In situ STAR (Self-sustaining treatment for active remediation)

没有工业，加拿大人就不会享受他们现在的繁荣。但这一进展的代价很高：全国有多达30 000个化学污染场地，每一个都对人类和环境健康构成潜在威胁。无论是由于糟糕的处理方法还是意外泄漏，这些前工业基地的土壤现在含有有毒的化学物质，这些化学物质可以进入空气和地下水，使人类处于危险之中。清理这些“布朗菲尔德"不仅是加拿大的卫生优先事项，也是实现可持续发展的关键一步：许多这些被遗弃的地点是优质的真实的地产，恢复它们为城市地区提供了巨大的经济和社会效益。然而，对于最具挑战性的污染物，几乎没有廉价有效的清洁技术。

Without industry, Canadians would not enjoy the prosperity they do. But the cost of this progress has been high: as many as 30,000 chemically contaminated sites around the country, each one a potential threat to human and environmental health. Whether because of poor disposal methods or accidental leaks, the soil at these former industrial sites now contains a toxic soup of chemicals, which can enter the air and the groundwater and put humans at risk. Cleaning up these 'brownfield' sites is not only a Canadian health priority, but a key step towards sustainability: many of these abandoned sites are prime real estate and restoring them provides substantial economic and social benefits to urban areas. However, for the most challenging contaminants, virtually no cheap and effective clean-up techniques are available.