Reclamation and vegetation of surface mined areas in the Athabasca tar sands

• Main Authors: Nyborg, M., Takyi, S.K., Rowell, M.H., McGill, W.B.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 1977
• Subjects: Fertilizer; Tar sands; Oil Sands; Soils; Native Species; Syncrude; Alberta; Plant Nutrients; Environmental Research Monograph 1977-1; Reclamation; Fort MacKay; Fort McMurray; Mackay
• Online Access: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/66427279-4068-43be-9ba7-b502aa0ef4ba; https://doi.org/10.7939/R3KJ92

One of the major environmental problems which arises with surface mining of the oil sands in the Fort McMurray-Fort MacKay area of Alberta is the permanent loss of the natural vegetation and the drastic change in the soils that supported it. It has been estimated that with a production target of one...