Quantifying land use of oil sands production: A life cycle perspective

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Jordaan, Sarah M ^a   Keith, David W ^a   Stelfox, Brad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Box 805   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; MINING; NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; OIL SANDS;

ENERGY DEVELOPMENT; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; IN-SITU EXTRACTIONS; IN-SITU PRODUCTION; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVES; NATURAL-GAS PRODUCTION;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 67650233368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/2/024004     Document Type: Article

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