Progressive reclamation

Upstream reclamation performance

Over the past 40 years, Imperial’s operations in the oil sands region have impacted approximately 15,000 hectares, or 0.0375 per cent of Alberta’s boreal forest. This includes our in situ operation at Cold Lake (3,704 hectares), our oil sands mining operation at Kearl (10,657 hectares) and early work at our Aspen development (509 hectares).

To the end of 2022, more than 800 hectares have been cumulatively reclaimed at Kearl and Cold Lake. In addition:

• Since 1999, Imperial has planted almost 1.7 million trees and shrubs to support reclamation activities at our Cold Lake operations.
• In total, approximately 18.5 per cent of Cold Lake’s footprint has been permanently reclaimed.
• Imperial has collected and banked seeds from over 60 species of native plants to support progressive reclamation at Kearl.
• Imperial is also a member of the Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative (OSVC), which funds the harvest and banking of native plant seeds and research into seed storage.

_FOOTNOTES

¹_{Reclamation certificates issued by the Alberta Energy Regulator on two OSE programs that included 32 sites.}
²_{LiDAR = Laser imaging, detection and ranging.}