David Risk News Today

I checked in with one of GWMS’ speakers on a hot topic from the waste world. David Risk, Professor at Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Research Chair at Saint Francis Xavier University, is leading a session with an interesting experiment looking at methane emissions. Risk’s presentation “A Controlled Release Experiment for Investigating Methane Measurement Performance at Landfills” looks at an experiment his team built to see if vendors could measure methane.

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The fugitive cult leader arrested in Brazil last year for sexually abusing girls in his congregation is headed for prison.Victor Barnard, 55, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Pine County District Court on Tu...

Canada cut its greenhouse gas emissions by nine per cent in 2020, but whether that is indicative of a long-term trend or merely a product of the COVID-19 pandemic remains to be seen.

/PRNewswire/ -- Colbeck Capital Management today announced that it provided $125 million in financing to Woodward Pharma Services, LLC ("Woodward") and its...

Annual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells might be underestimated by as much as 150 per cent in Canada and 20 per cent in the U.S., according to a recent study from McGill University. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps over 70 times more heat over a 20-year period than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide. In Canada, the oil and gas sector is the largest industrial polluter of methane emissions in Canada. Although abandoned wells contribute only one to four per ce...