Feature Partner
Bilgin Buberoglu
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The Centre's members are:
City of Edmonton
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Message from the Executive Manager
It is gratifying when people go to extraordinary lengths (or distances) to work with us. Such was the case this month when Paul Arnold, a professor at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, spent a week here setting up an experiment at the Clover Bar Research and Development Facility. Dr Arnold had visited us last year and talked about the possibility of future cooperation. When he followed up with a request to access our facilities in July of this year, Dr Shouhai Yu, who is running our project on drywall waste minimization and utilization, was able to work with Dr Arnold to set up a related experiment on adding drywall to yard waste and food waste compost. The experiment is now running and Dr Yu, ably assisted by the City of Edmonton's Jennifer Chiang, is looking after daily maintenance and data acquisition. Although this is not a large project, it underlines the attractiveness of our facilities, demonstrates the flexibility of the Centre in mobilizing resources at short notice, and shows that distance need not be a barrier to fruitful collaboration.
Regards,
Dr. Jerry Leonard, P.Eng., Executive Manager |
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Highlights
 The EWMCE Annual Report for 2006/07 is now available online. "The report documents a wide range of activity in a year of continued growth and development of the Centre. This growth is apparent in our expanding staff and the new initiatives that have been undertaken in all areas," says Dr. Jerry Leonard. To view the report, please click here (PDF).
- The EWMCE is currently hiring for these positions:
1) Casual Lab Technicians - Please click here for the complete job posting (PDF).
2) Education Program Manager - Please click here for the complete job posting (PDF) 
- On September 10, the EWMCE officially welcomed EPCOR Water Services Inc. into Centre membership. At a signing ceremony at the Wastewater Research & Training Facility, Mr. Jim Oosterbaan, Vice President of EPCOR Alberta, and Dr. Jerry Leonard signed a Membership Agreement. The event was attended by representatives from the Centre's members and was followed by a tour of the City of Edmonton's Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant.
- On September 11, the Centre was visited by Grupo Delta, a conglomerate created to invest in viable business projects in the Central American region. The tour was organized by Western Site Technologies Inc. (WSTI), an Alberta-based environmental service company with proprietary waste management and water purification technologies. WSTI, in conjunction with Grupo Delta, will assess and implement Waste Management and Water Purification Technologies in Guatemala and Central America. The delegates visited the Materials Recovery Facility and discussed the possibility of the EWMCE providing training services for their project. The Centre will pursue this possibility in the near future.
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Project Updates
- Enviro-Septic Systems has entered into an agreement with the Centre for the next several months. The company will be testing a biologically-based onsite wastewater treatment system. Tim and Ken Hnatiw of Enviro-Septic Systems first visited the Centre in March for the CETAC Water Cluster Group meeting. At that time, they toured the BNR pilot plant and were impressed with what it had to offer in terms of technology development.
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"At-the-Centre" Technical Seminars
- September 20, 2007 - Industrial Wastewater Pollution Prevention and Control
Download the Seminar Notice and Registration Sheet
- October 18, 2007 - Nanotechnology and Waste Management: Challenges & Opportunities
- November 15, 2007 - Annual Research Day
*Details available 3 weeks before each seminar. |
Upcoming Conferences & Trade Shows
WEFTEC
October 13-17, 2007 San Diego, California
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Link of the Month
Pollution Prevention World Information Network
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Edmonton Waste Management
Centre of Excellence
Site 310, 13111 Meridian Street
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6S 1G9
Telephone: (780) 496-7316
Fax: (780) 944-5709
Email: ewmce@edmonton.caWeb: www.ewmce.com |
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