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Turning a Liability into an Asset: Re-purposing Inactive Petroleum Wells for Geothermal Energy Production
DownloadSpring 2021
There are over 600,000 registered oil and gas wells in the province of Alberta, many of these are inactive wells that do not produce resource yet do present a significant environmental risk and financial liability in cleanup costs. There are no regulations stipulating the maximum length of time a...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: This qualitative study will explore engineering and design team experiences among undergraduate students from understudied, underrepresented groups, and at the intersection of multiple minority identities: women, black, indigenous, students of colour, students with visible...
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2018-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2018: This proposed grant aims to develop a systematic understanding of how the sustainability logic and its associated practices (e.g., sustainability offices, recycling, becoming more energy efficient and clean, buying local food etc.) have spread across North American...
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2020-09-04
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: A team of settler and Indigenous scholars examines pioneer museums in 3 key sites (the John Walter Museum in Edmonton, the Camrose and District Centennial Museum in Camrose, and the Wadey Centre in Blackfalds) and asks how are disruptions of dominant pioneer narratives...
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2010-04-26
IDRC awarded 2010: The general aim of the project is to gain a more nuanced understanding of how multiple interacting shocks and risks, including cimate viability and HIV AIDS influence capital stocks and local livelihoods choices, and consequently, vulnerability and food security, and use this...
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2024-01-31
SSHRC CG awarded 2024: Prevailing extractive logics allow some people to dehumanize and exploit whole classes and nations in order to take control of their lands and extract value from it, polluting and destroying in the process. These logics need to be remade in order to address climate change....
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2020-09-08
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: Using five threads of a Métis worldview as represented by the Métis sash – geography and place, mobility, economy, daily life, and kinship relations (Macdougall, Podruchny, and St-Onge 2012), we propose research that weaves together archaeological, spatial, and historical...
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09/28/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: "Who owns the prairies?" will uncover and analyze who has owned the farmlands of the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta from the 1870s treaties to today. It will dissect the objectives, attitudes, politics, and logics of the laws and policies that shaped land...
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Wildfire risk and response in Jasper National Park, Alberta: Application of an adaptation readiness framework
Download2021-06-23
Halabut, Rechelle, Birchall, S. Jeff
Environmental change associated with warmer temperatures is creating unprecedented conditions in natural regions and ecosystems. In Jasper National Park, Alberta, climate change, historical fire management practices, and the mountain pine beetle infestation are combining to increase the risk of a...
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2018-09-01
From May 16 – 18, 2018 the University of Alberta (Edmonton) hosted a poster competition and Indigenous Knowledge Fair for high school students from across western and northern Canada. The Tracking Change project recognizes that many peoples in the Mackenzie River Basin, specifically Indigenous...