| Title | Oil spills project |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Ahad, J ; Bringué,
M |
| Source | Natural Resources Canada, General Information Product 138e, 2021, 1 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/329837  Open Access |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | digital; on-line |
| Related | This publication is a translation of Les déversements de
pétrole |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Canada; British Columbia; Alberta; Saskatchewan; Manitoba; Ontario; Quebec; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador; Northwest Territories; Yukon; Nunavut |
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| Subjects | environmental geology; hydrogeology; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; Government and Politics; Information and Communications; Economics and Industry; Transport; environmental studies;
environmental impacts; oil spills; bitumen; groundwater resources; groundwater pollution; microorganisms; pipelines; marine environments; Environmental Geoscience Program; Geological Survey Of Canada; Federal government; Federal programs; Scientific
research; Terrestrial ecosystems; Aquatic ecosystems |
| Illustrations | photographs |
| Program | Environmental
Geoscience Program Management |
| Released | 2021 01 01; 2023 03 20 |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Transporting Canada's energy resources to market is vital to the country's economy. The federal government is committed to ensuring the safety of
Canadians and their environment. However, Canada's capacity to adequately regulate safe transport and to effectively respond to spills on land and in water is limited by lack of information. We need to know more about the environmental impacts of
accidental petroleum products leaks. Fundamental questions in this research include: What are the behaviour and fate of diluted bitumen (dilbit) when it spills into terrestrial environments and travels from the surface to groundwater? What is the
natural capacity of microorganisms to degrade oil spilled in water on Canada's Pacific coast, now and in the decades to come? The research will involve lab-controlled and field-based experiments. The testing will focus on terrestrial environments
analogous to those found along current and proposed pipeline routes. The marine component will focus on the Douglas Channel area (British Columbia's northern mainland coast), which connects the active port of Kitimat to foreign markets. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 329837 |
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