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Linear Feature Restoration in Boreal Wetlands
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This presentation discusses linear feature disturbances or boreal peatlands and reclamation trials of various sites. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear Disturbance Impacts on Boreal Wetland...
Making Sites Rough and Loose: A Soil Adjustment Technique
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Rough and loose surface treatments provide an effective way to control erosion and create conditions that promote the revegetation of the site. By creating topographic heterogeneity the rough and...
Management of Canada’s Uranium and Uranium Mining Legacies on the Historic Northern Transportation Route
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The Northern Transportation Route (NTR) was established in the 1930s to transport pitch blende ore 2,200 km from the Port Radium Mine in the Northwest Territories to Fort McMurray, Alberta. The ore...
Measuring Success in Land Reclamation – A Joint Government and Industry Workshop
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The question we are faced with today is: How do we establish a system or systems for measuring success in reclamation?
Mineral Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pools Affected by Water Table Lowering and Warming in a Boreal Forested Peatland
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This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
Native Boreal Seed Enhancement: Seed Pelleting
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Improving seed emergence and survival is one of the largest potential benefits for native boreal seed enhancement. Seed pelleting can increase seed size by multiple orders of magnitude, resulting in...
Native Grass Breeding Program at Alberta Environmental Centre
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A program to develop genotypes of native Alberta species for reclamation of disturbed lands was begun at the Alberta Environmental Centre in 1983. As a part of this larger program a native grass...
Natural Processes: An Effective Model for Mine Reclamation
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Restoration programs based on the use of natural processes can reduce the costs of restoration while providing self-sustaining restored ecosystems that re-integrate with the local recovery...
Northern Biochar for Northern Remediation and Restoration
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Biochar is a soil amendment that results from heating various biological ingredients, such as wood, fish or animal bone under oxygen limited conditions and has proven to promote plant growth, as well...
November 2023 Wetland Knowledge Exchange Webinar
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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...
Oil Sands Clay Fines: Can they be Reclaimed as Productive, Self-Sustaining Wetlands?
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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...
Oil Sands Rec1amation – An Overview of Suncor’s Program
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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...
Oil Sands Research and Information Network: Creating and Sharing Knowledge to Support Environmental Management of the Mineable Oil Sands
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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...
Oil Sands Tailings: Integrated Planning to Provide Long-Term Stabilization
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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...
Operational Vegetation Management
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Vegetation management is critical to establishing desirable plant species and to achieving reclamation objectives. This resource is one of four technical notes on vegetation management for reclamation...
OSESG'S Role in Oil Sands Land Reclamation
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The Oil Sands Environmental Study Group {OSESG) was formed early in 1973 by sixteen major petroleum companies who were either oil sands operators or lease holders. The group was designed to operate as...
Overcoming Northern Challenges. Proceedings of the 2013 Northern Latitudes Mining Reclamation Workshop and 38th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association
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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
Panel Discussion – Public Participation in Development and Reclamation
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Public participation will increase in all facets of industrial development in Alberta. This Panel was convened to identify some of the ways in which the public can participate in the development and...