CLRA Alberta Chapter - Workshop Summary

Seventy-eight reclamation practitioners from government, industry, consulting, academia, and the services sector gathered in Edmonton on March 6, 2024, to highlight and discuss specific issues facing our industry, share potential improvement opportunities, and propose action items to develop solutions.

A summary report of the day was developed and is available for your review.

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CLRA News: 2023-07-26

This week in CLRA National News, we are featuring the CLRA Alberta Chapter AGM & Conference, a call for content for Fall/Winter 2023 Canadian Reclamation Magazine, the Dr. Edward M. Watkin Award, new career opportunities with Solstice Environmental Management, Summit, NAIT, and Basin Environmental Ltd., and more!

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CLRA News: 2023-07-11

This week in CLRA National News, we are introducing the CLRA National 2023-2024 Board of Directors, featuring the artist behind the 2022 IN-TECH Reclamation Award, a call for applications and nominations for our Ontario Chapter and National Awards and Scholarships, a new career opportunity with Keneco Environmental Inc., and more!

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Introducing the 2023-2024 CLRA National Board

The Canadian Land Reclamation Association/Association canadienne de réhabilitation des sites dégradés (CLRA/ACRSD) Board is pleased to announce Kelly Zadko, Vice President Business Development at North Shore Environmental Consultants Inc. as our new President. Kelly will be leading the National Chapter and its Board of Directors to promote Canadian reclamation and remediation practitioners as world innovators and leaders in the environmental field.

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The Artist Behind the CLRA 2022 IN-TECH Reclamation Award: Shannon Carla King

Shannon Carla King is a Canadian painter who, after 30 years in the energy industry is now a full-time artist focused on capturing the raw, natural beauty of reclamation, preservation, and conservation success stories in acrylic paintings.

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CLRA National Announces the 2022 Linda Jones Memoria Award Recipient: Behnaz Bahroudi

Behnaz Bahroudi is an M.Sc. Student at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) and a Campaigns Committee representative at the TRU Students’ Union. Currently, Behnaz is studying the reclamation of a closed tailings storage facility at New Afton Mine. The primary goal of her research is to provide recommendations for the return of a sustainable ecosystem by determining appropriate soil cover depths and amendments.

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CLRA National Announces the 2022 IN-TECH Reclamation Award (Group) Recipient: Peatland Ecology Research Group (PERG)

Canada is home to a significant proportion (27 percent) of the world's peatlands. In their natural state, peatlands provide a specific habitat for many species of flora and fauna, and they provide many ecosystem services useful to human populations, especially the sequestration of carbon as accumulated peat.

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