Province of Alberta

After Energy Resources Conservation Board, Province of Alberta,... 

Reserves of Coal - Province of Alberta, Energy Resources... 

Canada s bitumen resources are situated almost entirely within the western province of Alberta (see Fig. 3.13). These deposits are distributed among three regions Athabasca, Cold Lake and Peace River. Approximately 76% of crude bitumen is produced in the Athabasca region, 22% in the Cold Lake region and 2% in the Peace River region. 

The largest tar sand deposits are in Alberta, Canada, and in Venezuela. Smaller tar sand deposits occur in the United States (mainly in Utah), Peru, Trinidad, Madagascar, the former Soviet Union, Balkan states, and the Philippines. Tar sand deposits in northwestern China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region) also are large at some locations, the bitumen appears on the land surface around Karamay, China. The largest deposits are in the Athabasca area in the province of Alberta, Canada, and in the Orinoco region of east central Venezuela. 

In addition to conventional crude oil and natural gas, the Province of Alberta, Canada, possesses substantial deposits of oil sands. The location of these deposits are indicated in Figure... 

Board of the Province of Alberta, Canada, October 1968 hearings Jan. 22,1969. 

Board of the Province of Alberta for the Approval of a Scheme or Operation for the Recovery of Oil or a Crude Hydrocarbon Product from the Athabasca Oil Sands, Feb., 1963. 

Test Roads. Three test roads were built in the provinces of Alberta and Ontario in 1974 and 1975. Two more full-scale demonstration projects were carried out in Ontario and Saskatchewan in 1974 and 1976. Table III summarizes the field tests. 

In Canada, a two-year study done by a multivendor team of healthcare professionals for the province of Alberta similarly characterized the current Canadian healthcare system to be provider-centric as opposed to patientcentric and to depend on episodic and illness-oriented (as opposed to wellness-oriented) fragmented services provided by the individual provider in a facility with very little coordination. As in the United States, the outcomes are consequently measured from the financial perspective rather than the clinical efficacy perspective. In Canada the multivendor team of healthcare professionals recommended that the healthcare system make the transition to a patient-centric, outcome-driven, and wellness-oriented system that provides integrated continuum of services with close coordination among the providers and institutions. 

The reason for the large number of hydrocarbon-miscible flooding projects in Canada is the preponderance of reasonably priced gas throughout the province of Alberta. Also, a large number of gas plants separates intermediate components, such as ethane, propane, and butane, and allows custom design of individual solvents tailored to specific reservoir conditions. Because of the large number of hydrocarbon-miscible projects in Canada, the application of mobility-control foams seems an attractive means to significantly increase oil production. 

NOVA, AN ALBERTA CORPORATION owns and operates a natural gas transmission system in the Province of Alberta and handles more than 75 percent of the Canadian gas sold in North America. As of December 31, 1985, NOVA s Alberta Gas Transmission Division recorded receipts of 2.25 trilhon cubic feet with an average of 6.2 billion cubic feet being moved per day. NOVA s system consists of 756 receipt and major delivery metering points connected by 8,559 miles of pipeline. 

The province of Alberta currently produces about 1.5 million barrels of oil per day. Most of it is delivered to the United States and accounts for about 20% of the total oil imported into the country each year. It is estimated that this level of oil production will last for at least the next 100 years. 

The Canadian experience with Road Safety Audits continues to be positive and accepted in one form or another across the country. A national educational programme implemented by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) dramatically increased the number of qualified auditors. The instructors for the TAC programme were the authors of the TAC publication on Road Safety Audits and are all experienced auditors. The provinces of Alberta and British Columbia have produced Road Safety Audit manuals. 

As part of the Robens approach, pohcy making in OHS has passed from a traditional pubhc service department to a body with representation from government, the unions, employers, and, in some cases, independent experts. In the Canadian Province of Alberta, for example, S.6 of the OHS Act sets np an OHS Council. The USA has not generalfy adopted the Robens principles, bnt does have under S.7 of the OSH Act a multipartite National Advisory Committee on OSH. 

By virtue of the abundance of oil and especially natural gas, Canada is a major producer of polymer resins. World scale plants located in the Western Canadian province of Alberta, the province of Ontario and to a lesser degree in the province of Quebec, compete in the domestic arid world markets for sales of the commodity thermoplastics LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE, PP, PS and PVC. Table 1 illustrates 1995 production levels. 

One of the investigatory principles embodied in Annex 13 dictates that certain records shall not be made available for purposes other than accident or incident investigation. .. (ICAO, 1994). Similarly, reporting and investigating incidents and accidents in healthcare in the Province of Alberta are protected by provincial legislation in the form of Section 9 of the Alberta Evidence Act ... 

One important ramification of mandatoiy reporting in the Province of Alberta is that these reports are not qualified under Section 9 of the Alberta Evidence Act. However, it is important to note that almost eveiy case in which a patient suffered severe harm or was fatally harmed would also be reported to top management. 

Alberta Evidence Act, Queen s Printer, Province of Alberta [Pg.70]

The authors thank the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Collaborative Research Opportunities), the University of Alberta, the Killam Trusts, and the Province of Alberta (Alberta Ingenuity) for research funding and fellowships (to M.-K.C.)-... 

Desired minerals are always mixed with other rocks that must be separated. In many cases, particularly for more valuable metals, the mineral that is sought is less than 1% of the ore. This requires processing of the ore, a procedure called beneficiation, which produces relatively large amounts of finely divided by-product rock. For economic reasons, beneficiation is usually carried out at the mine site with the residues returned to the mine or left in piles at the site. As a result, water pollution problems may develop from the leaching of mine spoils. Some communities in the vicinity of lead mines have been contaminated by lead from mine residues, with particular concern over the health of exposed children. Spoils from iron mining in Minnesota have contaminated water with an asbestos-like mineral associated with the iron ore, requiring remedial action that has cost millions of dollars. Enormous piles of tar-contaminated sand are left over from the extraction by hot water of heavy crude oil from tar sands in the Canadian province of Alberta. 

Due to limited historical data on onshore blowout accidents, this study analyzed two specific regions, the province of Alberta (Canada) and the entire onshore USA. The data collected for these two countries are shown in Table 2. 

Canadian methanol production, especially the two plants located in the Province of Alberta, were in very serious financial difficulty in the mid-1980s. The cost of the feedstock natural gas was not considered a value comparable to that of other remote-area producers, and it is ejq)ensive to ship this methanol to deep-water export facilities, located in Kitimat and Vancouver in British Columbia. Attempts were made to ship methanol via a products pipeline from Edmonton, Alberta to Vancouver and also via a liquefied petroleum gas pipeline from Edmonton to Chicago and Windsor, Ontario, but these tests proved only marginally successful and the methanol that was received was off-specification and suitable basically only for fuel uses. The two Alberta methanol producers, Novacor and Celanese Canada, reduced their total costs by renegotiating feedstock gas contracts and shipping rates both to Canadian ejq)ort ports and directly to the United States. 

Sulfur isotope compositions are employed to assess the effect of industrial activities in pristine environments, particularly in regions where the pollutant sulfur has a distinct d S value compared to that of the environmental receptors. For example, in the province of Alberta, Canada, emissions from sour gas processing plants have d S values 201 higher compared to sulfur isotope compositions of unaffected soils. The distinct isotope composition of the anthropogenic sulfur allows it to be followed as it enters the environment via biogeochemical reactions. 

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