Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Eddy Carmack
Peter Killworth
Emphasis is placed on processes influencing temporal and spatial patterns in circulation, stratification and saline water distributions. Owing to its density, the high salinity effluent tends to sink
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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Techman Ltd.
Rheinbraun - Consulting GmbH
Provides comprehensive review of the technical problems facing future oil sands developments and suggests options helpful in formulating oil sands mining, tailings disposal and reclamation plans
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Techman Ltd.
Rheinbraun - Consulting GmbH
A total of sixty-eight drawings show the mining, tailings disposal and reclamation of the twelve mine designs developed in the study (see Volume 1).
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Techman Ltd.
Rheinbraun - Consulting GmbH
Yearly cost summaries for the 12 mine plans analyzed in the study (Volume 1) for 35 years. Activities in each mine are grouped into 6 cost centres, which are further divided into cost sub-centres.
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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
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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...
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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
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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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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
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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
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Processing oil sand involves material handling on an unprecedented scale, and creates vast quantities of waste or tailings. Large retaining structures are constructed from the sand tailings and used...
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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.
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Conceptual and analytical framework for quantifying risks to terrestrial wildlife that might be exposed to solid-phase materials potentially associated with oil sands reclamation
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In-depth review of the state-of-knowledge related to 34 oil sands fine tailings treatment technologies to serve as a fundamental planning document for future research initiatives
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Dendrochronology study of the relationship between climate and tree growth in the sub-boreal region, an aspatial analysis of habitat suitability for 10 wildlife species, and water stress risk analysis
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Model suggests tree productivity in region may be enhanced through much of the 21st century as a result of improvement in the thermal regime and potentially an overall increase in available moisture