Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Matrix is employee-owned and broadly held with 570 employees, having grown into one of Canada’s leading pure-play providers of environmental solutions.
Metallophiles hold great potential in remediating sites of heavy metal contamination and can also be used in rare earth metal discovery, among other useful applications.
Understanding how microbes withstand exposure to heavy metal concentrations that are toxic to humans and other organisms is foundational to the development of effective bioremediation techniques.
Near the industrial city Norilsk in northern Siberia in 2020, a destabilized storage tank released 17,000 metric tons of diesel. Incidents like this could "easily" become more frequent in the future as average global temperatures rise.
NGOs opposed to deep sea mining have successfully delayed the nascent industry, but after several regulatory advances, deep sea mining is set to go into commercial scale in international waters in 2024.
These results show that PetroFix is an effective tool for quickly reducing the risk-sensitive benzene and MTBE concentrations in groundwater and obtaining regulatory closures in short order for long-open sites.