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Drilling Down: Groundwater Risks Imposed by In Situ Oil Sands Development
By: Water Matters | By Juli a Ko and William F. Donahue
Published: July 2011
Drilling Down: Groundwater Risks Imposed by In Situ Oil Sands Development provides clear, achievable recommendations for improving groundwater management, assessment and monitoring in the oil sands region.
In Drilling Down, Water Matters recommends scientifically rigorous monitoring and assessment of groundwater resources by the provincial and federal governments, and perhaps most importantly the eradication of technical and regulatory uncertainties inherent to the in situ oil sands industry that pose huge risks to groundwater in the region.
Tagged with: water pollution, in situ, water matters, groundwater contamination, monitoring