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1980
Regier, H., Ziemkiewicz, P. F., Takyi, S. K.
Over the past ten years, soil reconstruction in the reclamation of agricultural lands has received increasing attention, particularly in the Plains Coal Region of Canada and the United States. Despite this considerable level of research activity, some time remains before we will know how to...
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1980
Montgomery, S. W., Humphreys, R. D., Parkinson, A.
This report deals with the impact on the construction workers living in camp and their families and the impact of the camp, camp organization, and camp occupants on the surrounding area. After outlining the methodology and terms of reference, the regional contexts, historical background, and...
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Physical description of selected tributary mouths and sheltered backwaters of the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers
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A survey of the physical characteristics of the aquatic habitats at 25 locations on the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers was conducted during August 1978. The parameters determined at each site were current velocity and direction, depth, Secchi disc visibility, substrate composition, and...
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A wintertime investigation of the deposition of pollutants around an isolated power plant in Northern Alberta
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The results of a snowpack chemistry survey conducted in January 1978 in the Athabasca Oil Sands region of northeastern Alberta are presented. Snow collected at 60 sites within 100 km of the Great Canadian Oil Sands extraction plant was melted and analyzed for the major ions: SO4, NO3, K+, H+, Cl...
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1980
This study assessed the level of secondary production in the Muskeg River and tested the validity of hypotheses generated by Crowther and Griffing (1979) regarding the trophic structure and function of the Muskeg River as a \"typical\" tributary of the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research...
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Fisheries and habitat investigations of tributary streams in the southern portion of the AOSERP study area: Volume II
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This report presents the results of studies conducted from May to October 1978 on tributary streams in the southern portion of the AOSERP study area. The major objectives of these investigations were: 1. To describe the baseline states of the major components of the aquatic ecosystems in the...
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1980
Crosby-Diewold, J., Thompson, M. S.
This study evaluates the growth of aquatic macrophytes in selected lakes within the AOSERP study area in terms of lake type, and the feasibility of mapping such aquatic macrophytes using the existing FCIR photography of the study area. Field surveys were carried out during August 1978. Ten lakes...
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A bibliography of the Athabasca oil sands Fort McMurray, Alberta area: Socio-economic and environmental studies. 1980 cumulated update
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This is the fifth cumulated update of' a bibliography originally prepared in early 1974 at the request of Dr. S. B. Smith, who was at that time Chairman of the Research Secretariat, Alberta Department of the Environment, and who is presently Director of the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental...
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History of the Athabasca oil sands region, 1890 to 1960's Vol I: Socio-Economic developments
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There is no doubt that the Athabasca Oil Sands region has been an eldorado for resource development. The major forces shaping its development, i.e., private enterprise, church missions and government enterprise, have come from outside the region. The economy of the fur trade predominated from...