Government of Alberta but compiled and maintained by Alberta Data Partnerships formerly Spatial Data Warehouse (http://abdatapartnerships.ca/) and Altalis (http://www.altalis.com/products/property/dispositions/dids.html). In British Columbia, locations of well sites were obtained from British Columbia Agency - Oil and Gas Commission. These data were publically available online and last updated on 30 January 2015 (http://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/ogc-well-sites-public-version). The British Columbia well site dataset contained spatial data collected through the Oil and Gas Commission’s electronic Petroleum Application Submission System (ePASS) on or after October 30, 2006. We removed well sites in the to drill” and of permission before drilling” “permission “cancellation because they were not likely to have occurred on the landscape yet. Also because the data are the center coordinates of the well site we applied a square buffer to make polygons of 1.588 ha (15883 m2) representing a well pad footprint. This buffer size matched the average footprint of well pads in the Alberta dataset. Wild Fires We obtained spatial representation of burned habitat from perimeters of historical wild fires from the Government of Alberta and the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations - Wildfire Management (https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/dwds/viewOrder.do?orderId=1542399). The Alberta wildfire data were updated April 2013 and includes fires from 1931 to 2012 while the British Columbia data were updated April 2014 and included fires from 1917 to 2013.
Government of Alberta but compiled and maintained by Alberta Data Partnerships formerly Spatial Data Warehouse (http://abdatapartnerships.ca/) and Altalis (http://www.altalis.com/products/property/dispositions/dids.html). In British Columbia, locations of well sites were obtained from British Columbia Agency - Oil and Gas Commission. These data were publically available online and last updated on 30 January 2015 (http://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/ogc-well-sites-public-version). The British Columbia well site dataset contained spatial data collected through the Oil and Gas Commission’s electronic Petroleum Application Submission System (ePASS) on or after October 30, 2006. We removed well sites in the “permission to drill” and “cancellation of permission before drilling” because they were not likely to have occurred on the landscape yet. Also because the data are the center coordinates of the well site we applied a square buffer to make polygons of 1.588 ha (15883 m2) representing a well pad footprint. This buffer size matched the average footprint of well pads in the Alberta dataset. Wild Fires We obtained spatial representation of burned habitat from perimeters of historical wild fires from the Government of Alberta and the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations - Wildfire Management (https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/dwds/viewOrder.do?orderId=1542399). The Alberta wildfire data were updated April 2013 and includes fires from 1931 to 2012 while the British Columbia data were updated April 2014 and included fires from 1917 to 2013.
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