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The 8th Annual Banff Conference for the Alberta Institute of Agrologists was held in April 2012. This year's conference theme was Water: What is the risk? Agriculture, energy and urban end use. The Alberta Land-use Knowledge Network videotaped several of the presentations, available through the links below.
At the 2012 Alberta Institute of Agrologists conference, Thorsten Hebben from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development presented on the effects that drugs, personal care products and plasticizers have on wastewater in Alberta. The presence of these organic compounds is widespread, and they can have hormonal effects on organisms that live in water.