A performance update that was recently released by the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance shows that there was a decline in the water amount needed to produce a single barrel of oil, and this decline was roughly 30% in the two year period between 2012 and 2014. In 2012 energy companies which used water from…
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The water level for the Athabasca River is low, and that is having an impact on the local residents and the wildlife in the area. Historical records for low water levels in the Peace Athabasca Delta are being broken this year and that is a big cause for concern. As the largest inland freshwater delta…
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Wood Buffalo residents can utter a sigh of relief now that the Athabasca River ice breakup is officially over. The municipality made it official by announcing that the river breakup is finished and the flooding threat from the ice is no longer a concern. For a week before the event ended there was ice that…
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The Athabasca River has started to break, and this has led municipal authorities to urge caution as the water levels rise in some areas. Monitoring staff has been deployed to keep close watch on the water levels and river condition. Assistant deputy chief of emergency management Alan McIntosh said “We had about a three hour…
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