One of the main focuses of the Centre's management team this month has been the annual financial audit. I am happy to report that it went very well and reflected great credit on our accountant, Alison Christensen, and Business Manager, Katrin Hoffmann. Although Alison and Katrin present financial statements to our management committee on a regular basis, the audit process brought home to me again the complex nature of our operations. Each of our projects has to be accounted for separately and different projects have different conditions attached to their funding. Keeping track of all this is not a trivial task, and we are fortunate to have very good people looking after it. Too often, the efforts of the people who do all the "background" work get obscured by the "foreground" work of researchers and project managers. It's nice to have this opportunity to thank Katrin, Alison, and all the others who provide vital administrative support to the Centre.

Thank you all!

Regards,

Dr. Jerry Leonard, P.Eng., Executive Manager 

• The 2006-2007 Annual Report is nearly completed. The report will be released early next month.
• The last spring seminar on Conversion Technologies was held on May 17th. There was a total of 53 participants in attendance. Everyone was impressed by the calibre of the presenters. 
  
• Heather Rogers is now confirmed as the keynote speaker for Waste - The Social Context '08. Ms. Rogers is an acclaimed journalist, film-maker, and author of Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. The Centre looks forward to hosting Ms. Rogers along with over 300 international delegates at next year's conference. For more information on the conference click here.
• The Discovery Channel visited the Sand Recycling Project to shoot a feature story. The Centre was an integral part of the project's preliminary research and testing. For more on the project and to download the fact sheet, click here.
• The Centre vas visited by the Canadian Trade Commissioner to India, Viney Gupta, on June 4th. The Commissioner toured the Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant and spoke with Darryl Seehagel about the possibility of offering the Centre's Wastewater and Solid Waste Operator Training and Certification in India.

• Testing of a novel electrode for Klaris Corp.
  The Centre will design and perform a research study to test the disinfection efficiency of a novel electrode.
• Digester Biogas Cleaning
  An initial literature review of technologies used to clean biogas produced in anaerobic digesters, so that it can be used and marketed as natural gas. The review will also recommend further research.

Fall 2007 Series:

• September 20, 2007 - Industrial Wastewater Enforcement 
• October 18, 2007 - Electronic Waste
• November 15, 2007 - Annual Research Day

*Details become available 2-3 weeks before each seminar.

Wastewater Biosolids Sustainability: Technical, Managerial and Public Synergy
June 24 - 27, 2007
Moncton, New Brunswick

Air & Waste Management Association Annual Conference
June 26 - 29, 2007
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA