Land Management Search Results
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K. Stewart
E. Karppinen
S. Siciliano
Biochar is a soil amendment that results from heating various biological ingredients, such as wood, fish or animal bone under oxygen limited conditions and has proven to promote plant growth, as well...
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Hans Boerger
Mike MacKinnon
Bill Hunter
The Clark hot water process currently used for extracting bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands results in large volumes of clay fines containing small amounts of residual bitumen. One possible way of...
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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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Processing oil sand involves material handling on an unprecedented scale, and creates vast quantities of waste or tailings. Large retaining structures are constructed from the sand tailings and used...
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December
2016
The Oil Sands Vegetative Cooperative newsletter is published twice a year by the COSIA Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), a collaborative effort to harvest and bank seeds from a wide variety of...
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December
2018
The Oil Sands Vegetative Cooperative newsletter is published twice a year by the COSIA Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), a collaborative effort to harvest and bank seeds from a wide variety of...
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The Oil Sands Vegetative Cooperative newsletter is published twice a year by the COSIA Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), a collaborative effort to harvest and bank seeds from a wide variety of...
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The Oil Sands Vegetative Cooperative newsletter is published twice a year by the COSIA Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), a collaborative effort to harvest and bank seeds from a wide variety of...
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The Oil Sands Vegetative Cooperative newsletter is published twice a year by the COSIA Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), a collaborative effort to harvest and bank seeds from a wide variety of...
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The Oil Sands Vegetative Cooperative newsletter is published twice a year by the COSIA Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), a collaborative effort to harvest and bank seeds from a wide variety of...
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Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative
Resource Date:
November
2017
The Oil Sands Vegetative Cooperative newsletter is published twice a year by the COSIA Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), a collaborative effort to harvest and bank seeds from a wide variety of...
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Resource Date:
November
2019
The Oil Sands Vegetative Cooperative newsletter is published twice a year by the COSIA Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), a collaborative effort to harvest and bank seeds from a wide variety of...
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Authors
Christina Small
Dan Diegenhardt
Bonnie Drozdowski
Sarah Thacker
Chris Powter
Amanda Schoonmaker
Stefan Schreiber
Resource Date:
November
2018
This document provides a literature review of current weed management practices, and provides and overview of regulatory frameworks, record of weed occurrence in the boreal forest, competition and...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Stefan Schreiber
Chris Powter
Bonnie Drozdowski
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November
2018
The overall goal of this project was to attempt to assess whether noxious weeds managed in the boreal forest are significantly impacting boreal succession using publicly available literature...
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The Oil Sands Environmental Study Group {OSESG) was formed early in 1973 by sixteen major petroleum companies who were either oil sands operators or lease holders. The group was designed to operate as...
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Authors
Jean-Marie Sobze
Marie-Eve Gauthier
Bin Xu
Amanda Schoonmaker
Site re-vegetation is an important phase in peatland restoration. Prior to re-vegetating a peatland site, appropriate methods should be used to adjust the soil and address the hydrologic disturbance...
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Authors
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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Vezza Mine, a former gold mine includes a three-compartment shaft with four underground levels down to a depth of 741 metres, This mine was never put in production since its construction around 1997...
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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...