{"id":917,"date":"2010-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-355\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","slug":"innovation-anthology-355","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2010\/11\/23\/innovation-anthology-355\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #355:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 355.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen Syncrude digs a pit to mine the oil sands, it has to pile the overburden somewhere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThese man-made hills are structured with swells, and eventually will be reclaimed to forest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut spring runoff and rainstorms can <b>erode topsoil <\/b>that\u2019s placed on the swells during reclamation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe man in charge of erosion control is agrologist <b>Eric Girard.<\/b>   As Eric explains, instead of placing concrete berms and rip rap on the swells, Syncrude uses bioengineering to stop erosion.  And the raw material is cuttings from native aspen, willow and dogwood.\n <\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nERIC GIRARD: <\/b><em>So we use live faccine.  We bundle together a bunch of sticks, and we place them perpendicular to the slope so it will slow down the flow as it goes down.  Even the first year, it will play a role for erosion control.  even if  there is nothing growing on them.  But as  time goes by, those faccine will grow stems and roots will go down and this will become almost indestructible.  And it will improve with time  which is the opposite of regular engineered solution.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEric Girard says a large swell planted this spring already has shoots over two meters high.\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>\u00a02010-11-23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring runoff and rainstorms can erode topsoil that\u2019s placed on manmade hills during reclamation after mining for bitumen.    The man in charge of <b>erosion control<\/b> at Syncrude  is agrologist <b>Eric Girard.<\/b>   As Eric explains,  Syncrude uses <b>bioengineering <\/b>to stop erosion.  And the raw material is cuttings from native aspen, willow and dogwood.<em> (Syncrude Canada Ltd.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29,59,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-resources","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":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/355Picture_004.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}