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January - July 2010

• Stragis partners with the Tobique First nation in a new company that focuses on petroleum storage tank management in the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec, Stragis-Tobique Environmental Services Company (STESCO).

• Funding secured for Stragis to train Tobique community members in inspection and monitoring of petroleum storage tank systems. Trained community members to work with STESCO to inspect and monitor storage tank systems in the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec.

• Stragis retained by Canadian Pacific to develop a Storage Tank Management policy and associated procedures.

• Stragis completes registration of over 500 Canadian Pacific storage tank systems across Canada with Environment Canada. All tank systems were registered by the registration due date.

• Stragis retained by Canadian Pacific to complete monthly inspection and monitoring program of storage tank systems in Toronto, Ontario.

• Stragis retained by Canadian Pacific to assist in management of bulk fuel storage facility in Ontario.

January - December 2009

• Stragis completes for the Canadian Pacific Railway environmental registrations and compliance inspections for all tanks at the Vaughan, Ontario Intermodal Terminal.

• Stragis invited by the University of Illinois to speak at the Railroad Engineering Program 2009 Railroad Environmental Conference  

• Stragis retained by Collingwood (Canada) as its project manager to supervise the removal of a grain storage hopper and associated equipment, as well as the recovery of a historic grain shaker for the Collingwood Museum.

• Stragis retained by the Canadian Pacific Railway for the design and installation of a waste oil storage tank and associated infrastructure.

• Stragis completes a timely guidance and training document for the Railway Association of Canada and Environment Canada to help prevent petroleum storage tank pollution from railway sites. The document will also be used by the Government of Canada for other crown-owned lands. The original press release can seen at http://www.railcan.ca/sec_new/en_new_details.asp?newId=1280 and a related article was published in the May 2009 edition of the Environmental and Engineering Science magazine.

• Stragis, Lukay Research and Development Ltd. and Greenland Consulting Engineers invited by VIA Rail Canada to submit a comprehensive work plan for the engineering design and construction administration of upgrades to the Toronto (Canada) fuelling facility, as well as on-site storm water management works in order to address new regulatory compliance policies.

• Stragis invited by the Canadian Pacific Railway for the design-build of a new lube oil storage tank and associated infrastructure.

• Stragis retained by Lukay Research and Development Ltd. to register with Environment Canada a new fueling facility tank system in Vaughan, Ontario.

• Stragis retained by the Canadian Pacific Railway to complete an Environmental Emergency Plan for the Vaughan, Ontario Intermodal Terminal.

• Stragis completes for the Canadian Pacific Railway environmental registrations and compliance inspections for all tanks at the Etobicoke, Ontario Intermodal Terminal.

• Stragis retained by the Canadian Pacific Railway for project management services, including the supervision of upgrades and inspections of tank systems located at Britt, Ontario.

• Stragis completes for the Canadian Pacific Railway a review of its bulk locomotive tank management system and operations at the Golden and Coquitlam, British Columbia facilities.

• Stragis completes for the Canadian Pacific Railway an environmental registration and review of its bulk storage facility operations at Britt, Ontario.

• Stragis completes for the Canadian Pacific Railway an environmental registration and review of its bulk locomotive fueling tank system and operations at Toronto, Ontario.

• Stragis retained by the Canadian Pacific Railway to prepare a storage tank environmental management policy system-wide.

• Stragis completes for the Canadian Pacific Railway storage tank management training to senior management.

• Stragis retained by Canadian Pacific to complete monthly inspection and monitoring program of storage tank systems in Toronto, Ontario

• Stragis requested by the Canadian National Railway to provide training to senior management on the new Environment Canada storage tank regulations and Railway Guidance Document.

• Stragis featured in the Railway Association of Canada' Interchange magazine on the successful development and implementation of the Railway Guidance Document for Storage Tank Management and Construction. The Guidance Document has assisted the railway industry meet the new Environment Canada Storage Tank Systems for Petroleum Products and Allied Petroleum Products Regulations.