Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Cory Savage
Tanner Owca
Mitchell Kay
Jelle Faber
Brent Wolfe
Roland Hall
Potential for downstream delivery of contaminants via Athabasca River floodwaters to lakes of the PAD has raised local to international concern. Here, we quantify enrichment of eight metals (Be, Cd...
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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...
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This is a compilation of on-line accessible papers from the 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990 conferences of the Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association. This list will be...
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This is a compilation of on-line accessible papers from the 1977, 1981, 1989, 1992, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 national conferences of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association. Some of the conferences...
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Michael Rowell
Jean Crepin
Salt spills are liable to become more prevalent in the oil producing regions of Alberta as the volume of brine relative to crude oil increases with the depletion of the older oil-fields. High...
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Alberta Centre for Reclamation and Restoration Ecology
Oil Sands Research and Information Network
One of the core mandates for the Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN) was to enhance access to oil sands environmental management information. With OSRIN’s mandate ending December 31...
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Bruce Runge
Alan Kennedy
Margaret Mears
Esso Resources Canada Ltd (Esso) operates an oil sands production project at Cold Lake, Alberta that produces approximately 14,000 m3/day of bitumen for the world market. On December 8, 1988 a failure...
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Sandra Landsburg
Elizabeth Dwyer
Dissipation of bromacil in Humic Luvic Gleysols amended with cow manure was evaluated at two sites in northwestern Alberta from 1984 to 1987
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This glossary was prepared to provide those working in the field of reclamation in Alberta with a standardized set of definitions for reclamation terms.
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Glossary provides understanding of the language and acronyms used in oil sands mining, processing and environmental management.
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On June 25, 2018, InnoTech Alberta, the Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESSA) and Alberta Economic Development and Trade co-hosted a workshop entitled Harnessing the Innovation System...
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The Herald Reclamation Project began in the summer of 1989 and, to date, has involved clean up of a 2 acre oil spill, salvage of metal equipment used by a now defunct oil cleaning business, and proper...
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Martyn Riddle
Ed Osborne
Brian Geddes
The objective of industrial site decommissioning is to leave the site in a safe condition consistent with its proposed future use. Environmental and human health concerns are key ingredients in any...
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Objective - develop a collective understanding of the scope of sites impacted by soil sterilants (bromacil and tebuthiuron) and the specific challenges associated with their remediation and management
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Simone Levy
Several major challenges were identified associated with management of sterilant-impacted sites in Alberta through this literature review, industry consultation and personal communication
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Jay Woosaree
Brij Verma
Byron James
Phytoremediation, the use of plants to remove, degrade or stabilize sites contaminated with organic or toxic chemicals is gaining in popularity as an alternative and economical technique in...
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Wetland Knowledge Exchange
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November
2023
Cassandra Chabot-Madlung, County of Grande Prairie presents - Wetland Replacement Program: How it Started & Who Can Participate This is a Municipal viewpoint of Alberta Environment and Protected Areas...
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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.
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Craig Mahoney
Joshua Montgomery
Stephanie Connor
Danielle Cobbaert
Abstract Boreal wetlands within the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada, are subject to natural and anthropogenic pressures, resulting in the need for monitoring these sensitive ecosystems to ensure...
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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