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Innovation in action at Karlshäll, Luleå. Siccum's Reverse Core Sampler Elevates Precision and Efficiency. Explore the innovative capabilities of Siccum's Reverse Core Sampler (RCS) in our ongoing sampling project at Karlshäll, a game-changer in sampling equipment. The Siccum Reverse Core Sampler (RCS) is ideally suited for stratified sampling from terrestrial and aquatic environments, such as lake or sea beds, particularly for sediment sampling. Utilizing freeze technology, the RCS solidifies the sample during extraction, ensuring that the samples accurately represent the targeted strata for mapping. The size of the layers to be sampled is adjustable, allowing for flexibility to meet specific project requirements.  #InnovationInAction #innovative #Sampling #coresampling https://lnkd.in/dTw4V_9y

SHORE ZONE MICRO-BARGE CONCEPT FOR OIL AND DEBRIS STORAGE AND TRANSPORT This presentation introduces an innovative oil and debris response solution - the Shore Zone Micro-barge. This small yet functional barge is designed to fill a response gap in recovering trapped but still mobile, heavy oil within a coastline’s shore zone and other challenging locations (rivers, wetlands, ice, mangroves). It also serves as a resource for debris recovery (nurdles and Styrofoam). Its features and functions support non-emergency, day-to-day community businesses such as aquaculture, shore debris cleanup programs, scientific monitoring, and more. Spilled heavy oil or small debris is often only partially recovered offshore due to various circumstances. Unrecovered product is then left to strand on shores. A community may engage their small vessels to recover the mobile oil before stranding with hand tools such as rakes, shovels, and buckets —whether they are hired to do so or self-directed. Recovering trapped, mobile heavy oil along shores and floating debris is a worldwide problem, as it is messy, inefficient, and unsafe. Collected wastes are often subject to multiple transfers from site to final disposal.  This doesn’t have to be the case. The Shore Zone Micro-barge concept recognizes these problems and is part of the solution by offering a practical storage and transport resource.  This presentation shares the Shore Zone Micro-barge concept and invites your feedback. The aim is to validate the issues, challenges, and solutions I've identified and welcome value-added suggestions. The presentation is available on YouTube (20 minutes).  https://lnkd.in/gXVSekcg  The PowerPoint presentation is on my website at: EnviroEmerg.ca The concept of an SZ Micro-barge and its design/specifications are intellectual property and cannot be subject to patent or disclosure without written permission from the author: Stafford Reid—EnviroEmerg Innovations Ltd

I'm excited to present at the 26th Railroad Environmental Conference in Illinois this October 30, 2024! TITLE: Solving Mystery Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH) Sources at a Derailment Site. ABSTRACT: In 2015, a train derailment released approximately 1 million gallons of partially combusted crude oil into a wetland habitat located in northern Ontario. GHD has remediated the wetland since that time. However, biogenic interferences by background natural organic matter continued to cause false TPH detections in the wetland sediments. The Biogenic Interference Calculation (BIC) was successfully used to eliminate these false detection issues. These forensic methods were also used to distinguish crude oil from true background TPH sources (e.g. creosote, asphalt, diesel, engine oil, etc.). #GHDFirst #RREC2024 #hydrocarbon #sediment #EmergencyResponse #Contamination #GHDDigital

💧🌳🏔🌊💦🔎🗺🚰🏞🌲 Did you know the #OakRidgesMoraine #Groundwater #Project (ORMGP) has #mapping #tools that #allow #users to #visualize #results from #ground #water #flow #models in the #form of #particle #tracks? thanks to Steve Shikaze for sharing insights, inviting comment and link 👇 'These #tracks represent #groundwaterflow #lines and can be #used to #aid in the #understanding of, for example, #capture #zones.' #accessible #intergenerational #intercultural #onehealth #watershed #airshed #data #resources #Canada #ORMGP #OakRidgesMoraineGroundwaterProgram #ParticleTracking #Groundwater #Hydrogeology #GroundwaterModels

https://lnkd.in/gUvUfpHM Martuwarra - The Fitzroy River needs your support. Not just the river but the whole surficial aquifer system. Martuwarra is one of the most pristine catchments on the planet and needs protection from uncontrolled exploitation. And yes, I am involved on the hydrocarbon industry, but the exploration and exploitation of deep hydrocarbon resources pose a very very low threat to Martuwarra compared to surficial activities such as dams, weirs and bore fields.

