I could maybe start.
I think one of the big factors that will hinder some of the reclamation will be that the base, after the mining is done, is very saline, and a lot of the wetland species that naturally occur in the area will not grow under those saline conditions.
There is some work being done in trying to synthesize wetlands from saline-tolerant plants, such as those that occur in Saskatchewan in some of the closed-basin lakes, and come up with something that will fulfill some of the same functions as perhaps a waterfowl habitat.
It won't look the same, clearly. As I mentioned briefly earlier, the aquifers will be disrupted. There will not be the same relationship between aquifers and surface waters, which really are one water body. I suspect the hydrology will get much more flashy. Rain and snowmelt will hit the river and flow downstream rapidly. It will be the sort of situation we see in the Red River basin in Manitoba every spring as a result of land-use change. But those are just predictions.