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- 4Conservation and Utilization Committee
- 4Mayhood, D. W.
- 3Alberta Environment
- 3Alberta Health and Wellness
- 3Alberta Health, Environmental Health Services Division
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1999
This report examines the differences in health outcomes across the province and compares the Northern River Basin Study area with the other areas of the province and examines possible relationships between health outcomes and environmental contaminants. The report includes a series of regional...
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Oil sand overburden characterization within the mine area of Syncrude Lease No. 17 for reclamation of spent oil sand
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For the establishment and growth of plants, spent oil sand lacks Ca, K, NO3-N, available P, Zn, CEC and available water storage capacity. Cu, Mn and possibly SO4-S are marginally adequate in spent sand. Oil sand overburden materials within the mine area of Syncrude Lease No. 17 were sampled and...
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Oil sands reclamation: A study integrating mining, tailings disposal and reclamation. Volume I - Text
Download1979
Rheinbraun - Consulting GmbH, Techman Ltd.
The document provides a comprehensive review of the technical problems facing future oil sands developments and suggests options which will be helpful in formulating oil sands mining, tailings disposal and reclamation plans. By providing in-depth cost analysis for many of the activities...
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Oil sands reclamation: A study integrating mining, tailings disposal and reclamation. Volume II - Drawings
Download1979
Techman Ltd., Rheinbraun - Consulting GmbH
The document provides a comprehensive review of the technical problems facing future oil sands developments and suggests options which will be helpful in formulating oil sands mining, tailings disposal and reclamation plans. By providing in-depth cost analysis for many of the activities...
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Oil sands reclamation: A study integrating mining, tailings disposal and reclamation. Volume III – Yearly cost estimates
Download1979
Techman Ltd., Rheinbraun - Consulting GmbH
The document provides a comprehensive review of the technical problems facing future oil sands developments and suggests options which will be helpful in formulating oil sands mining, tailings disposal and reclamation plans. By providing in-depth cost analysis for many of the activities...
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1979
This reports covering the results of the 1977 research, adds significantly to the earlier findings. It is always difficult to predict long term plant responses on only a few years of data; in this case, only two years. Climatically the two summers (May - August) were very similar, with the mean...
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Preliminary compatibility studies of G.C.O.S. sand tailings pond water with Athabasca River
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Alberta Health, Environmental Health Services Division
On May 30, 1968 G.C.O.S requested permission to discharge 110 x 106 ft3 of effluent from the sands tailings pond at the Fort McMurray site into the Athabasca River during periods of high river flow. G.C.O.S. outlined the events which made this request necessary in order that an adequate base be...
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1986
Syncrude Canada Limited’s Fort McMurray oi1 sands mining operations has been operating under the concept of zero discharge and total containment of wastewaters since start up in 1978. During this period a considerable volume of contaminated water has been assimulated in a large on-site tailings...
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Progress report for 1982: Pinus banksiana-dominated permanent plots in the Athabasca oil sands
Download1983
Of the 16 permanent plots established in 1981, four of these, Nos. 1,6,11, and 13 were destroyed by fire shortly after they were surveyed. In 1982, four new plots were established to replace the burned ones. They were selected to represent the same impingement zones as the burned plots. Other...
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1987
Hastings, R., Olson, R., Ellis, R.
The chemical characteristics of snow in the Oil Sands area of northeastern Alberta have been monitored periodically since 1976. The accumulation of pollutants in the snowpack can be an effective indicator of total winter deposition as the snowpack preserves a continuous record of materials...