Shapefiles for Land Disturbance due to Oil Sands Projects: 2016 (Detailed)

Description

This item is a set of shape files representing land disturbance and reclamation footprint:

• As of December 31, 2016 for all of the oil sands mines;
• As of December 31, 2016 for  the ConocoPhillips Surmont, Husky Sunrise, Athabasca Oil Corporation Corner and Leismer, and Nexen Long Lake oil sands in situ projects*;
• As of December 31, 2015 for the Cenovus Foster Creek and Suncor Firebag and MacKay River oil sands in situ projects*;
• As of December 31, 2014 for the CNRL Peace River oil sands in situ project*;
• As of December 31, 2007 for the remaining oil sands in situ projects.

It includes the following data for projects in statuses of "active", "approved" (which includes being under construction) or "other" (which includes "announced", "cancelled", "suspended", etc.):

- Project boundaries and project points (calculated as centroids of the project boundaries) for all active, approved and "other" projects in the oil sands;

- Shapes for cleared, disturbed and reclaimed land;

- Shapes for dry and wet tailings areas.

*These projects are participating in a pilot project on submitting geospatial data on  reclamation and disturbance footprint.  

It also contains a simplified version of the supporting geodatabase.

Details

Posted Date:	Jan 17, 2019	Source:	Alberta Environment and Parks
Date Range:	Jan 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2016	Location:	Athabasca Oil Sands, Cold Lake Oil Sands, Industrial Heartland, Peace River Oil Sands

Attachments

• As seen in OSIP 2016 (.zip) (31 Mb)

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