The CDA Corporate Award recognizes the Sustaining Members and Corporate Members whose contributions to the dam industry merit recognition. Up to two awards are offered annually. The award may be based on various criteria, including but not limited to:
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Meet, Suncor Energyy, the 2021 recipient :
Suncor takes tailings dam safety and environmental stewardship very seriously and has been implementing a robust dam safety program since they began operations in the Athabasca Oil Sands in the late 1960s. They have successfully constructed dozens of major tailings dams, each one with unique challenges. Suncor’s dam safety program protects the integrity of tailings dam structures through extensive checks and balances for design, construction, and monitoring, including a series of internal and external reviews. They have been innovative in the areas of tailings reduction technologies, reclamation of tailings storage facilities, winter construction of dams, hydraulically placed sand construction and densification as well as maintaining dam safety during the forest fires that crippled the region in 2016 and 2017. |
The previous recipients are:
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Suncor oil sands mining operations are located near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta and include the Millennium and North Steepbank sites, the Suncor-operated Fort Hills mine, as well as the (former Syncrude) operations at Aurora North and Mildred Lake sites.
