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Protecting forest floor in place rather than stripping it off is a better strategy to regenerated temporary drilling pads
Download2015-09-01
In situ extraction of oil sands reserves requires the production of many temporary exploration drilling pads to assess the bitumen layer. In these operations the forest floor and topsoil can be stripped off, stockpiled and replaced after drilling. As a result, many of these pads are slow to...
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