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African communities with rich mining resources are at the forefront of social change. The relationship between the companies mining the earth’s precious resources and the people who have made their homes upon these treasured lands for time immemorial, is evolving... -
At specific times each year, many organizations take a “time-out” to recognize safety and health in their workforce and work environment. In reality, health and safety has neither a timeline nor an agenda; it is relentless. Safety does not...
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Why, despite rapid global movements towards sustainable drainage, are many new developments still bogged down in traditional paradigms? Management of water is a major challenge for modern societies – and one that the average person tends to take for granted...
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A major revision of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA 2012) by the Government of Canada is just around the corner. Industries across the country are anxiously awaiting publication of Bill C-69, the proposed “Impact Assessment Act”, which could...
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You may not need to throw out your old hard hat just yet, but if you’re involved in engineering it is time to come to terms with working in a changing world of rapid innovation, disruption, new digital technologies,...
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Environmental regulations need to achieve a careful balance – between providing enough protection on one hand and putting too heavy a compliance burden on the other. Golder’s work on the hazards posed by a widely-used but little-understood class of...
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Sometimes solutions to today’s most pressing challenges come from technologies long used for other applications. One of these is electrocoagulation (EC) – “electro”, which means applying an electrical charge, and “coagulation,” which means causing matter suspended or dissolved in...
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With many urban properties lying idle because of industrial contaminants in the soil, cities and land developers are eager to find better ways to bring these properties back to use. They need technologies that are reliable, expeditious to meet their...
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The search is on for a solution to a problem caused by a growing global population: more garbage. And it’s not just the volume of trash, but the fact that it can contain increasing volumes of materials with contaminants...
