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Companies are regulated to reclaim the land and recreate a natural habitat. But if you don’t have topsoil, what do you do?

Guest Blog - Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)

Compensation lakes to house fish have been created by oil sands mining companies to replace fish habitat that is removed for mining activities.

Can you picture a future where Canadian energy could be produced with no adverse impact on water? We hope so. As an innovator, your life’s work has been to find solutions to some of the most challenging issues. With COSIA you can take your ideas and turn them into real world solutions.

By Peter Beaudoin, Senior Advisor, Strategy and Partnerships

COSIA is calling on innovators to submit new research or potential technologies that would enable in situ oil sands operators to conduct below-ground exploration with zero or very limited impact to the surface.

I’ve been ‘in the chair’ as the new Chief Executive of COSIA for about a month now. It has truly been a luxury to spend a month meeting and learning from the men and women that work so hard to make COSIA what it is.

Sharing best practices is one of COSIA’s main objectives and the goal of its annual Fall Field Tour. This year’s tour is hosted by Imperial and Canadian Natural, both COSIA member companies actively involved in COSIA’s Land Environmental Priority Area.