Planning & Protecting Water Resources: Emerging Issues, Approaches and Technologies
DATE: October 17th – 18th, 2018
LOCATION: Bay Adelaide Centre, 34th Floor, East Tower 22, 22 Adelaide Street West, Toronto
OVERVIEW:
Water is an essential component of our life, well-being and economy. Water is the focus of many environmental assessments (EAs): either as a water resource-related project or where a proposed project may have an impact on our water resources. With technological advancements, improvements in our use and understanding of scientific and Indigenous knowledge, policy enhancements, climate change, cumulative effects, regional and strategic EA and increased public scrutiny, EA practitioners are facing emerging water-related issues in EAs at an ever-accelerating rate.
These emerging issues present challenges as well as opportunities. To tackle these issues, EA practice must evolve by using innovative approaches and new technologies and tools to help plan, manage and protect water resources.
What are the emerging water-related issues that are changing the way EA is practiced in Ontario and elsewhere? How are EA practitioners tackling these issues through innovative approaches or new technologies and tools to help protect water resources?
2018 Conference Presentations
Session 1.1: Considering Sources of Drinking Water in your EA Project
Session 1.2: Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks Technical Support Reviews within the EA and Permissions Processes
Session 2.1: Port Union Waterfront Improvement Presentation
Session 2.2: Ashbridges Bay Landform
Session 2.3: Scarborough Waterfront Project EA
Session 2.4: Case Study Presentation of the Downtown Brampton Flood Protection Class EA
Session 3.1: Alternatives, Adaptive Management and Monitoring in Watershed Management
Session 3.2: Effective Monitoring and Adaptive Management Plans Tied to Amending Procedures in EA Procedures
Session 3.3: Approaches to Working and Partnering with Indigenous Communities in Project Monitoring: The Port Lands Flood Protection and Enabling Infrastructure Project
Session 4.1: Fresh Water Cumulative Effects and EA Decision Making
Session 4.2: Water Quality Data to Support Cumulative Effects Monitoring and Decision Making
Session 4.3: A Different Type of Assessment: Wood Buffalo National Park Sea
Session 4.4: Using Military Intelligence Protocols to Translate SEA Results into Tactical Actions
Session 5.1: Linking EA to Environmental Regulation thru Adaptive Management via the Water Licensing Process
Session 5.2: Water as a Resource: Port Lands and South of Eastern Transportation and Servicing Master Plan
Session 5.3: Leveraging Renewal of Existing Hydropower: Implications for Environmental Assessment
Session 6.1: Collaborative Consent
Session 6.2: Mississaugas of the Credit
Session 6.3: Science and Stewardship
Session 6.4: Monitoring Aquatic Environments: Using Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science in Conjunction
Session 7.1: Planning and Protecting water Resources Through Regional EA
Session 7.2: Ensuring Transparency Throughout Development: Adaptive Management, Follow-Up and Monitoring
Session 7.3: The Power of Water: Indigenous Assessment and the Crown's Duty
Session 8.1: Interactive EA and Public Participation: An Australian Case Study
Session 8.2: The Use of Higher Resolution Satellite Imagery, LiDAR and Drones in River Applications
Session 8.3: EA and the Blue Economy
Special Address: Ron Hallman
Official Conference Sponsors
Thank you to the following sponsors of the 2018 Conference:
