Biopile bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils from a sub-Arctic site

• Main Author: Snelgrove, Jessica
• Other Authors: Subhasis Ghoshal (Supervisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 2010
• Subjects: Engineering - Civil; Arctic; Canada; Norman Wells; Arctique*; subarctique*
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95010

Petroleum contamination of several hundred sites in the northern arctic and sub-arctic regions of Canada has occurred as a result of petroleum oil exploration and use of petroleum fuels for heating, transportation and electricity generation. Petroleum contamination can persist in the ground for long...