In 1672, the French Nicholas Denys, for the first time ever described the occurrence of coal seams on Cape Breton Island. Since then, coal was mined on the Island to a greater or lesser extent. On December 31, 2009, ‘Cape Breton Development Corporation’ – the endmost large scale mining operator in the Sydney Coal Field – will cease as an entity and will amalgamate into ‘Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation’. Papers presented in this section will deal with the mine water issues of four decades of coal mining on Cape Breton Island by the Corporation and more than three centuries of coal mining on the Island.
Thursday Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Campbell, Belinda; Gauthier, Andre | Development of Remedial Objectives for the former Cape Breton Development Corporation Mine Closure Program (O) |
| Forgeron, Steve Vincent | Protocols for the Remediation of Lands Impacted by Former Coal Mining Operations, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia, Canada (O) |
| Forrester, Dave; Boudreau, Robert | Overcoming the Pitfalls of abandonded mine workings in the Sydney Coalfield (O) |
| Forrester, Dave; King, Mark | Remediation of the Gowrie Wash Plant (O) |
| MacLeod, Glenn P | Innovative Uses of LIDAR Technology to assist in the Remediation of former Coal Mine Sites (O) |
| MacLeod, Glenn; Wolkersdorfer, Christian | A statistically based natural tracer investigation of lithological and hydrogeochemical analyses (O) |
| Shaw, Gerard | ECBC Continuing the Legacy (O) |
| Shea, Joe | Innovative Management Techniques to deal with Mine Water Issues in the Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada Coal Field (O) |
| Wolkersdorfer, Christian | Tracer Test in a Passive Mine Water Treatment Settling Pond in the Sydney Mine Field (O) |
