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Assessment of Phytoremediation as an In-Situ Technique for Cleaning Oil-Contaminated Sites: Phase II Final Report
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The cold climate and short growing season characteristic of the major oil and gas producing regions of western Canada make it particularly important to conduct phytoremediation research on plants...
Biochar Application for Revegetation Purposes in Northern Saskatchewan
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Our research was focused on biochar application for revegetation purposes under northern Saskatchewan conditions. The Gunnar Mine Site, located on the northern shore of the Athabasca Lake, was used as...
Groundwater: Making the Invisible, Visible - WPACs World Water Day 2022
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March 22nd, 2022 at 1:00pm MST to March 22nd, 2022 at 3:00pm MST
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The Watershed Planning and Advisory Councils (WPACs) of Alberta work towards the protection of water resources in our province. Collaboratively we are presenting this online World Water Day event. The...
Video - Alberta Watershed Toolkit
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This presentation describes the Alberta Watershed Toolkit as a watershed planning community space to share success stories and tools.
Video - Alberta Wetland Policy
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This presentation discusses the state of wetland and peatland conservation in Alberta.
Video - Alberta's Upstream Petroleum Industry's Spill Preparedness: The Co-op Approach
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This presentation describes how the Alberta oil and gas industry decided to go with a oil/gas spill cooperative rather than having individual company spill response units.
Video - Assessing agricultural practices to improve watershed management in Alberta
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This presentation summarizes a 6 year project to evaluate the environmental and economic performance of agricultural BMPs to improve water quality on small watercourses in Alberta.
Video - Bow Basin Watershed Management Plan 2012: Lessons Learned
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This presentation describes what the Bow River Watershed Council learned through the various iterations of its watershed plans and state of the watershed reports.
Video - Bridging Planning Processes: Vermilion Watershed Project
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This presentation describes the watershed planning process for the Vermilion River.
Video - Can Alberta Learn Lessons for Low Impact Development From the UK?
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This presentation summarizes strategies Canada can learn from the U.K. about flood risk management.
Video - Capture Sand in Flocculated Fines: A New Approach to optimize the Capture of Oil Sands Fines in Sand Beach
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Ruijun Sun is a Senior Research Engineer with the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Ruijun Sun describes a new way to optimize the capture of oil sands clay fines in sand...
Video - Challenges in Water Management in the South Saskatchewan Basin
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This presentation summarizes the challenges of infrastructure management for water storage and delivery in southern Alberta.
Video - Cleaning Up Mines in Northern Saskatchewan
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Uranium mining in the Athabasca Basin region in Northern Saskatchewan was developed in the early 1950s. The mines developed during this period were abandoned, leaving deep holes and mining debris...
Video - Cleaning up the Lorado Uranium Mill
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In 1960, the Lorado Mill was abandoned in northern Saskatchewan, leaving an estimated 227,000 cubic meters of radioactive uranium tailings that covered the mill site and flowed into nearby Nero Lake...
Video - Column Consolidation Testing of Oil Sands Tailings
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Ruijun Sun is a Senior Research Engineer with the Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He reports on consolidation testing of oil sands tailings from Total's Joslyn oil sands mine...
Video - Do you know your watershed? Learning about the Red Deer River
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This presentation discusses what watershed education looks like in the Red Deer River watershed.
Video - Effects of Accidental Hydrocarbon Release on Red Deer River Water Quality
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This presentation provides a summary of the Plains Pipeline spill in the Red Deer River, June 7, 2012.
Video - Functional environmental flows: A practical strategy for healthy rivers
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This presentation describes how focusing on functional flows versus typical water conservation management could improve aquatic in-stream ecosystems while meeting current water allocations.