Canadian Chemical News articles from July 2001

Canadian Chemical News archives from July 2001

Volunteering for The Chemical Institute of Canada.
July 1, 2001... When asked to write the President's Column for the June issue of ACCN I thought it would be appropriate to write about volunteering, being that 2001 is the year of the volunteer. The CIC is like many organizations whose strength comes from...

Distinction.
July 1, 2001... Janet A.W. Elliott, MCIC, P. Eng. of the department of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Alberta, has won the Young Engineer Achievement Award for outstanding contribution in a field of engineering by an engineer 35 years...

Industry.
July 1, 2001... Charles W. Fischer has been appointed president and CEO of Nexen Inc., effective June 1,2001. Fischer sits on the boards of Syncrude Canada Ltd., Climate Change Centreal and the Alberta Economic Development Authority. 1-le holds a B.Sc. in...

Government.
July 1, 2001... Arthur Carty, HFCIC, president of the National Research Council, and former dean of research at the University of Waterloo, has been moved to the level of officer of the Order of Canada.

Association.
July 1, 2001... Robert Hill is the new president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association. Hill has 33 years' experience in the oil and gas industry, including 25 years with Imperial Oil. John Blachford, MCIC, president of chemicals producer H.L....

Obituaries.
July 1, 2001... James Addison McCoubrey, FCIC, one of the original directors of The Chemical Institute of Canada, passed away on June 15, 2001. McCoubrey was a graduate of the University of Alberta (B.Sc., 1934) and McGill University (PhD, chemistry, 1940). He...

John Grace.
July 1, 2001... John Grace, FCIC, of the University of British Columbia's chemical engineering department, and Pierre Carreau, FCIC, of Ecole Polytechnique and editor of The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, were both inducted into membership of the...

Advanced Proteomics Tools Promised.
July 1, 2001... PerkinElmer, Inc. and MDS Sciex, global leaders in life sciences, instrumentation and mass spectrometry, announced recently at the American Society of Mass Spectrometry Conference an expanded joint venture to develop a revolutionary...

Alberta Stays in Power.
July 1, 2001... TransCanada PipeLines Limited and Petro-Canada have reached an agreement to build the MacKay River Cogeneration Project, a 165 megawatt (MW) natural gasfired cogeneration power plant near Fort McMurray, AB. The Mackay River cogeneration...

Marsulex to Reduce Syncrude Emissions.
July 1, 2001... Marsulex has signed contracts to provide environmental services to Syncrude and Santee Cooper. The agreements will provide Marsulex with additional revenue and boost the supply of fertilizer in North America. Marsulex will use its flue gas...

BC's Mining Industry Digs A Hole.
July 1, 2001... A new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers paints a bleak picture for British Columbia's mining industry. The province's mining companies posted continuing losses, stagnant employment figures and lower exploration expenditures in 2000. "The...

Dow Chemical Wins CCME Awards.
July 1, 2001... Dow Chemical Canada Inc. was one of six companies and organizations receiving the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) fourth annual Pollution Prevention Awards. The Large Business award went to Dow Chemical (Western Canada...

Business and Science Centre Opens in Montreal.
July 1, 2001... The Quebec government, Investissement Quebec, the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), the Laval Technopole and the City of Laval announced in June the creation of the City of Biotechnology and Human Health of Metropolitan...

Biotech Industry Eyes SFU Grads.
July 1, 2001... Even before they've been incubated, Simon Fraser University's newest species of scientist is catching the eye of B.C.'s biotechnology industry leaders. The entrepreneurial scientist will be a graduate of SFU's joint major in molecular...

Produce Power Presentations.
July 1, 2001... Last year, I had one of those good news, bad news messages. I was asked if I would like to give a presentation in Honolulu, but I had to use PowerPoint for my slides. Not being totally out of my mind, I willingly accepted in spite of my...

Adobe Acrobat: A New Version with New features!
July 1, 2001... Although I felt that the features of Adobe Acrobat were well covered in the earlier review of version 4.0 (ACCN -- Sept., Oct. 1999), 1 thought I would add some additional remarks about the latest version 5.0. It seems to have avoided a trend...

Good Witch Hunting.
July 1, 2001... In 30 BC the Romans conquered Egypt. The victory turned out to be a rather amiable one as both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony succumbed to Cleopatra's charms. But when Augustus Caesar came to power, the beautiful Egyptian queen's fate was...

Assembling the future, One Micron at a Time.
July 1, 2001... A glimpse of the 2001 CIC Medal winner, Geoffrey Ozin. No one could accuse Geoffrey Ozin, FCIC, of thinking too big. In fact, you might say Ozin's research into materials self-assembly, for which the University of Toronto materials...

Thoughts on Enhancing the Public Image of Chemistry.
July 1, 2001... The following letter to the editor was published in The Catalyst, the newsletter of the Toronto Local Section of the CTC. ACCN welcomes your response to the views expressed here. It might seem inappropriate for me to be offering advice as...

