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Direct placement of cover soil resulted in higher percent cover species. The company responsible for using the land must follow a series of steps in an often long process known as reclamation.
View the images for highlights on how we made it happen.
Oil sands reclamation site. Suncor - Nikanotee Fen - oil sands reclamation site Suncor - Wapisiw Lookout - reclaimed oil sands tailings pond Deborah Jaremko Syncrude - Sandhill Fen oil sands wetland reclamation Canadian Press Roth and Ramberg. Oil sands development is subject to environmental standards that are among the most stringent in the world. The Government of Alberta requires that companies remediate and reclaim 100 percent of the land after the oil sands have been extracted.
Reclamation means that land is returned to a self-sustaining ecosystem with local vegetation and wildlife. On a recent tour to Syncrudes oil sands facility in Alberta Canada employees show visitors a wetlands area reclamation site. In all 10 universities from C.
Canadas oil sands industry is committed to reducing its footprint reclaiming all lands affected by operations and maintaining biodiversity. Oil sands reclamation is an ongoing process during the life of the project. Oil sands operators must develop a plan to reclaim the land and have it approved by government as part of any projects approval process.
Today Gateway Hill restored by Syncrude is the only location that Alberta Environment the provincial governments overseer of oil sands reclamation has certified to be equivalent to its pre-mine condition but many other oil sands surface mining reclamation projects are under way. At other sites where active mining is no longer occurring Syncrude is building a lake and a type of wetland known as a fen. Other oil sands mining.
The Faster Forests project began through the need to reclaim oil sands exploration OSE wells that were needed to characterize the oil sands deposits underground. Although each OSE disturbance is relatively small the sites are numerous and widespread and when combined with seismic line disturbances and access trails they result in forest fragmentation which affects wildlife habitat usage. Oil Sands Exploration Site Closure Experience Since 2010 Matrix has been supporting oil sands exploration OSE programs with site closure expertise for in-situ sites in Northeast Alberta.
We provide practical and cost effective services that support site closure beginning after OSE program drilling through to reclamation certificates. Ecologist Kevin Timoney says reclamation of oilsands mining is a failure and companies should consider building uplands rather than wetlands. CBC Reclamation is required by law in.
This report summarizes progress for projects related to mine site reclamation of the Canadas Oil Sands Innovation Alliance COSIA Land Environmental Priority Area EPA. Please contact the Industry Champion identified for each research project if any additional information is needed. COSIA Land EPA 2017 Mine Site Reclamation Research Report.
Canadian Natural Resources Limited. Tuesday August 20 2019. According to the latest data from the Alberta government 2016 the active footprint of various stages of oilsands reclamation and disturbance was.
Total active footprint 953015 hectares. Ready for reclamation 3765 hectares. The oil sands reclamation process.
The challenge of reclaiming a tailings pond in the Alberta oil sands has never been accomplished before. View the images for highlights on how we made it happen. Creating the Surface Constructing the surface of Pond 1 and covering it with a 50-centimetre deep layer of soil about 65000 truckloads.
Planting Planting a cover crop of native grasses and oats. Oil and Gas Sites Reclamation Requirements Transforming a well site or pipeline site back to what the land looked like before development started and how it was used cant happen overnight. It also cant happen on its own.
The company responsible for using the land must follow a series of steps in an often long process known as reclamation. Oil Sands Land Reclamation - What Does it Take. AiM Land Services Canadas Oil Sands a bitumen reserve equivalent to 16 trillion barrels of oil.
This massive reserve is located within the Peace River Cold Lake and Athabasca River regions of northern Alberta and are a major resource within Canadas energy sector. The Aurora North mine is one of several oil sand mining operations located north of Fort McMurray AB Canada. The ASCS site is a large experimental reclamation site composed of 36 one-hectare plots of varying soil layer and tree planting treatments.
It is located on an out-of-pit overburden disposal area that is composed of lean oil sand LOS material removed during mining to expose the oil sand. Usually a reclamation certificate is needed before a company can close its energy development site. However when the land has not been used in any way even temporarily for construction operation or reclamation of an oil or gas development site closure is achieved through the no-entry process.
Preliminary results after two growth seasons show promise in the use of pre-inoculated seedlings in enhancing growth and establishment of alders and conifers on oil sands reclamation sites. Enhanced Revegetation and Reclamation of Oil Sands Disturbed Sites Using Actinorhizal and Mycorrhizal Biotechnology Canadian Conservation and Land Management CCLM Knowledge Network. This study uses data from monitoring plots to assess how stockpiling of cover soil impacts plant community development on reclaimed oil sands mine sites in northern Alberta.
Development of plant communities differed distinctly between directly placed and stockpiled cover soil treatments even 18 years after reclamation. Direct placement of cover soil resulted in higher percent cover species. Shopik of Suncor Inc.
For the guided tour of the oil sands reclamation sites Sandi Carter for editing services Marlynne Blackmore for reviewing numerous biological abstracts and Kathy Ottley for typing the report. Thanks al so to the numerous persons who suppl ied information or sources of information. Assistance of the staff of the Al berta.