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Water & Wastewater Newsletter August 05, 2010 |
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What laws would apply if there was a BP-type spill along the B.C. coast?
Perhaps no single story has dominated news coverage recently like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It has raised questions about the legal status of offshore oil and gas development and tanker traffic along the west coast of British Columbia. Concerns about the status of B.C. offshore exploration became more acute when Calgary`s Enbridge Inc. announced plans to construct and operate two pipelines from Edmonton to Kitimat that would increase tanker traffic in the area to an estimated 220 ships annually. Concerns have been further heightened by the Enbridge oil spill that released ... |
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US$80 billion in upgrades of North American wastewater treatment plants in the next 5 years
U.S. and Canadian cities and towns will spend over US$80 billion to upgrade and expand municipal wastewater treatment facilities over the next 5 years. This will represent 15 percent of the global spending for this segment. Some of these expenditures are just replacement of outdated facilities. Others are to meet water pollution discharge limits or reduction of odors. Some of the expenditures, particularly in California, Florida and other areas with population growth, are to accommodate increased population. These projects are tracked on a biweekly basis in the McIlvaine online North American ... |
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