- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (75 p.) : ill, maps, charts, digital file.
- Summary
- All of the Mackenzie River Basin's streams and rivers ultimately feed into the Mackenzie River and flow North to the Arctic Ocean. Therefore, whatever happens to the Athabasca River, the Peace River, the Slave River and dozens of others ultimately happens to the Mackenzie River Basin itself. And while the Mackenzie Basin's northern waters are still abundant and supporting a diversity of life, concern is increasing about what's going on upstream. In the Peace and Athabasca watersheds, oil sands development threatens both water quality and quantity. Of all the upstream industrial activities, oil sands activity merits special attention as it is rapidly growing in critical headwaters of the broader Mackenzie River Basin and uses significant amounts of water, while leaving behind toxic sludge. Oil sands development also results in land disturbance and air pollution.
- Uniform Title
- Northern lifeblood (Online)
- Canadian Electronic Library. Documents collection.
- Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian public policy collection.
- Alternative Title
- Empowering northern leaders to protect the Mackenzie River Basin from oil sands risks.
- Subject
- Note
- "July 2010."
- Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library, Documents collection, and Canadian public policy collection.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-75).
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available in PDF format for downloading
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents
- Northern lifeblood -- 1. The Mackenzie River basin -- The heart of Canada's north --
- 2. Risks to the basin from Canada's oil sands -- Oil sands impacts -- Toxic tailings -- Tailings impacts -- Regulations on tailings production -- Tailings containment basics -- Tailings dam failures and accidents -- Regulations on tailings dam stability -- Dam failure risks in the oil sands -- Beyond Alberta: transboundary implications of dam failure -- Oil sands tailings dam information: the transparency challenge -- Who foots the bill -- Impacts on water quantity and quality --
- 3. Collectively managing the basin -- The constitutional context for water management -- Federal authority -- Federal powers -- Federal water policy -- Federal statutes relevant to water management -- Water management in Alberta -- Alberta oil sands monitoring efforts -- Water management in the NWT -- NWT monitoring efforts -- Transboundary efforts to date --
- 4. Protecting the basin from upstream risks -- Enforce existing federal laws -- Implement the NWT water strategy -- Strengthen and implement the Mackenzie River basin transboundary master agreement -- Ensure adequate monitoring in the basin -- Participate in the regulatory approval process governing oil sands development -- Investigate the opportunities for legal action -- Aboriginal water rights -- Land claim agreements -- Federal statutes -- File environmental petitions -- Participate in the Commission for Environmental Cooperation citizen submissions process -- Establish a transboundary community network --
- Appendix A. Industrial upstream water uses in the Mackenzie River basin -- Appendix B. Resolution: protection of NWT water sources from development of oil sands in Alberta -- Endnotes.
- OCLC
- ssj0000996994
- Title
Northern lifeblood [electronic resource] : empowering northern leaders to protect the Mackenzie River Basin from oil sands risks / Jennifer Grant ... [et al.].
- Imprint
Drayton Valley, Alta. : Pembina Institute, 2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010).
- Series
Canadian Electronic Library. Documents collection.
Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian public policy collection.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-75).
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Also available in PDF format for downloading: http://celarc.ca/cppc/224/224518.pdf
- System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- Added Author
Grant, Jennifer.
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development.
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)