{"id":2111,"date":"2016-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-824\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T03:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T03:33:44","slug":"innovation-anthology-824","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/11\/17\/innovation-anthology-824\/","title":{"rendered":"#824: Interim Reclamation Proposed For Soil Stockpiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/1-Innovation Anthology 824.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Albricht is the Land Stewardship Coordinator with ConocoPhillips.<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>He recently spoke at an Applied Research Symposium at NAIT, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>ConocoPhillips has a SAGD oil sands operation called Surmont in northeastern Alberta.<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>Soil dug up during construction must be&nbsp; saved for future reclamation. &nbsp;But the piles can sit there for decades, &nbsp;covered in weeds becoming a blight&nbsp; on the boreal landscape.<br style=\"\" \/><br style=\"\" \/>Robert Albricht wants to change that. &nbsp;<br style=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br style=\"\" \/>ROBERT  ALBRiCHT <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">: &nbsp; <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The current practice creates quite smooth packed  hillsides, 3 to 1 slope very nicely packed down with heavy equipment  which is not really a great place to grow a forest. &nbsp; So the first step  is to convince our own people and get our own processes aligned so we  create a rougher surface with some organic materials on it. &nbsp;So in this  example, we introduce some old logs onto the top of the pile to add a  woody component to it which helps to provide microsites as well as the  wood holds moisture in place and provides additional micro-climate for  the plants. <br style=\"\" \/><\/span><br style=\"\" \/>Robert Albricht says this sets the scene for something new called &nbsp;&quot;interim reclamation&quot; which encourages natural forest regeneration.. &nbsp;<br style=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br style=\"\" \/>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br style=\"\" \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<br style=\"\" \/><\/span><br style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-11-17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Albricht of ConocoPhillips proposes interim reclamation for oil sand soil stockpiles to boost biodiversity while waiting decades for final reclamation&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-oil-sands","category-reclamation","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-16Robert_Albricht.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}