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ASSESSMENT AND REMEDIATION ON REMOTE OR NORTHERN SITESJUNE 3-4, 2015 AT THE WESTIN EDMONTON

10135 100 ST NW, EDMONTON, ALBERTA

2015 Exhibitors

1. Envirogreen Technologies Ltd.2. GroundTech Solutions Ltd.3. Chemco Inc.4. Pine Environmental5. ALS Environmental6. Arcadis

7. Envirocon Environmental Services8. SCG Industries Limited9. Maxxam Analytics10. Tervita11. Oak Environmental Inc.

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Welcome MessageThe Real Property Institute of Canada (RPIC) is well known for its biennial RPIC Federal Contaminated Sites National Workshop (RPIC FCSNW), a leading professional development event for federal and industry environmental professionals involved in the management and remediation of federal contaminated sites. Since 2006, the RPIC FCSNW has been held in Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.

The first RPIC Federal Contaminated Sites Regional Workshop (RPIC FCSRW) was hosted in Kingston in 2011 and offered participants in-depth training on sustainable remediation in Canada. The June 2013 RPIC FCSRW followed in Halifax and offered a wide variety of opportunities to learn about technical, operational and organizational challenges relating to sustainable approaches to contaminated sites assessment and project planning.

The 2015 RPIC FCSRW, June 3-4 in Edmonton, will focus on Assessment and Remediation on Remote or Northern Sites. This Workshop will offer a wide variety of opportunities to learn about recent advances and experiences in addressing technical, logistical and organizational challenges for projects located in isolated, difficult-to-access locations that face extreme seasonal limitations.

An exciting new component has been added to the 2015 RPIC FCSRW with the inclusion of Field Demonstrations of Analytical Technology. Real-time measurement methods and technologies are helping contaminated site managers reduce costs and shorten the timelines required to characterize sites as compared to conventional techniques. This interactive and hands on series of sessions will be held in conjunction with the Workshop that will allow participants the opportunity to see these new technologies and methods at work.

We hope that this Workshop will enable you to build new skills, increase your network and, at the end, benefit the federal contaminated sites community. Sébastien Yelle Ed DomijanWorkshop Chair Technical Co-chair

On behalf of the Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESAA), welcome to the City of Edmonton and the 2015 RPIC Federal Contaminated Sites Regional Workshop. The 2015 Workshop focuses on Assessment and Remediation on Remote or Northern Sites. ESAA is pleased to be a Workshop partner for this extremely important Workshop.

Canada’s North has become a great region of opportunity and the environmental protection and ongoing remediation is important in the future growth of the North. Enjoy the Workshop!

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2015RPIC FEDERAL CONTAMINATED SITES

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7:00 am - 9:00 am .................................................................................................................................... Ballroom Foyer

Registration

7:30 am - 8:30 am ..................................................................................................................................... Ballroom Foyer

Breakfast in Trade Show and Poster AreaThank You to our Breakfast Partner: Nelson Environmental Remediation

8:30 am - 8:45 am .................................................................................................................................... Manitoba Room

Welcoming Remarksn Sébastien Yelle, Workshop Chair

8:45 am - 9:00 am .................................................................................................................................... Manitoba Room

RPIC President Addressn Heather Kane, President, Real Property Institute of Canada

9:00 am - 10:00 am .................................................................................................................................. Manitoba Room

Plenary Presentationn Brenda Parlee, PhD, Faculty of Native Studies and Faculty of Agricultural Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta

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Refreshment Break in Trade Show and Poster Area

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Development and Implementation of Decontamination Standards for the Roaster

Complex at Giant MineCathy Corrigan1, Richard Mathieson2 and Gordon Woollett1

1AECOM Canada Ltd.2Golder Associates Ltd.

Establishing a Long-term Environmental Monitoring Program for the Giant Mine

Remediation ProjectBrad Overton and Rob Girvan

Public Works and Government Services Canada

Analysis of Seasonal Active Layer Dynamics and Fate, Transport and Transformation

of Three Chemical Clusters in Permafrost Affected Soils

Asish Mohapatra, Health Canada

For Peat’s Sake: A Case for Matrix Specific Standards and Methods for Peat

CharacterizationPatrick Novak1 and Daniel Gorsic2

1CARO Analytical Services2Synergy Aspen Environmental

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ................................................................................................................................... Manitoba Room

LunchThank You to Our Luncheon Partner: Golder Associates Ltd.

