2016 Round Up

2016 has been an exciting year. Chemistry Matters tackled many new challenges: from hosting the plenary at the INEF conference in Sweden to handling investigations here at home. Thanks to a great team with great clients, we end the year with many successes. Here are some of the issues we…

Peace River Inquiry into Odours for Baytex Energy Corp in Peace River, Alberta

Understand the “Why” before Collecting a Sample

Unfortunately, I hear the words “just grab a sample” too often in my line of work. Grabbing quick samples usually leads to problems or issues down the road. Any potential mistakes made with this quick decision cannot be undone, and bad data costs a lot of money to fix in the long run.

6 Ideas to Make a Flawless Transfer of Chain of Custody to the Lab

Imagine This… You have just finished a very large field program. You must have collected nearly 100 samples, all different matrices (water, soil, sediment, product samples), and multiple analyses are needed. You have COCs (chain of custody forms) filled out for everything, and you are driving over to the laboratory…

PAHs from wildfires and wildfire smoke

It was not that long ago that a smoky haze was across southern Alberta from fires in Washington State. The haze was caused by wildfires and the winds moved the smoke over Alberta. Wildfires seem to be very common lately with the latest one making the news from California. Wildfires…

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Understand the “Why” before Collecting a Sample

PAHs from wildfires and wildfire smoke