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Report and Recommendations of the Task Force on Tree and Shrub Planting on Active Oil Sands Tailings Dams
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Trees and woody shrubs on the slopes of active oil sands tailings dam shall be considered part of the responsibility of the Engineer-of-Record and plans will be submitted to Dam Safety for approval
Review of Four Major Environmental Effects Monitoring Programs in the Oil Sands Region
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Fact Sheets for each of the four monitoring programs: ABMI, CEMA, RAMP and WBEA. Stakeholders lack detailed understanding of the suite of monitoring activities taking place in the oil sands
Review of Health Effects of Naphthenic Acids: Data Gaps and Implications for Understanding Human Health Risk
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A review of literature was undertaken as a first step in framing potential human health risk associated with exposure to OSPW-derived naphthenic acids in surface water
Review of Reclamation Options for Oil Sands Tailings Substrates
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State of knowledge related to technologies for reclaiming oil sands tailings substrates to upland boreal forests and wetlands
Risk and Uncertainty in Oil Sands Upland Reclamation: Best Management Practices within the Context of Climate Change
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This report discusses and illustrates how the risk and uncertainty introduced by climate change can be incorporated into reclamation planning. Two approaches to reclamation planning are described.
Summary of 2013 Tailings Technology Development and Commercialization Workshop
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There is no single technology solution for tailings disposal – a suite of technologies will be required For a technology to be considered suitable it must provide net environmental benefits
Summary of Resiliency of Reclaimed Boreal Forest Landscapes Seminar
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For reclaimed lands to be considered self-sustaining they should respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbances in a similar manner to how an analogous undisturbed landscape might respond
Summary of the Oil Sands Groundwater – Surface Water Interactions Workshop
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Develop common understanding of the current knowledge regarding groundwater resources, groundwater-surface water interactions in the oil sands area, ongoing applied research, monitoring and impacts
Survey of Albertans’ Value Drivers Regarding Oil Sands Development and Reclamation
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A random sample of 1,032 Albertans to gather empirical information as a basis for oil sands policy development for both industry and government
Survey of Oil Sands Environmental Management Research and Information Needs
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Survey demonstrated need to better communicate availability of existing information and continue to make efforts to provide easy, timely and transparent access to monitoring and research information
Synthesis of Toxicological Behavior of Oil Sands Process-Affected Water Constituents
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Review of the adverse effects of individual compounds, or mixtures of compounds, that are present in oil sands process-affected water and/or other oil-related sources.
The Alberta Oil Sands, Journalists, and Their Sources
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A clear majority of journalists said that there are many stories about the oil sands that go unreported and many of these unreported stories have to do with environmental issues
The Alberta Oil Sands Then and Now: An Investigation of the Economic, Environmental and Social Discourses Across Four Decades
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In the last 10 to 15 years, global issues such as climate change, indigenous rights, pollution of the air and major waterways, and sustainability have become embedded in the oil sands discourse
The Importance of Continuous Dialogue in Community-Based Wildlife Monitoring: Case Studies of Dzan and łuk Dagaii in the Gwich’in Settlement Area
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Rapid environmental change in the Arctic elicits numerous concerns for ecosystems, natural resources, and ways of life. Robust monitoring is essential to adaptation and management in light of these...
The OSRIN Story: Five Years of Creating and Sharing Oil Sands Environmental Management Knowledge
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Mandates: 1. Creating oil sands environmental management knowledge, 2. Sharing oil sands environmental management information, and 3. Networking to link researchers with funders and other researchers
Video - Assessment Methods for Oil Sands Reclamation Marshes
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Video tutorial that lays out the field sampling process for reclaimed wetland assessment from start to finish in easy-to-follow steps and visually clarifies how protocols should be enacted
Video - Ecological Resiliency
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This introductory lecture at the seminar on Resiliency of Reclaimed Boreal Forest Landscapes discusses the two sides of the coin, ecosystem resilience and engineering resilience.