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Tories dragging heels on
carbon tax
Like the old saying goes, the only cer-
January
y / February 2008 tainties in life are death and taxes. When
it comes to saving the environment,
Volume
Volum
m 20, Number 1 however, this well-worn adage could be
updated by proclaiming: Without some
kind of a tax on polluters, our planet will
slowly, but surely, die.
As the evidence of human-caused
global warming continues to mount –
such as disappearing glaciers and the
death of coral reefs due to excess acid-
ity in the ocean from too much carbon
Andrew Topf, Editor
dioxide in the atmosphere – the idea of a
“carbon tax” is rapidly gaining traction.
Simply put, a carbon tax would tax pollution at its source, and
could take the form of a tax on gasoline, say, four cents a litre to
start, and a tax on businesses that pump greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere.
Quebec has already introduced a tax on oil companies, and B.C.’s
finance mininster has hinted heavily that a carbon levy will be includ-
DATA ACQUISITION ed in the upcoming provincial budget.
The move to tax carbon provincially is falling on deaf ears in Ot-
PACKAGE TRANSFERS tawa, however, with the Harper government soundly rejecting an ad-
DATA TO PC 7 visory panel’s recommendation to implement such a tax.

According to the National Round Table on the Environment and
the Economy, a panel of experts from environmental and business
groups, Canada could achieve a 65 percent reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions by 2050 by setting a price on carbon.
The tax would have minimal impact on the economy, says the pan-
FEATURES el, compared to the costs of not making deep cuts to GHG emissions,
which “carry unnecesssarily higher environmental and economic
risks” and “the very real risk of not achieving our targets at all.”
These findings jibe with climate change experts like Mark Jaccard
9 Spies in space from Simon Fraser University, who in his recent book Hot Air argues
Device riding aboard satellite monitors that the only way for Canada to reverse the trend of rising GHG emis-
air pollution. sions is to implement a carbon tax, likely in combination with a cap
and trade system whereby the government sets a cap on pollution
levels from businesses.
10 Bulb recycling Those that exceed the cap would be forced to buy credits from
Recycling company, commercial real estate firm companies that are below the limit, with the credits bought and sold
team up to streamline waste managment. on a public market similar to a stock exchange.
Granted, the idea of a carbon tax is not exactly new. Environmen-
12 Go with the flow talists have been trying to get governments to tax polluters for years.
While some countries, for example Norway and Britain, went ahead
New data control system makes the drains run and imposed the tax and have gradually seen their GHG emissions
on time in Halifax. decline, here in North America, we are still loathe to do it.
No one likes taxes, but if a carbon tax is crafted properly, it could
13 Catching carbon raise the required revenues without exacting too heavy a burden on
Study to examine carbon capture in Alberta. businesses and consumers.
If governments are smart, they’ll make the tax “revenue neutral”,
meaning another tax, like sales tax or income tax, is lessened by the
18 Canadian Snapshot equivalent amount, resulting in no net tax increase.
Regional director of Environment Canada wins If it’s the federal government raising the tax, all monies collected
prestigious award. We talk to Pradeep Kharé could be plowed back into the provinces from which they came, a
about his distinguished career in environmental method that could assuage Alberta’s fear of being hit hardest.
protection. From a business standpoint, a carbon tax should be applied na-
tionally, so that no province is allowed to gain a competitive advan-
tage over others by not charging the tax.
The federal government had a golden opportunity to show some
DEPARTMENTS leadership in this area, by setting a national carbon tax, but it appears
3 Editorial to have dropped the ball. Instead of the carbon tax, the Tories are
leaning on the cap and trade system and making vague promises of
4 Industry News “mandatory pollution standards and regulations,” while provinces like
5 New Technologies B.C. and Quebec go it alone.
14 Marketplace Such a fragmented approach can only be bad for business, and
15 Focus on Geosynthetics we would have expected more from a prime minister who purports to
be a leader not a follower.
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❊ INDUSTRY NEWS January / February 2008
Volume 20, Number 1
A Baum Direct Response Publication
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thermal oil. With discharge nozzle diameters ranging from 25 mm to 250 mm, the communications to interface with a maxi- factory automation, packaging, mining,
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Tyco Flow Con- tem uses state-
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Submersible pumps unearthed, restoring Transfer settled product and waste from tanks of installation in a broad range of process system allowing for use across a range of
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TROLL 100, an eco- response curve, sensors within the CY670 Series are interchangeable, and for many applications they do
nomical, absolute not require individual calibration. CY670 Series sensors in the SD package are available in five tolerance
(non-vented) data bands: three for general cryogenic use across the 1.4 to 500K temperature range, and one that offers
logging instrument superior accuracy for applications from 30K to room temperature. The CY670 Series sensors also come
for monitoring and in a tolerance band (E), which is available only as a bare die. For applications requiring greater accuracy,
recording changes CY670-SD diodes are available with calibration across the full 1.4 to 500K temperature range.
in water level, pressure, and temperature. The CY670E bare die sensor provides the smallest physical size and fastest thermal response time of
The Level TROLL100 body and nose cone any silicon diode on the market today.
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Supercritical Fluid Technologies introduces

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video image, along with the temperature
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❊ NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Rugged gas detector Hawk’s “third generation” ORCA Sonar to protect the sensor from over-pressure on Portable gas standards
Series. The first difference involves the the low side connection.”
number of sonar transducer frequencies All XP2i-DP gauges are tested and cali-
generating station
employed by each generation of technol- brated inside environmental test chambers The Span Lab
ogy, and the second difference deals with using computer controlled pressure control- Cal Cart by Kin-
the algorithms that control sonar interfaces lers. They are CE certified and are manufac- Tek Laboratories,
the scum-cleaning capabilities. tured under a ISO 9001 registered quality Inc. integrates the
All existing sonar transmitter technologies system. The XP2i-DP is customizable for elements of a gas
utilize only one sonar transducer frequency, panel mounting and portable configura- standards gener-
and are thus severely limited as to where tions, it has datalogging capabilities and ating system for
they can be successfully employed. The can be programmed for custom engineer- creating complex,
ORCA Sonar Series’ third generation ing units. trace concentra-
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sonar technology 0.1% reading accu- capacity from 2.2 to 220 pounds. Both the used to dispense the analyte vapours for
racy. The XP2i-DP CS7500 and CS7600 feature fast, one- blending ppm and ppb mixtures. The Cal
Hawk Measure- provides rugged, button counting, and auto-sample update Cart can be configured with up to six in-
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new ORCA Sonar fied, high accuracy high internal resolution up to 1:16 million This allows generation of very complex
Series Interface long term vacuum measurement. and two user-selectable units of measure. mixtures, or to have several different span
level transmitter, a Most wet/wet differential gauges are The CS7600 has an internal resolution of up mixtures instantly available. The system
“third generation” damaged when the media leaks on the to 1:1 million and functions that include in- can be used with over 400 different com-
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POLLUTION CONTROL ❊
Device travelling aboard satellite
monitors air pollution from space
by Andrew Topf The satellite will orbit earth at about for instance.”
seven kilometres per second, and Quine Microsizing the
A
York University professor wants estimates it will take a few months for equipment has allowed
to put the freeze on global warm- the microspectrometer to cover the entire Quine to create what he He said the Kyoto Protocol and other
ing, and he sees the solution to surface of the earth. calls “sustainable space instrumentation.” climate treaties rely on industy to report
the problem beginning in space. The data will be downlinked to a local “When people think of space instru- their level of emissions, but without an
Dr. Brendan Quine, director of space ground station, then sent via the Internet ments, there’s this image of clunky ma- effective monitoring system, unscrupu-
engineering at York, has developed a to researchers, who will create a global chines that cost millions upon millions of lous companies will continue to under-
device that rides aboard a satellite to ac- map of air pollution. dollars and are destined to become mas- report emissions to avoid or pay less
curately detect sources of industrial pol- But Quine said the objective at this sive pieces of space junk,” says Quine. pollution taxes.
lution on earth. point is not to present a complete picture; In contrast, Argus has a price tag of The microspectrometer, then, could
“This should be a Canadian first, the but rather to test the technology by zero- roughly $75,000. not only keep companies honest, it could
ability to pinpoint polluters, and really, ing in on specific areas and pollution “The low cost means you can fly nu- also provide a means for ethical compa-
if we are serious about doing something events. merous spectrometers to achieve regular nies to have their emissions monitored
about the climate, then these are the kinds “Our plan is to go after targets of global coverage relatively inexpensive- from space in order to reduce their pollu-
of activities we have to do,” said Quine. interest, so when pollution events occur ly,” he said. tion taxes and liability.
The Argus microspectrometer is small we will switch the instrument on over Ultimately, however, while data col- “It doesn’t just have to be used as a
enough to fit in the palm of your hand, those periods. We will also be measuring lection and pollution mapping are im- stick; it can be used in a positive way as
and can identify sources of pollution up carbon dioxide levels over ocean regions portant goals, Quine said the ultimate well,” Quine said.
to a range of one kilometre by measuring where we understand the composition objective is far more simple: to identify York University
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of pollution.”
While it’s not the first time satellites
have been used to measure pollutants,
Quine said the miscrospectrometer is
more accurate because it has a higher
resolution than current space-based in-
struments.
“The thing that’s unique about Ar-
gus is it measures the radiation coming
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ground,” he explained. “All the other in-
strumentation currently in orbit measures
pollution on a much larger scale, maybe
between 20 kilometres and 500 kilome-
tres.”
“The problem with that is it means
you can’t actually pinpoint particular
emissions to more than the resolution of
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❊ WASTE MANAGEMENT
Left: A commercial real estate company developed a website to
better manage its waste recycling; Below: fluorescent bulbs can
be crushed on site or boxed and shipped to a recycling facility.
process to watching the creation of a major motion pic-

ture, from concept to final cut.
“Witnessing the realization of a concept that I shared
with someone was incredible. Better, more creative
minds took it, and it evolved into this green business
masterpiece. It’s the ‘Gone with the Wind’ of the envi-
ronmental world,” he said.
The profound organizational implications of the Air
Cycle program were obvious to all concerned. And while
such an initiative would be an investment, for CBRE it
far outweighed the price of possible environmental dam-
age and potentially falling short of U.S. laws concerning
mercury content in fluorescent lamps. Indeed, It is easy
to comply with environmental regulations when fluores-
cent bulb recycling efforts are automatically updated and
quantified.
And then there is the matter of public perception.
A company that defiles the environment is not a good
neighbour, which could cause ill will within the com-
munity.
“We have a huge variety of different tenants and cus-
tomers. This program allows our real estate managers
to have at their fingertips the local laws to make sure
tenants properly dispose of hazardous waste and keep
mercury out of the landfills,” Polhemus said. “It costs
a little bit. But we assume as environmental sensitivity
High-tech solution to continues to grow, you would see the cost stabilize as
this becomes mainstream. It’s just like any new product.”
In the past the California-based company, which
manages more than 1.7 billion square feet of buildings
fluorescent light bulb around the world, was challenged by complex tangle of
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and local juris-
dictional rules for ballast, battery, and lamp recycling.
And the firm was forced to rely on a tangled network
recycling of waste management suppliers that made it difficult to

standardize and replicate services in various locales.
Polhemus explains: “It was a lot more difficult. You
were never sure you were up to speed with all EPA
standards. And we were looking through the Yellow
Company earns green credentials Pages to find services.”
Polhemus, who oversees engineering staff and opera-
with interactive website tions for 400 locations, a total of 42 million square feet
M
ark Polhemus joined CB Richard Ellis when of assets, now has his environmental responsibilities at
the commercial real estate firm acquired his his fingertips. Thanks to an innovative, custom-built, us-
previous employer, the Trammell Crow Com- er-friendly website, Polhemus can quickly procure serv-
pany. His initial assignment was daunting: find better ices for new and existing assets, access a summary of
methods for recycling fluorescent bulbs and other waste universal waste recycling results, and research recycling
for all CBRE assets. Fortunately, Polhemus had already advances and new programs that might interest clients.
championed a successful recycling program for Tram- Also, new staff engineers are immediately enrolled into
mell Crow, with the help of Rod Kincaid, vice president the record-keeping system when they join the firm.
of Virginia-based Esquire Environmental Services, a As a result, the company is years ahead of most com-
consulting firm. petitors, and prospective clients can swiftly compare an
It was Kincaid who introduced Polhemus and Tram- actual “green” track record with the vague promises of
mell Crow to Air Cycle Corporation. The Illinois-based ings, each would require a different combination of re- other property management companies.
firm pioneered unique web-based programs, such as the cycling services. And each would benefit from a direct The website has morphed into a marketing tool that
EasyPak Pre-Paid Recycling Program, which allows conduit to updated recycling information and guidelines advances CBRE’s position as the leader in the “green”
companies to ship spent fluorescent lamps and batteries for various types of wastes. The answer came to Kin- building movement. Recently CBRE was the first com-
to recycling facilities in United Nations-approved con- caid one day while walking his dog: a customized, ded- mercial real estate services company to announce plans
tainers. And it invented the Bulb Eater for large facilities icated web-based program that allowed corporations to to go carbon neutral in its own operations – with a target
that prefer crushing their lamps on site prior to having refer to and manage their vast waste management needs. to achieve this goal by 2010. At the properties it is man-
them recycled. Also, Kincaid saw the necessity of a website specific aging for clients, CBRE has made a longterm commit-
Air Cycle recently appointed a Canadian distributor to CBRE. The old practice of a firm sending prospective ment to an environmental sustainability program known
in White Rock, B.C., and is now selling directly into the clients to the URL of its waste management provider as Sensible Sustainability. This development comes at a
eastern provinces. A company spokesman said Canadian was passé, in Kincaid’s opinion, because it provided no time when building owners who distribute requests for
sales of the Bulb Eater have doubled in the past year, go- marketing advantage. management proposals have begun to require a detailed
ing primarily to manufacturing companies, warehouses, “Imagine trying to prove how green you are. When account of environmental standards and practices. The
schools and hospitals. you can go to your own dedicated website with your website, therefore, is an ideal presentation tool for pro-
Polhemus quickly embraced Air Cycle’s various pro- own corporate branding and you can demonstrate your spective clients and proof of CBRE’s sustainability com-
grams and found success. But the size of the CBRE port- own programs, we think it’s far more powerful,” he mitment.
