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Barking Up the Right Tree

September 27 & 28, 2012

Elk Ridge Resort, Waskesiu

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Presentations (or see below in program:

Richard Beck - Warman Growth	Tracey Boutilier - Fort McMurray	Richard Brookes - Northwest Region
Karen Chovan - Cameco	Duane Guenther - Demolition/Deconstruction	Haight/Jorgenson - Candle Lake
Al Loke - Northern Communities	Neil Menezes - Data Call/Waste Audit	Ministry of Central Services - Securing the Future
Tom Pedersen - Climate of the Future	Christina Seidel - GHG offsets for Recycling

Program:

Thursday, September 27

1:00 Back by 'Poplar' Demand - Multi-Material Recycling Program Update:

Results from the Datacall and Waste Composition Study - "The Life and Times of Packaging and Printed Paper" - Neil Menezes, StewartEdge
- Datacall Final Report
- Waste Audit Final Report
MMRP Update - Shelly Nicolle-Phillips, Ministry of Environment

1:30 The wisdom of your 'Alders' - Keynote Speaker: The Climate of the Future: Where Are We Going, on Earth and in Saskatchewan? - Tom Pedersen, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS)

In 2009, Dr. Pedersen was appointed the inaugural Director of PICS, a multi-centre collaborative venture among B.C.’s research universities centred at the University of Victoria. His previous positions included dean of science and director of the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UVic, and associate dean, research, for the Faculty of Graduate Studies at UBC. He holds a degree in geology from UBC and a PhD in marine geochemistry from the University of Edinburgh. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He is an internationally recognized authority on ocean chemistry, has published extensively in the field of paleoceanography (the history of the oceans), and has longstanding interests in climate change issues and the application of government policy to climate-change mitigation and adaptation.

Sponsored by SWEEP and Product Care Assoc (SPRP)

3:30 Handling 'Tree-mendous' Growth

Waste Management Practices at Cameco’s Remote Operations - Karen Chovan, Cameco Corp.
Fort McMurray's Waste & Recycling Experiences - Tracey Boutilier, Regional Municipality of Wod Buffalo, AB
Warman Fights Waste Amidst Extreme Population Growth - Richard Beck, Town of Warman

Friday, September 28

8:30 'Timber!' - Construction and Demolition

Engineering and Sustainability in Infrastructure Recycling - Duane Guenther, PSI Technologies
Securing the Future - Environmental Footprint Reduction - Rob Clarke and Jared Kleisinger, Ministry of Central Services

Sponsored by SWANA Northern Lights Chapter

10:30 Sprucing Things Up - Community Initiatives

Waste Management Issues in Northern Communities - Al Loke, New North
'The Gateway to Pure Air & Water' - Keeping it that way - Perry Brookes, Northwest Regional WA
From 400 to 20,000 in Two Day: Handling Waste Reduction in Resort Communities - Gail Haight/Carole Jorgenson, Resort Village of Candle Lake

Sponsored by CleanFARMS

'Yew' Gotta Hear This: Closing Keynote Speaker: A Protocol for Quantifying GHG Offsets for Recycling—Christina Seidel, Recycling Council of Alberta

Sponsored by Recycle Systems and Canadian Plastics Industry Association

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