APGO Awarded the Earth, Wind, Fire and Water Award
	NOTICE - APGO Annual General Meeting
	Secondary Professional Liability Insurance now in place...
	Get Used To It! The Price of Gas That Is.
	Breaking New Ground in Collaborative Geoscience

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Discipline Case involving a P.Geo. in Canada - To view the APEGGA Decision Statement for this disciplinary hearing - click here

In 2003/04 the APGO participated in the Well Aware program sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment.  In 62 public meetings across the province, APGO hydrogeologists joined staff from Conservation Authorities, the Ontario Ground Water Associations, well drillers and staff from local Health Units to present a program on private water well stewardship...

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NOTICE TO APGO MEMBERS - 2005 APGO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING


The 2005 APGO Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, June 2, 2005, commencing at 2:00pm at the Toronto Board of Trade, First Canadian Place, Toronto...

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Secondary Professional Liability Insurance (SPLI) now in place for all Members who are Employees

Oliver Bonham, P.Geo. - Executive Director/Registrar

Effective April 1, 2005, all APGO members are covered for Secondary Professional Liability Insurance or “SPLI” as part of the national plan for engineers and geoscientists.

This opportunity arose after special requests to the CCPE (Canadian Council of Professional Engineers) were made by both the Ordre du Geologie du Quebec (OGQ) and APGO to include the “geoscience only” associations in the national SPLI plan that is administered by CCPE...

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Get Used To It! The Price of Gas That Is.
David Hughes Gives Energy Talk at Western

Claudia Cochrane, P.Geo.

On Thursday, March 10th, 2005, The University of Western Ontario Fyfe Chair in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development collaborated with the Ontario Petroleum Institute to bring a public speaker to London, Ontario. This was one of a series of joint ventures between academia and industry for the educational benefit of all. Mr. Hughes delivered his talk to The Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario in the Biology- Geology Building and to The Ontario Petroleum Institute at the Stoneridge Inn in London, Ontario...

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Breaking New Ground in Collaborative Geoscience: The Lake Nipigon Geoscience Initiative

W. Rayner, P.Geo.
J.R. Parker, P.Geo. - APGO Councillor

The Lake Nipigon Region Geoscience Initiative (LNRGI) is a science-based geoscience data acquisition and compilation study that commenced in 2003 and will be completed in December 2005. During the last 2 years new geocience data has been collected to help explain the geological history of the Lake Nipigon region and to identify high mineral potential exploration targets throughout the region...

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