A Survival Guide to Federal Regulations Un Guide do Survie des Reglements Federaux.
July 1, 2001... The role of a news magazine, like Canadian Chemical News, is to reach Canada's chemical professionals and keep them well informed of events happening in the chemical world, thus providing them with a framework to understand the ever-changing...

Controlling Toxic Substances Under the New Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
July 1, 2001... What's New and What's Not On September 14th, 1999, the revised Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) received Royal Assent, introducing more than twice as many provisions as its 1988 predecessor. By the spring of 2000, the lion's...

Transport of Dangerous Goods -- Clear Language Regulations.
July 1, 2001... The wait is almost over. Publication of the clear language version of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDG Regulations) in Part II of the Canada Gazette is near. The clear language Regulations will come into force 12 months...

WHMIS -- Here Today, Where Tomorrow?
July 1, 2001... The state of WHMIS and the Future of Hazard Communication in Canada within a Globally Harmonized System (GHS) Here today: On October 31, 1988, the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), Canada's hazard communication...

Le SIMDUT -- Situation Actuelle et Perspectives d'Avenir.
July 1, 2001... La situation actuelle du SIMDUT et l'avenir de la communication de renseignements sur les dangers au Canada dans un Systeme Harmonise Mondial (SHM) La situation actuelle: Le 31 octobre 1988, le Systeme d'information sur les matieres...

The Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission (HMIRC) and WHMIS.
July 1, 2001... A balancing act between worker safety and protecting trade secrets The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) was established in the fall of 1988 to provide information on hazardous materials used in the workplace. The...

Le Conseil de controle des renseignements relatifs aux matieres dangereuses et le SIMDUT.
July 1, 2001... Une question d'equilibre entre la securite des travailleurs et la protection des renseignements commerciaux Le Systeme d'information sur les matieres dangereuses utilisees au travail (SIMDUT) a ete etabli l'automne 1988 dans le but de...

Other Current Issues of Importance.
July 1, 2001... ARET ARET, which stands for Accelerated Reduction / Elimination of Toxics, is a voluntary, non-regulatory program that targets 117 toxic substances, including 30 that persist in the environment and may accumulate in living organisms. ...

Report of the Chair (2000-2001).
July 1, 2001... At the Annual General Meeting of the CIC, held at the CSC Conference on Sunday, May 27, 2001, Vedene Smith, FCIC, gave his final report as chair of the CIC: It has been an honour and a privilege to serve as the chair ofThe Chemical...

Record-Breaking Chemistry Conference a Mighty Success.
July 1, 2001... Strong technical sessions and location attracted 2,100 delegates to Montreal This year the 84th CSC Conference and Exhibition was held in Montreal QC, at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel and in the International Civil Aviation Organization...

Technical Sessions Impress Graduate Student.
July 1, 2001... As a first year MSc student, my journey into the challenging and rewarding world of chemistry has just begun. This was my first chemistry conference. Perhaps the best word I can find to describe my experience is a simple yet heartfelt: wow! The...

Chivers Rubs Shoulders with ACS.
July 1, 2001... Tristram Chivers, FCIC, CSC president, 2000-2001, attended the American Chemical Society's celebration of its 125th anniversary in San Diego, CA, this past April. The ACS invited colleagues from sister societies around the world to attend its...

Technical Program of World Congress Sets a Very High Standard.
July 1, 2001... The Program committee of the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, to be held September, 23-27, 2001, in Melbourne, Australia, is reporting that it has received a strong response to its call for abstracts in both the 'peer reviewed' and...

Second CSCT National Workshop a Success.
July 1, 2001... At the April 23-24 workshop held in Toronto, ON, The Canadian Society for Chemical Technology (CSCT) ran four two-day courses ranging in scope from Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy, Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy, Design of...

Ottawa Section Recognizes Students.
July 1, 2001... The Ottawa CIC/CSChE Local Section held its Annual General Meeting on May 3, at Algonquin College. For the first time, the Section combined this event with a recognition of students. Brett Tague and Kathryn Robertson, along with Dr. Dick...

Call for Nominations - Catalysis Award.
July 1, 2001... The Catalysis Award, sponsored by the Canadian Catalysis Foundation, is awarded biennially to an individual who while resident in Canada has made a distinguished contribution to the field of catalysis. The recipient of the Award receives a...

Erratum.
July 1, 2001... In the May 2001 issue, ACCN reported that the J.W.T. Spinks Lecture Series for 2001 was hosted by the department of chemical engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. The event was hosted by the department of chemistry.

Are You Involved?
July 1, 2001... National Chemistry Week/Semaine nationale de la chimie takes place October 12 to 20, 2001. Here's how you can get involved: * Participate in the national launch at the Discovery Centre, Halifax, NS on October 12. * Order new...

Student Poster Competition a Success.
July 1, 2001... Over 70 students participated in the poster competition at the CSC conference, May 26-30, 2001. The participants were divided into seven categories for judging and the winners were as follows: Organic: M.H. Yamashita, McGill University ...

Southwestern Students Strut Their Stuff.
July 1, 2001... On March 24, 2001, the University of Toronto at Scarborough proudly hosted the 29th Southwestern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (29th SOUSCC). This conference is an important step in the chemical careers of Ontario...