Source: Barbara Duckworth, Producer.com, April 26, 2018
BANFF, ALTA. — Alberta’s conservation and reclamation program on former energy sites is not working properly, said a government land scientist.
Once a former well site is certified as reclaimed, nobody follows up to make sure the land was returned to an equivalent state before development, said Arnold Janz, a land scientist with Alberta Environment and Parks.
“There is a province-wide information gap on the long-term impacts and ecological performance of reclaimed and certified lands,” he said at the Alberta Institute of Agrologists annual meeting held in Banff April 3-5.
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