Syncrude oil pit transformed into thriving ecosystem

Misc CDN | 206743 hits | Oct 02 8:54 am | Posted by: Alta_redneck

Reclamation manager Steve Gaudet says many birds now call their site home, as well as rabbits and roaming bison.

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by Alta_redneck
Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:08 pm
Now the little bunnies can sit on the ground without getting their powder puff tails stuck to their ass because of oil seeping out of the ground.
by DrCaleb
Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:49 pm
This is why I always ask the hugger crowd 'have you been there?'. I've seen the reclaimed land - and you'd never know it was once an open pit mine.
by Anonymous
Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:50 pm
We should stampede the buffalo next time Greenpeace arrives.
by DrCaleb
Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:54 pm
"gigs" said
We should stampede the buffalo next time Greenpeace arrives.

Yes, that'll learn them to use their right to peacefully assemble and peacefully protest.
by bootlegga
Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:29 pm
1 down and a couple dozen to go.

I'm glad that Syncrude was able to reclaim the land and make it viable again, but I'm scared to ask what it cost. SAGD kills every microorganism in the oilsand and turns it into basically just sand, which will not support plant life at all.

Hopefully everyone else operating up there will be willing to make the same effort when it comes to reclamation.

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