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Terra Informa - Seaon 9, Episode 29 - Pine Beetles & Oilsands Reclamation
Terra Informa's own Dr. Rebecca Rooney describes new research about the oilsands
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Uploaded: 18 Mar, 2012
Recording Date: 18 Mar, 2012
Recording Location: CJSR News Dept., Edmonton, Alberta
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Language: English
Topical for: 1 Week
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
Copyright: Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial
Program Title: Terra Informa - Seaon 9, Episode 29 - Pine Beetles & Oilsands Reclamation
Description: Mountain pine beetles are about the size of the head of a match. Even for an insect, they're pretty insignificant. But their effect on forests is hard to put into words. Over the past decade they've turned the mountains and valleys of central BC from lush green to red, wiping out the province's lodgepole pines for hundreds of kilometres on end. Now they're slowly moving eastward, with the outbreak well under way in Alberta. What does this summer hold in store for Canada's forests? And how far east will the mountain pine beetles ultimately advance?
Terra Informa correspondent Rebecca Rooney took a break from reporting on the news, and instead made some headlines of her own. Rebecca holds a PhD in wetlands ecology from the University of Alberta and is the lead author of a new scientific study on the reclamation of the Alberta oil sands. The study quantifies for the first time the changes in the ecology and ecological services offered by the areas which are to be reclaimed after mining operations are complete. Terra Informa corespondent Myles Curry met up with Dr Rooney to get a summary of what these new findings reveal about the tar sands' cumulative impacts.
Host(s): Chris Chen-Yang Phillips
Featured Speakers/Guests: Dr. Rebecca Rooney - Researcher, University of Alberta
Credits: Production: Michael Kingsley McNicoll
Correspondents: Steve Andersen, Myles Curry, Marcus Peterson
Comments: Terra Informa can be reached by emailing terra@cjsr.com.
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Environment > Forestry Environment > Climate Change Politics Science and Technology Politics > Activism Regional > Canada > Alberta Science and Technology > Earth Sciences Environment Environment > Biodiversity Regional > Canada Environment > Pollution |
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