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Technology

Wind turbine, Goderich, Tillsonburg, Niagara - Photo: © Jim Moyes 2004Environment Canada supports the development and transfer of technologies that contribute to its mandate of environmental protection.

Experts at the Department's Environmental Technology Centre, for example, create leading-edge technologies for measuring, preventing, controlling and remediating pollution - particularly emissions and hazardous releases.

Environment Canada also helps private-sector partners bring green technologies to the marketplace. To date it has assisted with more than 350 environmental technology advancement projects at home and abroad.

This section includes information on the development, promotion, transfer and use of environmental technologies.

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  • Environmental Science and Technology Centre

    The centre focuses on four main areas: technologies for measuring air pollutants in ambient air and from mobile and stationary sources; analysis of a wide variety of organic and inorganic compounds in diverse samples; assessments and clean-up of contaminated sites; and prevention of and response to pollution emergencies such as oil and chemical spills.

Date Modified: 2007-03-20

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