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TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015
Drinking water
Wastewater
Energy
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Programs and tools for distribution
system optimization (AWWA)
Innovation for utilities of the future
(Water Environment Federation)
Renewable energy development
innovation
Partnership for Safe Water – A tool for water
utilities to demonstrate achievement
Vulnerability assessments, resiliency
developments and funding initiatives at a
utility
Innovation in the world of solar energy
Jonathan Reeves, District of Columbia Water
and Sewer Authority
Hydro kinetic energy
Barb Martin, Americana Water Works
Association
Successful application of the Partnership for
Safe Water distribution system optimization
program in Halifax
Financing innovative technologies in the
water sector
Reid Campbell, Halifax Water
Jonathan Grant, Water Tap Ontario
Innovative tools for distribution system
monitoring and optimization
Potable reuse partnerships and regulatory
advances
Peter Gallant, ENDETEC - Veolia Water
Solutions and Technologies
Ifetayo Venner, Arcadis
Ludvig Bellehumeur, Rackam
Waste
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Innovative technologies
Calcium-based mechanical sorting process
for household and ICI waste management
Sébastien Hue, VIRIDIS
Nejib Mhamdi, École Polytechnique de Montréal
To be confirmed
Remediation and recycling of treated wood
waste using inorganic compounds
Lucie Coudert, Institut national de la
recherche scientifique
Soils and
underground water
Circular economy
Sustainable
development
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Technological innovations in
remediation
The circular economy and its related
concepts (Institut EDDEC)
Sustainable innovation: make more
with less
The basic component of circular economy
At Cascades, innovation is sustainable:
tangible examples
Pilot testing of an electrokinetic barrier to
prevent off-site migration of dissolved
chloride - Former CN landfill in Irma, Alberta
Sylvain Hains, Golder Associates
Daniel Normandin, Institut de l’environnement,
du développement durable et
de l’économie circulaire (EDDEC)
Co-composting of soil impacted by PAHs,
TPH, BTEX and BCEE
Sylvain Plouffe, Université de Montréal
Carl Blanchet, Cascades
Industrial ecology
The American silkweed or the genesis of a
innovative and sustainable industry
Ecodesign
Eric Bergeron, Golder Associates
Benefits of dry anaerobic digestion of organic
waste to Quebec
Does the choice of soil mixing equipment
really matter?
Christian Cabral, Veolia Water Technologies
Canada
Paul Lear, Envirocon
Claude Maheux-Picard, Centre de transfert
technologique en écologie industrielle
The circular economy for water
Sébastien Sauvé, Institut de l’environnement,
du développement durable et
de l’économie circulaire (EDDEC)
How to triple organic waste collection without
a three-streamed collection system
Denis Provencher, Mabarex
Carl Blanchet, Cascades
Sustainable innovation: catalyzing the
aviation industry
François Simard, Protec-Style
The state of innovation in Quebec:
determining factors and potential solutions
Jean-Louis Legault, Association pour le
développement de la recherche
et de l'innovation du Québec
The DRANCO technology: a unique digestion
technology for solid organic waste
Winfried Six, Organic Waste Systems
Air and climate
change
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Water loss control – New approaches
for water utilities (AWWA)
Stormwater innovations
(Water Environment Federation)
Exploring the latest update to the AWWA
water audit software v5.0
Advances in pervious pavement
To be confirmed
Doug Buch, PaveDrain
Peter Edwards, Ministère du Développement
durable, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte
contre les changements climatiques
Andrew Chastain-Howley, Black & Veatch
Exploring the Water Research Foundation’s
water loss component analysis model
Performance testing and verification of
stormwater filtration device
John Neate, GLOBE Performance Solutions
Reinhard Sturm, Water Systems Optimization
One city’s comprehensive approach to
managing non-revenue water
Combined sewer overflow (CSO)
improvements in Ottawa
Carbon footprint and sequestration
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Lac-Mégantic, remediation and
reconstruction following the
environmental disaster
The circular economy and its related
concepts (Institut EDDEC)
Sustainable development
approaches by sector
Quebec major project on reduction at source
To be confirmed
A sharing or functional service economy
Marianne Maltais-Guilbault and Jérôme Cliche,
RECYC-QUÉBEC
Paul Benoît, Ministère du Développement
