Biodiversity
At our operations, we avoid land disturbance wherever possible. Before we start a project, we consider potential impacts to land and wildlife so they can be avoided, minimized or mitigated to help maintain healthy ecosystems. And we’ve set ambitious biodiversity targets for ourselves in two key areas.
Biodiversity progress
Target
Reclaim
3,000
decommissioned well
sites by year-end 20251.
3,000
decommissioned well
sites by year-end 20251.
2022
537
new reclamation certificates received
2019 - 2022
66%
toward target
(1,992 reclamation certificates)
2022 KEY INITIATIVES
- Completed 791 initial reclamations.
- Submitted 574 reclamation certificate applications.
- Received provincial regulatory closure on two decommissioned retail fuel sites.
- Planted 570,000 trees within our forested reclamation areas.
Target
Restore more
habitat
than we use in the Cold Lake
caribou range by year-end 20302.
habitat
than we use in the Cold Lake
caribou range by year-end 20302.
Project life to date
232,869
total caribou habitat under restoration (acres)
2016 - 2022
50%
toward target
2022 KEY INITIATIVES
- Treated additional 180 km of linear features (e.g., old seismic lines, pipeline corridors, roads).
- Successfully trialed innovative linear restoration methods, including the Bracke mounder.
- Conducted field work on GHG study in Foster Creek to better understand restoration programs in wetlands and how they relate to the carbon sequestration cycle.
1 Start year 2019 for well reclamation.
2 Start year 2016 for caribou habitat restoration.
Biodiversity at a glance
- We currently have nearly 15,000 acres in various stages of active reclamation at our operations.
- As part of our Caribou Habitat Restoration Project, we’ve restored more than 1,200 km of linear forest disturbances to date (e.g., old seismic lines, pipeline corridors, access roads).