{"id":902,"date":"2010-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-350\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","slug":"innovation-anthology-350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2010\/11\/02\/innovation-anthology-350\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #350:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 350.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen it comes to oil sands production, <b>toxic tailings ponds<\/b> could one day just be a bad memory.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nInstead, you\u2019ll find in their place<b> fully functioning lakes.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u2019s the hope of Syncrude Canada Ltd as it develops a new technology called <b>water cap tailings.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLeading the research project at Base Mine Lake is <b>Samantha Tavener.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nSAMANTHA TAVENER: <\/b><em>So this technology is simply taking tailings, and tailings is coming from the process where we use water to extract oil from sand, and at the tail end of the process, we get clays, fines, and some unrecovered bitumen.  And the clays hold onto some water.    So we put the tailings in a mined out pit.  And then we put the water over top of it.  So that\u2019s the water capped tailings project.   We spent over 20 years of research starting in the lab and then moving to field scale test ponds looking at this technology.  So with 20 years evidence, we\u2019re confident that this full scale demonstration will generate a viable lake. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha Tavener says the commercial scale demonstration project for water cap tailings will get underway  in 2012 and it will reclaim the old mine pit at Base Mine Lake.\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>\u00a02010-11-02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to oil sands production, <b>toxic tailings ponds<\/b> could one day just be a bad memory.  Instead, you\u2019ll find in their place fully <b>functioning lakes.<\/b>  That\u2019s the hope of Syncrude Canada as it develops a new technology called<b> water cap tailings.<\/b> Leading the research project at Base Mine Lake is <b>Samantha Tavener.<\/b><em> (Syncrude Canada Ltd)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,19,3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syncrude","category-water","category-wildlife","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/351samantha_tavener.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}