About Registration
This year's event will take place at Bryston’s on the Park Copper Cliff, Sudbury, ON from September 24th-25th, 2024.
Sponsors
Interested in sponsoring the event? As a sponsor, your logo will receive prominent placement and your support will be fully recognized at the event. You can indicate your sponsorship on the registration form.
Registration
Symposium - $125.00
Symposium Student - $40.00
Field Trip - $60.00
Field Trip Student - $25.00
For any questions related to registration, don't hesitate to get in touch with Shauna at info@clra.ca.
agenda
Tuesday September 24th, 2024
Bryston’s on the Park, 5 Creighton Road, Copper Cliff, ON P0M 1N0
8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Networking
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and overview of CLRA (Quentin Smith and Sarah Barabash, Ontario Chapter Co-Presidents)
9:15 - 9:30 Delegate Welcome
Vale (Quentin Smith)
Ontario Ministry of Mines (Marc Stewart)
Ontario Mining Association (David Yaschyshyn)
Glencore (David Yaschyshyn)
9:30 - 9:55 Indigenous Participation in Mine Reclamation Projects (Stephanie Rocca, Ontario Ministry of Mines & Jenny-Lou Campbell, Anishinabek Nation)
9:55 - 10:20 The Past Paves way to the Future - Rehabilitating Legacy Pits in Ontario (Danielle Solondz, TOARC)
10:20 - 10:45 Health Break
10:45 - 11:10 Assessing sulfur compounds rather than acidity management in mine tailings reservoirs (Lauren Twible - University of Toronto)
11:10 - 11:35 Conceptual modeling as an assessment and engagement tool in "designing for closure" (Laura Ritchie, ERM)
11:35 - 12:00 Piloting the use of PRBs in Northern Ontario (permeable reactive barrier) (Lisa Leger, VALE
12:00 - 1:20 Awards Luncheon and Networking
1:20 - 1:45 Anthroposol development and revegetation for mine reclamation on the boreal shield: results from the 12 years of monitoring (Daniel Vandeloo & Autumn Watkinson, Trent University)
1:45 - 2:10 From “moonscape” to The Happiest City in Canada: how pollution control, soil reclamation, and afforestation are restoring the Sudbury, Ontario landscape (and sequestering carbon) (Nathan Basiliko, Lakehead University)
2:10 - 2:35 Harnessing Lichens as Cost-Effective Environmental Monitoring Tools in Mining Regions (Graeme Spiers, Laurentian University)
2:35 - 3:00 Health Break
3:00 - 3:25 TOARC Gravel Pit Restoration (Marc Hébert, Collège Boréal)
3:25 - 3:50 Vale’s Hands-On Biodiversity Program (Mark Sten, Vale)
3:50 - 4:15 Field Trip Preview (Samantha McGarry, Glencore and Quentin Smith, Vale)
4:15 - 4:30 Microbes in Mining – video (Stephen Nachtsheim) Introduced by Jennifer Gordon (University of Toronto)
4:30 - 5:00 Symposium Discussion/Wrap-Up. CLRA Ontario report and activities
5:00 Optional visit to Vale’s Greenhouse in Copper Cliff
6:00 Optional dinner and drinks (networking opportunity)
Poster
Learning how to restore peatland function in a toxic metal and metalloid polluted landscape (Colin McCarter, Nipissing University – contact Peter Beckett)