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CONSERVATION DIRECTOR [7 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2023-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)
Key term(s)
  • directeur conservateur de musée
  • directrice conservatrice de musée

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2023-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Museums

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Muséologie

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Forms
  • Forms Design
Universal entry(ies)
PWGSC-TPSGC 2601-34
form code, see observation
OBS

PWGSC-TPSGC 2601-34: code of a form used at Public Works and Government Services Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de formulaires administratifs
  • Imprimés et formules
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
PWGSC-TPSGC 2601-34
form code, see observation
OBS

PWGSC-TPSGC 2601-34: code d'un formulaire employé à Travaux publics et Services gouvernementaux Canada.

Spanish

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Record 5 2005-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Position and Functional Titles (Armed Forces)
  • Military Administration
OBS

Position abolished.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Postes et fonctions (Forces armées)
  • Administration militaire
OBS

Poste aboli.

Key term(s)
  • Directeur Économie des ressources

Spanish

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Record 6 1997-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Soil Science
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Environment
OBS

A North American Wetlands Conservation Council was established to review the merits of wetlands conservation proposals submitted for funding under the Act. The Council consists of nine members : the Director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service(Service), the Executive Secretary of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation(Foundation), four directors of state fish and wildlife agencies(one from each migratory bird flyaway), and three individuals each representing a different non-profit organization actively carrying out wetlands conservation projects under the Act, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, or the Canadian-Mexican-United States Tripartite Agreement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Science du sol
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Environnement

Spanish

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Record 7 1997-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Environment
CONT

Amory Lovins, director of research at the Rocky Mountain Institute coined the concept of "negawatts"-the idea that investment in the energy conservation will often yield higher returns than investment in new power stations.

CONT

Replacing incandescent bulbs with low-wattage fluorescent lamps would save companies millions of dollars. Here is where negawatts come in: the fluorescent lamps produced by a factory costing $8 million to build will save energy equivalent to the output of a $1 billion, 700 - megawatt power plant.

Key term(s)
  • negawat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Environnement
OBS

Construit selon le modèle "mégawatts" avec le sens opposé.

Spanish

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