Land Management Resources

Andy Ridge, executive director for Water Policy at AESRD, finishes his keynote presentation by describing some of the details emerging in Alberta's new oil sands tailings management framework. He...

Andy Ridge, executive director for Water Policy at AESRD, moves onto the overall land planning and integrated resource management concepts that are guiding the development of Alberta's new tailings...

Andy Ridge is the Executive Director for Water Policy at Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development. His keynote presentation at the Oil Sands Tailings 2014 Conference is in three parts...

Lois Boxill is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with SRK Consulting. She describes the concepts and testing involved in her Ph.D thesis studying how mature fine tailings behave after treatment with...

Dr. David Andison is program lead of the fRI Healthy Landscapes program. He begins by explaining the "Why" of ecosystem management and how current approaches to land management fragments the landscape...

Dr. Nicholas Beier is a Research Associate with the Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. He describes his doctoral thesis research using tailings management...

Jim Schieck, research scientist at Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures, discusses how cumulative effects are currently being assessed in Alberta. He talks about the pilot study of how to use...

Ruijun Sun is a Senior Research Engineer with the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Ruijun Sun describes a new way to optimize the capture of oil sands clay fines in sand...

Shannon R. White is the Biodiversity Specialist for the Land-use Framework Regional Planning Branch for ESRD. She discusses Biodiversity Management Frameworks (BMFs), including indicators, triggers...

Ruijun Sun is a Senior Research Engineer with the Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He reports on consolidation testing of oil sands tailings from Total's Joslyn oil sands mine...