2025

RemTech 2025 Presentations

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PTAC Panel

• PTAC Remediation & Reclamation Research Committee Overview Introduction – Presentation
  Tannis Such, PTAC,  Jason Desilets, Cenovus
• Finalization of Research for Selenium and Sulphate Ecotoxicology – Presentation
  Anthony Knafla & Viktoria Winter, Equilibrium Environmental Inc.
• Enhancing Chloride Plume Resolution Through Incorporation of Soils Data – Could It Shrink Your Plume? – Presentation
  Daniel Pollard and Ashley Morgan, Montrose Environmental
• Subsoil Salinity Tool Version 3.0 Technical Manual – Presentation
  Greg Huber, Equilibrium Environmental Inc.
• Development of a Chloride Water Quality Guideline Based on Hardness and Consideration for Cation Toxicity – Presentation
  Tony Knafla, Equilibrium Environmental Inc.
• Conventional vs. Passive Management of Noxious Weeds for Final Reclamation of Industrial Sites in the Boreal Forest: A Risk Management-Based Approach – Results of the Pollen and Seed Bank Analysis Pilot Study
  Indigenous Engagement and Weed Management Support Tool – Presentation
  Andres Rolhauser, NAIT,  Dean McKenzie, Vertex,  Stefan Schreiber, Innotech Alberta
• AUPRF – Presentation
  Allan Fogwill PTAC
  

Legal Hot Topics for the Environmental Industry Panel 

• This panel of legal experts will discuss hot topics affecting practitioners and businesses in the environmental industry. Topics will include trends in regulatory enforcement, update on noteworthy environmental litigation and legal developments affecting businesses.

  
  Moderator; Stuart Chambers, McLennan Ross
  Panelists:
  Sean Parker, McLennan Ross LLP – Presentation
  Annemarie Clarke, Witten LLP – Presentation
  Anand Srivastava, Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP – Presentation

“Kids These Days” – Navigating the Multi-Generational Workplace to Embrace Change and Build Stronger Teams Panel 

• This panel explores how to move past the friction and into a future of collaboration, innovation, and mutual respect. Through the voices of four professionals each from a different generation and role.

  
  Moderator; Michelle Heffernen, Trace Associates – Presentation
  Panelists:
  Josh Dias, Bureau Veritas Laboratories – Presentation
  Vivian Bond, Bureau Veritas Laboratories – Presentation
  Emi Reich, Trace Associates – Presentation
  Kevin French, VEI – Presentation

• AER: Oversight of Contamination Management – Presentation
  Adrian Kerry, AER
• AER: Site – Specific Liability Assessment – Presentation
  Sasha Bailey, AER
• Upstream Oil and Gas Site-Specific Risk Assessment in Alberta – Clarification and Updates – Presentation
  Geordie Clyde, AER and Tyrel Hemsley, Alberta Environment and Protected Areas

A Little Bit of Everything

• Evolving Remediation Practice in Australia: Challenges, Regulatory Variation, and Emerging Best Practices – Presentation
  Louise Cartwright, Montrose Environmental Australia (Epic Environmental)
• Trifluoroacetic Acid and Other Ultrashort PFAS: Understanding Their Measurement and Relevance for Remediation Monitoring – Presentation
  Terry Obal, SGS North America
• BTEX in the Sand River Aquifer – Evidence of Natural Anoxic Decomposition of Plant Matter – Presentation
  Phil Richard and Kayla Mukli, Montrose Environmental
• Digital Solutions for Post-Remediation and Reclamation Vegetation Management: A Case Study from Northeastern Alberta – Presentation
  Matt Wilkinson, Montrose Environmental

Bugs and Plants

• Bioremediation of Petroleum and PFAS Impacted Industrial Sites in North America – Presentation
  Katherine French, BluumBio
• Sustainable Remediation – More Ways Than One – Presentation
  Michael Lakustiak, Trace Associates,  Alexis Harvey, Federated Co-operatives Ltd. and Andre Podevin, Trace Associates
• In-Situ Microbial Treatment to Remediate a Historical Crude Oil Release within a Wetland in Jasper National Park, Alberta – Presentation
  Murray Ostrander, Alta Tech Environmental Services Inc. and Heather Anderson, Trans Mountain
• Trees and Microbes as Sustainable Nature-Based Treatment on Hydrocarbons and Mixed Waste Sites – Presentation
  Chris Cohu, Intrinsyx Environmental

