Information
Bulletin
In
order to keep e-mail correspondence to a minimum, an information bulletin will
be e-mailed to each member.
If
you do not wish to be included on this circular, please notify the ACPA office
at acpaoffice@pchem.ca.
ACPA Office
P.O. Box 21017
Edmonton, AB T6R 2V4
Phone: 780-413-0004
Fax: 780-413-0076
In this Bulletin:
Notice to Chemists
Arthur Bollo-Kamara Scholarship
Errors and Omissions Insurance
On-Line ACPA Membership Listing
INNOVATION ALBERTA Website
Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada Website
All
contributions are welcome from the members for consideration in the monthly
bulletin. Please have submissions into
the ACPA Office prior to the 15th of each month. {{DUE BEFORE:
October 15, 2005}}
Notice to Chemists
The ACPA is currently involved in establishing our right as chemists to conduct environmental related work with respect to remediation and reclamation. If you perform these activities in any way please respond to John Banks at jbanks@matrix-solutions.com, indicate what general activities your work includes (laboratory analyst, environmental consultant, etc).
ACPA has representation in two committees, the first
(Joint Practice Standard Committee) includes the 6 professional organizations
(ACPA is one) who the Government of Alberta recognizes as qualified to conduct
high level environmental work. The objective of this committee is to develop a
"Environmental Practice Standard" for all 6 professional
organizations that might parallel the APEGGA Building Code Practice Standard.
This Environmental Practice Standard would be used by the separate professional
organizations in the event of a discipline issue or challenge to determine an
individuals qualifications in carrying out the work activity in question. Only
ACPA would evaluate their own members (for instance APEGGA or AIA would not
evaluate an ACPA member).
The second committee (Competencies for Upstream Oil
and Gas Remediation and Reclamation Advisory Committee) is chaired and run by
Alberta Environment in consort with Alberta Human Resources and Employment; the
support department, Occupations and Professions also has a seat as do the six
professional organizations and ASET (the technologist representation). This
committee's objective is to develop a list of work activities or tasks for
conducting remediation and reclamation in the oil and gas industry. Once that
is completed we would determine what competencies an individual should have to
perform that work (based on education, training and experience).
Once completed, the Alberta Government (in a
follow-up committee) will determine which organizations will be given the right
to "sign-off" remediation and reclamation work. This yet to be
established committee will depend on recommendations made from the first two
committees in assigning the right to "sign-off" to organizations
(which would be equivalent to qualifying a professional to review reports not
just write them). ACPA will hopefully be on that list.
A draft list of work activities for conducting
environmental work has been completed. The ACPA asks it's membership who
conduct work in the environmental field to contact John Banks by email, he will
forward you a copy of this work list for your review and comment. We also
encourage members representing chemistry departments of educational
institutions to participate in the process.
Arthur Bollo-Kamara Scholarship
Regretfully, there were no qualifying candidates for the Arthur
Bollo-Kamara scholarship this year. Over
the coming year, if any member has the opportunity to speak to university
students, please promote the scholarship.
Errors and Omissions Insurance
ACPA is in the process of applying to be part of a group policy for
errors and omissions insurance. The Alberta Society of Professional
Biologists, the College of Alberta Professional Foresters and the College of
Alberta Professional Forest Technologists are also applying to participate in
the same group policy. When the policy is in place each profession will
have its own application form and the rates will vary slightly from one
profession to the next. The advantage to ACPA members who require
insurance will be a relatively straightforward application process because the
scope of practice and risks involved will have already been evaluated.
On-line ACPA Membership Listing
ACPA is pleased to announce that our membership listing (without contact information) is now posted on our website at www.pchem.ca in the membership area. The listing is provided as a service to Association members and to the public. Now the membership and the public have a convenient way to check whether or not an individual is a member in good standing.
Link to the current
INNOVATIONS ALBERTA Website
http://www.innovationalberta.com/
Link
to the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada Website
http://www.ptac.org/techenvf.html
The
content of this bulletin is provided only as an information service to members.
Inclusion of any information does not represent official positions, opinions or
support of the Association of the Chemical Profession of Alberta (ACPA),
members of the executive, board of directors or staff. The information is collected from a variety
of sources, including members, and circulated to the membership as information
only. ACPA does not guarantee all submissions will be circulated and is not
responsible for the accuracy of any information provided.