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Creating a Recreational Lake at TransAlta's Whitewood Mine
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This paper describes the co-operative participation of the Alberta Government Departments of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife; Recreation and Parks; Environment; the County of Parkland and TransAlta...
Improving Soil Tilth in Reclaimed Soils at the Highvale Mine
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The Highvale mine, located 65 km west of Edmonton along the south side of Lake Wabamum, produces approximately 12 m1llion tons of coal per year as fuel for the Sundance and Keephills generating plants...
Reclamation by Transalta Utilities through Planned Research and Experience
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TransAlta Utilities has always believed that finding solutions to reclamation problems must identify the most economical and technically feasible methods. A range of research related programs have...
Reclamation Experience: An Industrial Perspective
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The concepts important to the regulation of reclaimed land have been evolving and will continue to evolve. We have gone from emphasis on "equal to or greater than productivity" to emphasis on...
Soil Handling at the Highvale Mine
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The soil resources in the Highvale Mine area are predominantly thin Black Solodized Solonetzic and Gleysolic soils developed on residual bedrock of the Edmonton Formation. A significant amount of Gray...
Video - Case Studies from Recent Alberta Fires: Slave Lake and Wood Buffalo
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This presentation discusses recovery efforts for both the Fort McMurray/Wood Buffalo fire in 2016 and the Slave Lake region fire in 2011.
Video - Lessons Learned from Collaborative Land Use Planning in the Northwest Territories
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This talk describes the lands within the Wek’èezhìi Management Area and their importance to the Tłįchǫ, the planning process to develop the resilient Tłįchǫ Wenek’e as well as the lessons learned.
Whitewood Mine Closure
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1665 ha has been reclaimed, including one end pit lake, numerous wetland features, woodland/wildlife areas revegetated through assisted natural recovery and perennially cropped agricultural lands