durable, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte
contre les changements climatiques
Speaker to be confirmed
Quebec pork producers: an approach to
social responsibility
Life cycle analysis: Fed up with the cup
Mineral carbonation processes for industrial
carbon emission sequestration
Jérôme Cliche et Sophie Fallaha,
RECYC-QUÉBEC
Louis-César Pasquier, Institut national de la
recherche scientifique
Zero waste program
Maxym Lachance, Tetra Tech
George Kunkel, Philadelphia Water Department
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Reduction at source
(RECYC-QUÉBEC)
Dominique Traineau, Ademe
Carbon capture and storage at the Bounday
Dam power station
Perimeter Air Monitoring
Jean Larose, Éleveurs de porcs du Québec
Reverse logistics
Jean-Marc Frayret, École Polytechnique
de Montréal
How the Canadian forest products sector
earned the reputation as having among the
best environmental records in the world
Life cycle analysis and decisions making from
a circular economy standpoint
David Lindsay, Forest Products Association
of Canada
Jocelyn Marcotte and Denis Lalonde, Aecom
Characterization and emergency site
restoration at Lac-Mégantic
Denis Millette, Golder Associates
Manuele Margni, École Polytechnique
de Montréal
Jean-Luc Allard, SNC-Lavalin
Oservations from the Commissioner of the
Environment and Sustainable Development:
are the Federal Ministries ready to take up
the future challenge?
Julie Gelfand, Office of the Auditor General
of Canada
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Drinking water distribution
Emerging contaminants
Sustainable mobility
Condition assessment of buried drinking
water assets: state of the science
Emerging contaminants and the presence of
medication in the environment
How does the electric car fit in Quebec?
John Albert, Water Research Foundation
Sébastien Sauvé, Université de Montréal
Drinking water reservoir cover systems Choices of geosynthetics and performance
testing
Developing monitoring and control strategies
for emerging contaminant removal from
wastewater using ozonation
Stéphane Fourmont, Texel
Wim Audenaert, Ghent University
Challenges of validating a novel automated
microbiology method for detection of E.coli
and total coliform bacteria in distribution
systems
Removal of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
(APIs) from wastewater – A review of existing
treatment solutions
Christophe Ménigault, Deloitte
Faisability of electric vehicles sharing for
municipalities
Alain Desjardins, Ville de Plessisville
To be confirmed
Peter Gallant, ENDETEC – Veolia Water
Solutions and Technologies
Achim Ried, Xylem Water Solutions
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Tomorrow's waste separate
collection
Operational and economic modelling: an
instrument for recyclable material
management
Jean-Luc Plante, Éco Entreprises Québec
Ghyslain Cadieux, Raymond Chabot Grant
Thornton
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Lac-Mégantic, remediation and
reconstruction following the
environmental disaster
Panel: national and international
development strategies for a circular
economy (Institut EDDEC)
Post-catastrophe treatment intervention
Overview of French and European circular
economy-related initiatives
Jean Paquin, Sanexen Services
Environnementaux
Description of processes used to treat
contaminated soils
François Dubé, LVM
Comparative analysis of public and private
waste collection in Quebec
Alain Paquet, Ph. D., professor of economics at
l'École des sciences de la gestion de l’UQÀM
Jean-Denis Garon, Ph. D., professor of
economics at l’École des sciences de la
gestion de l’UQÀM
Micro localized integrated solid waste
management: Quartier DIX30, a case study
Ginette Lehoux, Gestion d’actifs immobiliers
Benoit Proulx, Ni Corporation
The reconstruction process from an
energy-efficiency and
sustainable-development standpoint
Speaker to come
Grégory Giavarina, Institut de l’économie
circulaire
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Social acceptability
Facts on difficult social context management:
the reason the traditional public relations
strategies do not and will not work
Cédric Bourgeois, Transfert Environnement
et Société
Panelists:
Jocelyn, Blériot, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Christel Evrard, Ministère de l'Économie de
Wallonie
Grégory Giavarina, Institut de l’économie
circulaire
Protocle for social acceptability: stakeholders
in the heart of the impact assessment
Hélène Marchand, Golder Associates
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2015
Drinking water
Wastewater
Air and climate
change
Waste
Soils and
underground water
Biodiversity
Climate action
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Technological innovations in water
treatment
Vulnerabilities, resilience and
adaptation
Extended producer responsibility
(EPR)
Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA)
case studies
Natural sites: compensation and
restoration
Dialogues on sustainability
Savings while you sleep, let the DMAs do the
work
Carl Yates, Halifax Water
Peracetic acid - A new solution for
wastewater disinfection
Climate change vulnerabilities in a mine life
cycle
Best EPR practices in Canada from the
retailers' perspective
Jean Paré, Chemco
Roger Ord and Myzah Bello, SNC-Lavalin
Nathalie St-Pierre, Retail Council of
Canada
A contaminated soil management plan based
on risks for a hard-to-access natural site:
Grande-Île Kamouraska
Sustainability evaluation of biodiversity
offsetting options: case study for the mining
industry
Best design practices for odour management
of high profile, sensitive waste water
applications in a dense urban environment
Energy sector resilience to the new normal:
outstanding examples of energy sector
adaptation to climate change
Agnès Renoux, Sanexen Services
Environnementaux
Benoit Bourques, Golder Associates
The next generation of water management
Derek Webb, Biorem
Marco Braun, Ouranos
Single-case modelling of a physical-chemical
primary sedimentation process: Seine-centre
(Paris, France)
The adaptation of the Brazilian society to
climate change and the importance of First
National Assessment Report
Paul Lessard, Université Laval
Andrea Souza Santos, Brazilian Panel on
Climate Change
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Drinking water savings
Bill Gauley, Gauley Associates
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Water reuse
Technological innovations in water
treatment
Making the case for reuse using the true
value of water
Edwin Pinero, Veolia North America
Chrome and copper removal from surface
treatment effluents using a metals exchange
process
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Dave MacNevin, Tetra Tech
Sustainable potato production: how can we
do more with less?
Jean-François Sylvain, Chisholm Machinery
To be confirmed
In situ remediation of a toluene impacted site,
Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec: a case of technical
impracticability
Duncan Bury, Duncan Bury Consulting
Katie Morin
Françoise Bonnet, ACR+
Quantitative evaluation of sanitary risks:
case-study of the Lisieux APIJ, France
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Kenan Ozekin, Water Research Foundation
Decision-making tool for the establishment of
adapting measurement of urban drainage
system due to climate change
Nejib Mhamdi, École Polytechnique de Montréal
N2O emissions under different control
strategies at full-scale wastewater treatment
plants
Peter Vanrolleghem, Université Laval
Nicolas Stämpfli, Golder Associates
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Environment and oil industries:
perspectives from Alberta (ESAA)
Worldwide carbon pricing trends & outlooks.
Land-use and REDD+ and their role/influence
in the carbon market.
Life cycle assessment and evaluation of
waste management alternatives for regional
municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Low temperature thermal desorption: an
innovative and environmentally sound means
for remediation of hydrocarbon contaminated
soil
Environmental improvement from the marine
industry
Garry Ogletree, Nelson Environmental
Remediation
Noisy coastal construction sites and marine
mammals monitoring
Donna Serrati, Regional Municipality
of Waterloo
Upgrading lagoons to remove ammonia,
phosphorus & nitrogen in cold climates
Todd Latchaw, Nelson Environmental
Waste management decision-making, with
environmental impacts through configurable
LCA
An advance in screening techniques: use of
the filter mat
Réjean Villeneuve, COOP ASEPS
Marie Vuaillat, EVEA Conseil
Sustainable remediation practices at a gas
well site in Alberta, Canada
Michael Marinovich, Advisian
The regulatory response to fracking across
Canada
Water management
and climate change
Impacts of extreme events on water utilities
Rehabilitation of degraded water bodies
Life cycle analysis of management
process
John Georgakopoulos, Willms & Shier
Environmental Lawyers LLP
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
François Quinty, Golder Associates
Stéphanie Boudreau, Quebec Peat Moss
Producers Association
Gaël Plassart, Envisol
Clément Cartier, Claro technologies et
équipements environnementaux
Water utilities and climate change
Peatlands restoration: opportunities for
wetlands loss compensation projects
International trends for greenhouse
gaz emission trading (IETA)
Aziz Gherrou, Centre des technologies de l'eau
Potable reuse in Florida: what have we
learned so far?
