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Save the Date! PGO's 19th Annual General Meeting
PGO
June 24, 2021
More information will be posted soon.
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Call for Nominations for PGO Council Positions
PGO
A call for nominations was sent out to all registrants on March 31, 2021. If you are looking to contribute your expertise towards protecting the public and advancing professional practice of geoscience, consider running for a Council position. Two positions are up for election — Vice President and Councillor-at-Large. One position, Non-member public appointee, is vacant and will be filled by appointment as per PGO Bylaw 1A section 2.11 (b).
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.WHAT'S NEW
Disclaimer: The events and media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof.
Ontario Strengthens the Protection of Water Resources
Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Ontario government is strengthening the protection of vital water resources with changes to the province's water taking program. The changes include new rules that give municipalities more direct input on allowing bottled water companies to withdraw new or increased amounts of groundwater in their communities.
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Supporting Jobs and Growth in Northern Ontario: Supporting Junior Mining Exploration
Government of Ontario
The mining sector is an important driver of economic growth. The impact of COVID-19 on the mining sector has resulted in a decrease in the availability of capital for mineral exploration. Junior mining companies rely on this capital to finance exploration. The success of junior exploration is critical to the discovery of existing and new mineral deposits that support larger mining companies, equipment manufacturers and investors across the province.
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Earn your MSc in Mineral Exploration – Geology in 1-2 years at Laurentian University’s Harquail School of Earth Sciences to upgrade your credentials and your career.
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Amendment to the Record of Site Condition (Brownfields) Regulation related to the Requirement to Sample Ground Water
Ontario Ministry of Environment and Conservation Parks (MECP)
Ontario has finalized amendments to Ontario Regulation 153/04 under the Environmental Protection Act (RSC Regulation) that provide flexibility for a qualified person, a licensed professional engineer or professional geoscientist, to exercise professional judgment regarding the need for ground water testing at a site when completing the phase two environmental site assessment (ESA) that is required to file a record of site condition.
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.IN THE MEDIA
Disclaimer: The media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of Professional Geoscientists Ontario, or any employee thereof.
More frequent wind events hurting lake water quality, researchers find
nny360.com
Researchers here have found that more frequent “extreme winds events” may be whipping up trouble for Lake Erie’s water quality and what was found in the study could have the potential to play out in other Great Lakes, such as Ontario.
The new study released by the University of Guelph says those more frequent wind events are drawing up deep water containing low oxygen and high phosphorus that may harm drinking water and fish in western Lake Erie.
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New documentary sheds light on plastic pollution in Lake Ontario
CTV News
A new documentary titled “Shoreline” is shedding light on plastic pollution in Lake Ontario.
Rochelle Byrne, the founder of A Greener Future, documented her 430-kilometer journey on a paddle board collecting waste, mostly plastic along the shoreline of Lake of Ontario from Kingston to Niagara-On-The Lake.
Byrne set off on the journey in July 2020 after the pandemic forced to her to cancel the Love Your Lake program, which consists of more than 100 community shoreline clean-up events she organizes every year through her not-for-profit organization.
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Canada's NWMO publishes plan to progress geological repository
Nuclear Engineering International
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has published a new five-year strategic plan, “Implementing Adaptive Phased Management 2021 to 2025” (APM) setting the stage for moving beyond planning and site selection for the safe, long-term management of used nuclear fuel. “The next five years will see the NWMO move from an organisation that is planning to build a repository to one that is implementing that plan, as we anticipate selecting a single, preferred site for Canada’s plan in 2023.”
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Supreme Court ruling on climate action 'fortuitous' for dialogue on protecting permafrost
Vancouver Sun
The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling recently that the federal government’s carbon tax is constitutional and not an infringement on provincial jurisdiction was “fortuitous” for conveners of a discussion series on how to protect Arctic permafrost from a warming climate.
Talk in the fourth session of the permafrost carbon initiative had turned to government actions needed to curb climate change as a means to protect permafrost, so moderator Chris Henderson said it was apropos for the top court’s decision to be released on the same day.
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Architecture of Eolian successions under icehouse and greenhouse conditions
Geological Society of America
Anthropogenic climate change is one of the foremost scientific and societal challenges. In part, our response to this global challenge requires an enhanced understanding of how the Earth’s surface responds to episodes of climatic heating and cooling. As historical records extend back only a few hundred years, we must look back into the ancient rock record to see how the surface of the Earth has responded to shifts between icehouse (presence of ice at the Earth’s poles) and greenhouse (no substantial ice at Earth’s poles) climates in the past.
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Ice cores drilled for missile silo research reveal when Greenland was last green
CBC News
Long-misplaced ice core samples from an unlikely source — drilled during construction of a U.S. Army base during the Cold War — have revealed that Greenland might have been largely ice-free and covered in plants only a million years ago.
Geologist Andrew Christ and an international group of colleagues suggest this means Greenland's ice cap could be more vulnerable to temperature changes than scientists might have suspected, which they suggest is concerning news in the context of modern climate change.
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