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Conference organized by the Groupe de recherche en eau de l'Université de Sherbrooke (GREAUS), local branch of the CentrEau strategic cluster, in collaboration with the facilitation committee of the Federating Theme Climate Change and Environment.

Speaker: Gilles Wendling, P.Eng., Ph.D. 

Where: A2-2016 (Faculty of Education; main campus, Université de Sherbrooke). This activity will also be offered in virtual format. Information on this subject will be sent at a later date. 

Audience: General public

Topics covered:

• Oil and Gas - LNG / Fracking in Northeast British Columbia
  • Impact on Land - Impact on Water 
  • Impact on First Nations 
• Major Projects and First Nations and Democracy Issues 
  • Mount Polley Dam Failure (2016)
  • Site C Hydroelectric Dam on the Peace River 
• Mining Projects - Monitoring - Data Management - First Nations 
  • Copper Mountain (BC) 
  • Barrick Gold - Nickel Plate (BC) 
  • Powerful data management and visualization tool 
• Groundwater and First Nations treaty negotiations in British Columbia 
  • Challenges in quantifying groundwater resources in remote watersheds 
  • Developing models to estimate groundwater supplies for treaty negotiations 
• Engaging with Water Protectors 
  • Protecting the Englishman River with the Mid Vancouver Island Habitat Enhancement Society (MVIHES)
  • DataStream 
  • Community Monitoring