At 170 billion barrels, Canada's Oil Sands are the third largest
reserves of developable oil in the world. The Oil Sands now produce
about 1.6 million barrels per day, with production expected to
double by 2025 to about 3.7 million barrels per day. The Athabasca
Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northeastern Alberta is the largest of
the three oil sands deposits. Bitumen in the oil sands is recovered
through one of two primary methods mining and drilling. About 20
per cent of the reserves are close to the surface and can be mined
using large shovels and trucks. Of concern are the effects of the
industrial development on the environment. Both human-made and
natural sources emit oxides of sulphur and nitrogen, trace elements
and persistent organic compounds. Of additional concern are ground
level ozone and greenhouse gases.
Because of the requirement on operators to comply with the air
quality regulatory policies, and to address public concerns, the
not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder Wood Buffalo Environmental
Association (WBEA) has since 1997 been closely monitoring air
quality in AOSR. In 2008, WBEA assembled a distinguished group of
international scientists who have been conducting measurements and
practical research on various aspects of air emissions and their
potential effects on terrestrial receptors. This book is a
synthesis of the concepts and results of those on-going studies. It
contains 19 chapters ranging from a global perspective of energy
production, measurement methodologies and behavior of various air
pollutants during fossil fuel production in a boreal forest
ecosystem, towards designing and deploying a multi-disciplinary,
proactive, and long-term environmental monitoring system that will
also meet regulatory expectations.
Covers measurement of emissions from very large industrial sources
in a region with huge international media profileValidation of
measurement technologies can be applied globallyThe new approaches
to ecological monitoring described can be applied in other forested
regions
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