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Road networks, both temporary and permanent, are necessary for accessing natural resources in the boreal forest. Forest roads can alter hydrology by 1) affecting the movement of water 2) reducing the...
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Alberta Health, Environmental Health Services Division
presents the summary of water quality in the Athabasca River during six sampling surveys (including a site at Fort McMurray, Tar Island, above G.G.O.S.)
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Alberta Health, Environmental Health Services Division
Water quality in the Athabasca River and tributaries was found to be generally acceptable throughout the winter of 1969/70. However, relatively high odor and colour values were observed on occasions
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Consultants were requested to carry out preliminary studies to determine the technical feasibility and estimated cost of constructing a dam on the Athabasca River in the vicinity of Crooked Rapids.
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Roger Berdusco
Anthony Milligan
Kaiser Resources Ltd. owns and operates a 5 million ton per year open pit and hydraulic coal mine near Sparwood in Southeastern British Columbia. Since 1969, Kaiser has maintained a field scale...
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Survey demonstrated need to better communicate availability of existing information and continue to make efforts to provide easy, timely and transparent access to monitoring and research information
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Winter planting of frozen black spruce seedlings was studied in a northern Alberta wetland supported by the Oil Sand Leadership Initiative (OSLI) Land Stewardship Working Group, comprised of...
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How will climate change affect the sustainability of Arctic villages over the next forty years? This question motivated a collaboration of 23 researchers and four Arctic communities (Old Crow, YT...
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The SFM Toolkit links to various modules on specific knowledge, tools and cases related to putting Sustainable Forest Management into practice.
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S.S. Malhotra
Paul Addison
A.A. Khan
A number of coniferous and deciduous species that had been growing on the Suncor tailings sand dike for five to seven years were fumigated with 0.34 ppm SO2 under controlled environmental conditions
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Includes sections outlining the requirements of: Environmental impact to tar sands development, Water Resources Act, Clean Air Act , Clean Water Act and land reclamation
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Ecological factors discussed for each species include soil and moisture requirements, reproduction, establishment, growth, successional roles, sensitivity to pollutants, and the associated species
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Runoff from within the study area contributes less than 10% of the average flow in the Athabasca River at the northern boundary of the study area. Snowfall constitutes about 30% of precipitation
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C. Li
A. Singh
N. Klamerth
K. McPhendran
P. Chelme-Ayala
Milos Bilosevic
Mohamed Gamal El-Din
Review of the adverse effects of individual compounds, or mixtures of compounds, that are present in oil sands process-affected water and/or other oil-related sources.
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Conservation and Utilization Committee
More emphasis is placed on field programs than on greenhouse studies, because of the nature of the problems involved. However, some topics can only be studied by laboratory methods for several years,
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This report represents the findings of a literature review carried out on small mammal damage to revegetation areas and on small mammal control procedures
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Differences in microtopography were associated with differences in plant species richness and composition between OSE pads and the undisturbed sites.
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Paul King
G. Granger
A. Straka
The results of preliminary experiments on pre-germination treatment methods for nine selected native woody plant species for disturbed land reclamation in the Rocky Mountain Eastern Slopes of Alberta.
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UAV-based remote sensing as a method for monitoring well pad recovery is determined to be feasible from a technical and field perspective.
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M.A. Giles
J.F. Klaverkamp
S.G. Lawrence
Purpose of this project was to provide detailed information regarding the acute toxicity this mine depressurization water to both fish and invertebrates.