Giant Mine Remediation: The First PhaseSue Longo1, Darren Kennard1 and Chris MacInnis2

1Golder Associates Ltd.2Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada

Dumps, Landfills and EmergingContaminants in the Canadian North

Monica Danon-Schaffer, CH2M HILL

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AECOM is a leader in providing design, consulting, engineering, construction, management services and fi nance in all of the key markets that it serves, including environmental, government, oil and gas, energy, transportation, facilities, high-rise buildings and water.

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Luncheon KeynoteUse of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology for High-Resolution Mapping in the High Arctic

n David G. Pritchard, P.Geol., Principal and Senior Geoscientist, Golder Associates Ltd.

Obtaining suitable mapping information for managing sites in the High Arctic can prove challenging. The scales of traditional government topographic mapping can be too small to be useful. Free satellite imagery often does not have the resolution necessary to identify site features and to provide adequate base mapping. Commercially-available high-resolution satellite imagery can be sufficient, but may not be available for the particular area of interest, or may be constrained by cloud or snow cover. The costs of custom tasking of high-resolution satellites can be prohibitive, as can the cost of ground topographic survey.

Over the past few years, small-scale unmanned aerial vehicle technology has expanded rapidly. Systems that allow for the collection of high-resolution still and video aerial imagery are becoming simple and cheap to operate. Post-processing capabilities allow for the creation of products ranging from simple two-dimensional maps to complex three-dimensional images. This presentation will discuss the application of small-scale unmanned aerial vehicle technology for collection of high-resolution aerial imagery, and the development of detailed orthophotographs and digital elevation models.

A case study of the use of small-scale unmanned aerial vehicle technology for collection of geo-referenced aerial imagery and subsequent production of high-resolution orthophotography on an abandoned industrial site in Canada’s High Arctic will be presented.

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Dessert Break in Trade Show and Poster Area Thank You to Our Refreshment Break Partner: ERIS Ltd.

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Low Level Filtering of Metals in the FieldALS Environmental

Filtration of waters to meet ever decreasing regulatory limits for dissolved metals analysis can be challenging. ALS evaluated in-line filters and other filtration systems for trace contaminant levels of dissolved metals by both High Resolution Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometry (HR-ICPMS) and Cold Vapour Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry. Both in-line and syringe filters were evaluated.

Visit booth 5 in the trade show to discuss low level filtering of metals in the field with our technical experts. Equipment demonstrations for slightly turbid samples will be shown as well as comparisons of common in-line filters. Filter choice considerations for ultra low detection levels of many regulated metals will also be discussed.

Winisk Mid-Canada Line Radar Site Cleanup: Social, Logistical and Technological Issues

Jacques Dion and Marc LégèreSanexen

First Nations Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building to Facilitate Positive Outcomes for an Ex-situ Remediation

Program at a Remote First Nations Site in Northern BC

Chris McDonald1, John Taylor2, Brad Klave3, Ellen Sedlack4

1Arcadis Canada Inc.2Core 6 Environmental Ltd.

3Public Works and Government Services Canada4Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada

The Engagement of Aboriginal Peoples in Contaminated Sites Decision-makingViviane Paquin, Nick Battye, Megan Lord-Hoyle,

Ken Reimer, Kela WeberEnvironmental Sciences Group,

Royal Military College of Canada

Environmental Assistant Training and Work Experience Program: Effecting Longer Term

Benefits in Remote CommunitiesSam Bird, Worley Parsons

Respiratory Protection Level Selection for Contaminated Site Remediation Work Based

on Real-time and Rapid Turnaround Air Monitoring Methods

Todd Irick, WESA, a Division of BluMetric Environmental Inc.

Sä Dena Hes Mine Closure: Application of XRF Technology to Delineate Metals-Contaminated Soils

Andrew Bruemmer, Golder Associates Ltd.

New Methods to Assess and Support Monitoring: Natural Source Zone Depletion

Liz van Warmerdam1, Tom Palaia1, Ellen Porter1, Fiona D’Arcy2, Ian Clark2, Ruth Hall3

1CH2M HILL2University of Ottawa

3Yukon Government, Site Assessment and Remediation Unit

Considerations for the Use of Real-time Measurement Technologies for Expedited

Site Characterization in the NorthFrançois Lauzon and Marc Bouchard

Stantec Consulting Ltd.

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6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Networking Dinner at Fort Edmonton ParkThank You to Our Networking Dinner Partner: Envirogreen Technologies Ltd.

