Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Syncrude's Base Mine Lake (BML) is the first, and currently the only full-scale commercial demonstration of the end pit lake technology in the oil sands industry. An oil sands end pit lake (EPL) is an...
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Syncrude first began investigating the Water-Capped Tailings Technology (WCTT) in the early 1980’s through the establishment of a research program founded on progressive scaled-up testing of water...
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Kevin Smith
Christopher Smith
Silvie Forest
Alain Richard
This guide provides an in-depth look at Ducks Unlimited Canada's (DUC) remote-sensing satellite mapping efforts and the development of the DUC enhanced wetland classification system.
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Ryan Melnichuk
Zhongzhi Chen
The use of pit lakes (PL) to reclaim pits at the end of mine life is common in metal and coal extraction operations. Oil sands mine operators of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA)...
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Tanya Richens
Steve Tuttle
CEMA, a multi-stakeholder organisation advising the provincial and federal governments, is committed to respectful, inclusive dialogue to make recommendations for cumulative effects management
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Don Thompson
Dave Ealey
K.H. McCourt
Major gaps in the baseline knowledge of woodland caribou were: distribution , seasonal habitat use, the effects of sensory disturbance, and population density; minor gap re: direct mortality
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Seismic lines are an essential operation in the exploration for natural resources, providing more efficient and safe travel through a variety of topography with predictable costs associated. However...
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Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
The Alberta Wetland Classification System (AWCS) incorporates and merges information from existing wetland classification systems to provide a holistic classification system for the province. The AWCS...
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In 2020, the Alberta Water Council (AWC) identified the need to review the implementation of the Alberta Wetland Policy (the policy). This review would support improving and public reporting on the...
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Monitoring has been ongoing in Algar since 2011. Monitoring data along with supporting field observations information suggest that treatments may not be successfully placing linear disturbance within...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Jean-Marie Sobze
Erin Fraser
Eckehart Marenholtz
Ann Smreciu
Chris Powter
Marshall Mckenzie
The purpose of this document is to review traditional and alternative systems of seed and nursery stock treatment and delivery for use in oil sands reclamation. Treatment systems are considered those...
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W. Roberts
V. Lewin
L. Brusnyk
Wood frog (Rana sylvatica) was the most abundant and widespread species in 20 sites examined. Boreal chorus frogs (Pseudacris triseriata maculata) and Canadian toads (Bufohemiophrys) found at
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Don Thompson
Dave Ealey
K.H. McCourt
An analysis of the applied research necessary to allow evaluation of the effects of oil sands development on large mammals by a review and evaluation of the available baseline data
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Karine Pigeon
Megan Hornseth
Doug MacNearney
Laura Finnegan
We used GPS data from caribou and wolves, field data on human and wildlife use of seismic lines and pipelines, vegetation heights extracted from LiDAR, non-invasive fecal DNA collections, and a suite...
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We conducted a full peatland assessment using the new criteria on a restored well pad near Peace River, Alberta. In 2012, mineral overburden was removed along with geo-textile and the buried peat was...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
With few exceptions, permeability across in situ developments was the main factor affecting caribou movement. Relationship was non-linear, suggesting a minimum threshold of permeability is needed
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
Salmo Consulting
At current levels of industrial development, pipelines and linear features have a very small negative effect on caribou populations compared to the high levels of predation.
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
Monitoring of the Threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou ) boreal population (hereafter boreal caribou) presents many challenges, as boreal caribou are broadly distributed in densely...
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Diane Culling
Deborah Cichowski
This scientific review was prepared for the B.C. Oil and Gas Research Innovation Society (Victoria, B.C.). In 2010, the Ministry of Environment (MOE) completed the Scientific Update for the Boreal...
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January
2020
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) initiated the Western Boreal Program in 1997 with an understanding that working with forward thinking forest industry partners was key to advancing wetland conservation in...