Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Paul Addison
A.A. Khan
Sylvie L'Hirondelle
F. Theriault
No impact on jack pine physiology was found when concentrations of the dominant pollutants from Oil Sands operations equivalent to 104 years of soluble disposition were added to intact soil cores
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Terry Macyk
Zdenek Widtman
Vern Betts
The Alberta Research Council has conducted a reclamation research program near Grande Cache, Alberta in conjunction with the surface mining operations of Smoky River Coal Limited since 1972. Use of...
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Sandra Landsburg
Karen Cannon
Available information indicates that overstripping and subsequent replacement of topsoil can produce horizon characteristics similar to plow depth characteristics resulting from cultivation
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The Vangorda Plateau at the Faro Mine Complex contains two open pits that, starting in 2013, will both require dewatering. Since mine abandonment in 1998, water levels in Vangorda pit have been...
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Cold stratification for two weeks at 5°C before germination showed no significant difference in the average percent germination between the stratified and unstratified seeds.
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David Chanasyk
Harvey Martens
John Hastie
The Highvale mine, located 65 km west of Edmonton along the south side of Lake Wabamum, produces approximately 12 m1llion tons of coal per year as fuel for the Sundance and Keephills generating plants...
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Dean MacKenzie
Kevin Renkema
Resource Date:
December
2013
Reclamation of in-situ facilities poses several unique challenges in comparison to conventional oil and gas and oil sands mining. This document summarizes current knowledge and practices employed for...
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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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Corey Scobie
Alan Marsh
Ryan Fisher
Erin Bayne
Troy Wellicome
Petroleum development has occurred at a rapid pace on the grasslands of Alberta and Saskatchewan. To avoid potential impacts of development on burrowing owls, federal and provincial governments...
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This document Is a guideline for the preparation of a Development and Reclamation (D & R) Application for a regulated pipeline
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Francis Salifu
Jay Woosaree
Sean Wells
Bruce Anderson
Screens native grasses [fringed brome grass (Bromus ciliatus), June grass (Koeleria macrantha), a mix of native grasses with barley and oats (Avena sativa) for suitability to grow and stabilise tailin
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James Ryan
Gerald Hilchie
Representatives of 50 insect families were collected in sweep net samples, and additional families were observed to be present on the Suncor dike. Insect attacks were severe on conifer trees
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Heavy oils produced from the Alberta oil sands contain cyclic organic compounds together with sulphur and nitrogen. Upon thermal treatment they have potential to form carcinogenic, mutagenic, and toxi
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This report contains all the available suspended sediment discharge information for 1976 that was collected by Water Survey of Canada and by Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program (AOSERP)...
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This compilation report contains all the available 1977 suspended sediment concentration and particle size data collected in the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program study area.
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Contains all available 1979 hydrometric data including daily discharges for streamflow stations with corresponding hydrographs and stage-discharge curves and water level information for gauged lakes.
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Resource Date:
August
2020
This document is part of the 360 tours project Toolkit developed by Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) led by Cenovus Energy Inc., in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada. The...
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Changes in the demography and habitat use of three small rodent species (Clethrionomys gapperi, Microtus pennsylvanicus and Peromyscus maniculatus) and snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) were monitored
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Authors
Bill McGill
A.H. Maclean
Larry Turchenek
C.A. Gale
Growth of grasses and legumes in tailings sand, and the effect of adding materials such as peat and glacial till to tailings sand, were studied using lysimeters both indoors and in the field.
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M. Hickman
S.E.D. Charlton
C.G. Jenkerson
Largest mean standing crops for the June to November period occurred in the Steepbank, Ells, and Hangingstone Rivers, while largest mean production rates occurred in the Ells and Muskeg rivers.