Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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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
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Model projections of tree regeneration under climate change on actual oil sands reclamation materials, and comprehensive model analysis of the risks to ecosystem productivity from climate change
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
This pamphlet is about old-growth forests in Canada. It includes a map that shows the Forest Regions of Canada and provides examples of different old-growth forest types in some of these regions.
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Committee on the Status of Species at Risk in Ontario (COSSARO)
Two Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) ecotypes occur in Ontario - the forest-dwelling or boreal population, and the forest-tundra or migratory population. In Ontario the “Woodland Caribou, forest-dwelling...
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British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development
Resource Date:
March
2021
Habitat restoration is an integral component in British Columbia’s approach to woodland caribou recovery. The goal is to restore large tracts of the woodland caribou’s habitat and to limit human and...
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Christina Small
Dan Diegenhardt
Bonnie Drozdowski
Sarah Thacker
Chris Powter
Amanda Schoonmaker
Stefan Schreiber
Resource Date:
November
2018
This document provides a literature review of current weed management practices, and provides and overview of regulatory frameworks, record of weed occurrence in the boreal forest, competition and...
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Amanda Schoonmaker
Stefan Schreiber
Chris Powter
Bonnie Drozdowski
Resource Date:
November
2018
The overall goal of this project was to attempt to assess whether noxious weeds managed in the boreal forest are significantly impacting boreal succession using publicly available literature...