This workshop is to provide a planning session to review what environmental regulatory and other sampling and or reporting requirements are needed for a participants sites, and to plan them accordingly.
Participants will bring all permits and Environmental Compliance Approvals, as well as any other sampling/reporting obligations with them. The regulatory obligations will be reviewed, and a calendar will be populated. Participants will leave the workshop with a sampling and reporting calendar populated for the upcoming year.
This session is an introduction to the federal Metal and Diamond Mines Effluent Regulations (MDMER), providing a review of the criteria for triggering into MDMER, tools for ensuring compliance to MDMER, recent updates and an overview of the key monitoring and reporting requirements outlined in the regulation.
Environmental Emergency Response Planning is heavily regulated in Ontario and Canada. A well organized and risk-based Environmental Emergency Response Plan (EERP) provides a mechanism for ensuring that sites are ready for environmental emergencies, while maintaining provincial and federal compliance with all applicable regulations related to environmental emergencies.
This training is intended to provide a structured process that will instruct students on how to effectively plan and prepare for environmental emergencies. A focus is placed on risk-based planning, while ensuring provincial and federal legislation is met.
Tools will be provided to assist in planning and coordinating Environmental Emergency spill drills.
