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Coming soon! 2020 Summary Report of National Survey on Complaints and Discipline Cases Involving Geoscientists
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PGO
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PGO will be releasing a summary report of a national survey that was conducted this year on complaints and discipline cases involving geoscientists. The report will be available in the Aug. 27 issue of Field Notes.
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Ontario launches first-ever climate change impact assessment
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Government of Ontario
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The Ontario government has selected a consulting team led by the Climate Risk Institute to conduct the province's first-ever multi-sector climate change impact assessment. The study will use the best science and information to better understand where and how climate change is likely to affect communities, critical infrastructure, economies and the natural environment, while helping to strengthen the province's resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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Call for Nominations for PDAC 2021 Awards
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PDAC
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This is your chance to recognize an individual or an organization for their excellence and contribution to the mineral exploration and mining industry. Deadline for submission of nomination is Sept. 11, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.
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New Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management aims to improve the safety of tailings facilities in the mining industry
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ICMM
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The Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management launched recently, establishes the first global standard on tailings management that can be applied to existing and future tailings facilities, wherever they are and whoever operates them. Strengthening current practices in the mining industry by integrating social, environmental, local economic and technical considerations, the Standard covers the entire tailings facility lifecycle — from site selection, design and construction, through management and monitoring, to closure and post-closure.
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Global mine tailings standard doesn't pass muster with environmental groups
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Northern Ontario Business
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A new mine waste standard for preventing future tailings dam collapses is too vague, leaves too much room for self-regulation, and contains no enforcement measures, according to two international non-government organizations. Earthworks and MiningWatch Canada said the new Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, released recently, "does not go far enough" to protect workers, communities, and ecosystems from collapses of mine tailings dams.
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Mushkegowuk Grand Chief raises concerns about new law that changes environmental assessment process
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CBC News
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As exploration activity starts up again in the mineral-rich Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, a First Nations group is raising concerns about recent legislative changes to environmental assessment they say erode their rights. After being shut down due to COVID-19, Noront Resources is ramping up its search for new gold and nickel deposits. During the pandemic, the provincial government pushed through Bill 197, called the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act.
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Laundry microfibres a major source of microplastics found in freshwater
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StCatharinesStandard.ca
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When Dr. Michael Rennie began researching microplastics in Lake Winnipeg back in 2014, he was surprised to find levels that were comparable to those in some of the Great Lakes. More recently, Dr. Rennie has been conducting research on microplastics at the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) in northwestern Ontario and last year did background sampling on several ELA lakes, finding evidence of microplastics even in that very remote area.
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How were the Great Lakes formed?
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WorldAtlas
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The chain of five deep, freshwater bodies known as the Great Lakes make up 20 per cent of the world’s surface water supply. In fact, the Great Lakes are so large they are often referred to as inland seas. For thousands of years these lakes have been the source of food, transportation, and drinking water for populations of First Nations, early European settlers, and, today, millions of people in Canada and the United States. But how and when were the lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario formed?
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NASA researchers track slowly splitting 'dent' in Earth’s magnetic field
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NASA
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A small but evolving dent in Earth’s magnetic field can cause big headaches for satellites. Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, an unusually weak spot in the field — called the South Atlantic Anomaly, or SAA — allows these particles to dip closer to the surface than normal.
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The world's biggest waves: How climate change could trigger large landslides and 'mega-tsunamis'
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Phys.org
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Just over 60 years ago, a giant wave washed over the narrow inlet of Lituya Bay, AK, knocking down the forest, sinking two fishing boats and claiming two lives. A nearby earthquake had triggered a rockslide into the bay, suddenly displacing massive volumes of water. The large landslide tsunami reached a height of more than 160 metres and caused a run-up (the vertical height that a wave reaches up a slope) of 524 metres above sea level.
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Sustained planetwide storms may have filled lakes, rivers on ancient Mars
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UT News
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A new study from The University of Texas at Austin is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall and snowmelt filled its lake beds and river valleys 3.5 billion to four billion years ago. The study, published in Geology, represents the first time that researchers have quantified the precipitation that must have been present across the planet, and it comes out as the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is making its way to the red planet to land in one of the lake beds crucial to this new research.
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