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Geotechnical News June 2011
WASTE GEOTECHNICS
announced the establishment of the Oil
Sands Tailings Consortium (OSTC) in
December 2010. The consortium con-
sists of oil sands companies includ-
ing Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.,
Imperial Oil, Shell Canada, Suncor,
Syncrude Canada Ltd., Teck Resourc-
es, and Total E&P. Fortunately, these
companies no longer have to go to the
moon to find superstar researchers like
Carrier to work on the tailings ponds…
only to Florida, where Carrier currently
resides.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Dr. Carrier and Syncrude
Canada Ltd. for supplying photographs
for this article.
References
Bourque, J. (2002). “Shooting the
moon.”
Air & Space Magazine
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Carrier,W.D. (2001). “Lessons Learned
– So Far.” Geotechnical News, Vol.
19, No. 3, pp. 45, 55.
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