Our achievements - Environment, energy and development
- Diagnostic assessments of the energy consumption of industrial companies and institutions as part of prospective studies for the extension of the gas network (Roberval county).
- Studies of the economic impacts of converting industries and institutions to natural gas (Roberval county).
- Study and characterization of the externalities of agricultural activities implemented on agrothermal park projects (Saguenay Lac St-Jean, Abitibi, Montérégie).
- Characterization of greenhouse gas emissions and reductions of these emissions for agricultural and agro-industrial companies located in agrothermal parks (use of industrial thermal discharges as alternative thermal energy) (Saguenay Lac St-Jean, Abitibi, Montérégie) .
- Characterization and reduction of losses of nitrogenous fertilizers and phytosanitary products by leaching as part of the production of reforestation plants in a forest nursery (Saguenay Lac St-Jean).
- Characterization and reduction of impacts due to heavy traffic in the context of the activities of a brickyard (Saguenay Lac St-Jean).
- Implementation of an Environmental Management System as part of the management of an agrothermal park (Saguenay Lac St-Jean).
- Implementation of an Environmental Management System as part of the activities of a biomass cogeneration unit (Saguenay Lac St-Jean).
- For the Régie des Matières Résiduelles du Lac St-Jean: Creation and application of a decision support tool in terms of selecting technologies for the recovery of residual materials. Development of a weight/volume converter applicable to the different categories of residual materials as part of the optimization of the planning management of a technical landfill site (LET). Technical support for the recovery of CRD wood, organic residual materials, products from the dismantling of mattresses – box springs – upholstered furniture as part of the optimization of landfilling. Technical support for the analysis of the behavior of expanded polystyrene (EPS) in burial and compaction.
- Pre-feasibility study of a northern mining industrial park for the MRC of Maria-Chapdelaine (site and infrastructure, reception infrastructure, connection infrastructure to the various communication and transport networks).