Although it's in the early stages, we would imagine an annual workshop in Alberta, of one to two days, at which research would be presented in some organized fashion. There would be quite a few poster displays so graduate students could expose their research to people. The workshop would be supported by the companies, Alberta Environment, the Alberta Research Council, the Canadian Water Network, and anybody else who thought it was a good idea.
There would be an attempt to collect at least some ideas, from new tailing strategies, surficial reclamation interests, and water treatment options through to hydrogeology, hydrology, and aquatics. It's very difficult to organize such a broad meeting and have information exchanged in a day and a half, let's say. So it's a real challenge. But that was our view of what we needed. We needed to talk to the engineers and ecologists, or at least have them in the same meeting room for a day so we could bump into them at coffee, if nothing else.