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Canadian Shale Water Recycling and Reuse: 2015 Congress
Op7mizing Water Treatment, Disposal, Storage And Sourcing For Shale Opera7ons In The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Alberta Environment and Parks
Discussing The Recent Changes To And Future Directions Of Alberta Regulations To Enhance Future Operational Security And Regulatory
Compliance
September 16th - 17th, 2015 - Calgary, Canada
Overview
• Context • Provincial Water Management
Philosophy • Hydraulic Fracturing • Moving Forward
Policy Context • Water Conversation (2013) – What we discussed…
– Desire to see increased requirements for water conservation and groundwater protection
– Concern around enforcement of current standards, let alone new requirements
• Growing focus on standards and enforcement – Protection of water, air and land
• Integrated management; Cumulative effects based – Landscape focus, economic/environmental/social lens – Good governance - regulatory, monitoring, policy bodies – Effective planning – regional and sub-regional planning
• Meaningful engagement of Aboriginal Peoples
Alberta Water Alloca7ons (2014)
Municipal 11%
Recreation 0.2%
Water Management 3%
Other Purpose Specified by the Director
1%
Management of Wildlife 1%
Injection (Oil Recovery) 2%
Industrial (Oil, Gas, Petroleum)
8%
Drilling (Developing Oil/Gas Wells) 0.1%
Commercial (Cooling) 23%
Agricultural 2%
Commercial 6%
Management of Fish 0.4%
Habitat Enhancement
1%
Irrigation 41%
Water Conservation Objective
0.02%
Hydraulic Fracturing 0.4%
Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
0.07%
Management Elements
WATER MANAGEMENT HIERARCHY
INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
REDUCE RECYCLE
REUSE
RELEASE
WATER MANAGEMENT HIERARCHY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Keep Clean Water Clean
Fit for Purpose
Use Water Wisely
Adaptive Management
Pollution Prevention
Protect Aquatic
Ecosystem
Hydraulic Fracturing • Just beginning to looking at the system from source to end-
point
• Application of water management elements – Learnings from other areas (e.g. oil sands process affected water)
• Consideration of: – Alternative sources – Net effects tools
• Transportation and storage considerations – Treatment and re-use potential – Injection vs treat and release trends
• Policy Pilots – Cumulative impacts – Collaborative water management – Address growth areas – Identify planning/data/monitoring/other gaps
Moving Forward • Regulatory evolution - Alberta Energy Regulator
– Outcome focused – Geographic and temporal project authorization
• Water Conservation Policy – Sub-regional (multi-sector) with emphasis on collaboration – Support larger scale / longer-term needs including infrastructure – Supported through guidelines to supplement regulatory
requirements
• Enhancement to decision support tools – Evidence-based decision making
• Encouraging technology / innovation in support of responsible water management
– Incentives / dis-incentives – Flexible instruments (e.g. load allocation)