Towards Environmentally Responsible Resource Extraction Network (NSERC-TERRE-NET)

迈向对环境负责的资源开采网络（NSERC-TERRE-NET）

• 批准号: 479708-2015
• 负责人: Blowes, David
• 金额: $ 95.89万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Strategic Network Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=696308
• 关键词: Towards; Environmentally; Responsible; Resource; Extraction

Canada's rich natural resource wealth has sustained a long history of economic development. Extraction and processing of these natural resources have provided Canada with great social and economic benefits, and will provide a foundation for Canada's economy in the 21st century. Unfortunately, the benefits associated with natural resource extraction and processing are often accompanied by long-term, widespread environmental degradation and the associated social and financial costs. The remediation of groundwater, surface water and soils impacted by resource extraction is challenging and costly, but essential for environmental sustainability. New strategies for stabilizing mine wastes and preventing future contamination are needed to reduce the environmental impacts associated with resource extraction. Implementation of these approaches will provide economic and societal benefits, and reduce the financial burden on corporations and provincial and federal governments responsible for remediation of mine sites. The long-term stability of mine-waste impoundments and impacts to the surrounding environment are controlled by hydrological, geochemical, mineralogical, and biological mechanisms. Although much progress has been made, significant gaps remain in current knowledge. Gaps develop because the technical challenges associated with mine-waste management require specialists to focus on relatively narrow objectives. The proposed NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for Networks "NSERC Toward Environmentally Responsible Resource Extraction" (TERRE-NET) will promote the broad collaboration and knowledge sharing necessary to address the technical and social challenges associated with responsible resource extraction. TERRE-NET unites leading experts from universities across Canada working in the fields of geochemistry, hydrogeology, mineralogy, biogeochemistry, waste-water processing, geotechnical engineering, nanotechnology, environmental microbiology, resource economics, environmental sociology, and Indigenous interactions. In a thoroughly-integrated approach, our team will develop improved, cost-effective, socially acceptable strategies for managing mine wastes and mitigating contamination.

加拿大丰富的自然资源财富已经持续了悠久的经济发展历史。这些自然资源的提取和处理为加拿大提供了巨大的社会和经济利益，并将为21世纪的加拿大经济奠定基础。不幸的是，与自然资源提取和处理相关的收益通常伴随着长期，广泛的环境退化以及相关的社会和财务成本。对资源提取影响的地下水，地表水和土壤的补救是挑战和昂贵的，但对于环境可持续性至关重要。需要新的稳定矿井废物和防止未来污染的策略，以减少与资源提取相关的环境影响。这些方法的实施将提供经济和社会利益，并减轻负责修复矿场的公司以及省和联邦政府的财务负担。矿废物蓄水池的长期稳定性和对周围环境的影响由水文，地球化学，矿物学和生物学机制控制。尽管取得了很大的进步，但目前的知识仍然存在很大的差距。差距之所以存在，是因为与矿废物管理相关的技术挑战要求专家专注于相对狭窄的目标。拟议的NSERC战略合作伙伴关系赠款“ NSERC针对环境负责的资源提取”（TERRE-NET）将促进与负责资源提取相关的技术和社会挑战所必需的广泛合作和知识共享。 Terre-net在加拿大各地大学的领先专家团结地球化学，水文学，矿物学，生物地球化学，废水加工，岩土工程，纳米技术，环境微生物学，资源经济学，环境社会学和本土互动。在完全融合的方法中，我们的团队将制定改进，具有成本效益的，社会上可接受的策略来管理矿山废物和减轻污染。