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In 2011 the facility showed a province wide net economic impact of $14 million, 175 full-time equivalent jobs sustained province wide, a total of $4.4 million federal and $1.9 million provincial and $800,000 local taxes generated. [30] The Alberta government committed $18 million to rebuild the Course and to protect it from future flood damage ...
The Government of Alberta reported in 2013 that tailings ponds in the Alberta oil sands covered an area of about 77 square kilometres (30 sq mi). [123] The Tailings Management Framework for Mineable Oil Sands is part of Alberta's Progressive Reclamation Strategy for the oil sands to ensure that tailings are reclaimed as quickly as possible. [126]
English: Location map of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 170 %. Geographic limits of the map: N: 60.3° N; S: 48.1° N;
The vast majority of the country's coal deposits can be found in British Columbia, Alberta ... which provided over 200 jobs in Hanna, was set to close by 2030 ...
In some jurisdictions, including parts of the United States, [2] the term "reclamation" can refer to land rehabilitation, as in returning disturbed lands to an improved state, instead of the land fill of water bodies. In Alberta, Canada, for example, reclamation is defined by the provincial government as "The process of reconverting disturbed ...
Mine at the Athabasca Oil Sands. According to the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB, now known as the Alberta Energy Regulator, the AER), Alberta's oil sands areas contain an ultimately recoverable crude bitumen resource of 50 billion cubic metres (315 billion barrels), with remaining established reserves of almost 28 billion cubic metres (174 billion barrels) at year-end 2004.
The Kearl Oil Sands Project is an oil sands mine in the Athabasca Oil Sands region at the Kearl Lake area, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada that is operated by the 143-year old Calgary, Alberta-headquartered Imperial Oil Limited—one of the largest integrated oil companies in Canada.
Fugitive gas emissions are leaking from this "abandoned" [a] plugged well, which may be licensed to an operator and suspended, or simply orphaned.. Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada are inactive oil or gas well sites that have no solvent owner that can be held legally or financially accountable for the decommissioning and reclamation obligations to ensure public safety and to address ...