At Imperial’s Kearl project, there’s a corner of the oil sands mine property where grasses and bulrushes grow thick and tall in the summer. It’s a pilot project by Imperial to test the use of a constructed wetland to clean oil sands process-affected water.

A new research chair at the University of Calgary is poised to give oil sands companies a set of detailed guidelines to measure the success of wetland reclamation.

Nicknamed “Bugs and Veggies”, the outdoor growing trial is part of an effort to find novel ways to remove water from tailings more efficiently.

What if instead of disposing of goods, we could bring them back to their base components and then turn them into other products?

Up to 85 per cent of water is recycled in mining operations and up to 90 per cent in in situ operations.

In recognition of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2021, COSIA profiles Samantha Heigl, a Program Coordinator on COSIA’s tailings team.

Mesocosms are a common tool for testing innovation on a larger scale in a controlled and replicated way under realistic outdoor conditions.

This is the story of Carbon Upcycling, an NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE finalist, and their journey to turn carbon dioxide (CO2) into an asset rather than a liability.