Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Resource Date:
April
2019
This report summarizes progress for projects related to in situ reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA). These in situ research...
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Resource Date:
April
2019
This report summarizes progress for projects related to oil sands mining reclamation research of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA). These...
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Authors
Heather Tokay
Chris Powter
Bin Xu
Bonnie Drozdowski
Dean MacKenzie
Simone Levy
Need for clear direction on information required to support professional justification which describes why specific deficiencies will not have long term adverse environmental impacts and/or affect ELC
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Authors
Corinne Schuster-Wallace
Robert Sandford
Stephanie Merrill
Chris DeBeer
Canada and the world are faced with unprecedented water-related challenges which impact our ability to meet many of the UN sustainable development goals. Climate warming and human actions are altering...
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Authors
Terry Osko
Clayton Gillies
Matthew Pyper
Resource Date:
February
2018
This report compiles a toolbox of shared practices currently in use by COSIA companies, or which have been used but were found to be unsuccessful.
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Resource Date:
April
2018
This document combines as-of-2017 reports for projects relating to mine site reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA). These research...
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Resource Date:
October
2018
This study utilized mesocosms to investigate the effects of oil sands process water (OSPW) and densified fluid fine tails (dFFT) on aquatic ecosystems to support development of end pit lake technology
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Authors
Royal Gardner
Max Finlayson
Conservation and wise use of wetlands are vital for human livelihoods. The wide range of ecosystem services wetlands provide means that they lie at the heart of sustainable development. Yet policy and...
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Resource Date:
December
2018
This technical report describes in detail the interactions between boreal wetlands and forests and how forest managers can use this information to help avoid or minimize adverse effects on wetlands.
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Mighty Peace Watershed Alliance
The Mighty Peace Watershed Alliance (MPWA) supports the three goals of Alberta’s Water for Life Strategy: safe secure drinking water, healthy aquatic ecosystems, and reliable, quality water supplies...
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If you live in western Canada chances are you’ve seen a seismic line. Narrow corridors cut through the bush, seismic lines facilitate access for people and equipment to conduct geophysical surveys to...
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Government of New Brunswick, Department of Environment and Local Government
In New Brunswick we are fortunate to have a plentiful supply of good quality water available to use and enjoy, but this is not something that should be taken for granted. This strategy has been...
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Resource Date:
April
2017
This document combines as-of-2016 reports for projects relating to mine site reclamation of the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA). These research...
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Authors
Line Rochefort
Maria Strack
Pete Whittington
Martin Brummell
Laurence Turmel-Courchesne
Melanie Hawes
Marie-Claire LeBlanc
The Peatland Ecology Research Group (PERG), based in Université Laval (Québec City), has been conducting research on peatland management practices since 1992. Over the years, in partnership with the...
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Measuring variability in natural processes requires rigorous data collection and could increase the cost of environmental monitoring for oil and gas operators. Recent advances in remote-sensing and...
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Authors
Geb Raygorodetsky
Cheryl Chetkiewicz
Ontario’s Far North is one of the world’s largest and most intact expanses of boreal forest and wetlands. The region has almost no industrial development today, but that could change with plans for...
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Authors
Marie-Claude Roy
J. Kariyeva
Jim Herbers
Jim Schieck
Final recommendations to the development of a wetland monitoring program for the Oil Sands region of Alberta.
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Authors
Bev Gingras
Jules Lebeouf
Kylie McLeod
Leanne Mingo
These proceedings describe the findings of the Wetland Best Management Practices (BMPs) Workshop held on January 20th & 21st 2016 in Edmonton, Alberta hosted by Ducks Unlimited Canada.
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Authors
Jahan Kariyeva
Mike Watmough
Lyle Boychuk
Matthew Wilson
Nadia Rochdi
Bob Sleep
Robert Albricht
Johanna Weston
The key outcome of the workshop was the creation of a vision statement to guide leadership and action for an optimal provincial scale wetland inventory.
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Our results indicate water depth, surrounding agriculture footprint, and amount of precipitation received all significantly influence the water quality of prairie wetlands in Alberta.