Published: Aug 18, 2008

By: Chris Severson-Baker, Jennifer Grant, Simon Dyer

Recognizing the urgent need for environmental management and the benefits of engaging stakeholders, the Pembina Institute puts forward recommendations for a new multi-stakeholder approach to environmental management in the Athabasca oil sands.

Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: Jun 16, 2008

By: Mary Griffiths, Simon Dyer

The Pembina Institute's new report, Upgrader Alley, provides the first in-depth look at the environmental impacts of upgrading oil sands bitumen in the Edmonton region. It recommends that the Government of Alberta only approve new projects once environmental and infrastructure plans are completed and implemented.

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Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: Jun 16, 2008

By: Mary Griffiths, Simon Dyer

Oil sands production in northern Alberta could triple by 2020, to four million barrels a day. As a result of this increasing oil sands production, a major industrial expansion of bitumen upgraders is underway northeast of Edmonton. This so called "Upgrader Alley" is expected to handle early half the oil sands production, right on Edmonton’s doorstep.

Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: Jun 13, 2008

By: Steve Kennett, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)

This Report Card evaluates the Government of Alberta's Draft Land-use Framework using the Alberta by Design Checklist, a detailed set of recommendations for the Land-use Framework published by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society–Northern Alberta and the Pembina Institute.

Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: Jun 10, 2008

By: Simon Dyer, Jennifer Grant, Pembina Institute et al., Terra Simieritsch

This report, commissioned by the Canadian Boreal Initiative (CBI) and authored by the Pembina Institute and Alberta Research Council, brings together experiences from the application of offset policies in other jurisdictions with perspectives from industry, First Nations, government, academics and environmental groups in Alberta. It concludes that biodiversity offsets should be considered to address the growing impacts on biodiversity from resource development in the Boreal, including in Alberta's oil sands region.

Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: May 26, 2008

By: Jennifer Grant, Dan Woynillowicz, Simon Dyer

Fact or Fiction: Oil Sands Reclamation is a critical review of current policies and practices governing oil sands reclamation.

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Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: May 26, 2008

By: Jennifer Grant, Dan Woynillowicz, Simon Dyer

Oil sands mining has transformed the Athabasca region of northeastern Alberta, and every year the lack of effective reclamation standards and the poor reclamation record of the oil sands mining industry becomes a bigger and bigger problem.

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Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: Apr 16, 2008

By: Dan Woynillowicz, Steve Kennett, Water Matters

This report discusses how the government has advanced numerous strategic initiatives in relative isolation from one another. It concludes that multiple strategies that individually address air, land, water and the activities that affect them will ultimately prove unsuccessful unless they are integrated through a common, legislated regional planning process.

Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: Apr 7, 2008

By: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Steve Kennett

This checklist by the Pembina Institute and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is a tool to accompany our companion report entitled Alberta by Design: Blueprint for an Effective Land-Use Framework which contains details and regional case studies on the issue of land use in Alberta.

The Government of Alberta initiated the development of the Alberta Land-Use Framework in response to the acknowledged need for a new approach to managing land use. This checklist presents the core principles and a list of the key elements that can be used to objectively assess the Alberta government's Land-Use Framework once it is released.

Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: Feb 26, 2008

By: Dan Woynillowicz, Simon Dyer

Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Oil Sands

Published: Feb 21, 2008

By: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Steve Kennett

This report by the Pembina Institute and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) proposes a blueprint for improving Albertans' quality of life and ensuring environmental sustainability.

Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers

Topic Area: Oil Sands