EPR status in Europe
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
International trends for greenhouse
gaz emission trading (IETA)
3R territorial approach and circular
economy (Second Cycle)
Dredging and management of
sediments
Elements and outlooks for a 2015 Climate
Paris Agreement
A business approach for 3R optimization
The sediment management options analysis:
developing metrics for an objective
evaluation of in situ and ex situ remedies
alternatives
Fédéric Bouchard, Second Cycle
To be confirmed
Malaz Sebai, Toronto and Region
Conservation Area
To be confirmed
Jocelyn Blériot, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Victor S. Magar, ENVIRON International
Corporation
COVASED: a durable management of
sediments
Philippe Dhervilly, Sedigate
Management of dredged sediments and the
biophysicochemical processes involved
Christophe Gamsonré, Gersol Construction
Marine biodiversity protection
David Bolduc, Green Marine
Marc Gauthier, WSP
To be confirmed
Véronique Nolet, Réseau d’observation
de mammifères marins
Dialogues on sustainability
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015
Wastewater
Energy
Waste
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
Biofilter treatment
The cities of tomorrow: how ultrafast
communications can foster energy
efficiency
Investigating the feasibility of tertiary Moving
Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) nitrificationat 1°C
To be confirmed
Soils and
underground water
Sustainable development
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
Mining and the environment: today's
projects to reduce past environnemental liabilities (MISA)
Canadian ETV Program Innovative
Technology Showcase
(Environment Canada)
PANEL: The business case for
biodiversity (SCBD)
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
Exploring why biodiversity matters for
businesses
Barriers and solutions for brownfield
redevelopment
Manitou site remediation with waste from the
Goldex Mine: design and monitoring
To be confirmed
Chris Desousa, Ryerson University
Pierre-Philippe Dupont, Royal Nickel
Corporation
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
CoolSweep
Revitalizing Canada’s urban
brownfields (FCM)
Overview of the Canadian brownfield industry
Grant Walsom, Canadian Brownfield Network
Bradley Young, University of Ottawa
Field-scale study of a new generation of
biofilters
To be confirmed
Édith Laflamme, Veolia
To be confirmed
Municipal leadership in brownfield
redevelopment
A study of effluent solid/liquid separation in a
fixed-culture aeration tank
Stéphanie Bohdanow, Federation of
Canadian Municipalities (FCM)
Bernard Patry, Université Laval
Biodiversity
To be confirmed
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
Amy Fraenkel, Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity
Reg Melanson, Canadian Business and
Biodiversity Council
Other panelists to be confirmed
To be confirmed
Guylaine Bois, Intégra Gold
Example of a municipal and private
partnership for the revitalization of a
contaminated site
Nathan Richard, City of Kingston
Wastewater and
waste management
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Biogas and biosolids
Energy
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Mastering energy in the cities of
tomorrow (AQME)
New advances in online biogas
measurements: helping turn waste into
energy and money
Energy efficiency in data centers
Dean Rudd, Endress + Hauser
Energy efficiency and sustainable building
profitability
Characterization of the biogas produced at
wastewater treatment facilities in the city of
St-Hyacinthe, Quebec
Robert Cummins, TST Energy Systems
André Tartre, EcoRéhabilitation
To be confirmed
Olivier Allard, MAYA HTT
Waste
Soils and
underground water
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Energy-recovery
Phytoremediation
Sustainable development at the
heart of new mining projects design
