The Athabasca, fed by glacier melt and snowmelt at high altitudes, does not peak until July. |
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Right now, only a tiny fraction of the crude in either the Athabasca oil sands or the Orinoco Belt can be recovered. |
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The Palisade was once home to a forest fire lookout station, as it afforded a clear view of much of the Athabasca River Valley. |
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My understanding is you'd like an outside reader's appraisal of its academic merit, as there's been a bit of a fuss about it over there at Athabasca University. |
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Michael keeps his cool until he sees piles of Petroleum Coke on the banks of the Athabasca. |
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And just north of Edmonton in Athabasca country is Kawakanum Kennels, offering mushing lessons for those who want to run their own dog team. |
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They called for peer-reviewed toxicological study of the effects of exposure to toxins in the communities in the lower Athabasca River region. |
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We join Chief Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation tribe for dinner. |
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Focus is increasing on resource extraction in places such as the Athabasca tar sands, vast petroleum-rich soil deposits in northern Alberta. |
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From here, he went over the continental divide, and down the Peace River to Lake Athabasca. |
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An assessment of historical climate and streamflow variability and trends within the Athabasca River watershed was also initiated. |
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Recent oil sands announcements have led some to question the ability of the Athabasca River to meet the projected increasing demand for water. |
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In Canada restrictions have been placed on the amount of water that oil sand developers can take from the Athabasca River. |
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Most records associated with flow of the Athabasca River are too short to make meaningful statements on long-term trends in historic flow. |
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About one-quarter of the world's primary uranium production comes from uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan. |
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The Athabasca has become popular for river trips in recent years with nearly 1,300 visitor-use days recorded annually. |
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This is a natural seep of oil sands, of which there are several along the Athabasca River. |
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Here is an example of oil sands from the Athabasca region and if you look closely you can see that it is basically oil plus sand, hence the name. |
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One of the most spectacular scenic highways, the Parkway takes you to the most accessible glacier in North America, the Athabasca. |
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Being near a mountainous region means experiencing the wildlife of the area, including seeing mountain goats drinking from the Athabasca River. |
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Further north, from Lethbridge to Athabasca, conditions are generally too wet for seeding to start any time soon. |
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Yesterday when we were in Fort Chipewyan, we heard about the massive drop in the water levels of Lake Athabasca. |
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An expert teamster, she also freighted for the Hudson's Bay Company between Edmonton and Athabasca Landing. |
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The Cigar Lake Project site is located in the Athabasca region of northern Saskatchewan at the south end of Waterbury Lake. |
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This capable geodesist who has worked till 1821 has covered with shootings the huge area between lake Athabasca and Gudsonovym a gulf. |
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I have never met someone who would be personally slighted about something like the Athabasca tar sands, but perhaps they are. |
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First, he has obviously never been up to Athabasca oil sands because his assumptions are clearly dead wrong. |
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The duty to consult must extend and be discharged to our Athabasca communities, and their interests must be accommodated. |
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The unit, based on Technip's proprietary technology, will produce high purity hydrogen, which will then be used to upgrade Athabasca Bitumen to sweet synthetic crude oil. |
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To obtain better estimates, models commonly used to project future trends were analyzed for weaknesses before being used to predict future flows in the Athabasca River. |
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Mr. Bernardo holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Alberta and a Master of Business Administration from Athabasca University. |
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Due to high visitor use and infrastructure placement the health of the Athabasca River valley is highly indicative of ecological integrity within the Park. |
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There has been extensive monitoring of water quality, sediment quality, and benthic invertebrates and fish, not to mention hydrologic monitoring in the lower Athabasca River for quite some time by numerous agencies. |
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The Athabasca River corridor is a defining feature of Jasper National Park for the vast majority of park visitors, from its headwaters at the Columbia Icefield, to the sand dune-scapes of Jasper Lake. |
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The question I have is why is your recommendation not a little less harsh in terms of just basically raising the bar when it comes to time periods when water can be drawn from the Athabasca River? |
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This is mostly because the Athabasca River is ice-covered for five to six months per year, and the winter flows are about 10 times lower than the open-water flows. |