folio, which includes about 4,500 properties in the U.S., said. “North America wants to be green and do business “It’s live. It gets updated as information changes. It
presented a whole new logistical hurdle. with other businesses that are green.” gives us a distinct market advantage over our competi-
For Kincaid it was a conundrum: how to provide Kincaid presented his idea to Air Cycle CEO Scott tors,” Polhemus said.
standardized practices with customized solutions. After Beierwaltes, whose staff began to brainstorm and de- Air Cycle Corporation
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❊ PIPELINE INSPECTION
Sewer cameras go where others can’t
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Perry, Ontario is considered one of Purchased in fall 2006, the ROVVER sewer rehabilitation companies have yet able to zoom the rest of the way,” he
Canada’s leading trenchless sewer 125 (for pipe 6 inches and larger) and even to venture,” said Manners. explained. “And, having different wheel
rehabilitation companies. Sewer Tech- 225 (for 9-inch and larger pipe) replaced When Sewer Tech set up to perform options is very helpful in addressing vari-
nologies (Sewer Tech to their industry their older, outdated crawlers and CCTV CCTV inspections in the past, they used ous pipe conditions and materials. “The
colleagues) provides sewer rehabilita- systems. By upgrading their capabilities, track crawlers rather than steerable compact crawler allows us to do this, and
tion services to municipalities, as well as Sewer Tech has propelled itself to the top wheeled crawlers, so they were limited saves a tremendous amount of time.”
engineering and construction companies. of the pipeline inspection field. on manoeuvring. In the pipe, the crawler
Sewer Technologies, Inc.
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Envirosight LLC
zoom cameras, which has increased their gives us tremendous versatility and al- “Since you can’t remove it, you
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ing easier.
With a staff of 30 highly trained em-
ployees, Sewer Tech utilizes Envirosight
camera systems to perform all aspects
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the Ministry of Transportation, Ministry
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ronto Transportation Commission.
According to Chris Manners, Sewer
Tech’s owner and operations manager, the
new inspection equipment allows field
techs to inspect greater distances with
more precise detail before, during and
after rehab.
“The time savings has increased our
business tremendously and we’re get-
ting word-of-mouth referrals. For our
municipal jobs, the QuickView zoom
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❊ INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
New data control system makes the drains run
on time at Halifax Regional Water Commission
by Martin Jetté Only one day’s work by the OSIsoft
integrator was needed for the system to
T
he Halifax Regional Water Com- start providing data to staff. HRWC spe-
mission (HRWC), responsible for cialists programmed a driver beforehand
supplying drinking water to rough- to transfer proprietary data from the or-
ly 325,000 people in the Halifax region, ganization’s legacy systems to the new PI
treats 25–30 millions of gallons of water system. Another day was required to train
daily. A wholly municipal-owned, self- employees on the new system so that they
financed utility, the HRWC has a staff could take advantage of all its functions.
of 180 employees, which was expected “In the process, instrumentation problems
to double last fall when the organization that we had never noticed before were
took over responsibility for wastewater pointed out to us immediately,” McDon-
management. The HRWC is a leader in ald explained.
water loss control and has participated in Today, the night flow analysis reports
two recent American Water Works Asso- are posted on HRWC’s Intranet, where
ciation projects. everyone can peruse the data gathered
This expertise results from the util- during the previous night. Any malfunc-
ity’s efforts in recent years to improve its tion is tagged with a colour code. Ow-
way of doing things. In 1999, the HRWC ing to this feature and the fact that large
set about to align its management meth- A new IT system has made the water commmission in Halifax significantly more efficient. numbers of employees now have access
ods with the best practices recommended to these reports – compared to only a few
by the International Water Association technology (IT) methods, which led to agement was that information used by previously – missing a major leak has be-
(IWA), a water treatment research or- the development of a five-year plan for the organization was divided among sev- come virtually impossible. All in all, the
ganization. Consequently, HRWC carried improving its IT systems. eral completely independent data silos. HRWC estimates it is saving $600,000
out an in-depth review of its information The first observation made by man- Consequently, the people in charge did a year due to better water loss manage-
not have easy access to the information ment. A significant part of this is due to
they needed to carry out their tasks. As a the new IT system, McDonald said.
DISCOVER A result, producing reports was needlessly

difficult; creating graphs and tables re-
quired collecting data from several differ-
The addition of a performance man-
agement system infrastructure has also
allowed an in-house application, the
BETTER ent systems that were not interconnected.

This took a lot of time and sometimes
Water Loss Calculator, to be developed.