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Loading Bus to Networking Dinner and Field Demonstrations

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Field Demonstrations of Analytical Technology (Weather Permitting)

Driving Efficient Remediation Projects: Mobile Laboratories

Maxxam Analytics

Field Sampling Access ToolsGroundTech Solutions Ltd.

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Driving Efficient Remediation Projects: Mobile LaboratoriesMaxxam Analytics

Mobile laboratories can provide environmental analyses to support both emergency and non-emergency spill response, remediation and excavation products. Current mobile laboratory solutions provide accredited hydrocarbon and general inorganic analyses to major oil and gas companies to meet applicable regulatory requirements.

These mobile labs are equipped with robust instrumentation in order to obtain detection limits for reportable parameters that are significantly below lowest regulatory limits. These mobile laboratories are not a screening tools; the analytical data provided is defensible and is determined and reported consistent with that from a fixed laboratory. Mobile laboratories can

reduce costs, simplify sample logistics and can expedite the decision-making process.

Field Sampling Access ToolsGroundTech Solutions

The US EPA describes direct push technologies as “a category of equipment that push or drive steel rods into the ground. They allow cost-effective, rapid sampling and data collection from unconsolidated soils and sediments.” Geoprobe® Direct Push Technologies and Systems include soil gas samplers, soil and groundwater sampling equipment, injection remediation technologies, and Direct Image® Systems designed to collect real time subsurface data in the field. This demonstration will include the following technology:

The Geoprobe® Model 7822DT is a standard direct push machine used for the installation of soil gas probes and the efficient collection of undisturbed soil and groundwater samples without cross-contamination.

The DT325 Dual Tube Soil Sampling System is used extensively in the field for collecting continuous core samples of unconsolidated materials from within a sealed casing of probe rods.

The Screen Point 16 Groundwater Sampler is a direct push device consisting of a PVC or stainless steel screen that is driven to depth within a sealed, steel sheath and then deployed for the collection of representative “grab samples” of groundwater.

The Electrical Conductivity System is a real-time detection method with a computer monitor in the field used for determining soil lithology.

The Membrane Interface Probe System provides real-time detection of both chlorinated and non-chlorinated solvents in the subsurface. The MIP System will only be demonstrated in theory due to the need for a contaminated site.

The Hydraulic Profiling Tool System is the latest in real-time data collection and can be used for targeting preferential pathways of contaminant migration. It is utilized in conjunction with the injection of remediation materials in contaminated soil and groundwater.

The Cone Penetration Test System produces data in real time using a sophisticated probe for the collection of geotechnical field data.

7:00 am - 8:00 am .................................................................................................................................... Ballroom Foyer

Breakfast in Trade Show and Poster Area Thank You to Our Breakfast Partner: Nelson Environmental Remediation

8:00 am - 8:15 am ..................................................................................................................................... Manitoba Room

RPIC ADM Champion Addressn Jaime Pitfield, Assistant Deputy Minister (Infrastructure and Environment), Department of National Defence and 2015 RPIC ADM Champion

8:15 am - 9:00 am ..................................................................................................................................... Manitoba Room

Plenary Presentation: The Future of Transport Airships in Canada’s Northern Logisticsn Dr. Barry E. Prentice, Professor, I.H. Asper School of Business, Department of Supply Chain Management, University of Manitoba

Transportation infrastructure underpins the economic and social development of a modern economy in southern Canada. In northern areas of Canada transportation challenges discourage investment in resource industries, limit employment prospects, and increase the cost of living. Moreover, the socio-economic conditions in Canada’s remote First Nations communities are deplorable. While some communities are better off than others, 60-80 percent unemployment, food prices two to three times higher than urban centres, high incidence of diabetes, boiled water restrictions and lack of indoor plumbing are commonly found.

Few transportation options exist because of cost, distance and demand. The North is served best by air transport, but the increasing cost of aviation is causing spiralling increases in food and fuel prices in northern communities and resource extraction sites. Land transportation options are limited to ice roads that are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change. The cost of building all-weather gravel roads in areas of muskeg, permafrost and many water crossings is prohibitively expensive. At $1.5 to $3 million per kilometer, it could cost $15 billion to convert the 5,000 kilometer ice-road networks of Ontario and Manitoba into one lane gravel roads. Annual maintenance would cost millions more; especially as climate change progresses. Governments have neither the financial capacity, nor the political will, to undertake the expense of road infrastructure in northern Canada.

The solution for the future of northern transportation could lie in an older technology that is gaining renewed interest. Seventy-five years ago, large passenger airships were able to carry 70 tons at 80 miles per hour, across the Atlantic Ocean on regularly scheduled flights. Investment in airships was curtailed by the rapid development of airplane technology during World War II and the subsequent Cold War. Interest in airship technology for cargo use is being stimulated by fuel prices, environmental concerns, the need to serve locations without established infrastructure and technological advances. Modern transport airships are under various stages of development in Brazil, UK, US, Russia, Germany and Canada. This presentation presents the case for transport airships in Canada and provides a survey of current developments around the world.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

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10:30 am - 11:00 am ................................................................................................................................ Ballroom Foyer

Refreshment Break in Trade Show and Poster Area

Cleaning up the Former DEW Line Radar Station at Dewar Lake, Nunavut

Eric Thomassin-Lacroix, Biogénie, a division of Englobe Corp.

Looking Beyond the Mine Footprint: Impacts and Risks From the Associated

Pine Point Rail BedMeagan Gourley1, Charlotte Lessard1, Barbara Hard1,

Emma Pike2, Erin Shankie3

1ARCADIS Canada Inc., in partnership with Columbia Environmental Consulting Ltd.

2Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada3Public Works and Government Services Canada

Tununuk Point (BAR-C) RemediationRamy Rahbani1 and Warren Bebeau2

1Imperial Oil Ltd.2AECOM

Phytoremediation of Salt and Petroleum Hydrocarbon Impacted Soil: An Innovative

Technology for Treating Remote and Northern Sites

Elizabeth W. Murray1, Bruce Greenberg2, Ben Poltorak1, Kent Cryer1, Perry Gerwing1

1Earthmaster Environmental Strategies Inc.2Department of Biology, University of Waterloo

In-situ Remediation of Hydrocarbon Impacted Groundwater in Permafrost

Terrain at a Remote Site in the Northwest Territories

Aziz Shaikh, Tetra Tech EBA

Bioremediation with Fungal MyceliaRoland Treu, Athabasca University

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Spill Response, Site Assessment and Remediation of a Significant Gasoline

Release to Land, Resolute Bay, Nunavut: Challenges and Successes in the Approach

to Remediation in a Remote Communityin the Canadian Arctic

Rob McCullough, Stantec Consulting Ltd.

Lessons Learned in Remediating Legacy Uranium Mine and Mill Sites in Northern

SaskatchewanDavid Sanscartier, Dianne E. Allen, Ian Wilson

Saskatchewan Research Council

Case Study of the Remediation of the Padloping Island and FOX-E, Durban Island

Sites in NunavutRebecca Morley and Caitlin Moore,

AECOM

Health Risk Characterization for Intermittent and Short-term Exposures

to Chemicals at Northern SitesLindsay Smith-Munoz, Alicja Wierzbicka and

G Mark RichardsonStantec Consulting Ltd.

Advancements in Managing Uncertainty in Remedial Options Analysis and Remedial

Action Plan Development for Northern SitesDavid Wilson1, François Lauzon1, Jessie Hoyt2,

Michael Bernardin2

1Stantec Consulting Ltd.2Public Works and Government Services Canada

Successes and Challenges: An Overview of Ongoing Assessment and Remediation

Activities at Environment Canada’s High Arctic Weather Stations

Darryl Roberts, Meggan Sine and Derick PoirierEnvironment Canada

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Lunch Thank You to Our Luncheon Partner: CH2M HILL

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1:00 pm - 1:30 pm ..................................................................................................................................... Manitoba Room

Luncheon KeynoteMine Closure Design and Performance Monitoring, Nanisivik Mine, Nunavut

n Jim Cassie, Principal Geotechnical Engineer, BGC Engineering Inc.

Nanisivik Mine was opened in 1976 at the northern end of Baffin Island in Canada’s North, in arguably one of the remotest and harshest environments in the world. With very little high Arctic mining experience, the mine staff and related consultants developed a design for sulphidic tailings that used the natural topography, the accessible construction materials and the cold climate to its maximum advantage. As the operations proceeded, design and construction practices were amended to reflect site experiences and knowledge that was gained. For years, test covers were monitored to collect site specific performance data to assess the proposed closure cover design for the tailings. In 2002, the economic ore reserves were depleted and the mine entered the closure and reclamation phase. As part of this process, the natural process of permafrost aggradation was incorporated into the construction of engineered covers over the sulphidic tailings, waste rock and the landfill. Portals and mine openings were plugged and buildings and infrastructure was demolished and landfilled.

