From extreme weather events to invasive species, like the Emerald Ash Borer, Canadian municipalities face significant impacts from a changing climate. Communities need to consider long-term climate changes in municipal plans and infrastructure investments, but some municipalities are only beginning this process, according to research from the National Municipal Adaptation Project. To close this gap, […]
What is World Wetlands Day? 2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each year since 1997, the Ramsar Secretariat has provided materials so that […]
Join Canadian Water Network and leading water professionals from around the world at Connecting Water Resources 2015 – From Knowledge to Action (CWR 2015) March 10-12, 2015, in Ottawa, Ontario. CWR 2015 brings together the private sector; public sector; and the world of academia to a forum where leading water thinkers and doers collaborate on how to […]
Canada Water Week is a celebration of water from coast-to-coast-to-coast, held annually in the third week of March to coincide with World Water Day on March 22. Find an Event: Join the Celebration in your Community Host an Event: Inspiration, Resources, and Event Listing Tool
Presenter: David HughesDavid Hughes, Geoscientist, Independent Energy Policy Analyst & Formerly with Geological Survey of Canada Politicians in the US and Canada have promoted LNG exports as a way to monetize the perceived gas bounty made possible by the so-called "shale revolution". However, a review of major US shale gas plays suggests production is not sustainable at low […]
Mine Closure has become an internationally recognized conference series since it was established in 2006. The 10th International Conference on Mine Closure will offer a multidisciplinary global forum for exchanging views and developing capacity, to ensure that new mines are designed with closure in mind, and old sites are closed economically, while minimizing environmental and […]
SER Western Canada of the Society for Ecological Restoration