Athabasca River

the Athabasca River from water withdrawals during low flow periods Alberta Environment should complete a water management plan that identifies a science-based Ecosystem Base Flow (EBF) for the lower Athabasca River, as a low-flow threshold below which all water withdrawals would cease. The EBF should be legally enforceable and all water permits issued by the Alberta Government at any one time should be accountable to meet that EBF. In the interim, the low-flow threshold for the lower Athabasca River

The Athabasca River originates from the Columbia Ice-field and flows in a north-easterly direction about 1500 km to the Athabasca Delta and Lake Athabasca. Throughout its course, the river flows through (or adjacent to) many communities, including Jasper, Hinton, Athabasca, Fort McMurray, and Fort MacKay (with a combined population of more than 155,000 people). Due to its rich natural resources, Athabasca river basin is host of many mining and forestry industries and agricultural activities along

Canada’s rivers Mackenzie River: known as the longest river in Canada, the Mackenzie river passes through the Yukon and Northwest Territories region. The river's length is over 1080 miles long and it goes through Fort Providence, Fort Simpson, Wrigley, Tulita, and Norman Wells. It also gets its main water source from the Great Slave Lake, flowing north

The Lower Athabasca River (LAR), in northern Alberta, Canada, begins north of Fort McMurray and flows to the Athabasca Delta and Lake Athabasca. Throughout its course, the river cuts through natural bitumen deposits, (Conly et al. 2002) and runs adjacent to the Oil-Sands developments. Fine cohesive sediments and associated chemical constituents such as metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) play an important role in the LAR ecosystem (Ghosh et al. 2000, Garcia-Aragon et al. 2011). Therefore

The term Keg River has been historically used within Alberta to indentify early to middle Devonian carbonate reef type structures within the Alberta Basin. Nomenclature problems were identified by Schneider (2011) with commonly interchangeable terminology that began in the 1930s, including Upper Elk Point formations such as the Winnipegosis, Keg River and Methy. Sproule (in Ells, 1932) described the Keg River from outcrops along the Clearwater River, near Fort McMurray in the 1930s. Sproule described

The intent of the EAH project, as outlined in the project background section of this paper was to deliver a new ground transportation route to oil producing projects on the east side of the Athabasca river. Of utmost importance for continued operations and maintenance of these sites was that this access road be completed prior to the first quarter of 2011 as that was the timeframe in which the current access road would cease to be accessible to Suncor and two other partners with operating plants

Introduction The Athabasca oil sands are the second largest producer of crude oil in the world, with a surface area of approximately 100 000 square kilometres (Anderson, Giesy & Wiseman, 2010). The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board estimates that the oil sands contains approximately 1.7 trillion barrels of crude bitumen, however only 19% can be ultimately recovered (Raynolds, Severson-Baker & Woynillowicz, 2005; Humphries, 2008). The availability of recoverable bitumen makes Canada’s oil sands deposit

sands development leaves the Athabasca Lake unaffected, but I don 't believe that for a minute. They say that any contamination found in the river comes from natural bitumen seeps. It is very obvious from the number of cancer patients in Fort Chipewyan, and the deformed fish from the lake that the tar sands is the cause. I believe that the tailings ponds used by the tar sands are not properly lined, and that is leading to their toxic contents contaminating the river. The Dene land was taken by the

What is environmental stewardship, and why is it so important? Well, environmental stewardship is being responsible, with the way we treat the environment. It is important, because if we destroy our environment, we end up destroying that which provides for us, and ultimately our means of survival. I am going to talk about the Alberta tar sands development, and about how they are not effectively protecting their environment. This has already led to negative effects in the surrounding areas. These

Distance education has changed and grown a lot from external studies and correspondence education during the last century. Distance education has become a recognized phenomenon today, thanks to technology which has shortened the physical distances. DEVELOPMENT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION The evolution of Distance education could be divided in four periods. The first period was from 1850 to 1960, this generation used correspondence classes which used radio and instructional television. The second