Environment committee  Ms. Rempel, I think what the previous guests have mentioned, and Mr. Kendall specifically, is that there is so much out there right now that you can really access. Whether you want to portal it through one website by the government...that might be helpful. It reduces the search t

Environment committee  From where we are, I don't know if the federal government has to do much. I will tell you that the way water consumption is happening in urban environments...I would say the cost in the next five to ten years will increase exponentially. It's at the point that the end user—i.e. t

Environment committee  I think right now, Ms. Quach, most municipalities in most provincial jurisdictions have set their criteria for the use of cosmetic pesticides. There's been strong, lively debate in many of them. Again, I don't know if the federal government really would be just duplicating what a

Environment committee  Essentially what we have at the college is a series of ponds that move or meander through a very gradual elevation change. In other words, we can move water, recycle water, through these various pond stages. In each pond we have different planting regimes that are placed for cert

Environment committee  In reply to your first question, with respect to the information we gather, yes, that is published for various sectors, depending on whom we're partnering with or what the project is, whether it's under the guise of a public initiative.... Certainly it's made available. We do ha

Environment committee  I guess, Mr. Woodworth, we're trying to label a very broad scope of what I call “deliverables”. For me, it's really difficult. This is a personal perspective of wrapping my head around a title or a label and saying that urban conservation is a specific thing. In a broader scope

Environment committee  What we're currently using here at the college, and certainly at other institutions, is based on a framework developed by the Sustainable Sites Initiative out of the States. With respect to a matrix of five categories—soils, vegetation, hydrology, materials, and human well-being

Environment committee  We've been fortunate to have a 20-acre site. We just finished construction this summer. Half of it was funded through the industry, as part of the Urban Development Institute, and with some of the green industry partners. The intent was to better the constructed wetlands practice

Environment committee  As Mr. Kendall said, I'm not a scientist. I would say that's an aspect of it, but I don't know if I'd totally weight it on that.

Environment committee  That certainly would envelop it. Yes, I'd agree with that.

Environment committee  Yes, that would be fair to say.

Environment committee  Absolutely, Mr. Sopuck. Again, through the programming, say at the school of agriculture, when we're looking at better practices in terms of soil conservation on the farm, lower usage of chemicals, and more up-to-date technologies, on the agricultural side we certainly see that

Environment committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting Olds College to appear before the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on its study examining urban conservation practices in Canada. My name is Gord Koch. l'm a faculty member with the S