Surface Disposal of Waste Drilling Fluids, Ellef Ringnes Island, N.W.T. : Short-Term Observations

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: French, H.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
• Subjects: Bioassays; Drilling mud disposal; Environmental impacts; Heavy metals; Industrial waste disposal; Leaching; Oil well drilling; Permafrost; Stratigraphy; Sumps; Tundra ecology; Water quality; Ellef Ringnes Island; Nunavut; Hoodoo River region; Meteorologist Peninsula; Arctic; Ice; permafrost; toundra; Tundra; pergélisol
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65200

An experimental procedure by which waste drilling fluids were placed upon the tundra was undertaken at the Panarctic Dome et al. Hoodoo N-52 wellsite on Ellef Ringnes Island during the early winter of 1981-82. Preliminary site investigations indicated ice-rich permafrost conditions and the potential...