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PGL Employees at their corporate retreat in
Harrison Hot Springs (Photo Credit – PGL)
PGL Employees at their corporate retreat in Whistler, hiking a glacier (Photo Credit – PGL)
park so that we can include interpretive components
without adversely affecting the wildlife values,”
Gaherty says.
Over in Ontario, PGL is working for a company in
Toronto that’s purchasing a warehouse building to
be turned into a show room. It had been built on a
site next to an old facility that supplied dry-cleaning
chemicals.
“There’s a migration that’s contamination onto the
property from that, so we’ve been retained by the
owners who are buying it to do some work that will
make sure it doesn’t affect the use of the site and
that satisfies their lenders on the environmental
risk,” Gaherty explains.
Also in Ontario is PGL’s work on the refurbishment
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of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in
Bowmanville.
“A lot of work had to be done to characterize the soils
for the upgrade that were primarily, as I understand
it, the result of lessons that were learned from the
Fukushima problems,” says Gaherty, referring to the
earthquake and subsequent tsunami that disabled
the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima
Daiichi reactors in Japan, causing a nuclear accident
in March 2011.
When it comes time for PGL Environmental
Consultants Ltd. to communicate the result of
reviews or assessments to a client communication
is crucial.
“One of the biggest challenges we face is trying to