● AAU: Assigned Amount Unit
● ACFN: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
● AENV: Alberta Environment
● AAC: Annual Allowable Cut
● ABC's: Action By Canadians
● ABDC: Aboriginal Business Development Committee
● A/D: Ablation Drum
● A/P: Accounts Payable
● ACR: Alberta Chamber of Resources
● AEC: Alberta Energy Company
● AEP: Alberta Environmental Protection
● AEPEA: Alberta Environmental Protection Enhancement Act
● AEUB: Alberta Energy & Utilities Board (see EUB)
● AFE: Authority for Expenditure
● AOSDFC: Athabasca Oil Sands Development Facilitation Committee
● APP: Athabasca Pipeline Project
● ARD: Athabasca Regional Developers
● ATC: Athabasca Tribal Council
● AVI: Alberta Vegetation Inventory
● AWA: Alberta Wilderness Association
● Bpd: Barrels per day
Bitumen: A naturally occurring, viscous (like molasses) mixture of hydrocarbons. Bitumen molecules can contain thousands of carbon atoms! This makes bitumen one of the most complex molecules found in nature. In its natural state, it is not recoverable through a well like conventional petroleum. Bitumen cannot be refined into common petroleum products like gasoline, kerosene, or gas oil without first being upgraded to crude oil. The API of bitumen is 8 – 14°.
● BB: Bradford Breaker
● bbl: barrel
● BFW: Boiler Feedwater
● BHAG: Big Hairy Audacious Goal
● BP: Bitumen Production
● bpcd: Barrels per calendar day
● bpsd: barrels per stream day
● BRFT: Bitumen Recovery from Tailings
● BTEX: Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, Xylene
● CEEMI: Cumulative Environmental Effects Management Initiative
● CASA: Clean Air Strategic Alliance
● CCME: Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment
● CDM: Clean Development Mechanism
● CEATAG: CONRAD Environmental Aquatics Technical Advisory Group
● CER: Certified Emission Reduction
● CFC's: Chlorofluorocarbons
● CH4: Methane
● CHMP: Climate & Hydrologic Monitoring Program
● CNBS: Colonial Nesting Bird Survey
● CONRAD E TPG: CONRAD Environmental Technical Planning Group
● CoP: Conference of the Parties (to Climate Change Convention)
● CSS: Cyclic Steam Stimulation
● CTPS: Role of microbiological processes on sulfate - enriched tailing deposits
Conventional Crude Oil: Petroleum found in liquid form, flowing naturally or capable of being pumped without further processing or dilution
● C & R: Conservation and Reclamation
● CANMET: Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology
● CAPP: Canadian Assocation of Petroleum Producers
● CASA: Clean Air Strategic Alliance
● CCME: Canadian Council of the Minister of the Environment
● cd: calendar day
● CEA: Cumulative Effects Assessment
● CEAA: Canadian Environmental Assessment Association
● CEMA: Cumulative Environmental Management Association
● CHAR: Cultural/Historical and Aesthetical Resources
● CIPEC: Canadian Industrial Energy Council
● CNRL: Canadian Natural Resources Limited
● CO2: Carbon dioxide
● CONRAD: Canadian Oil Sands Network for Research and Development
● CPR: Corporate Process Renewal
● CPANS: Canadian Prairie and Northern Section of Air & Waste Management
● CRC: Cardinal River Coal
● CSEM: Continuous Stack Emissions Monitor
● CSR: Comprehensive Study Report
● CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility
● CT: Consolidated Tailings
● CWP: Construction Work Package |
