The 2015/2016 approved project plan for the Oil Sands area includes over 50 projects, working with 6 partners. Click each project title below for detailed information about each project including the project outline, geographic scope, status and contact information.
Information about our overall provincial program will be added in the coming weeks.
 Air |
| Projects |
Activity Type |
Delivery Agent |
Budget |
| Existing: WBEA Ambient Air Monitoring |
 |
WBEA |
$8,598,342 |
| Existing: LICA - Continuous Monitoring Program |
|
LICA |
$460,000 |
| Existing: LICA - Integrated VOC/PAH Monitoring Program |
|
LICA |
$312,000 |
| Existing: WBEA Forest Health Monitoring |
|
WBEA |
$319,400 |
| Existing: WBEA Instrumented Meteorological Towers - Meteorological monitoring |
 |
WBEA |
$135,000 |
| Changes to Existing: Changes to the Existing WBEA Ambient Monitoring Program - Mobile monitoring unit, and new monitoring required by approvals (AMS19 (Firebag), AMS20 (Brion Energy)) |
|
WBEA |
$192,000 |
| Changes to Existing: CAPMoN - Accelerated Expansion - Instrument installation at site in Flat Valley, Saskatchewan |
|
EC |
$72,000 |
| Expansion of Geographic Scope: Southern Wood Buffalo Monitoring Plan (Capital) |
|
WBEA |
$592,000 |
| Expansion of Geographic Scope: Southern Wood Buffalo Monitoring Plan (Operating) |
|
WBEA |
$531,000 |
| CAPMoN: Enhanced Measurements of Nitrogen and Sulphur Species at Ecosystem/Transformation Sites |
|
EC |
$375,000 |
| Enhanced Air Quality Measurement at Existing WBEA Sites |
|
EC |
$495,000 |
| Monitoring Pollutant Transformation - Monitoring at ground-based site |
|
EC |
$555,000 |
| Monitoring Pollutant Transformation - Data analysis of ground-based and airborn measurements |
|
EC |
$550,000 |
| Ground Based Remote Sensing - LiDAR |
|
EC |
$165,000 |
| WBEA Odour Monitoring (Human Exposure Monitoring Program) |
|
WBEA |
$463,455 |
| LICA Beaver River Valley Air Quality/Visibility Monitoring Project |
|
LICA |
$70,000 |
| Ground Based Remote Sensing - Odour and VOC monitoring using Open Path Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (OP-FTIR) in communities in the Oil Sands Region |
|
AEMERA |
$90,000 |
| Traditional Ecological Knowledge Berry Health Indicator |
|
WBEA |
$265,000 |
| Remote Ozone Monitoring (at existing Forest Health sites) |
|
WBEA |
$70,000 |
| Modeling to Integrate Data (Deposition Modeling) |
|
EC |
$424,000 |
| Satellite Monitoring Workshop |
 |
AEMERA |
$25,000 |
| Source Characterization Workshop |
|
AEMERA |
$100,000 |
 Biodiversity |
| Projects |
Activity Type |
Delivery Agent |
Budget |
| Core Monitoring: Biodiversity Monitoring |
|
ABMI/U of A |
$5,155,940 |
| Core Monitoring: Ungulate Monitoring |
|
AEMERA/EP |
$400,000 |
| Species at Risk and Rare / Difficult Species Monitoring: Caribou Monitoring |
|
AEMERA/EP |
$400,000 |
| Status and trend monitoring of listed, rare, and difficult- to-monitor landbirds |
|
AEMERA/EP |
$448,400 |
| Footprint and Vegetation Monitoring: Human Footprint Monitoring |
|
ABMI |
$225,000 |
| Cause-Effects Monitoring: Biodiversity Response to Human Disturbance |
|
ABMI |
$200,000 |
| Cause-Effects Monitoring: Barred Owl Monitoring |
|
AEMERA/EP |
$50,000 |
| Cause Effects Assessment of Oil Sands Activity on Migratory Landbirds |
|
EC |
$506,000 |
| Cause-Effects Monitoring: Whooping Crane Monitoring |
|
EC |
$65,000 |
| Cause-Effects Monitoring: Waterfowl Monitoring |
|
EC/DUC |
$340,000 |
| Biodiversity-Habitat Enhanced Monitoring: Enhanced Vegetation Mapping |
|
ABMI |
$248,000 |
| Wetland Monitoring Program Development |
|
ABMI |
$200,000 |
 Water |
| Projects |
Activity Type |
Delivery Agent |
Budget |
| Hydrometric Network |
|
AEMERA/EC (WSC) |
$2,900,000 |
| Water Quality Monitoring |
|
AEMERA/EC (WSC) |
$6,000,000 |
| Benthic Macro-Invertebrate Monitoring |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$2,200,000 |
| Wild Fish Health Monitoring |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$1,200,000 |
| Deltaic Ecosystem Health Monitoring |
|
EC |
$400,000 |
| Acid-Sensitive Lakes Monitoring |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$200,000 |
| Regional Groundwater Monitoring - Development of a comprehensive groundwater monitoring program in oil sands |
|
AEMERA/EC |
$200,000 |
| Groundwater/Surface Water Interactions |
|
EC |
$100,000 |
| Data Integration, Synthesis and Reporting (Water Program-wide) |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$1,275,000 |
| Modeling - Regional hydrology / climatology |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$240,000 |
| Water Quality Semi-Permeable Membrane Device Approaches |
|
EC |
$90,000 |
| Expanded Tributary Fish Inventory Program |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$163,000 |
| Initial Project Scoping for Sampling within the Peace Oil Sands Area |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$55,000 |
| Initial Project Scoping for Sampling within the Southern Oil Sands Area |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$65,000 |
| Status of River Fish |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$475,000 |
| Contaminant Monitoring in Fish in the Oil Sands Region |
|
EC/AEMERA |
| Community-based Monitoring - Fish |
|
EC/AEMERA |
| Water Methodologies |
|
EC/AEMERA |
$200,000 |
Wildlife Health
Deposition Projects Package