This enables the HRWC to calculate the
volume of water or losses experienced
could not be done at all, particularly
SOLUTION. when the data stretched over long periods
of time (such as a full year).
under normal flow conditions in specific
circumstances, such as flushing. This
Microsoft Excel-based program uses
ACG TECHNOLOGY LTD. These problems meant that such
things as generating night flow analysis the Datalink spreadsheet add-in, which
PACKAGE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEMS
reports were problematic. Night flow serves as a gateway between Excel and
With over 25 years of proven experience in advanced analyses are carried out for each of the 65 PI, to gather and analyze information and
water quality solutions, ACG Technology Ltd.has established areas monitored in the HRWC districts; at generate spreadsheet-format reports.
itself as a leading provider of wastewater treatment equipment and we night, water demand is at its lowest and Further, public utilities are required to
recognize that secondary and even tertiary treatment may be required to flow rate and leaks are most easily meas- meet strict government standards on con-
meet surface water discharge limits. ured or detected. Preparing these reports tact time the time chlorine is in contact
The ACG package treatment system uses compact modular components to provide the necessary required assembling data from different with water. Contact time depends on such
environment for nature’s processes of sewage decomposition and treatment. Utilizing the HRWC facilities, and had to be done factors as water temperature and pH. By
extended aeration aerobic digestion process, it works by maintaining sufficient oxygen, mixing manually, on paper. having access to real-time data on these
and detention time to allow the micro-organisms to decompose the treatable wastewater into
To improve its operational efficiency parameters, the HRWC no longer has to
harmless carbon dioxide, water and ash. rely on the old tables it used to carry out
and cost-effectiveness, the HRWC want-
OPERATION: ed to create a single data warehouse con- these analyses. This saves time, improves
Quality controlled from design board to job site, ACG package treatment systems offer taining both production and distribution the accuracy of calculations and ensures
secondary or tertiary effluent quality and economical treatment plant operation under the
data, which it could use to quickly obtain a safer water distribution system in terms
most adverse conditions. Unit processes include screening, aeration, clarification, filtration of water quality and public health. Data
(if necessary) and disinfection. Such features as non-clog reversing, comminutor, self-cleaning the information it needed. With this goal
froth control nozzles and non-clog aeration diffusers make for consistently dependable, high in mind, the IWA suggested a proven on these conditions is archived, which fa-
quality effluent treatment and an ease of operation and maintenance. performance management solution that cilitates any subsequent checks required
could extract the data needed and provide by the authorities.
INSTALLATION: HRWC does not plan on resting on its
ACG Technology package treatment systems are ideal for installation as communal systems the information required in real time to
for residential/commercial/industrial developments located beyond municipal sewer service any employee requesting it (such as per- laurels and has several other projects in
or remote construction/mining/exploration camps. They provide the flexibility of adding sonnel responsible for detecting leaks). the works. Measuring instruments have
future parallel modules—a most economical means of meeting the needs of any growing The HRWC chose OSISoft’s PI system. been installed at a dozen of its major wa-
sewage loads, or for the removal, reuse, or resale of the units as municipal sewer facilities
“We were looking for a product that ter clients, so that they can detect leaks
extend into development areas. in their own underground infrastructures
could help us achieve our objectives,
By o,ering the highest quality of equipment and systems available today, ACG Technology Ltd. based on International Water Association using the new performance management
continues to meet the operational needs and compliance concerns for our valued customers.
practices, and that met the criteria speci- system, which they can access through
The way we see it, the solution is both pure and simple. the Internet. In this way, HRWC hopes
fied in our 2000 study on IT practices,”
For more information regarding our package sewage treatment said HRWC’s technical supervisor, Gra- its clients can achieve significant savings
systems please contact us:
ham McDonald. “We chose the PI system while saving water and protecting the en-
131 Whitmore Road, Unit 13 Woodbridge, ON L4L 6E4
t. 905.856.1414 f. 905.856.6401 e. sales@acgtechnology.com because of its capacity for producing vironment in the process.
w. www.acgtechnology.com meaningful graphics, data archiving capa-
bility, connectivity with our SAP system About the author: Martin Jetté is gen-
and ability to provide value-added data in eral manager for OSIsoft in Montréal.
general.” OSIsoft
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Companies slow to
adopt strategies on
POLLUTION CONTROL ❊
climate change Study to examine carbon capture in Alberta
Lack of executive accountability, Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada Fort Saskatchewan an ideal location for ery.” It is estimated between five and 15
together with ongoing regulatory (PTAC) and the Alberta Energy Research enhanced oil recovery in Alberta. percent of the leftover oil can be extract-
uncertainty, are the key factors Institute (AERI) are conducting a study Conducted by SNC-LAVALIN, the ed for refining using this process.
explaining why Canadian com- into the capture and re-use of carbon di- study will pinpoint sources of carbon The PTAC study will review the
panies are slow to adopt climate oxide emitted from oil refineries in north- dioxide emissions in order to understand merits of a common compression site to
change strategies, according to ern Alberta. the cost of collecting CO2 – widely seen achieve the pressure required for pipeline
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Take precautions to avoid liner failure

by Ian Peggs, P.Eng., P.E., Ph.D crack propagation (stress cracking), but the initiation
site was quickly traced to a fusion seam that had been
W
hen a liner fails by sliding down a steep slope “repaired” by extrusion welding. A sample of the seam
or as a result of “whales” (bubbles in the liner was removed for detailed microscope examination in
material that may result from gas building the laboratory. The precise initiation site was found on
below a leak in the liner) getting entangled in aerator the underside of the weld at a crimp made by overheat-
blades, there is often a great pile of mangled liner to re- ing – clearly a combination of a poor material and poor
move and replace as quickly as possible. Similarly, failed welding.
pipe fusion welds need to be repaired as soon as possi-
ble. Often, the old material is discarded altogether. Then
there is an investigation to determine what happened,
often with insurance companies and lawyers involved, to
determine who is at fault.
