven track record in finance, liability management, and corporate governance. Mr. Deibert was a founding partner and CEO of Meridian Environmental Consulting Ltd. and has deep knowledge in remediation and reclamation programs as well as geothermal and mining experience. He has served on numerous boards and committees, contributing expertise in governance, enterprise risk, and financial oversight. Mr. Deibert brings a strong understanding of regulatory compliance and governance best practices.
Roderick Graham
Rod Graham has over three decades of experience in the energy sector across Western Canada. He spent the first 17 years in Alberta-based private equity, where he played a key role in sourcing, investing in, and growing more than 60 oil and gas, energy service, and energy industrial companies. Over the past 15 years, he has served as CEO and President of three complex Alberta-based companies; Velocity Truck Centres Canada (formerly First Truck Centres), Horizon North Logistics Inc., and ZCL Composites Inc.
Mr. Graham holds an Honours Business Degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario. He is a Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) and a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D).
Richard Piche
Richard Piche is Métis and a seasoned professional with global experience leading energy projects across five countries. As President of Cascade Projects—an Indigenous-owned and controlled corporation—he helps Canadian energy companies advance project and economic success through Indigenous economic inclusion. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holder of the ICD.D designation, Mr. Piche has led operations, business development, and corporate initiatives with a strong focus on Indigenous engagement.
CCME: Excess Soil Reuse Guidance
CCME has posted Excess Soil Reuse Guidance.
This document provides a reference tool for jurisdictions implementing an excess soil reuse framework in their soil management policies. It includes principles to be considered in such a framework, circumstances under which they might be applied, and pros and cons related to the application of these principles.
The publication can be found here or through CCME’s searchable resource browser.
BC Ministers’ statement on Mt. Polley tailings facility
Yukon says feedback largely positive for new contaminated sites and spills regulations
(Source: esemag.com) The Yukon government has shared the feedback it received on a proposed Contaminants Regulation that would repeal and replace the existing Contaminated Sites Regulation and the Spills Regulation.Yukon invited 172 representatives from over 80 organizations to provide feedback on the proposed Contaminants Regulation, which would apply to the some 207 sites currently designated as contaminated within the territory.
Legislators said the majority of respondents preferred to adopt British Columbia’s contaminated sites regulation as opposed to standards from the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment.
While the feedback was largely positive, stakeholders noted the need to ensure that the transfer of responsibility for contaminated sites is open and transparent.
The vast majority of respondents (95%) supported updating and adding new reportable spills thresholds in order to align with national standards, legislation and associated risk levels.
Additionally, stakeholders expressed a desire to have flexibility in standardized permits for site-specific remediation, as well as provide opportunities for affected First Nations to be involved in managing contaminated sites.
Stakeholders also told Yukon officials that they want to keep site investigations and assessments flexible and straightforward to avoid delaying remediation.
Lastly, respondents noted that they want to ensure remediation facilities are built to protect human health, the environment and Indigenous rights.
“Some respondents were concerned that including more prescriptive standards for site assessment and site investigations in the new regulation could potentially prevent industry professionals from using new technologies and methodologies as regulations are not updated regularly,” Yukon officials heard from one stakeholder.
The Yukon government previously engaged with the wider public, Yukon First Nations and industry on the proposed new Contaminants Regulation in 2018. The government re-engaged Yukon First Nations and key industry stakeholders who work with contaminated sites and spills due to the time that has elapsed since 2018.
Once finalized, the regulation will take one year to come into effect to support the transition to the new regulatory regime.
In 2024, a federal audit highlighted a sharp increase in costs for remediating northern Canada’s eight largest abandoned mines, including Faro Mine in the Yukon. In response to the audit’s findings, measures are being taken to enhance project planning precision and cost estimation for northern projects.
Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion
Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of health, climate change and extreme weather research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it’s lost.
Some of them are in the US. Others are scattered around the world. There are hundreds, many even thousands of people involved across multiple networks. And they keep a damn close eye on their phones.
No one knows when the next alert or request to save a chunk of US government-held climate data will come in. Such data, long available online, keeps getting taken down by US President Donald Trump’s administration. For the last six months or so, Cathy Richards has been entrenched in the response. She works for one of several organisations bent on downloading and archiving public data before it disappears.
“You get a message at 11 o’clock at night saying, ‘This is going down tomorrow’,” she says. “You try to enjoy your day and then everything goes wrong. You just spend the night downloading data.”
Richards is a data and inclusion specialist, and civic science fellow at the Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP), a non-profit based in Hudson, New York. Her organisation is a founding member of the Public Environmental Data Project (PEDP), which emerged in 2024 to safeguard data under the Trump administration.
In recent weeks, Richards and her colleagues have archived datasets packed with information on US flood hazards, greenhouse gas emissions, energy production and environmental justice, among other subjects. Other researchers have recreated a tool that forecasts the risk of future climate hazards around the US.
This rush to safeguard vital environmental data is part of a broader movement to rescue all kinds of scientific data published online by the US government. Biomedical and health researchers working with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for example, have been frantically searching for ways to back up important data following executive orders issued by Trump about what information on gender and diversity may be published by federal bodies.
Scientists have expressed fears about a wide range of resources that might go next – from historical weather records to data gathered by Nasa satellites. On 16 April, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) announced that a list of datasets regarding ocean monitoring were now scheduled to be removed in early May.
Multiple organisations including the Internet Archive, a non-profit, Safeguar.de and the Data Rescue Project, are now engaged in activities alongside the OEDP to rescue this data from oblivion. Many of the individuals involved in these efforts have pitched in voluntarily. “It’s our library,” says Richards. “You gotta save the books, you have to keep it for the future.”
Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration on 25 January 2025, his administration announced sweeping changes to federal departments and agencies, in a bid to reduce what it called “waste” and “inefficiencies”. But many of the programmes and resources currently disappearing are critically important, scientists say. Climate researchers who spoke to the BBC pointed out that some deleted datasets have supported important research on climate change and life-threatening weather extremes, for example.
While government officials also removed information during Trump’s first term, meaning scientists had expected similar deletions during his second term, the scale and scope of recent deletions has taken researchers by surprise. One scientist rushed to their university with a plea: “I said, ‘I need disk space, I need it fast, I can’t really go through the normal processes [of getting] a grant’,” they recall. Their university quietly made 20 terabytes of storage available, the researcher told the BBC.
The scramble to rescue at-risk data before it’s too late continues apace. Richards says her organisation has received messages from around 400 would-be volunteers and they are currently “on-boarding” around 100 of them. Their work could help preserve data on everything from air quality to coral reefs.
Climate data is often particularly challenging to work with given the huge size of certain datasets – vast stores of information about our planet that underpin climate models, or weather forecasting systems, for example. But this doesn’t deter Richards. “This is taxpayer-funded research that was already paid for,” she says. The BBC contacted the White House for a comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
Watching all of this unfold – in many cases in disbelief – are the scientists who worked to collect this data in the first place.
“I have never seen anything like this in nearly 40 years of doing science,” says Paul Bierman, a geomorphologist at the University of Vermont. “I think it’s an unmitigated disaster.” Bierman studies landscape change and human interaction with landscapes. He has researched the history of the Greenland ice sheet, showing, for example, that during the Pleistocene epoch 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, Greenland was covered in tundra and vegetation, rather than a thick ice sheet. It suggests that the ice in Greenland is more vulnerable to a changing climate than we previously understood.
Bierman explains that all of the data that he and his colleagues have collected on National Science Foundation-funded studies gets submitted to data repositories supported by that same US government agency. “Now I’m wondering, ‘Is that the safest place for my data?’,” he says.
Scientists are also worried that efforts to gather new climate data will fall by the wayside. A government report in March suggested that the Trump administration was considering cancelling the lease of the support office for a major carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring research station in Hawaii. The Mauna Loa observatory has been tracking atmospheric CO2 concentrations since 1958 and just last year recorded the largest jump in such levels since records began.
“Climate science is only possible because of long-term datasets,” says Lilian Dove, a US Noaa climate and global change research fellow at Brown University. “Without continuing to collect that data, preserve that data, our field is in really big trouble.”
Both Bierman and Dove say they have made multiple copies of their scientific data, including in offline stores, as a precaution – to ensure its survival.
Eric Nost, a geographer at the University of Guelph in Canada, says that the data deletions have far exceeded the many revisions of US government-published information that occurred during Trump’s first term, from early 2017 to early 2021. “We saw the removal of many [web] pages,” he says. “We didn’t really see datasets removed.”
Rachel Santarsiero, director of the Climate Change Transparency Project at the National Security Archive, a non-governmental and non-profit organisation, agrees. She adds that, during that first term, mentions of “climate change” were often deleted from government websites but scientific data generally remained intact and accessible.
Santarsiero also notes, however, that – in principle – the removal of environmental data resources from public-facing government websites is neither new nor exclusive to the Trump administration. The EPA announced plans to remove its online archive in 2022 while President Joe Biden was in power, for instance. “Their rationale was it was too costly to keep the archive,” says Santarsiero.
Another organisation that is currently working to gather and archive US government data, including climate data, is Safegaur.de. It is run largely by researchers outside the US. William Waites, a computer scientist at the University of Southampton in the UK, is among them. The pace of data deletions in recent months and weeks has been frantic, he says, with some “scares” over datasets that were rumoured to be earmarked for removal.
In March, word went round that information published by Noaa would disappear within days. Waites and his colleagues swung into action and started downloading multiple terabytes of data. But the rumoured deadline for the deletion came and went. Waites describes the episode as “a good exercise for getting used to doing this” and adds: “It’s getting a little bit easier, though, as we become more established and known for doing this – and have contacts in various organisations”.
A raft of Noaa programmes are currently at risk as the Trump administration is reportedly considering cutting the agency’s funding by 25%. This would remove all funding for research on the impact of climate change on weather, for example.
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which captures screenshots of web pages to record what they looked like in the past, is also working to cache government data. This is part of the End of Term Archive project, which records the state of US government websites at the end of presidential administrations. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, highlights a live public spreadsheet that his colleagues are using to log such captures. The content ranges from information about LGBTQ+ equality matters to geopolitics. Plus, references to vaccines and sexually transmitted diseases were also removed from federal websites shortly after Trump’s inauguration.
Many of the preserved web pages feature climate or environmental information. “We’ve seen, by scope and scale, an increase in the material removed from US government websites that is without precedent,” says Graham.
Downloading and archiving data in private or non-governmental repositories is something of a double-edged sword, however. On the one hand, it allows archivists to make multiple copies of that data. “That limits its potential for being destroyed,” says Lourdes Vera, a sociologist at the University at Buffalo. But Vera, who was arrested in 2020 for stealing and vandalising Trump campaign signs, points out that saving such data on platforms owned by US-based tech companies could be risky, if those companies are later compelled by the government to delete the data.
Multiple people involved in archiving initiatives expressed a motivation to store the most important information outside of the US. Though many were hesitant to discuss details. When asked whether this is something the Internet Archive is doing, for example, Graham only says: “The Internet Archive is always looking for responsible ways to help ensure the integrity of data”.
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There’s another problem, though. When data goes missing from centralised – and well-known – government web pages, it’s not always obvious to casual internet users that there are organisations out there working to republish it.
“You kind of have to know what you’re looking for now whereas, in the past, you would have been able to more easily come by [that data] by navigating centralised data systems,” says Nost.
It means an increasing burden not just in terms of safeguarding climate data – but also in ensuring that the public knows it is still there. And that it matters.
Given the relatively small window that humans have to act on climate change, in order to prevent its worst effects, Bierman finds the present situation incomprehensible.
“It’s stunning to me that, at a time when we’re seeing more intense hurricanes, greater rainfall extremities, more drought, more wildfires – why at that point would we ever imagine cutting the science that is key to addressing those issues, and keeping people safe?”
Remediation Technology News and Resource
(The following are selected items from the US EPA’s Tech Direct – http://clu-in.org/techdirect/)
Upcoming Live Internet Seminars
ITRC PFAS Beyond the Basics: PFAS Fate and Transport, Site Characterization and Source ID Training – Thursday, April 24, 2025, 1:00PM-3:00PM EDT (17:00-19:00 GMT). This training class builds on the earlier information for fate and transport and site characterization presented in the PFAS 101 CLU-IN training. It provides more in-depth information for fate and transport, site characterization, source identification and some introductory information on environmental forensics. These topics will be presented along with options and a framework for data visualization. This training will focus largely on PFAS fate and transport in groundwater. The goal is to provide detailed information about the inputs practitioners can use to develop a robust conceptual site model to help understand fate and transport at PFAS sites, and how to gather evidence of multiple sources. For more information and to register, see https://www.itrcweb.org
Groundwater Modeling and Complexity of PFAS Modeling – Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 1:30PM-2:30PM EDT (17:30-18:30 GMT). This presentation will cover fundamental concepts on groundwater fate and transport modeling along with examples of different models. Additionally, the complexity of modeling leaching of PFAS compounds in subsurface will be presented. For more information and to register, see https://www.clu-in.org/
ITRC: Overview of the Tire-Derived Chemicals 6PPD & 6PPD-quinone Training – Thursday, May 1, 2025, 1:00PM-2:30PM EDT (17:00-18:30 GMT). In October 2024, ITRC released the 6PPD & 6PPD-quinone Guidance Document to provide environmental professionals and communities with information about the current science and regulatory framework of 6PPD and 6PPD-quinone (6PPD-q). 6PPD-q is a contaminant of emerging concern and is a transformation product of the tire anti-degradant (6PPD), an antiozonant used in tires. This ITRC training course provides a basic overview of the science and policy measures surrounding the Tire Anti-Degradants 6PPD and 6PPD-q. Attendees will gain insight into the current state of knowledge on topics such as: background and use of 6PPD in tires, toxicity in aquatic species and humans; occurrence, fate, and transport; measuring, mapping, and sampling; mitigation measures; and policy, regulations, and laws. For more information and to register, see https://www.itrcweb.org
New Documents and Web Resources
Technology Innovation News Survey Corner. The Technology Innovation News Survey contains market/commercialization information; reports on demonstrations, feasibility studies and research; and other news relevant to the hazardous waste community interested in technology development. Recent issues, complete archives, and subscription information is available at https://clu-in.org/products/tins/. The following resources were included in recent issues:
- Analysis of Factors Affecting Plume Remediation in a Sole-Source Aquifer System, Southeastern Nassau County, New York
- Coal Ash Beneficial Use at Savannah River Site
- Collection of Samples From Porous Surfaces Using Microvacuum Techniques for the Detection of Microbiological Agents – Revision 1.0
- Point of Entry Treatment for Drinking Water
- In-Situ Thermal Remediation
New ESAA Members
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Jeneric Consulting Ltd.
48 24119 Twp Rd 554
STURGEON COUNTY, AB, AB T8T 1X7
Phone: (780) 919-6223
Eric Gilson, Senior Geoscientist
eric.gilson@jeneric.ca
Providing environmental management, geosciences, shallow geophysics, drone surveys and GIS/drafting services.
Statvis Analytics Inc.
PO Box 38073 RPO Capilano
Edmonton, AB T6C 3J5
Phone: (780) 237-2001
Paul Fuellbrandt, Co-founder
paul@statvis.com
Statvis puts powerful environmental data tools in your hands—so you can move fast, with confidence. From release to endpoint, track contaminants with clear, beautiful visuals rooted in real statistical insight. Statvis makes complex data easy to understand, helping teams make faster decisions and build smarter closure strategies—together.
Top Gear Contracting Ltd.
4003 52nd street
Lloydminster, SK S9V 0L8
Phone: (204) 930-4070
Matthew Hamilton, Operations Manager
matt@tgcontracting.ca
Top Gear is committed to providing the highest level of security and satisfaction to our clients. We provide environmental and geotechnical drilling, light reclamation, back filling, fencing, dump truck, skid steer and light labor services. We operate across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. We are committed to providing honest billing at rates that offer true value to our clients. The safety of our employees and clients are always at the forefront of everything that we do. Top Gear operates with a SECOR certification from Energy Safety Canada and complies with all municipal and provincial guidelines and regulatory bodies. Environmental impacts from operations are reduced by implementing “green” policies where possible.
Student Member:
Lamees El-Jundi
Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary
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BEST 2025 – Program Announced!
BEST 2025
BC’S PREMIER ENVIRONMENT INDUSTRY CONFERENCE
MAY 21 – 23 | FAIRMONT CHATEAU WHISTLER | WHISTLER, BC
Join us for the 11th Annual Bettering Environmental Stewardship & Technology (BEST) Conference!
The BCEIA’s BEST Conference attracts environmental professionals every May for two and a half days of technical sessions, networking opportunities, and a sponsor tradeshow.
Full details at: https://bceia.com/events-calendar/#id=142&cid=1941&wid=1601
Pipeline Habitat Restoration Webinar
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Disaster Forum
October 28-30, 2025 – Kananaskis
A&WMA Ontario’s Premier In-Person Conference for 2025
Current and Evolving Global Waste Management & Technologies Conference
Air & Waste Management Association Ontario’s Current and Evolving Global Waste Management & Technologies Conference in London, Ontario on May 7th (1/2 day expert witness training) and May 8th (Conference) is approaching fast!
We’re pleased to announce that GFL Environmental Inc. has signed on as this Conference’s Title Sponsor! We thank GFL for their generous support.
More details and registration for the non-profit May 7 & 8, 2025 events, including more sponsorship opportunities, can be found here: https://www.awma.on.ca/upcoming-events/save-the-date-may-8th-2025
For ESAA members, we are offering a 20% ticket discount, by using PARTNER20 promo code when registering.
We look forward to seeing you there!
ESAA Job Board
Check out the new improved ESAA Job Board. Members can post ads for free.
Current Listings:
- Junior Environmental Scientist – Trace Associates Inc.
- Senior Technical Specialist – Summit
- Senior Accountant – Trace Associates Inc.
- Environmental Specialist – Summit
- Remediation Project Manager, Intermediate – RemedX Remediation Services Inc
- Senior Project Manager – RemedX Remediation Services inc.
- Intermediate Environmental Scientist/Engineer – Trace Associates Inc.
- Environmental Consultant (Environmental) Saskatoon – Nichols Environmental (Canada) Ltd.
- Technical Operations (Environmental) Saskatoon – Nichols Environmental (Canada) Ltd.
- Technical Operations (Environmental) Edmonton – Nichols Environmental (Canada) Ltd.
- Technical Operations (Environmental) Calgary – Nichols Environmental (Canada) Ltd.
- Project Manager – Summit