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1974

Athabasca Tar Sands Corridor Study Group

The prospect of impending rapid development of the Athabasca Tar Sands which will generate an unprecedented demand for a wide variety of transportation facilities makes it imperative that the future linkage of the resource area with its markets and supply centres be planned in a comprehensive and...

1974

Athabasca Tar Sands Corridor Study Group

In this plan a transportation corridor connects the oil sands resources of the Athabasca area to a new major provincial terminal which serves as a central hub for additional corridors radiating out to existing and future industrial facilities and extra-provincial terminals. The placement of these...

1974

Conservation and Utilization Committee

Extraction of bitumen from the Alberta Oil Sands by surface mining will have a major impact on the hydrology of the areas immediately adjacent to each mine, and an impact on any drainage system receiving discharge from the mining or processing areas. Conversely, the hydrology will have a major...

1975

Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Flood frequency prediction for Syncrude Lease 17 is necessary f o r both mining activities and environmental protection. Due to a scarcity of local data, flood frequency curves could not be prepared directly. It is demonstrated that flood frequency curves can be derived from limited data...

1975-01-01

Wallace, R. R.

Oil Sands Environmental Study Group realized that one of the better ways to create an atmosphere in which the industrial and environmental research worker could engage in constructive dialogue would be the provision of as much technical information as time would permit. We have learned from...

1975

Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Factors involved in the ecology of Ruth Lake and Poplar Creek are discussed. Ruth Lake is a small, littoral, moderately eutrophic lake. It has clear water, a muddy substrate, and is shallow (mean depth 1.5m). Winter stagnation /occurred but the water was well oxygenated in summer....

1975-01-01

Vaartnou, H.

This monograph is the first formal public report of the Syncrude revegetation program. The revegetation program itself is part of a long term (up to 30 years) effort directed towards reclaiming and rehabilitating the disturbed land areas. The goal is to return these land areas to a state...

1975

Sharp, P.L., Birdsall, D.A., Richardson, W.J.

An inventory study of water-associated birds occurring on and near the Syncrude Canada Ltd. Lease #17 in the Athabasca oil sands was conducted during the period of July 8 to November 15, 1974. Regular ground surveys were conducted of 30 water bodies on and near the lease, including lakes, ponds,...

1975

Lousier, J.D., Porter, W.B.

With up to 20,000 species of insects throughout Alberta the opportunities for entomological study are immense. An entomological reconnaissance study of the Syncrude Lease #17 area was required to gain preliminary data and to examine the potential of insects as biological monitors of...

1976-01-01

Murray, W., Kurtz, J.

This predictive study is based on the results of the first year of data collection respecting the meteorological factors that may influence the dispersion of atmospheric emissions in and through the air over the Athabasca Tar Sands region executed by MEP under contract to Shell Canada Ltd.,...