Deposition, Oil Sands Region

Air emissions from oil sands development can come from a number of sources including industrial smokestacks, tailings ponds, transportation, and dust from mining operations. Air quality monitoring under the Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for the Oil Sands is designed to determine the contribution of emissions from oil sands activities to local and regional air quality and atmospheric deposition both now and in the future. Deposition data include:

- Passive Sampling of PACs deployed for two month periods across a network of 17 sites

- Active sampling of PACs at three sites to inform the amount of dry deposition

- Particulate metals (24 hour integrated samples following the one in six day National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) cycle)

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Date ( RI_367 )
2014-02-17
Date ( RI_366 )
2013-01-18
Date ( RI_368 )
2016-04-25
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Jaime Dawson ( Oil Sands Senior Support for Air Commponent )
867 Lakeshore Road , Burlington , Ontario , L7S 1A1 , Canada
905-336-4883
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
RI_414
  Government of Canada - ( )
Canada
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Deposition, particulate metals, polycyclic aromatic compounds, active sampling, passive sampling, oil sands, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, modelling, high resolution, inferential estimation, critical loads, forest soils, acidic, nitro-PAHs, oxy-PAHs, alkylated PAHs, PACs, benzo(a)pyrene, tree rings
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Oil sands
  • Air quality
ECCC Information Category EN ECCC Information Category FR ( RI_528 )
  • Air - Quality
Business Functions Fonctions de l'entreprise ( RI_528 )
  • Monitor Air Quality and UV Parameters and Manage Data
  • Provide Air Quality/UV Information Products and Services
Geography Portée Géographique ( Place )
  • Prairie - Alberta (AB)
external.theme.EC_Branch local.theme.external.theme.EC_Branch ( RI_528 )
  • Science and Technology Branch
external.theme.EC_Directorate local.theme.external.theme.EC_Directorate ( RI_528 )
  • Atmospheric Science and Technology
external.theme.EC_Program_PAA local.theme.external.theme.EC_Program_PAA ( RI_528 )
  • 1.3.2. Ecosystem Assessment and Approaches
external.theme.GC_Security_Level local.theme.external.theme.GC_Security_Level ( RI_528 )
  • Unclassified
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
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vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
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Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
1994-01-01
End date
2013-12-31
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Supplemental Information
Supporting Projects: Canada-Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Monitoring
Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 /
RI_412
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (English) ( HTTPS )

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OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (French) ( HTTPS )

Web Service;HTML;fra

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eng; CAN
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Date stamp
2026-03-17T18:16:27.403Z
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North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
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Enviroment Canada - Version 1
RI_418
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 
 

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