Ressources de Gestion des Terres

Dr. Reza Nik presents the findings of COSIA’s Enhanced Beach Fines Capture Working Group, reviewing the fines capture observed in commercial scale external tailings facilities (ETFs), field scale...

At the 2023 Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association annual conference, Chris Powter, Tanya Richens, Andy Etmanski, Amanda Schoonmaker, and Dean MacKenzie participated in a panel...

Dr. Ron Currie was project lead for a study conducted at NAIT Applied Research Centre for Oil Sands Sustainability (NARCOSS) to help develop a standard for Alberta's oil sands producers to measure...

Dr. Heather Kaminsky is a Research Engineer with Suncor Energy. Her work involves understanding the behaviour of fine clay particles in the fluid fine tailings from Alberta's oil sands open pit mining...

Feixia Zhang is a Ph.D candidate in Geotechnical Engineering at the Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility, University of Alberta. She reports on her Ph.D thesis research on estimating permeability in...

Ernie Hui gave a keynote address at the CWRA-WPAC joint conference on March 13, 2013. Ernie Hui is the CEO, Environmental Monitoring, for Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. The...

Dr. Aref Najafi is a Technology Development Engineer with Canadian Natural Resources Limited. He described the tailings research at CNRL as they develop an open-pit oil sands mine in NE Alberta. The...

Srboljub Masala is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with Thurber Engineering Ltd. He describes pilot scale tests at Shell Canada's Tailings Testing Facility at their Muskeg River oil sands mine in NE...

COSIA (Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance) created a committee to develop guidelines for management of fluid fine tailings so that oil sands mines could meet closure requirements. Dr. John...

In a presentation to challenge the tailings research community, the Alberta oil sand industry and regulators, John Sobkowicz asks whether an ingenuity gap exists in the tailings management solutions...