LNAPL

• Understanding Complex Hydrogeological Conditions to Protect a River from a Gasoline Release – Presentation
  Arden Wabisca, GHD
• Building Robust LCSM for Remediation Decision-Making: Next-Generation Tools – Presentation
  Paul Furbacher, Ecometrix
• 10 Years of NSZD Application in Australia – The Evolution from LNAPL Active Removal to Natural Attenuation – Presentaion
  Andre Smit, GHD
• Quantifying Natural NAPL Attenuation: Practical Tools to Support Remedy Transition – Presentations
  Parisa Jourabchi, ARIS Environmental Ltd.

Groundwater

• The Less than Ideal Path to the Remediation of a Petroleum Release Site: A Case Study in Trials and Tribulations– Presentation
  Rob Dauk, GHD Limited
• The Impact of Improved Hydrogeological Representation through the Use of Airborne Electromagnetic Data on Reducing Model Forecast Uncertainty – Presentation
  John Richins, University of Arkansas: Department of Geosciences
• Hydrocarbon Groundwater Plume Stability and Persistence: Lessons Learned from 29 sites and 5 Million Data Points
   – Presentation
  Steven Siciliano, LiORA by EMS
• Addressing Soil, Groundwater and Potable Water Sources Affected by PFAS Type Contaminants – Presentation
  Jean Pare, CHEMCO
• Managing and Reducing Environmental Liabilities at the Town of Slave Lake: A Sustainable Salt Remediation Strategy – Presentation
  Zion Yua, Thurber Engineering Ltd.

Risk Management

• Do soil PAH Guidelines Represent True Risk? – Presentation 
  Lisa Kates, Montrose Environmental
• Contaminated Site Management Options: Framework and Challenges in Practice – Presentation
  Amy Philip, Parson
• Uses of 3D Geological Modelling, Data Visualization, and Pragmatic Risk Management Approaches to Extract Value from Large Heritage Datasets and Drive Legacy Contaminated Sites Towards Closure – Presentation
  Nicholas Bueckert and Heather Murdoch, AECOM Canada
• Traditional Foods Consumption: Risk Management and Nutritional Value – Presentation
  Lindsay McCallum, WSP Canada
• Managing Ecological Risks at a Heavily Impacted Site Using Population Level Risk Assessment – A Proposed Approach to Characterize Elevated HQ Values – Presentation
  Karl Bresee, WSP Canada

Brownfields

• Contaminated Sites (Re)Development: Legal Requirements that Industry and Consultants Need to Know – Presentation
  Jacquelyn Stevens, Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP
• PRBs and Innovative Boundary Control to Support Redevelopment of a Hazardous PCB Brownfield – Presentation
  Samuel Lingwood, Pinchin and Devin Rosnak, Green Infrastructure Partners Inc.
• Estimating Brownfield Remediation Costs: How Much Data is Enough, and How Many Expert Opinions are Needed? – Presentation
  Grant Walsom, Trace Associates
• Risk Assessment and Site Re-Development – Changing the Paradigm – Presentation
  Ian Mitchell and Cory Kartz, Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
• Victoria’s McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant and 100 Years of Fuel Storage. What could go wrong?– Presentation
  Craig Harris, AECOM Canada.

Emerging Contaminants

• Field Deployment of FRED-PFAS: a portable unit for Measuring total PFAS in the field – Presentation
  Margaret (Maggie) Renaud-Youngm FREDsense Technologies Corp.
• PFAS in Air – Just the Facts – Presentation
  Darlene Hoogenes Stastny & Tammy Chartrand, ALS Environmental
• PFAS in Source Water: Preparing for New Regulations – Presentation
  Krista Barfoot, SLR Consulting