Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Sahtu Settlement Area
Tags: contaminants, petroleum industry, revegetation, vegetation, thaw depth, spill sites
| Principal Investigator: | Hutchinson, Tom (8) |
| Licence Number: | 2121 |
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| Licensed Year(s): |
1977
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1977 |
Objective(s): To determine the degree of recovery of crude oil spills made in 1972 and 1973 on taiga at Norman Wells and tundra at Tuktoyaktuk. To determine the effects of a 1975 diesel oil spill on taiga at Norman Wells and to compare the effects with crude oil spills made in comparable terrain. To examine the pattern of vegetational recovery of these areas. To examine the effects of crude oil spills made on aquatic vegetation bounding a sub-Arctic lake and tundra pond and compare degree of recovery reported in 1974 and 1977. To determine the depths of thaw at sites where summer and winter spills have been made on tundra and taiga.
