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Summary of the Oil Sands Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions Workshop

4 Jun 2012

These included: Current government policies and the development of new policies and frameworks Continued uncertainty regarding the potential for interactions and the resulting impacts, particularly for fisheries habitat and resources Initiation of the Cumulative Environmental Management Association’s Groundwater Working Group and their initial research results Work being undertaken by indu [...] The Oil Sands Research and Information Network and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency are grateful for the work of the Workshop Steering Committee, the speakers and attendees for making the Workshop a success. [...] These included: Current government policies and the development of new policies and frameworks Continued uncertainty regarding the potential for interactions and the resulting impacts, particularly for fisheries habitat and resources Ongoing activities to develop systems to manage cumulative effects in the oil sands region Initiation of the Cumulative Environmental Management Association’s [...] The location and a brief summary of the geology of the Athabasca and Cold Lake Oil Sands areas, plus an overview of mining and in situ extraction methods and the water needs for both is provided in the presentation in Appendix 3. The ERCB application review process was described, noting that the social, environmental and economic aspects of a proposed project are components of the assessment proce [...] The groundwater specific component of the review considers the proposed projects potential to impact groundwater, the appropriateness of proposed mitigations and if project revisions are necessary to ensure groundwater is protected.
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Pages
131
Published in
Canada

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