| Title | Environmental impact of diluted bitumen / Impact environnemental du bitume dilué |
| Download | Download (whole publication) |
| |
| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Ahad, J M E |
| Source | Public presentations of May 19, 2020: Environmental Geoscience Program, current status of research projects for the 2019-2024 program cycle; by Jacob, N; Outridge, P M; Lintern, G; Bringué, M; Ahad, J M E; Gammon, P R; Rivard, C; Kao, H; White, D; Desbarats, A J; Galloway, J M; Duchesne, M J; Geological Survey of Canada, Scientific Presentation 118, 2020 p. 35-46, https://doi.org/10.4095/326957  Open Access |
| Links | Video - Vidéo
|
| Year | 2020 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Meeting | Public presentations of May 19, 2020: Environmental Geoscience Program; CA; May 19, 2020 |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English; French |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Public presentations of May
19, 2020: Environmental Geoscience Program, current status of research projects for the 2019-2024 program cycle |
| Related | This publication is related to Environmental impact of
diluted bitumen |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Quebec |
| NTS | 31H/11 |
| Area | Mont-Saint-Hilaire |
| Lat/Long WENS | -73.5000 -73.0000 45.7500 45.5000 |
| Subjects | hydrogeology; environmental geology; fossil fuels; geochemistry; Nature and Environment; Science and Technology; Government and Politics; Economics and Industry; Transport; environmental studies;
environmental impacts; bitumen; hydrocarbons; transportation; pipelines; pollutants; groundwater resources; groundwater pollution; groundwater geochemistry; microorganisms; lake sediment geochemistry; stream sediment geochemistry; weathering; soil
geochemistry; soil mechanics; soil samples; carbon geochemistry; carbon; organic carbon; core samples; leaching; Environmental Geoscience Program (EGP); Experimental Lakes Area; Environmental impact assessment; Microbiology; Toxicology; cumulative
effects; alluvial sediments; lacustrine sediments |
| Illustrations | photographs; flow diagrams; time series |
| Program | Environmental
Geoscience Program Management |
| Released | 2020 09 15 |
| Abstract | To transport it by pipeline, bitumen is blended with lighter hydrocarbon fractions, yielding a less viscous, diluted bitumen ('dilbit').
Although often considered safer than other means of transport
(i.e., railways, barges), a number of incidents have highlighted the potential environment risk caused by dilbit pipeline rupture.
There are few detailed investigations into the fate and transport of dilbit in the environment, particularly shallow
groundwater systems - a knowledge gap identified over five years ago. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This is the fifth year for the project leaders of the Environmental Geoscience Program (EGP) from the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) within Natural
Resources Canada to present their annual scientific updates. Twelve power point presentations illustrate all the project status of all research going on within EGP. Subjects are connected to the following key words: Volcanoes, mercury, dredge
disposal at sea, oil spills, diluted bitumen, oil sands, aquifer impacts, induced seismicity, geological storage of carbon, cobalt, climate change, Mackenzie River Basin, permafrost thaw, permafrost geochemistry, and cumulative effects. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 326957 |
|
|