CLRA National Newsletter - Summer 2020

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Since our last newsletter, the world has changed given the COVID-19 global pandemic. We, at the CLRA, are working to ensure the health and safety of our members by working on audio/visual conferences and workshops to continue to keep you informed on reclamation across Canada.

Our Annual General Meeting will likely be held in the same format. We will be sending out notices on when the AGM will be held virtually.

The CLRA is excited to be working with the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) for our CLRA National Conference in 2021 in Quebec City where SER will hold their 9th World Conference on Ecological Restoration with us. SAVE the DATES: June 19-24, 2021 and stay tuned for more details!

The Canadian Reclamation magazine’s next edition will be out in September. We encourage you to send articles on your projects, innovation, and how COVID-19 has affected your efforts for reclamation. Deadline for articles will be near the end of August. Please go to the CLRA website to find out how to submit your articles and advertise.

As always, please feel free to reach out to me or any of our Directors if you have ideas or questions.

To you and your families, we wish you to all stay well and safe!

Yours in reclamation,

Andrea McEachern
National President, CLRA/ACRSD

EVENT UPDATES

Reclaim, Restore, Rewild (RE3) is officially postponed to June 2021

Given the spread of COVID-19, we are postponing the RE3 event by a full year to 19-24 June 2021.

If you previously registered and/or had an accepted abstract, symposium, workshop or training course proposal, click here

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CLRA Alberta Chapter Lunch & Learn Series - Webinar Cancelled

The Clubroot Management and Testing webinar postponed from March 30, 2020 is regrettably cancelled.

We will be issuing refunds to everyone who has registered for this event this week. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at info@clra.ca.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

CLRA Alberta June 2020 Update

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2020 Golf Tournament Update: This week the CLRA Board and the Golf Tournament committee made the difficult decision to postpone our Annual Charity Golf Tournament to 2021. We look forward to hitting the green next year and hope that everyone stays safe in the interim.

The CLRA has been hard at work planning for a virtual fall webinar series and we look forward to unveiling the details this fall. If you or any of your peers have topics or presentations they would like to submit for the virtual webinar series please email us at info@clra.ca.

CLRA Alberta Chapter 2021 AGM & Conference

Save the date for the CLRA Alberta Chapter Conference on February 23 - 26, 2021.

We are proud of our 2020 conference program in Red Deer and encourage you to check out the conference presentations and proceedings to see our part in making Canadian resources more sustainable.

INDUSTRY UPDATE

Reclamation Practices and Criteria for Powerlines

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The guide Reclamation Practices and Criteria for Powerlines addresses those areas where supplementary guidance on reclamation and regulatory closure for powerline right-of-ways is required. This includes: transmission line right-of-ways on both private land and public land, and distribution line right-of-ways on public land. The practices and criteria presented in this document are for use by powerline operators and qualified environmental professionals when removing powerlines, and for assessing powerline right-of-ways and associated lands.

To subscribe to or unsubscribe from AEP’s Reclamation and Remediation notification email distribution list, click here.

Questions about the guide can be set to:
Land.Management@gov.ab.ca

Supplemental Guidance for Site-Specific Risk Assessments (draft) Released for Stakeholder Comment

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COMMENT FORM

Questions about the guide can be set to:
Land.Management@gov.ab.ca

Alberta Environment and Parks is releasing the Draft Supplemental Guidance for Site-Specific Risk Assessments in Alberta for public comment.

This guide provides additional clarification on the expectations for site-specific risk assessments in Alberta, as set out by the Government of Alberta’s Contaminated Sites Policy Framework and the Alberta Tier 1 Soil and Groundwater Remediation Guidelines and Alberta Tier 2 Soil and Groundwater Remediation Guidelines.

The Draft Guide is provided for public comment until September 25, 2020.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Please forward all feedback or questions to Land.Management@gov.ab.ca, referring to “Supplemental Guidance for Site-Specific Risk Assessments in Alberta”.
Please use the comment form linked here when providing review comments.

OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST

DISCLAIMER: The following events are hosted by external organizations. Should you require an update on their status, please contact the event organizers/organizations directly.

Tailings and Mine Waste 2020

November 15-18, 2020, Keystone, CO