A little forethought can save much wasted time and
Inappropriate design was the cause of this failure at a shopping
money later by removing key samples before tearing
centre. The repair costs were double the initial cost of the wall.
everything out. A tangled mess of liner does not destroy
the evidence of the cause of the failure, but if all the ma-
terial is removed by bulldozer or excavator, it just makes
the liner features of interest that much more difficult to
find. And in the worst case, one can lose a case as a re-
sult of prematurely disposing of the evidence.
Fault lines
In this instance, slow crack growth stress-cracking started at
A 20-mil (0.5-mm) high-density polyethylene (HDPE)
an overheating crimp on the underside of an extrusion-weld-
liner for a decorative pond turned out to be a 16-mil repaired fusion seam.
slit film HDPE woven with 2 mil of linear low-density
(LLDPE) on each surface. It leaked like a sieve, liter- In another case where stress cracking occurred at ex-
ally. To ensure there was sufficient water in the pond for trusion and butt welds in a thick HDPE embedment liner
the development’s opening (and major sales weekend), in a mine facility, the installer was faulted by the owner
the contractor ripped the liner out, disposed of it, and and engineer for improper installation. However, the
replaced it with the intended homogenous HDPE liner. welds were made well and the material was good. In fact, If the edges of the break are ductile, the soil-imposed stresses
Despite retaining excess unused material that also leaked the liner manufacturer suggested that a chemical resist- have simply overloaded the liner.
like the same sieve, the case brought by the contractor ance test be performed but the engineer claimed it was
against the liner supplier/installer was dismissed because unnecessary. So, a saving of $10,000 resulted in a multi- the liner failed first and caused the soil to start sliding.
the installed material was no longer available; the evi- million dollar failure. Fortunately, in-situ samples were Thus, if the geomembrane, geogrid, geocomposite, high
dence had been destroyed. taken before the liners were ripped out. strength geotextile, or any other geosynthetic fails be-
With appropriate materials science knowledge, it is In two sewer pipe liner failure projects, one liner was cause it is overloaded, the cause of failure is not the geo-
quite easy to trace the initiating site(s) of the failure and removed before proper samples could be obtained for synthetic. However, if the geosynthetic fails when it is
to recover appropriate samples for detailed examination the optimum materials science examination. In the other not overloaded – i.e. at stresses below the yield or break
if required. The fracture edges and fracture faces, like case, samples were able to be gathered from the sewer strength of the material – then the geosynthetic may be
the rings of a tree, tell the complete history of the fail- pipe before repairs were made. The second case was the cause of the failure, or may contribute to it.
ure – exactly where it started, at what feature, on which much more effectively presented. Therefore, as soon as the failure has occurred, call in
surface or internally, which way it propagated, how it In a very large evaporation pond containing precipi- a materials performance expert to identify samples that
propagated (fast or slow, steadily or in steps), then where tated salts, damage to the liner was claimed to be slit-type should be taken and retained before the bulk of the geo-
it transitioned into the large displacement event. Even if punctures made by large chisels done as an act of vandal- synthetic is removed and stored or replaced, or repaired.
a unique initiation location cannot be identified on site, ism in the final stages of construction. Under the micro- Even if a few defects require patches, it could be helpful
a few key samples can be selected that together will tell scope it was apparent that the slits were not punctures to remove the flaw before the patch is placed rather than
the complete story. With these critical samples preserved, but were shear cuts made, in fact, by the precipitate and putting the patch on the flaw and hiding it.
the balance of the unusable material can then be removed fractured as a result of the chisel impacts during removal About the author: Ian Peggs is owner of I-CORP
and repairs made. of the precipitate. The contractor was absolved of respon- International Inc., which can be found online at www.
In one case many years ago, the liner on the whole sibility, the damage becoming an operations concern. geosynthetic.com.
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GEOSYNTHETICS
PV drains key to Red River Floodway expansion

I
n July, 2007, Layfield Environmental mm wide and approximately 4 mm thick.
