RemTech 2016 Presentations
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Sustainable Remediation
- Harnessing Wind Power for Remediation via Soil Vapour Extraction in Remote Areas– Presentation
Anthony Knafla and Ian McIvor, Equilibrium Environmental Inc. - Successes of The City of Calgary’s Leachate Treatment Pilot Plant, and Use of Treated Leachate to Build a Greener Future
Owrang Kashef, CH2M and Lourdes Lugue, City of Calgary – Presentation - Sustainable Strategies for Site Remediation
Michael Lakustiak, Trace Associates – Presentation
Assessment
- Embedding Sustainable Safety within Aggressive Remediation Projects at Operational Facilities
Jay Dablow, Environmental Resources Management (ERM) – Presentation - Liability Reduction from the Application of an Alternate Closure Protocol for Salt Affected Wellsites
Trevor Burgers, Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd. – – Presentation - Former Camp Ipperwash, Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Completion of a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment
Steven Gable, Amec Foster Wheeler – Presentation - Biogenic Interference Calculation (BIC) Index for Eliminating False PHC Positives in Clean Peat Soils
Francine Kelly-Hooper, CH2M – Presentation - Urban vs. Wildland Wildfires: Implications for Assessing Dioxin & Furan Impacts
Heather Lynn Lord, Maxxam Analytics – Presentation - Bioremediation of Hydrocarbons – Has Your Design Considered Potential Residual Contaminants Relating to Your Amendments?
Wenhui Xiong, Stantec – Presentation
Brownfields
- Farmland to Residential Community – Environmental Assessment, Remediation and Challenges
Ripon Banik and David Alberti, Stantec – Presentation - Site Characterization and Conceptual Site Model for Proposed West Village Development Area, Calgary, Alberta
Mike Brown, Advisian – Presentation - Calgary West Village: Use of Human Health Risk Assessment to Inform Redevelopment Scenarios
Ian Mitchell, Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd – Presentation - Remediation and Risk Management Scenarios for Proposed West Village Development Area, Calgary, Alberta
Thomas Jacklin, Advisian – Presentation - Using Stable Isotopes in a Multiple-Lines-of-Evidence Approach to Evaluating Sources and Degradation of Trichloroethylene
Joel van Popta, Giffin Koerth – Presentation - Accelerated Regulatory Closure by In Situ Remediation for a 1,4-Dioxane, Chlorinated Solvent, and Petroleum Mixed Plume in a Clay Aquifer
Scott Poyner, Geologic Science and Technology and Steven George, Green Star Environmental – Presentation
New Technology
- Integration of Multi-Program Data within a Single Web Based Geographical Information System (GIS) Platform
Gordon Wilcox, Integrated Sustainability Consultants Ltd. – – Presentation - Development of a New Sustainable Thermal Remediation and Recovery Technology Using Low Energy Rapid Exothermal Reaction Technique
Jevins Waddell, TRIUM Environmental Inc. – Presentation - Landfill Closure – An Innovative Geosynthetic Barrier System
Dean Wall ,AMEC Foster Wheeler – Presentation - Permeable Reactive Barriers for Petroleum Hydrocarbons
Bruce Tunnicliffe, Vertex Environmental – Presentation - ISCO Reengineered
Robert Luhrs, Raytheon Company – Presentation - Cognitive Tool for the Selection of a Technology for the Remediation of Contaminated Sites
Marc Paquet, Wikinet – Presentation
Environmental Managers of British Columbia Technical Session
- Assessment and Remediation of Historic Contamination at the Gwawaenuk First Nation, Hopetown, BC
Mark Oikawa, SLR Consulting (Canada) – Presentation - Determination of Local Background Concentrations in Groundwater (Dissolved Arsenic, Iron and Manganese) at an Industrial Site
Tyler Joyce, Stantec – Presentation - The Chemistry of Change: Regulatory, New Testing & Technology Update
Patrick Novak, CARO Analytical Services – Presentation - Rock Bay Remediation Project
Ryan Stewart and Lindsay Thompson, BC Hydro – – Presentation
Canadian Brownfields Network Technical Session
- PS3260 – How Accounting Will Shape Our Communities
Chris Gill, Stantec – Presentation - Unique Technical Issues and Solutions related to Redeveloping a Major Urban Shopping Centre in Victoria
Diane Zorn, Hemmera – Presentation - Connecting Climate Change to Brownfield Redevelopment
Matt Gardner & John Georgakopoulos, Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP – Presentation - The Greenwich Mohawk Brownfield Remediation Project – Remedial Technologies Employed and How the Project Adapted
Wayne Harris, Milestone Environmental – Presentation
Rick Management
- Integrated Environmental Risk Assessments of Crude Oil Releases in Northern Ontario
Laura Lawlor and Andrzej Pawlisz, GHD – Presentation - Living Documents and their Role in Remediation Planning and Risk Management
Louise Burden, Advisian – Presentation - Modelling Uncertainty Analysis for Contaminant Risk Assessment
Paul Martin, Matrix Solutions – Presentation - Risk Management Revisited – Corrective Actions Related to a Leaking Brine Lagoon
Frans Hettinga and Aziz Shaikh, Tetra Tech EBA – – Presentation
Miscellaneous Case Studies
- Case Studies Involving the Application of In-Situ Oxidation Technologies to Remediate Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated Solvents and the Regulatory Compliance Process in British Columbia
Jay Rao, WSP Canada – Presentation
- Field Performance of Dispersive Colloidal Activated Carbon – Lessons Learned from Multiple Geological Settings
Ashley Czedo, Regenesis - The Aquifer Solid Phase: Reactive Minerals and Their Effect on Remedial Success
Jake Gossen, Hemmera – Presentation - Tackling Chlorinated Solvent Contamination – What are the Options?
