Land Management Search Results
Resource
Oil sand overburden materials within Syncrude Lease No. 17 were sampled and analyzed with the intent of isolating mineral materials overlying lean oil sand which may be useful in reclamation
Resource
Authors
Hans Boerger
Mike MacKinnon
Bill Hunter
The Clark hot water process currently used for extracting bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands results in large volumes of clay fines containing small amounts of residual bitumen. One possible way of...
Resource
Authors
Erin Kelly
Jeffrey Short
David Schindler
Barbra Fortin
For over a decade, the contribution of oil sands mining and processing to the pollution of the Athabasca River has been controversial. We show that the oil sands development is a greater source of...
Resource
Authors
Keith Jones
David Forrest
While the Challenge Paper intended to focus on a few key aspects of the reclamation challenge for mining in the oil sands area, it ended up provoking a wide range of reactions
Resource
Commercial production of synthetic crude oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands began in 1967 in north-eastern Alberta. Suncor Inc., then known as Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., began the development of...
Resource
Remediation professionals, regulators, industry and stakeholders must begin discussions to resolve uncertainty around oil sands COPCs so that efforts can be focused on solving the “real” problem
Resource
The Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN) is a university-based, independent organization that compiles, interprets and analyses available knowledge about managing the environmental...
Resource
Authors
Oil Sands Research and Information Network
138 potential oil sands challenges, categorized based on a set of criteria and solutions to the most pressing ones. About 84% of the challenges identified were expected to occur in the next 5 years
Resource
Authors
Richard Johnson
P. Bork
E.A.D. Allen
W.H. James
L. Koverny
The experiments detailed in this report show that it was possible to increase the solids content of sludge to 50% solids by adding three parts sand (tailings sand) to one part sludge.
Resource
Treatment plots were established on the Syncrude mine site to test the effect of a variety of mixtures of peat, mineral overburden, and tailings sand on establishment of trees and shrubs
Resource
Research plots were constructed on the Syncrude mine site at Mildred Lake to test effect of thickness and quality of replaced soil over tailings sand on the performance of trees and shrubs
Resource
Authors
Chris Godwalt
Peter Kotecha
Craig Aumann
Phase 1 of a four phase project to study the Environmental and Economic Footprint (EEF) benefit of collaborative solutions for Athabasca oil sands production water supply and disposal.
Resource
Conceptual and analytical framework for quantifying risks to terrestrial wildlife that might be exposed to solid-phase materials potentially associated with oil sands reclamation
Resource
Reclamation and revegetation of boreal sites disturbed by oil exploration depend on the availability of topsoil salvaged on-site during the disturbance. For successful reclamation, current regulations...
Resource
Authors
Land Resources Network Ltd.
Organic amendments reviewed included animal manures, crop residues, peat, wood waste, sewage sludge, municipal yard waste, humates, vermicomposts and spent mushroom compost. The effect of these organi
Resource
Authors
Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Did You Know series was a means of highlighting interesting current and historical facts about development, economics and environmental management related to the oil sands.
Resource
Authors
David Polster
Chris Powter
Proceedings of the 2013 Northern Latitudes Mining Reclamation Workshop and 38 th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association. Whitehorse, Yukon, September 9 – 12, 2013
Resource
Authors
Larry Brocke
Phil Lulman
Dennis Parkinson
Larry Paterson
Cliff Wallis
Government: The Government's perception of successful reclamation may be different than that of the landowner or the operator or any of the other interest groups or all of them. It is not the...
Resource
Authors
G.R. Hillman
J.D. Johnson
Sam Takyi
Three experimental forest drainage sites were established in Alberta’s boreal forest to determine the effects of lowered water tables on soils, local hydrology, ground vegetation composition and tree...
Resource
Authors
Joshua Dean
Michael Billett
Edward Turner
Mark Garnett
Roxane Andersen
Rebecca McKenzie
Kerry Dinsmore
Andy Baird
Pippa Chapman
Joseph Holden
Peatlands are globally important stores of soil carbon (C) formed over millennial timescales but are at risk of destabilization by human and climate disturbance. Pools are ubiquitous features of many...