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Halifax - June 2, 2010 - Schedule of Events


Time Event
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Arrival & Networking

9:30 - 9:45 a.m.

Welcome & Introductions

9:45 - 10:15 a.m.

Bob Funke, Town of New Glasgow
Context to national / provincial brownfield redevelopment

10:15 - 10:45 a.m.

Gordon Smith, CSLA, MCIP Landscape Architect, Planner, CBCL

Dawne Skinner, P.Eng., MASc. Environmental Engineer, CBCL
The Role of End Use Planning and Public Consultation in the Development of Brownfields:
The presentation will focus on the synergistic use of end use planning, public consultation and remedial planning in the residential and commercial development of petroleum contaminated sites and other brownfields.

10:45 - 11:15 a.m.

Lori Whalen, 5 Wing Goose Bay Remediation Project Officer, Department of National Defence

Annette Murphy, Environmental Program Manager, Defence Construction Canada
5 Wing Goose Bay Remediation Project Update: The Department of National Defence faces a number of challenges to manage, plan, and execute a large-scale remediation project in a remote area. This session will provide an overview of the 5 Wing Goose Bay Remediation Project, the challenges faced by the project and how the project team plans on dealing with them, and opportunities for industry to become involved in the project.

11:15 - 12:15 p.m.

Lunch & Networking

12:15 - 12:45 p.m.

Blanchard Harnum, Project Manager, AMEC
Green Remediation: Use of existing and emerging technologies to enhance the sustainability of brownfield remediation by reducing resource consumption and minimizing the environmental footprint of clean-up projects.

12:45 - 1:15 p.m.

Rob Willis, Environmental Scientist, Intrinsik
Use of soil bioaccessibility testing as a tool to refine/reduce risk estimates and soil remediation at contaminated sites

1:15- 1:45 p.m.

Dan Hemsworth, Hydrogeologist/Contaminated Site Specialist, Pollution Prevention Branch, Nova Scotia Environment
ARBCA Version 3: Continual Improvement
Based on a commitment to on-going improvement of the RBCA toolkit and to better harmonize with CWS 2008, APIRI has taken steps to update ARBCA. Reducing uncertainties for both the regulators and the public, and facilitating contaminated site remediation and Brownfield redevelopment in the region. With the latest revisions to the CWS, Version 3.0 of Atlantic RBCA has been developed. The intent of the talk is to present Highlights of Changes/Updates for Version 3.

1:45 - 2:00 p.m.

Wrap-up

2:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Open Networking