Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Commercial production of synthetic crude oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands began in 1967 in north-eastern Alberta. Suncor Inc., then known as Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., began the development of...
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The Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN) is a university-based, independent organization that compiles, interprets and analyses available knowledge about managing the environmental...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
138 potential oil sands challenges, categorized based on a set of criteria and solutions to the most pressing ones. About 84% of the challenges identified were expected to occur in the next 5 years
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Richard Johnson
P. Bork
E.A.D. Allen
W.H. James
L. Koverny
The experiments detailed in this report show that it was possible to increase the solids content of sludge to 50% solids by adding three parts sand (tailings sand) to one part sludge.
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Treatment plots were established on the Syncrude mine site to test the effect of a variety of mixtures of peat, mineral overburden, and tailings sand on establishment of trees and shrubs
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Research plots were constructed on the Syncrude mine site at Mildred Lake to test effect of thickness and quality of replaced soil over tailings sand on the performance of trees and shrubs
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Conceptual and analytical framework for quantifying risks to terrestrial wildlife that might be exposed to solid-phase materials potentially associated with oil sands reclamation
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Reclamation and revegetation of boreal sites disturbed by oil exploration depend on the availability of topsoil salvaged on-site during the disturbance. For successful reclamation, current regulations...
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Land Resources Network Ltd.
Organic amendments reviewed included animal manures, crop residues, peat, wood waste, sewage sludge, municipal yard waste, humates, vermicomposts and spent mushroom compost. The effect of these organi
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Did You Know series was a means of highlighting interesting current and historical facts about development, economics and environmental management related to the oil sands.
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David Polster
Chris Powter
Proceedings of the 2013 Northern Latitudes Mining Reclamation Workshop and 38 th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association. Whitehorse, Yukon, September 9 – 12, 2013
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Larry Brocke
Phil Lulman
Dennis Parkinson
Larry Paterson
Cliff Wallis
Government: The Government's perception of successful reclamation may be different than that of the landowner or the operator or any of the other interest groups or all of them. It is not the...
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Camille Defrenne
Jessica Moore
Colin Tucker
Louis Lamit
Evan Kane
Randall Kolka
Rodney Chimner
Jason Keller
Erik Lilleskov
Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We...
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September
2023
Although peatlands cover only 3% of the world's land, they store about twice as much carbon as in the biomass of all the world's forests combined. Thus, they are incredibly important especially for...
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Peatland Ecology Research Group
Schedule and abstracts from the 24th annual Symposium of the Peatland Ecology Research Group.
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Joshua Dean
Michael Billett
Edward Turner
Mark Garnett
Roxane Andersen
Rebecca McKenzie
Kerry Dinsmore
Andy Baird
Pippa Chapman
Joseph Holden
Peatlands are globally important stores of soil carbon (C) formed over millennial timescales but are at risk of destabilization by human and climate disturbance. Pools are ubiquitous features of many...
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B. Ayres
Mike O'Kane
Lee Barber
D. Hiller
D. Helps
The Claude waste rock pile at Cluff Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan's Athabasca basin contains ~7.2 million tonnes of waste rock, upon which an engineered enhanced store-and-release cover...
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Successful reclamation of a pipeline right-of-way is contingent upon the proper material handling procedure, especially for topsoil conservation. NOVA's practice of topsoil conservation is discussed...
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Stephen Moran
Mark Trudell
Terry Macyk
Daphne Cheel
The first phase of the study, which was completed in 1984, included characterization and instrumentation of two study areas: the Battle River study area, which included Diplomat, Vesta and Paintearth...
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January
2016
This presentation covers various best practices and new techniques that can be implemented in the planning, construction and reclamation stages of in-situ oil sands operations.