Reclamation has been substantively complete since 2007 and results from on-going monitoring indicate that the closure measures are performing as designed; the deposits are physically stable and no negative environmental impacts have been noted. Post-closure performance monitoring results, including the mine waste covers, talik freezeback and water quality parameters will be reviewed.

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Field Demonstrations of Analytical Technology (If weather doesn’t permit outdoor demos on June 3)3:00 pm - 3:30 pm .................................................................................................................................... Manitoba Room

Driving Efficient Remediation Projects: Mobile LaboratoriesMaxxam Analytics

3:30 - 4:00 pm ........................................................................................................................................... Manitoba Room

Field Sampling Access ToolsGroundTech Solutions Ltd.

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm ..................................................................................................................................... Manitoba Room

Closing Remarksn Sébastien Yelle, Workshop Chair

The Remediation and Long-term Monitoring of Colomac Mine, NWTCaitlin Moore and Jessica Ham

AECOM

Long-term Monitoring Approach for an Extremely Remote Site

Nick Battye¹, Jeff Donald¹, Tamsin Laing¹, Daniela Loock¹, Ken Reimer¹, Jane Chisholm²

¹Royal Military College of Canada²Parks Canada Agency

Programmatic Approaches to Identification and Management of Federal Sites

Potentially Impacted with Perfluorinated Compounds

William DiGuiseppi, CH2M HILL

An Introduction to Biogenic Hydrocarbon Issues at Federal Contaminated Sites

Alison Street, Amec Foster Wheeler

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Poster Presentations

Driving Efficient Remediation Projects: Mobile Laboratoriesn Kristopher Beaudet and Neel Siva Maxxam Analytics

Challenges with Medical Monitoring Programs for Assessing Arsenic Exposuren Caroline Serhal1, Greg Ertel1, Clint Miller1 and David Hango2

1Parsons Canada Ltd. 2Public Works and Government Services Canada

The Use of Innovative High Resolution Site Characterization Technologies to Improve Contaminated Site Management

n Ben Sweet, SGC Industries Limited

Adverse Health Effects from Air Pollutionn Stephanie Hoeppner, Paracel Laboratories Ltd.

Detection of Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid in Drinking Water Samplesn Brenna Brown, Paracel Laboratories Ltd.

Radiological Site Assessment at Sun Rose Claim Utilizing ScanPlot Technologyn Heath Downey, Amec Foster Wheeler

Operating Procedures During Sampling of Designated Substancesn Mireille M. Rigaux, Tetra Tech EBA

Analysis of Elemental Sulphur in Surficial Alberta Soil Samples by HPLCn Heather Lord, Maxxam Analytics

The Environment Canada Property Review Project: A Model for the Identification and Prioritization of Potentially Contaminated Federal Properties

n Meggan Sine, Environment Canada

Refining Conceptual Site Models for Incorporation into a Site Specific Risk Assessmentn Sam Bird, WorleyParsons

Site Remediation versus Site Reclamation: Wetland/Aquatic Ecosystems and Long-term Monitoring and Managementn Erik J Martin, Hemmera

Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Soil for Affordable Housing Development: 9009 – 112 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta

n Jennifer Sawyer, Tetra Tech

Sampling Considerations Related to Emerging Contaminants: PFCs and 1,4-Dioxanen William DiGuiseppi, CH2M HILL

Giant Mine: Managing the Roaster/Bag House Deconstruction and Decontamination Project for One of Canada’s Most Highly Publicized Contaminated Mine Sites

n John Hibbard, Tervita Corporation

Slow Release Treatment Technologies Using Oxidation or Enhanced Bioremediation for Passive, Long-term Treatment of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated Sites and Other Organic Contaminants

n Jean Paré1 and Pamela Dugan2

1Chemco Inc. 2Carus Corporation

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2015 Committee ListSébastien Yelle Workshop ChairPublic Works and Government Services Canada

François Beaudoin Golder Associates Ltd.

Gisselle Cotta Public Works and Government Services Canada

Tracy Dannell CIMA+

Murray Heap Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada

Robert Lajoie Department of National Defence

Michelle Latimer Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada

Geneviève Marquette Defence Construction Canada

Edward Domijan Workshop Technical Co-chairPublic Works and Government Services Canada

Brent O’Rae Parks Canada

Monique Punt Bronson Consulting Group

Kristoffer SellerDefence Construction Canada

Ken SimoniteDepartment of National Defence

Jody Small Environment Canada

Amy Sparks Environment Canada

For more information on these events please visit www.rpic-ibic.ca or call 613.729.6117

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