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Rescan has been named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2013, an annual competition sponsored by Mediacorp Canada Inc. to recognize Canada's best places to work. This is the third year in a row that Rescan has been selected as a top employer. The winners were announced on October 10th in a special editorial feature of the Globe and Mail.

Now entering its 14th year, the Canada's Top 100 Employers project is a national competition to determine which employers lead their industries in offering exceptional workplaces for their employees. Employers are evaluated by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers using eight criteria, which have remained consistent since the project's inception. For more information on the criteria and the award visit the Top 100 website.

Quinto Mining Corporation Inc., a subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources, was awarded the 2012 British Columbia Industrial Mineral Mine Reclamation Award at the BC Mine Reclamation Symposium on September 19, 2012. The award was for the exemplary work completed on the Lumby Quinto Mine site, near Lumby, BC. The BC Annual Reclamation Awards are a prestigious recognition of the culmination of many years of persistent efforts to address and achieve environmental mitigation and ecological restoration at operating or closed mine sites.

Dr. Susan Ames, head of Rescan’s Reclamation and Mine Closure Planning group, led the team that completed a thorough site assessment, site clean-up, closure, and reclamation of the former graphite/gold mine over a three year period.

(Pictured: Dr. Susan Ames (left) and Al Hoffman (right), Chief Inspector of Mines for BC)

Rescan is proud to be selected as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People for the second straight year. First published in 2002, the Canada's Top Employers for Young People competition is organized by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. This special designation recognizes the employers that offer the nation's best benefits for younger workers. The employers on this list are Canada's leaders in attracting and retaining younger employees to their organizations.

The announcement was made in the extended September issue of Jobpostings Magazine and on Eluca.ca. View of copy of the September magazine here.

Environmental Resources Management (ERM), one of the world's leading environmental and sustainability consultancies, announces it has completed its acquisition of Rescan Environmental Services Ltd. (Rescan), one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies. Effective immediately, Rescan will operate as Rescan, an ERM Group Company.

Both ERM and Rescan share a history of, and commitment to, delivering world-leading environmental management solutions to their clients, spanning decades, industries and borders. Rescan enjoys an international reputation for its work in the mining sector, and has been active for more than 30 years in more than 50 countries on six continents. Begun in 1971, ERM today operates 140 offices in 40 countries, with more than 4,700 employees and 2,000 clients, representing 50 percent of the Global Fortune 500.

Rescan was founded by Clem Pelletier in 1981 and has become a BC entrepreneurial success story. "Early in my career, I recognized environmental assessment and protection would become a major priority in permitting industrial development projects, here in Canada and around the world," said Pelletier. "We've built a very successful business by ensuring sound environmental principles are embedded into our clients' resource development projects. The results speak for themselves in the number of permitted projects we've been privileged to work on." Clem as a Partner in ERM will assume the role of President of the new Rescan Environmental Services for Canada as well as Director of the Company.

Rescan's integration into the ERM Group of companies will take place over the next few months and Pierre Pelletier, Rescan's former President and Chief Operating Officer, will manage the transition and assume leadership of ERM's Canadian operations in 2013 as the Canadian Managing Partner. "This is an important opportunity for Rescan and ERM", said Pelletier. "We now offer our clients added benefits, including access to a broader range of expertise, services and support across geographies and industry sectors."

"Adding 170 plus Rescan staff to our business here in Canada allows us serve our clients more effectively across our strategic sectors: Mining, Oil & Gas and Power. The alignment of business culture and technical capabilities is strong, and together, the sum of the parts is clearly greater than the individual parts," said David McArthur, ERM CEO Americas. "We now have 220 plus staff in the Canadian market, and another 2,500 in the rest of the Americas, and intend to continue grow the business as we always have - serving our key clients across all of our practice offerings."

About ERM
ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social and sustainability consulting services. ERM has more than 140 offices in 40 countries and employs more than 4,700 staff. Embedding sustainability into everything that it does, ERM is committed to providing a service that is consistent, professional and of the highest quality. ERM established a permanent presence in Canada in 2003, after working with Canadian clients for more than 25 years. The company has offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal. For more information, visit www.erm.com.

 

Mr. Clem Pelletier, CEO of Rescan Environmental Services Ltd., is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Patrick Lefebvre to the position of Director of Engineering. With over 18 years of experience, Mr. Lefebvre will be responsible for leading, growing and managing the Environmental Engineering division at Rescan including the Geochemistry, Geotechnical, Hydrogeology, Water Resources, Environmental Engineering, Atmospherics, and Reclamation teams.

Mr. Lefebvre worked for Rescan Engineering in the late 1990s, and later with Hatch Engineering, where he was involved in various engineering projects for mining companies around the world, including the engineering aspects of the Island Copper Mine pit lake passive treatment system. Over the last seven years, Mr. Lefebvre has been working with Chevron Canada as their Capital Projects Lead and Project Manager focusing mainly on refinery facilities projects in BC.

We are excited about Patrick rejoining the Rescan team! His extensive experience will be integral in the continued success of our company.

Rescan is pleased to announce our requalification for the third straight year as one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies—putting us in the Gold Standard category. Established in 1993, Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies is the country’s leading business awards program, recognizing excellence in Canadian-owned and -managed companies with revenues over $10 million. Every year, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies compete for this designation in a rigorous and independent process that evaluates the calibre of their management abilities and practices.

The Gold Standard category, introduced this year, is awarded to a company after three consecutive years of maintaining their Best Managed status, these winners have demonstrated their commitment to the program and successfully reapplied for the designation.

We are honoured to be recognized as one of the 50 Best Managed Companies in Canada. This award has given Rescan tremendous pride; and at the same time, we are cognizant that we must live up to its standards.

Clem Pelletier, CEO of Rescan Environmental Services Ltd. is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Currie to the position of Vice President Regulatory and Community Affairs. Ms. Currie will be responsible for regulatory affairs including our EIA, EIS and SEIS as well as community affairs including First Nations consultation. She has interacted with Rescan for many years, and led the Galore Copper/Gold Project Approval Process team on behalf of the Environmental Assessment office.

Ms. Currie has over 23 years of experience with the British Columbia government in a variety of senior management positions, most recently as Chief Gold Commissioner/Executive Director at the BC Ministry of Energy and Mines. She has significant knowledge of BC First Nation issues, environmental assessment and federal and provincial regulations related to mining, forestry and energy sectors. Ms. Currie spent over six years as a Project Assessment Director with the Environmental Assessment Office where she led reviews of several major mining and energy projects. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Guelph and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Victoria.

Please join us in welcoming Ms. Currie to Rescan's team! Her extensive experience in regulatory and community affairs will be integral in the continued success of our company.

Rescan has been named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2012, an annual competition sponsored by Mediacorp Canada Inc. to recognize Canada's best places to work. This is the second year in a row that Rescan has been selected as a top employer. The winners were announced on October 7th in a special editorial feature of the Globe and Mail.

Now entering its 13th year, the Canada's Top 100 Employers project is a national competition to determine which employers lead their industries in offering exceptional workplaces for their employees.

Rescan has been selected as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People. Now in its 10^th year, the Canada's Top Employers for Young People competition is an editorial project organized by the Canada's Top 100 Employers project in partnership with KPMG LLP. This special designation recognizes employers that have exemplary programs to attract and retain younger workers. The editors review hundreds of leading employers across Canada to identify initiatives such as: co-op or work-study programs; tuition assistance to help students develop their skills; mentoring programs to help them adjust successfully to working life; career planning to help them move up in the organization; and other unique initiatives that help them develop rewarding and stimulating careers at each employer.