Remediation Now Workshop: Soil Management in BC (Virtual)
A HYBRID IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
November 7, 2023 8:30am - 4:30pm PT
Overview
Keynote Speaker: Excess Soil – Problem or Opportunity – An Issue Beyond BC; Bruce Tunnicliff, Vertex Environmental Inc.
Protocol 19 Update - proposed changes to the first phase of Protocol 19; Ardith Gingell (BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy)
Soil Relocation – BC Compliance Plan for soil relocation; Michael Chao (BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy)
Federal Guidance - Beneficial Re-Use of Dredged Material; Erin Shanke (Environment Canada)
Soil Relocation - Current Challenges and Industry Responses; Steve Boyce (Active Earth), with audience participation
In Conversation … the Ontario Excess Soil Program after Year One; Grant Walsom (XCG Consulting Ltd.) and Peter Sutton (Terrapex)
Rethinking Relocation: Creating a Resource from Excess Soil; Peter Reid (GRT)
Soil Management on First Nations Land; Aaron O’Keefe (Indigenous Services Canada, BC Region)