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Note that the Athabasca Basin example, with the lowest mean and median, hosts the largest and highest grade uranium deposits known anywhere in the world. |
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As well, the larger lakes in the central region, and Lake Athabasca in the north, can be prone to streamers in the early spring and the late fall, especially in a cold north to northwest flow. |
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It comes out from the Athabasca River into Lake Athabasca, which in turn goes downstream from there, where it passes through the community of Fort Chipewyan. |
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We have established advisory committees with the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Mikesew Cree First Nation as well as an elders council with the Fort McKay First Nation. |
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From Highway 63 and the Albian Road turnoff east of Fort McKay, the East Athabasca Highway provides access to Imperial Oil's Kearl site, Husky Energy's Sunrise site, and Suncor's Firebag site. |
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When I look at cadmium and at surface water in comparison to the snowpack, the Athabasca River 2 and the Muskeg River 2 sites seem to have very high amounts of cadmium in relation to the snowpack. |
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From some of the testimony I heard, it was at about the time of the hydroelectric dams, or the damming of the Peace River, that they started noticing a gradual decline of Lake Athabasca. |
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I had some references included in the work we've done looking at impacts on larval fish and impacts on reproductive activity in free-living fish in the Athabasca drainage area. |
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So we conclude from our results that their industry is adding substantially to the contaminant burdens of the Athabasca River by both airborne and waterborne pathways. |
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I think the situation is that there are natural levels, as industry and Alberta Environment have correctly stated, but those amounts are clearly enhanced by digging up the watershed of the Athabasca and its tributaries. |
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In the past three years the Dutch carrier Jumbo Shipping of Rotterdam has moved six outsized project cargoes through the port of Duluth for the Athabasca Oil Sands Project fields in northern Alberta. |
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I would surmise that that would have helped fill up Lake Athabasca. |
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In recent times, Imperial has added significantly to its Athabasca land holdings, creating the foundation for future projects and resource base additions. |
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We've never actually looked at an integrated survey of the sediments in the Athabasca River to see if there is transportive material, how much of it is natural, and how long it's been occurring according to core drilling. |
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The Cigar Lake mine site is located at the south end of Waterbury Lake, inside the eastern margin of the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan. |
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Instead of the muskeg soil typically used in past reclamations, for the first time we salvaged upland soil that's found along the escarpments of the Steepbank and Athabasca rivers. |
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This pipeline and storage infrastructure has been expanded in the Athabasca region in recent years to improve the overall deliverability and reliability of the supply system. |
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It's all about tailings ponds and if they're seeping into the Athabasca, yet we seem to be avoiding this issue as if it were the elephant in the room. |
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Both uranium mills, which would also have to be modified to facilitate the uranium solution off-loading, receipt and waste management, are located in the Athabasca basin in Northern Saskatchewan. |
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Kearl is situated in a prime location in the Athabasca region, representing one of the area's best undeveloped resources in terms of the quantity of bitumen that can be produced for a given volume of mined material. |
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No other projects in the Athabasca region would cause an effect that would interact with the effects predicted from the operation of the acid plant. |
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Access to physical collections can be provided for online students through services such as that provided by Athabasca University Library and many other Canadian libraries. |
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The Panel strongly encourages AENV to work cooperatively with regional stakeholders and water licence holders to evaluate a process and establish a water management plan for the lower Athabasca River. |
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The framework achieves managed withdrawals from the Athabasca River and low risk to the aquatic ecosystem but allows some withdrawals during sensitive periods. |
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Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan Nation said the LARP provides little protection for caribou in the region. |
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Wind chills reached in excess minus 40 degrees, said Mel DeForest, manager of underground construction services for Points Athabasca. |
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Greenpeace is also critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block the oil sand operations at Athabasca, Canada. |
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From there they had the choice of crossing the Rockies at the head of the Athabasca River at Yellowhead Pass, or at the headwaters of the Bow at White Man's Pass. |
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The Charles Lake shear zone generally strikes north-south, following the alignment of the basement gneisses that run along the north shoreline of Lake Athabasca. |
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