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.NEWS
Message from the Council President
Paul Hubley, P.Geo., FGC
As I write this in Ottawa, I acknowledge being on unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory.
I set out to write a message of appreciation to PGO contributors to Council over the past year, which I will get to momentarily. First a personal note. It grieves me to learn of the unmarked graves at residential schools throughout the country. I lament how this can be news to me and to many others despite Indigenous people trying to tell us this for years. As I reflect on this, I remind myself that I have consciously and subconsciously benefitted from the colonial past without always knowing it, and I live in privilege and, at times, ignorance. As incoming PGO President and as a fellow inhabitant of this land I will do what I can to leverage whatever privilege I have for the betterment of the marginalized, underserved, and underprivileged — please hold me to account for this during my 12-month term and beyond.
On behalf of the PGO, I thank Scott McLean for his service as PGO President over the past year. Scott has the distinction of being the only PGO President to serve two terms — he also served in 2006-07 when PGO was just learning to walk upright and was a very different place. I have learned a lot from Scott, and we have all benefitted from his affirmative action and decisiveness, not the least of which was his initiation and strong support of PGO’s Diversity and Inclusion ad hoc Committee. On behalf of PGO and all registrants, Scott, please accept our sincere thanks once again for your valued leadership and support.
Thank you to Roger Phillips for his term on Council, making a lot of hard work appear effortless. Fortunately, Roger will continue wearing other hats at PGO so we will continue to benefit from his sage advice. Thank you to Carole Gilbert, Bryan Brassington and Tafa Gomwe for their work on Council — we will miss your guidance but applaud you for your new challenges. Thank you to Past President Milan Situm for his many contributions and distinction of having the longest continuous stretch as a PGO Volunteer of any member. Finally, thank you to the many volunteers who continue to support and enhance public protection through their many efforts on PGO Council and Committees, I look forward to working with you this coming year.
Wishing you all a safe and happy summer,
Sincerely,
Paul Hubley
President — PGO
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Regulatory Update: PGO Submission — Proposed Land Use Compatibility Guideline
PGO
See PGO’s response to the Ministry of Environment and Conservation Park’s (MECP) proposed update to the Land Use Compatibility Guideline — ERO 019-2785. Please note that the comment period has been extended to Aug. 6, 2021. PGO gratefully acknowledges the work of the Environmental Geoscience Subcommittee in developing a response to this proposal on behalf of PGO.
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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.
Joint response to recognize natural assets
Intact Centre, KPMG Canada and MNAI
The Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (University of Waterloo), KPMG Canada and the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative coordinated a joint response to the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB), submitted recently, outlining the need to enable public sector entities to recognize natural assets in their financial statements. The response was co-signed by 69 key organizations, including Geoscientists Canada’s CEO Andrea Waldie, and submitted to PSAB on June 30, 2021 as part of the consultation on their revised Conceptual Framework. Additional supporting information submitted by the coordinators to PSAB provides more detailed information and references supporting the key points made in the joint response.
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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.
Environmental group claims legal victory over De Beers for mercury reporting failures
Northern Ontario Business
A victory in court against De Beers Canada "sets a precedent" on reporting and regulating mining pollution in Ontario's Far North, according to an environmental law organization.
Ecojustice said its "eight-year struggle for accountability" from the global diamond producer came to an end when the company pleaded guilty in a Timmins courtroom recently to one count of failing to provide mercury monitoring data from pollution streaming from its Victor Diamond Mine in the James Bay region.
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Floods may be nearly as important as droughts for future carbon accounting
Stanford University
Plants play an essential role in curbing climate change, absorbing about one-third of the carbon dioxide emitted from human activities and storing it in soil so it doesn’t become a heat-trapping gas. Extreme weather affects this ecosystem service, but when it comes to understanding carbon uptake, floods are studied far less than droughts — and they may be just as important, according to new research.
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Underwater seismometer can hear how fast a glacier moves
Hokkaido University
Basal slip of marine-terminating glaciers controls how fast they discharge ice into the ocean. However, to directly observe such basal motion and determine what controls it is challenging: the calving-front environment is one of the most difficult-to-access environments and seismically noisy — especially on the glacier surface — due to heavily crevassed ice and harsh weather conditions.
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Earth's cryosphere averages net loss of 87,000 square kilometres per year, study shows
CTV News
A 37-year-long study shows that the Earth’s fluctuating cryosphere — the area of the planet covered in ice and snow — averages a net loss of 87,000 square kilometres each year, with researchers attributing it to climate change.
The study, published in a journal by the American Geophysical Union, was done by researchers who calculated the size of the cryosphere on a daily basis between the years of 1979 and 2016 and later averaged out the yearly estimates.
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