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By Paul Pashnik, EMS ManagerEnvironmental Management News

Environmental Management and Fire Suppression News

1. Coulson Aircrane signs Call When Needed Aircraft Contracts with Canadian Provinces for

        the  2010 Fire Season

During late April and early May, I have been busy working with Jim Messer to set-up “Call When Needed” (CWN), fire suppression aircraft contracts with Canadian Provincial Fire Control Centres.  We prepared offers to supply Coulson Aircrane Ltd’s fleet of Helicopters and the Martin Mars Air Tankers to assist the Provincial agencies in attacking and suppressing wildfires. As a result of this project, Coulson Aircrane Ltd and Coulson Flying Tankers now have CWN contracts in place with the following Provincial Wildfire Fire Agencies – BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Within BC, the Hawaii Mars is on an exclusive use contract with the BC Forest Service Protection Division for fighting wildfires in BC.

During the next few weeks, Jim Messer, John Coughlin, Paul Ryan and Roy Copeland will be very busy training pilots and ground crews and preparing aircraft plus support equipment to enable quick response to all fire callouts.

Due to the lack of winter snow and expected hot dry summer conditions Provincial Fire Control agencies across Canada are expecting a very serious fire season. I’m sure our crews will help them out.

 

1. Coulson Group ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS)

Timberlands ISO14001 EMS
QMI SAI Global issued Coulson Group of Companies Timberlands a new ISO14001 Registration Certificate. This certificate is valid for 3 years and covers all logging, road building, silviculture and fire suppression operations carried out by the companies. A copy of the certificate is included in this issue of Log n Talk.

Environmental Management System Audits

Just a reminder, next year’s tentative Audit Schedule is set out in the table below:

 

Certified Operation	Internal Audit	SAI Global Ext. Audit
Manufacturing Division	December 15, 2010	January 2011
Aviation Division	February, 15, 2011	March 2011
Timberlands Division	April 15, 2011	May 2011