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In This Issue
President’s Perspective: National Mobility Is In Reach If We Work Together!
Are All Mobile Geoscientists Well Represented by their Self
Regulating Organizations? PDAC’s-IOG Mobility Study Results Are In!
Professional Access Enhanced for Internationally Trained
Geoscientists Through PAIE Program
Take The Professional Ethics Challenge for August!
Ethics Case No. 6– Resource Sector – Unauthorized Modification of Your
Written Report

The Regulatory Log

How Things Work at the APGO

Headliners

Deliberations

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From Far Afield

1. August 7, 2006- BP shuts down Alaskan oil field.

2. August 17, 2006. Eruption of Tungurahua in Ecuador

3. August 17, 2006 Mud flood threatens Java residents The sludge, which has been spewing out of the ground for more than two months, is the result of a crack in a gas drilling project near Indonesia's second city, Surabaya.

4. August 20, 2006- Ice geysers 'discovered on Mars' (This is not a geologist's impression but an artist!)An artist's impression shows the geysers erupting through ice Geysers spewing sand and dust hundreds of feet into the "air" have been discovered on Mars, scientists say.

5. August 20, 2006 Sierra Leone eyes a golden future Tall, thin and retiring, 60-year-old Isata Kamara does not fit the typical image of a miner in the mineral-rich West African country of Sierra Leone.

6. August 23, 2006 Geologists point out term pluton is already used in their vocabulary. Positing new planets divides astronomers

7. August 24, 2006 Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.

President's Perspective
National Mobility Is In Reach If We Work Together!

 As you are all aware, mobility is one of the biggest issues that professional geoscientists and their provincial/territorial associations are facing at the present time. One part of this issue is how to actually achieve national mobility in a provincial/territorial-based licensing regime, and the second is how to ensure consistency in licensing standards across the different jurisdictions. To achieve the first, associations must agree to recognize other provinces/territories’ licensure processes and to fast track the acceptance of licensed professional geoscientists from other jurisdictions. To achieve the second goal, common knowledge-based and experienced-based standards must be agreed to and applied in all jurisdictions.

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Are All Mobile Geoscientists Well Represented by their Self Regulating Organizations? PDAC's-IOG Mobility Study Results Are In!

Seven out of 12 self regulatory association interviewees say no to mobility being an issue for geoscientists, while 84.3% of geoscientists surveyed report being dissatisfied.

The PDAC (Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada) recently disclosed the results of the Institute of Governance (IOG) study on mobility for geoscientists. A full copy of the study as well as descriptions of the survey sample size and methodologies are available...

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Professional Access Enhanced for Internationally Trained Geoscientists Through PAIE Program

APGO is partnering with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) in the deployment of its new Professional Access and Integration Enhancement (PAIE) Program for internationally trained geoscientists (and planners). As the APGO's Executive Director & Registrar and as a member of the Program Advisory Committee, I played a major role in the program's development. In addition to giving training in workplace and related practices, the program will provide participants with paid full-time relevant job placement to help them meet the important work-experience licensing requirement. Internationally trained geoscientists and others agree that this latter feature distinguishes this program from all of the existing ones.

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Take The Professional Ethics Challenge for August!
Ethics Case No. 6– Resource Sector – Unauthorized Modification of Your Written Report

The ethical dilemma presented in this issue describes a situation where, as a professional geoscientist (P.Geo.), working as a consultant, you discover that a report you prepared and submitted to a client is modified without your knowledge. The report entails a recommendation you made about a prospect that you had reviewed. Later you learned that a reserve report, not prepared by you, is added to your recommendation and it is being used by the client to market the prospect.

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Field Notes is published by APGO and is edited by Wendy Diaz, P.Geo. If you have comments or wish to contribute material to this newsletter, please contact Wendy Diaz, P.Geo., or Norman Williams, P.Eng., Executive Director/Registar.

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