Systems completed a prefabricated The wick drains supplied on this site each
vertical drain project for the Red Riv- had a maximum drainage capacity of 6.6
er Floodway Expansion project in Mani- litres/min.
toba. The prefabricated vertical drains One interesting aspect of this project
(also known as PVDs or wick drains) was the use of the newest style of hy-
were installed in preparation for the con- draulic prefabricated vertical drain (PVD)
struction of railway embankments for installation equipment. This patented hy-
a new bridge across the Floodway. The draulic equipment mounts to the mast of
drains will accelerate the consolidation of an excavator and uses hydraulic motors
the clay subsoil under the embankment to press the drains into the ground with
allowing the bridge project to proceed on over 130 kN of static force. The PVD
schedule. is carried into the ground inside a steel
The two embankments, one on ei- mandrel that is driven into the ground
ther side of the Floodway, are part of a and then extracted. The PVD is wrapped
railway bridge embankment that is part around a small metal plate at the bottom
of the Red River Floodway Expansion of the mandrel to hold it in place and to
project. The PVD drainage area will keep the soil out of the mandrel as it is
eventually be underneath 1,200 meters of driven down. When the mandrel is ex-
railway track and cover an area of about tracted the metal plate anchors the PVD
32,000 m2. At this site there is a 20-metre Over 6,500 Prefabricated Vertical Drains (PVDs) were inserted into the ground using hydraulic to the bottom of the hole. In the typically
layer of glaciolucustrine silty clay over installation equipment mounted to the mast of an excavator. saturated soils where PVDs are used, the
silt till on top of limestone bedrock. Con- mandrel presses easily into the ground
solidation of this thick clay layer takes trix of drainage channels into the subsoil embankment area into the side ditch. without predrilling or other preparation.
a long time unless additional drainage is under the embankment to reduce drain- The embankment is then built on top of An advantage of the new hydraulic
added. age paths. Typically PVDs are installed the drainage mat. As the embankment equipment over older cable operated
The geotechnical engineer on this in a grid pattern with a spacing range grows, the pressure on the matrix of soil designs is that vibratory assist is integral
project, Faris Khalil, P.Eng, of UMA/ between 1.5 to two metres centre to cen- and PVDs increases and the water begins to the drive unit and is efficiently trans-
AECOM, indicated that on this project tre, depending on the compressible layer to flow up the PVDs, into the drainage mitted along the mandrel if a difficult
a substantial percentage of subsoil thickness, the waiting period available, layer, and out to the side ditch. The drains section of soil is encountered. Using the
consolidation needed to be completed and the loading condition. The PVDs are are designed so that consolidation will vibration assist adds an additional 350
within the available two-year construc- installed into the ground for the full or occur within a suitable construction time kN of dynamic force for a total static plus
tion window. The design objective for partial depth of the compressible layer frame. On this project the embankment dynamic force of 480 kN. On this project
this project was to have 50 millimetres depending on the design objective. In this will be as high as about 6 m and the max- the clay became progressively stiffer as
of post-construction settlement. Usually case the depth was 20 metres, which was imum associated settlement is estimated the depth increased and at approximately
the options in this part of Manitoba were the depth of the clay layer under the site. to be in the order of 450 mm. the 14 m depth mark vibration assist
to use staged construction, vertical sand Over 130,000 lineal metres of wick drain The prefabricated vertical drains (also needed to be turned on. The requirement
drains, or PVDs. The choice of PVDs were punched into the subsoil beneath the known as wick drains) are a composite for vibro assist had been indicated in
was based on cost, short installation time, proposed embankment. material supplied in rolls 152 m long. the study of the borehole logs. The logs
and less interference with the construc- A granular drainage mat was used The drain consists of an inner core made showed that the SPT count increased with
tion process. to provide a drainage path for the water out of corrugated polypropylene which is the depth of the clay. Typically the vibro
The concept behind Prefabricated that comes up from the PVDs, allow- wrapped with a heat-bonded non-woven assist is required with an SPT blow count
Vertical Drains (PVDs) is to install a ma- ing the water to drain to the sides of the geotextile. A standard wick drain is 93 value of 13 N or greater. With the vibro
assist the wick drain unit had no trouble
pressing the PVDs into this soil.
The prefabricated vertical drain por-
tion of this project took about a month
and a half including weather delays. A
good production day would include 230
wicks of 20 m each or about 4,000 lineal
metres per day. In total over 6,500 wicks
were inserted.
This was the first PVD job that Craig
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GEOSYNTHETICS
EVENTS Soil-reinforced geogrid offered in 18-foot widths

CALENDAR Strata Systems, Inc., a company special-
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While polyethylene geogrids can be-
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February 13-15, 2008 – Design-Build for
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Atlanta, GA; Westin Peachtree Plaza. geosynthetic products available in 18-foot Technical director Lance Carter says Independent soil interaction testing has
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Measuring 18-foot wide by 600-foot advantages go well beyond materials han- filled between opposing layers, Strata-
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Getting tough with polluters
Pradeep Kharé, award-winning regional director general of Environment Canada,
explains how environmental regulations have changed over the years
The rules are a lot stricter than they were
by Andrew Topf CEP: How would you characterize the in the ‘70s.
