December 2006 (Volume 9 Issue 1)

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• Research on toxicity of pesticides and nonylphenol on American lobster
• Fish processing plant effluent assessment
• Buffer effectiveness study
• Runoff contribution from sprayer  tracks
• Chlorothalonil concentrations in air near potato fields in Prince Edward Island
• Contaminant concentrations and biomarker changes in wild mussels in the Lower Bay of Fundy
• North American soil geochemical landscapes project
• Revisions to the Chlorobiphenyls Regulations and the Storage of PCB Material Regulations
• Revisions to the Federal Mobile PCB Treatment and Destruction Regulations
• Revisions to the Interprovincial Movement of Hazardous Waste Regulations.
• Categorization

October 2005 (Volume 8 Issue 1)

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• Effectiveness of vegetated buffer zones in potato fields
• Seafood processing wastewater characterization
• Ecological risk to the marine environment associated with activities of former gold mining operations in N.S.
• Municipal Wastewater Effluents (MWWE)
• National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) Update
• Chemical/ toxicity background database for the Atlantic Region
• Legislation Updates

November 2004 (Volume 7 Issue 1)

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• Report on the relative risk ranking of pesticides
• NPRI update
• Report on Wescodyne
• Pesticide runoff from potato fields
• CCME code for storage tanks
• Legislation Update
• New codes of practice for road salt
• Regulations; export and import of hazardous wastes, environmental emergency, storage tanks, solvent degreasing and interprovincial movement of hazardous waste
• Office of Enforcement - Environmental case

Volume 6 Issue 1 March 2003 (Volume 5 Issue 1)
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• Town of Shediac Bans Pesticides
• Toxicity of Copper Based Antifouling Coatings
• Studies of Sediments Under Salmon Pens
• Slimicide Use at Wood Pulping Facilities
• Coal Burning Technologies
• Mercury in the Marine Environment
• Butyltin Contamination
• Legislation Update
• Environmental Enforcement - Cases

Volume 5 Issue 1 (August 2002)
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• Smog Forecast Reaches Newfoundland
• Stephenville Risk Assessment
• NPRI Update
• Chemical Spill Contingency Planning
• Screening of DSL List
• Pollution Prevention
• Legislation Update
• Environmental Enforcement

Volume 4 Issue 2 (August 2001)
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• CEPA Registry
• NPRI Update
• Environmental Effects Monitoring
• Proposed MMER published in Gazette I
• Canada Wide Standard for Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soil
• Lichens as Biomonitors for Mercury Releases from a Chlor Alkali Plant
• Legislation Update
• CEPA 1999 Compliance and Enforcement Policy Released
• Ozone Depleting Substances Regs Amendments
• Federal Regulations for PCBS*
• Addition of PM10 to the List of Toxic Substances under CEPA*
• Notice of Intent to Declare Ozone and its Precursors Toxic
• Other Federal Actions on Clean Air

Volume 4 Issue 1 (November 2000)
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• Legislation Update
• NPRI Update
• Dioxin/Furan Release Inventory
• Ecological Risk Assessment on PEI
• Treatment of Black Water Waste
• Contaminants in Sydney Harbour
• Trends in Spills
• Spills Leading to Fisheries Act Convictions

Volume 3 Number 2 (June 1999)
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• Additions to Schedule 1 List of Toxic Substances
• Irving Whale Update
• Trichlorfon Spray Program in Newfoundland
• PEI Pesticides Study
• NPRI Revisions
• Landfill Gas Technical Bulletins

Volume 3 Number 1 (January 1999)

• Proposed Low Sulphur Gasoline Regulations
• Textile Mill Effluents Subject of CEPA Section 16 Notice
• Environmental / Health Research Focus of New Federal Initiative
• Mercury Research in Atlantic Region
• Mercury in the Environment *
• Development of a New Bioassay for Environmental Effects Monitoring (EEM)
• Websites of Interest
• Questions??

Volume 2 Number 2 (November 1998)
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• Benzene in Gasoline Regulations
• Dioxin/Furan Release Inventory Made Available for Review
• Progress in Sydney Tar Ponds/Muggah Creek Clean-up
• Remediation at Saglek Long Range Radar Site, Labrador
• Endocrine Disrupters on PEI
• WMO, UNEP Issue Summary of Ozone Depletion Report - 1998
• The Federal Government Releases New Biotechnology Strategy - 1998
• Biosafety Protocol for Genetically Modified Organisms
• NPRI Briefs
• Questions??

Volume 2 Number 1 (February 1998)
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• Renewed CEPA
• Federal Halocarbon Regulations
• Biotechnology Products
• Registration of Storage Tank Systems for Petroleum Products
• and Allied Petroleum Products on Federal Lands Regulations
• 1995/96 CEPA Annual Report
• National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI)
• PCB Contamination at the Site of the Irving Whale
• Gulf of Maine Mussel Watch
• Scientific Reports Available
• Questions??

Volume 1 Number 3 (October 1997)
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• Cost Recovery for Export and Import of Hazardous Wastes
• National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI)
• Environmental Effects Monitoring (EEM)
• Federal Landfilling Guidelines
• Montreal Protocol
• Mercury Research Activities in the Atlantic Region
• Pesticide Dispersion Study - Update
• Questions??

Volume 1 Number 2 (April 1997)
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• Regulations Update (Gasoline, Biotechnology)
• National Pollutant Release Inventory
• PSL Assessment Update - Textile Mill Effluents
• Pesticide Dispersion Study - Aquaculture sites
• Biofouling Control at Pulp and Paper Facilities
• Contacts

Volume 1 Number 1 (January 1997)
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• Regulations Update (Storage Tanks, PCBs, Diesel fuel)
• A New CEPA
• Toxic Substances Management Policy
• Developing a Hazardous Materials Minimization Program
• Who Are We?
• Your Questions???

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