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- 5Oil sands mining
- 4Equivalent land capability
- 4Petroleum hydrocarbons
- 3Overburden
- 2Oil sands
- 5Syncrude Canada Ltd.
- 3Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance
- 2Canadian Natural Resources Limited
- 2Imperial Oil Resources Limited
- 2Paragon Soil and Environmental Consulting Inc.
- 2Suncor Energy Inc.
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2020-02-01
NorthWind Land Resources Inc. (NorthWind) was commissioned by Syncrude Canada Ltd. (Syncrude) to complete soil sampling and analysis for salinity and petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) profiling and an assessment of moisture conditions within the East Valley Centrifuge Cake Cell (EV Cake Cell). Field...
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Developing a Functional Approach to Assessment of Land Capability: Utilizing Ecosystem Water and Carbon Nutrient Fluxes as Integrated Measures of Reclamation Performance
Download2019-02-14
Straker, Justin R., Carey, Sean K., Petrone, Richard M., Baker, Trevor D., Strilesky, Stacey L.
This report synthesizes over 15 years of research (and 64 site-years of data) on water use, carbon assimilation, and associated ecosystem development on reclaimed oil-sands-mine sites and on non-mine reference sites. A key feature of this research is the use of eddy-covariance methods to make...
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Literature Review of Naturally-Occurring Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Oil Sands Mining Reclamation Practice
Download2018-08-01
Paragon Soil and Environmental Consulting Inc.
Paragon Soil and Environmental Consulting Inc. (Paragon) was contracted to complete a literature review of naturally-occurring petroleum hydrocarbons (NPHCs) in oil sands mining reclamation practice for the Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Joint Industry Project (JIP) partners...
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Numerical Modelling of the Impact of Cover Thickness on the Long-term Water Balance of Reclamation Soil Covers Over Lean Oil Sands Overburden
Download2017-03-25
Huang, Mingbin, Alam, Shahabul, Barbour, Lee, Si, Bing Cheng
Syncrude Canada Ltd. (SCL) is undertaking a watershed scale research program to evaluate the performance of reclamation covers placed over lean oil sands (LOS) at the Fort Hills dump at the Aurora North mine site. This research study is referred to as the Aurora Capping Study (ACS). A key element...
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2021-01-01
This report summarizes up to 39 years of plant community development trends on Syncrude’s reclaimed mine sites near Fort McMurray, Alberta. These trends are contrasted with a target condition, defined here as the Natural Range of Variability for species composition on older (60+ yrs) closed...
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2020-03-19
Drozdowski, Bonnie, Bachmann, Victor, Thacker, Sarah
A root assessment at select locations across the Aurora Soil Capping Study site was completed in October 2018 to determine if rooting patterns and distribution could be used to explain observed variation in above-ground tree growth. The variation in above-ground tree growth included patterns of...
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Tree Growth on Reclaimed Overburden Sites Containing Petroleum Hydrocarbons at the Suncor Base Mine
Download2018-08-01
Paragon Soil and Environmental Consulting Inc.
Paragon Soil and Environmental Consulting Inc. (Paragon) was contracted to complete a field program and analysis for the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Joint Industry Project (JIP) partners Syncrude Canada Limited (Syncrude), Imperial Oil Resources Limited (Imperial), Canadian...