Freshwater oil spill remediation study at the IISD-experimental lakes area: (The FOReSt Project)

IISD 实验湖区淡水溢油修复研究：（FOReSt 项目）

• 批准号: 532225-2018
• 负责人: Tomy, GreggGT
• 金额: $ 3.96万
• 依托单位: University of Manitoba
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=747700
• 关键词: Freshwater; oil; spill; remediation; study

Environmental impacts of oil spills are a major concern for the Canadian public. Regulators and the scientificcommunity are also uncertain which methods are best to employ when cleaning up oil spills in differentenvironments. Improving effectiveness of clean-up procedures under realistic field situations is required toaddress these significant knowledge gaps. The collaborative research being proposed here will be conducted byresearchers from the Universities of Manitoba, Calgary, McGill, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifiqueand the International Institute for Sustainable Development-Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA). It willconsist of a large multi-phased project to examine the fate and behaviour of spilled oil, and to compare spillclean-up methods in a freshwater environment. The project includes participation from industry, government,First Nations and community groups, and will quantify impacts (i.e., ecological, social and economic valuefrom lost ecosystem services) of oil spilled into freshwater environments. Examining effectiveness, andimpacts, of current oil spill clean-up methods in freshwater systems is a key component of the project. Manycurrent strategies for removing spilled oil focus on mechanical removal; however, this can be ecologicallydamaging and economically costly. The goal of the proposed project is to determine relative effectiveness ofphysical, chemical and biological oil spill clean-up methods in different shoreline environments. Small-scalemodel oil spills will be used to examine the ability of different cleanup methods to remove residual oil andmaintain ecosystem function in enclosed regions of a natural boreal lake. The work to be conducted in Year 1will serve as a pilot experiment which aims to determine the oil product to be tested in the full-scale field studyin Year 2. Ecological recovery of the affected areas, together with social and economic impacts ofincorporating different remediation approaches for responding to spills will be quantified through monitoringthe contained environments in Year 3 and 4. Optimizing remediation strategies applied to oil spills will benefitCanadians by significantly improving response efficiencies and restoring ecosystem services more quickly.

泄漏的环境影响是加拿大公众的主要关注点。监管机构和科学社区性也不确定在清理不同环境中的漏油物时最好采用哪种方法。在现实的现场情况下，清理程序的有效性提高了这些重要的知识差距。在这里提出的合作研究将由曼尼托巴省大学，卡尔加里，麦吉尔大学，国际可持续发展实验性湖泊（IISD-ELA）的研究所进行研究。它将是一个大型多型项目，以检查溢出油的命运和行为，并比较淡水环境中的溢出方法。该项目包括来自行业，政府，原住民和社区群体的参与，并将量化溢出到淡水环境中的石油的影响（即，从生态系统损失的生态系统服务）量化影响（即生态，社会和经济价值）。该项目的关键组成部分是检查当前的溢油清理方法的有效性和影响力。除去溢油的许多流动策略专注于机械去除；但是，这可能是生态破坏的，并且在经济上昂贵。拟议项目的目的是确定不同海岸线环境中的物理，化学和生物漏油清理方法的相对有效性。小型模型溢油将用于检查不同清洁方法在天然北方湖的封闭区域中删除残留油和维护生态系统功能的能力。在第1年将进行的工作是一项试点实验，旨在确定在第2年的全尺度现场研究中要测试的石油产品。对受影响地区的生态恢复，以及对不同的补救方法的社会和经济影响，通过在3年级和4年级进行了对环境的影响，对溢价的响应量很大。效率和恢复生态系统服务更快。