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Mounding is a highly versatile technique for addressing site conditions that may limit forest recovery on a wide range of reclamation sites. The technique is particularly useful on wet and cool sites...
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Seeding is less reliable than planting, and natural regeneration even less so, but these regeneration methods may be suitable, low-cost alternatives on some reclaimed sites. both seeding and natural...
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A common goal of reclamation in the boreal forest is to establish diverse, native plant communities that are suited to the site's conditions and are on track to become a forest. Regeneration planning...
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The footprint left by infrastructure and equipment can create different challenges for establishing vegetation. The best site preparation method depends on the limiting factors present.
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Reclaiming industrial sites in Alberta's boreal forest is not always a straightforward process. The footprints left by infrastructure and equipment are often characterized by compacted mineral soils...
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Soil compaction frequently results from industrial disturbance on mineral soils, whether due to infrastructure or equipment traffic. Soil compaction tends to be most severe on sites with high clay...
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Soil salvage is a pre-disturbance technique to conserve a site's topsoil, which is critical for maintaining nutrient cycling, organic matter, soil biota and plant propagules. In some cases, subsoil...
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Provide a preliminary understanding of the state of the art of in situ bitumen recovery technology, the most probable application and rate of application of that technology to the Athabasca deposit
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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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Athabasca Tar Sands Corridor Study Group
There has been much discussion and considerable debate regarding feasibility of combining multiple pipelines, electric-power transmission lines, highways, railroads and communication systems in a
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Athabasca Tar Sands Corridor Study Group
Transportation corridor connects oil sands resources of the Athabasca area to a new major provincial terminal serving as a central hub for additional corridors radiating out to industrial facilities
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Stewart Weir Stewart Watson & Heinrichs
Existing Facilities Location of Transportation Facilities Pipeline and Powerline Impact Rural Agricultural Area The Environmental Impact Analysis Corridor Cross-Section Cost Analysis Inter-Party Respo
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Stewart Weir Stewart Watson & Heinrichs
A 16 page questionnaire was prepared and sent to some six hundred landowners in the area from Fort Saskatchewan north to Atmore (120 responded); public meetings were held in 7 locations
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Stewart Weir Stewart Watson & Heinrichs
Technical meetings were held to obtain pertinent information from these people to complete specific parts of the study: Calgary Technical Group, Calgary Industry Seminar, Edmonton Study Group
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Athabasca Tar Sands Corridor Study Group
Contains the following chapters: SUPPLY & DEMAND - Seaton-Jordan & Associates Ltd. URBAN GROWTH IMPLICATIONS OF CORRIDOR TERMINAL LOCATION - K.C. Mackenzie Associates Ltd. IMPACTS OF PETROCHEMICALS ON...
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Tottrup Engineering Limited
Kates, Peat, Marwick & Company
F.F. Slaney & Company Limited
This study reviews constraints that should be considered in connection with synthetic crude pipe line gathering systems and routes within the Athabasca tar sands area
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This report, prepared by Associated Environmental (Associated) on behalf of Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), documents the benefits and limitations of bioengineering and conventional...
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January
2015
This toolkit has been prepared as an operational handbook and is intended to guide implementation of reclamation techniques that will contribute to the restoration of caribou habitat. It is meant to...
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Daniel Peters
Dillon Watt
Kevin Devito
Wendy Monk
Rajesh Shrestha
Donald Baird
The goal of this study is to enhance the understanding of the regional role of the lower Athabasca Basin areas in overall runoff delivery to the downstream Peace-Athabasca Delta. The Cold-regions...