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Old 05-24-2019, 10:00 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by AltaGuy View Post
Can Alberta start being paid to accept all of the rest of Canada's recyclables, and maybe some of the US's, and use some of the oilsands lands to create giant processing facilities and landfills? Seems the science would be lucrative.
Most ‘oil sands land’ is subsurface. Wellpads surrounded by trees.

When the companies with surface mines complete cleaning the oil out of the sand, there is reclamation.

Here is an article from last year that shows how Syncrude has reclaimed the land of a mine and has a thriving bison herd which has grown from 30 to 300

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ease-1.4538030
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