T
relationship with industry then?
he Water Environment Federation Kharé: Industry saw Environment as CEP: Can you single out areas that
presented the Emerson Distin- a nuisance, they never took it seriously. have improved significantly?
guished Service Medal in Octo- They usually appointed an environment Kharé: There were several pulp mills
ber to Pradeep Kharé, regional director officer to keep the inspectors happy. It in the (B.C.) north and Lower Mainland
general of Environment Canada, during was a very adversarial role. The regula- that were sources of huge pollution. We
WEFTEC 2007 – WEF’s annual techni- tions started to come into force in the used various methods, such as enforce-
cal exhibition and conference – in San late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Before that there ment, and negotiations by convincing
Diego. were health regulations mostly focused them that by recycling and recovering
Pradeep Kharé, (right) director general of
The prestigious award is presented to Environment Canada for the Yukon and Pacific
on things like sickness and bacteria. (waste) they could save money in the region, receives the Emerson Distinguished
an individual whose contributions to the Some of the companies (that broke regu- long run. For example the Canfor mill in Service Medal at WEFTEC in San Diego.
wastewater collection and treatment in- lations) took the small fines as a cost of Port Mellon was one of the biggest pol-
dustry most deserves recognition. doing business and just carried on. luters in the 1980s. They partnered with facturing chlorine and caustic soda were
a Japanese company and spent $1 billion mercury-based. There was no way of
CEP: When did that attitude start to clean up the discharges from the mill. getting rid of the mercury. Now through
CEP: What was your first job in the changing? This was a good way to modernize the technological advances, we have im-
environmental regulation field? Kharé: In the 1980s we started talking mill, make it more efficient, and also to plemented new ways of manufacturing
Kharé: After working for Seagrams to the big polluters to figure out ways to clean up the environment. Some of the chlorine and caustic soda. Wastewater
Distilleries I moved into the Ontario curb them; not just pollution control but companies were harder to negotiate with processes now are very efficient.
government’s Ministry of Environment. how to minimize waste. We began mov- and their management was a little more
I was an environment officer in the in- ing into waste management. Also, at the old-style. They were only interested in CEP: The Walkerton tragedy shone a
dustrial section and I was tasked with time, the ENGOs were quite effective in producing and selling the pulp. But most spotlight on water quality in Canada, and
cleaning up industrial pollution – air, mobilizing public opinion against pollut- of them have been shut down. in B.C. there have been a number of boil-
water and solid waste. In those days we ers. They started to organize boycotts of water advisories recently. How would you
were focused on command and control, B.C. paper products in Europe, and that CEP: How much has technology describe our quality of water?
regulations and prosecutions, particularly woke up a lot of boardrooms. Before, played a role in pollution control? Kharé: B.C. is blessed with a large
on sources from industries – mostly pulp they left it up to the operational guys, but Kharé: In the past technology played number of clean drinking water sources
mills, forestry and mining. after that they started to take pollution the major role when we were trying to and that has caused us to become com-
control a lot more seriously. find methods of treating more and more placent. In this province we have the
CEP: How did you become interested complex pollutants e.g. from primary to lowest amount of treatment investment
in the environment? CEP: Have the regulations become secondary to tertiary wastewater treat- across Canada. It caused occasional
Kharé: After receiving my bachelor’s tighter? ment. Today, while technology is still problems like boil-water advisories for
degree in India I landed a job with Lever Kharé: Yes. We’ve seen a significant important, pollution prevention systems pollution from natural causes. Slowly the
Brothers. I won a scholarship soon after improvement in point and non- point have become as critical in solving com- municipalities are moving toward treat-
graduation to do a Master’s degree (in source pollutants like storm runoff, and plex problems. The entire system has to ment systems, and this has been helped
chemical engineering) at the University the legislation has been strengthened be examined and the processes and poli- by infrastructure money – typically split
of Saskatchewan. I was 21 years old and throughout this process. In B.C. the Pol- cies have become equally important. You between the three levels of government.
I saw it as an adventure to go to a differ- lution Control Act became the Waste have to find ways to recover and recycle Elsewhere in the country we still have
ent country and at the same time to do a Management Act in the ‘80s, and in the (the chemicals) before they get into the hot spots that need to be cleaned up from
Master’s degree. Originally I didn’t plan ‘90s changed to the Environmental Pro- system. We’re able to reduce the waste natural causes and industry pollution –
to settle here, but Canada has been very tection Act. Now it’s not just about pipes load and that’s the key to removing and like the Great Lakes which have elevated
good to us. Gradually I went up the lad- and treatment but planning ahead of time, recycling some of those chemicals. Also pollution levels. In other places we have
der and that’s what kind of brought me from the point of view of recycling waste there’s been changes in processes. In the to take preventative action so they don’t
here. and not introducing waste into the stream. ‘80s and ‘90s the processes for manu- get that way.
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