Jean Pare, Chemco – Presentation - SVE System – Extracting Vapours and Value
Michelle Heffernan and Jason Hampson, Trace Associates – Presentation - “Omaha!” A Pundits Playbook to In-Situ Remediation of PHCs
Gary Winthrop and Blake Turnbull, Matrix Solutions - Phytoremediation of Impacted Soil: Field Research Trials with New Applications, Species, and Challenges
Elizabeth Murray, Earthmaster Environmental Strategies Inc. – Presentation - Case Study Validation of the New Alberta Reclamation Criteria for Wellsites and Associated Facilities for Peatlands
Doug Bright, Hemmera – Presentation - Groundwater Plume Analytics for Assessing Remediation Effectiveness
Joe Ricker, EarthCon Consultants, Inc. – Presentation - Remediation of Poly- and Perfluoro Alkyl Substances: new remediation technologies for emerging challenges
Ian Ross, Arcadis - Field Remediation Trials for Sulfolane Impacted Soil and Groundwater: Aeration, Nutrient Amendments and/or Peroxide?
Brent Lennox, Waterline Resources Inc. – Presentation - Review and Recommended Changes to the Saturation Paste Method to Determine Concentrations of Sodium and Chloride in Muskeg
Dan Gorsic, SynergyAspen Environmental – Presentation - The Biggest Environmental Risk You Missed
Tadd Berger, Pinchin West Ltd. – Presentation - Environmental DNA: A Revolutionary Sampling Technique for Aquatic Ecological Studies
Elizabeth Vincer, Hemmera – Presentation
Groundwater
- Highly Successful ERD Pilot Study Using Simple Additive Delivery Approach Leads to Full-Scale Biostimulation Strategy for Destruction of Residual cVOCs
Kent Armstrong, Biostryke – Presentation - There’s Something in the Water: Reactive Synergies using Mixed Oxidants for Emerging Contaminant Removal
Pamela Dugan, Carus Corporation – Presentation - Approaches for Evaluating Natural Attenuation of 1,4-Dioxane
Monica Heintz, Arcadis – Presentation - Application of Injected ZVI PRB to Control Off-Site Migration of a VOC Plume at a Drycleaner Site in Quebec
Andrzej Przepiora, Geosyntec Consultants Inc – – Presentation
Laboratory
- Proper Interpretations of Lab Data for Highly Organic Soils
Anthony Neumann, Exova Canada – Presentation - Identification of Terpenoid Compounds in Soils by GCMS as a Remediation Tool to Separate Petrogenic and Biogenic Hydrocarbons
Nathan Scott and Ron Brockbank, AGAT Laboratories – – Presentation - Hydrocarbon data Interpretations for Highly Organic Soils
Chris Swyngedouw, Exova Canada – Presentation - Challenges in Forensic Analyses of Petroleum
Deib Birkholz, Analytical Consultant, Inc. – Presentation
Spill Response
- Have you tested your Environmental Unit Lately? We did
Sheri Gilmour, Stantec and Jeff Blanchard, Spectra Energy – – Presentation - Evaluation of Crude Oil Spills and 70 years of Natural Reclamation along the Historic Canol Oil Pipeline, Northwest Territories
Stephen Livingstone, Arcadis – Presentation - Technical Challenges of Large Scale Spill Response and Remediation Projects
Jeremy Paul, North Shore Environmental – Presentation - Planning and Preparing– Effective Environmental Emergency Response
Dan Born, Enbridge Pipelines and Tanya Shanoff, Stantec – – Presentation
Thermal Remediation
- Thermal Desorption Impacts on Soil Chemical, Physical, and Biological Properties: Evaluation for Agricultural Production
Peter O’Brien and Samantha Ritter, North Dakota State University – Presentation - Evaporative Desorption Technology as Remedial Measure for On-site Soil Treatment during RCRA-facility Closure Process
Joseph Muzzio, Reterro, Inc – Presentation - A New Take on Thermal Desorption – Using Enhanced Thermal Conduction (ETC) for the Remediation of Legacy Hydrocarbon Impacts at Sites in the Yukon and British Columbia
Chad Belenky and Roger Richter, Iron Creek Group – – Presentation
In-Situ
- Surfactant Enhanced Aquifer Remediation of a Low Permeability Unit Containing Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid
Luke Bragg, Terracon Consultants – Presentation - Zero-Valent Iron for Groundwater Remediation – Lessons Learned over 20 years of Technology Use
Andrzej Przepiora, Geosyntec Consultants Inc – – Presentation - Manganese Activated Persulfate (MnAP) for the Treatment Recalcitrant Organics: Development and Commercialization
Bruce Marvin, Geosyntec Consultants –– Presentation
Emerging Contaminants
- Brominated Flame Retardants – Another Class of Emerging Contaminants
Monica Danon-Schaffer and Bill Diguiseppi, CH2M – – Presentation - Emerging Contaminants Update with an Emphasis on 1,4-dioxane and Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) found in Fire Fighting Foam
Monica Danon-Schaffer and Bill Diguiseppi, CH2M – – Presentation - Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs): Chemistry, Occurrence, Regulation, Mobility and Remediation
Monica Danon-Schaffer and Bill Diguiseppi, CH2M – – Presentation