(MISA)
Energy, environmental and financial potentials
of energy recovery from municipal waste in
Quebec and Canada
Phytoremediation of PHC and salt impacted
soil - New research to accelerate
remediation
Sylvain Lortie, IAMGOLD
Gérard Gosselin, Comité Valorisation
énergétique de Réseau Environnement
Bruce Greenberg, University of Waterloo
RNC Dumont project: “ Open pit, open mind ”
To be confirmed
Bruce Howie, HDR
GENOREM: understanding how plants and
symbiotic bacteria can remediate soils
Michel Labrecque, Montreal Botanical
Garden
To be confirmed
Guillaume Perron-Piché, consultant
Electro-dewatering of sludge biosolids:
Disinfection and odour control mechanisms
for agricultural reuse
Dominic Frigon, McGill University
Sustainable
development
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Marie-José Auclair, TREBORA Conseils
Environment and social consideration at the
heart of a new mining development
Developping the North while avoiding
mistakes made in the South
Martin Duclos, GOLDCORP (division Éléonor)
Use of symbiotic shrubs to initiate
revegetation of mine sites in Alberta and
Quebec
Michel Leboeuf, Nature sauvage Magazine,
Orinha Media
Sébastien Roy, University of Sherbrooke
Air and climate
change
Soils and
underground water
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Environmental application of
geophysical methods
Greenhouse gas reduction projects
Groundwater
Soils and
underground water
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
PANEL: Impact of the Program for processing
organic waste through biomethanation and
composting and decision to invest in
biomethanation
Environmental applications of geophysical
methods
To be confirmed
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Industrial wastewater
Air quality: monitoring and actions
Physical-chemical treatment with geotube®
filtration applied to underground gold mine
dewatering in winter
Air quality management system
Panelists:
Frédéric Beauregard-Tellier, Environment
Canada
Arnaud Budka, Groupe Alphard
Carl Desharnais, Ville de Québec
Robert Laplante, Institut de recherche en
économie contemporaine
Elise Villeneuve, EnviroRcube
Jocelyn Douhéret, ASDR Environnement
The emergency air monitoring and
assessment system in the oilsands area of
Alberta
Martin Bundred, Government of Alberta
Actions to inscrease air quality in France
François Desjardins, Tetra Tech
Natural corridors, the weak link in
conservation
Pierre-Philippe Dupont, Royal Nickel
Corporation
Waste
Wastewater treatment, using aerated ponds
and tertiary sand filtration, for the town of
Saint-Benoît-du-Lac and its cheese factory
A global perspective on ecological
connectivity
Bill Weber, Wildlife Conservation Society
Energy
Tony Chabot, Cliffs Natural Resources
Marc-André Desjardins, AXOR Experts-Conseils
10:30 to 12:00 a.m.
Ecosystem connectivity
À venir
Wastewater
Red water treatment at an iron ore handling
site in Pointe-Noire, Sept-Îles
Biodiversity
Olivier Chazal, Agence de l'Environnement
et de la Maîtrise de l'énergie
Daniel Campos Halas, Geophysics GPR
International
Non-conventional oil development: can
oil/gas be extracted without polluting
drinking water?
Chantal Savaria, Savaria Experts-Conseils
To be confirmed
Geophysical measurements combined with a
geostatistical tool used for characterizing
PAH contamination on the Bretenoux/Biars
SNCF site
Gabriel Fabien-Ouellet, Institut national de la
recherche scientifique
Combining geochemical and seismic
methods to perform hydrocarbon
environmental characterization
Mathieu Sauvageau, MBMS Solution
To be confirmed
Slow release persulfate and MultiOx™
cylinders for passive, long-term treatment of
petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated sites
Jean Paré, Chemco
Case Study: innovative in-situ response to a
large spill of formaldehyde and petroleum
hydrocarbons
Bruce Tunnicliffe, Vertex Environmental