This fall the Sustainable Communities Initiative took a leap forward as members from the LAYC (Fort Chipewyan), OSLI (Oil Sands Leadership Initiative which includes partners such as the Carleton University, RCMP, Northland School Division) and Sekweha (Janvier) teams gathered as one large team to make plans for 2013. It was a great opportunity to build […]
“The playground brought our community together,” said Sekweha board member, Sherry Black. “We all found a need for it, and there was always talk of a playground, but it never happened. Once construction started the community felt there was a brighter future coming.” “The children are very excited about the playground are many child-size footprints […]
Backing its commitment to encourage out-of-the-box thinking and sourcing innovative ideas from a unique audience, OSLI representatives sat down with youth members of the Leading Change movement for a casual breakfast on March 14th at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver. Across the street, on a much larger scale of information sharing, Globe 2012’s Series […]
Reclamation specialists are hard at work in a remote area of northeastern Alberta, preparing sites to plant 80,000 trees in 2012 as part of a plan to restore woodland caribou habitat. “This is the first phase of a five-year restoration plan we’ve developed for the Algar region,” explains Jeremy Reid, environmental specialist with Nexen and OSLI’s […]
Collaboration on collective environmental challenges is underway in the oil sands and OSLI has been a key enabler of this movement. As an early innovator in oil sands collaboration, OSLI is excited to note that a larger initiative was announced in Calgary Alberta called Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA). All OSLI member companies are […]
They have curious names like X-DRAIN, Trenching and Fishbone, but these alternative well configurations may be the key to improving the effectiveness of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) in situ operations. “We looked at classical SAGD and thought maybe there are better ways to skin this cat,” says John Stalder, chair of OSLI’s Alternative Well Configuration […]
The University of Washington, one of OSLI’s eight sponsored university teams from around the world, won the grand prize in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) 2011 iGEM competition. The competition was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts from November 5-7, 2011. iGEM is the world’s foremost synthetic biology competition, where students are tasked with altering biological parts and […]
OSLI has sponsored eight university teams from around the world in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) 2011 iGEM, the world’s foremost synthetic biology competition. BioBuilder Blog (vimeo) For those new to the term, synthetic biology is the science of engineering using biological parts and systems, which turns out to be a lot like playing […]
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