{"id":923,"date":"2010-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-356\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","slug":"innovation-anthology-356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2010\/11\/25\/innovation-anthology-356\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #356:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 356.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen it comes to <b>oil sands reclamation, <\/b>Syncrude is looking to mother nature to lend a hand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAgrologist<b> Eric Girard <\/b>is the man in charge of <b>bio-engineering<\/b> at Syncrude\u2019s oil sands site in northern Alberta.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd making sure cuttings from aspen and willow take root is not without its challenges.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Eric Girard, cuttings are harvested from the surrounding forest in fall. They\u2019re dipped in white paint to help preserve their moisture content.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd then, there\u2019s the matter of digging those trenches to plant the cuttings.\n <\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nERIC GIRARD: <\/b><em>We do all the harvesting by hand and we do all the placing by hand as well.   So we have to go there with shovels, dig all those trenches and then put the faccines in those trenches.    So I was telling you those faccines are just bundles of sticks.  So we have to fill in between those sticks with peat.  So we have to use our fingers to push the peat in between.  It\u2019s quite labour intensive.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEric Girard amends the soil with organic fertilizer and peat moss to give the cuttings a bit of a boost.   By the second year, the bushes are securely matted to stop erosion.<br \/>\nAnd soon the bioengineered hill looks completely natural.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Syncrude Canada Ltd.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02010-11-25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to <b>oil sands reclamation,<\/b> Syncrude is looking to mother nature to lend a hand.  And some hard labour.  Agrologist  <b>Eric Girard <\/b>describes the process from hand cutting the sticks to hand digging the trenches.  (Syncrude Canada Ltd.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,59,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forests","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-water","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}