Keeping a watchful eye on wildlife
We've created a time-lapse video that showcases a selection of images captured.
A remote camera program at our Christina Lake and Foster Creek operations helps us monitor how wildlife interacts with our above-ground pipelines. The goal of this program is to better understand wildlife habits to improve future developments at our field locations.
The cameras are placed along our pipeline right-of-way to photograph wildlife wandering in the area during the day and night. The cameras have now been in place for almost two years and the monitoring program has grown to include 76 camera locations. To date we've monitored wildlife for a collective total of 336,000 hours - that's the equivalent of 38 years of monitoring. Twenty-eight distinct animal species have been detected by the cameras including bears, deer, caribou, lynx and coyotes.
The photos are studied to help us confirm what type of animals are in the area, observe whether their behavior is healthy, how they interact with our facilities and whether our operations have any impact on things like migration pathways. Understanding wildlife activity and habitat gives us context to make improvements in our operating areas. These photos, showing the diversity and frequency of wildlife interaction with our facilities, will help us continue to limit our impact as much as possible.