Check out our case study in this month's TPO Magazine to learn more about how #SchwingBioset can help with #dewatering at your #WWTP: https://lnkd.in/gkUTvm5z

For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country. That could soon change under a far-reaching Interior Department rule that puts conservation, recreation and renewable energy development on equal footing with resource extraction. The final rule released Thursday represents a seismic shift in the management of roughly 245 million acres of public property — about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass. It is expected to draw praise from conservationists and legal challenges from fossil fuel industry groups and Republican officials, some of whom have lambasted the move as a “land grab.” Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, known as the nation’s largest landlord, has long offered leases to oil and gas companies, mining firms and ranchers. Now, for the first time, the nearly 80-year-old agency will auction off “restoration leases” and “mitigation leases” to entities with plans to restore or conserve public lands. “Today’s final rule helps restore balance to our public lands as we continue using the best-available science to restore habitats, guide strategic and responsible development, and sustain our public lands for generations to come,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement. Tracy Stone-Manning, the bureau’s director, has warned that hotter, drier climates are driving longer and more intense wildfires and drought across the American West. At the same time, development has fragmented and destroyed wildlife habitat and migratory corridors. “We oversee 245 million acres, and every land manager will tell you that climate change is already happening. It’s already impacting our public lands,” Stone-Manning said during a Washington Post Live event last year. “We see it in pretty obvious ways, through unprecedented wildfires.” The fossil fuel industry, a frequent foe of the Biden administration, has chafed at the BLM’s approach. It has called the public lands rule an example of regulatory overreach that will stifle domestic energy production, even as the United States pumps more oil than any nation in history. Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, which represents oil and gas companies, said the group plans to challenge the BLM rule in court. She said the policy appears to violate the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the 1976 law that tasked the bureau with overseeing “multiple uses” of public lands for current and future generations. “We have no choice but to litigate,” Sgamma said. “These conservation leases seem to be designed to preclude energy development on federal lands.” The BLM’s proposed rule released last year sparked especially intense outrage in Wyoming, an energy powerhouse that accounts for nearly one-tenth of U.S. fossil fuel production. Some Wyoming Republicans have claimed the BLM is colluding with environmental groups to put millions of acres off-limits to development.

Press Release Ahead of World Rivers Day (WRD) on 22nd September, a group of environmental civil society organizations (CSOs) has released a list of demands for tackling the current water and galamsey crisis. The group notes that meetings convened by the President and the Lands and Natural Resources Minister to deal with the illegal mining canker will not solve the crisis, if they do not include implementing the demands made by the likes of Organised Labour or the Media Coalition Against galamsey. To restore our water bodies, farmlands, and forests, and to safeguard the livelihood of farmers and fishermen, the CSOs make the following demands to the Government: 1. Immediately declare a state of emergency in line with sections 31 and 31 (4) of the 1992 Constitution and deploy the Police and Military to remove all miners and mining equipment from our water bodies, forest reserves, and farmlands. 2. Repeal L.I. 2462 and ensure that there is no mining or logging in protected forest reserves or globally significant biodiversity areas. 3. Pause Small Scale Mining/Community Mining. 4. Cause environmental terrorists and all persons named in Prof. Frimpong Boateng's report to be investigated. Read more here https://lnkd.in/dwHtJQHM

This was an interesting site to create a couple of short 1-minute videos on to show what we've been doing to remediate TPH and TCA in the groundwater. #groundwater #videocontentcreator #bodem #soil #remediation #insitu #industrie #remediation #grondwater #koolwaterstoffen #solventen

Well this certainly is a seismic shift in policy with BLM and its management of 245 million acres of public lands. The following text is from a Washington Post article today (4/18/24): "For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country. That could soon change under a far-reaching Interior Department rule that puts conservation, recreation and renewable energy development on equal footing with resource extraction. The final rule released Thursday represents a seismic shift in the management of roughly 245 million acres of public property — about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass."