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Case Studies
Our mandate is to develop biotechnology-based solutions for difficult-to-solve environmental problems. Given this, we regularly find ourselves conceiving elegant solutions that no one has ever applied before. The case studies below highlight some of these solutions.
Forestry
 Microbial Technologies cleaned up PCP contaminated soil at a lumber mill. This was the first large-scale bioremediation job for Special Waste in British Columbia, Canada.
 An innovative solution to a dryland sort runoff problem, the only one presently in existence for this difficult environmental problem.
 Microbial Technologies developed a low-cost treatment wetland to protect a fish-bearing creek from a toxic leachate produced by a wood waste landfill.
Mining
 Microbial Technologies developed an in-pit treatment system for acid rock drainage, the first of its kind in the world.
 A biological treatment system for thiocyanate in a closed mine's tailings pond. Another first.
 A nine hectare wetland treating all the effluent from an operating gold mine. This mine became one of the first in Ontario to produce a non-toxic discharge.
Petrochemical
 A bioreactor designed to treat solvent-contaminated, strong wastewater. Yet again, Microbial Technologies pushed the boundaries of environmental biotechnology.
First Nations
 Microbial Technologies assessed the environmental impact of discharges from a proposed gold mine in the Yukon Territory, on behalf of the local First Nations.
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