[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fsolonetzic-soils-explained":3,"learn-related-how-to\u002Fsolonetzic-soils-explained":335},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":313,"createdAt":313,"cta":314,"description":317,"extension":318,"icon":313,"industry":319,"keywords":320,"meta":326,"navigation":327,"path":328,"province":313,"relatedPages":313,"section":329,"seo":330,"stem":331,"systems":332,"updatedAt":313,"__hash__":334},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fsolonetzic-soils-explained.md","Solonetzic Soils: Salt-Affected Problem Soils on the Prairies",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":301},"minimark",[9,14,23,28,31,53,56,60,63,83,86,112,116,127,155,159,165,171,177,188,192,212,216,219,245,248,252,272,276],[10,11,13],"h1",{"id":12},"solonetzic-soils","Solonetzic Soils",[15,16,17,18,22],"p",{},"Solonetzic soils are the problem-soil class on the Prairies. They form where sodium accumulates in the soil profile, creating a dense, hard B horizon that restricts root growth, holds water poorly, and resists tillage. On a parcel report, the soil order ",[19,20,21],"strong",{},"Solonetzic"," is the flag worth paying attention to — these parcels behave very differently from neighbouring Chernozem ground even though they sit inside the same agricultural belt.",[24,25,27],"h2",{"id":26},"where-solonetzic-soils-sit","Where Solonetzic soils sit",[15,29,30],{},"Solonetzic patches occur throughout the Chernozemic belt but cluster in three areas:",[32,33,34,41,47],"ul",{},[35,36,37,40],"li",{},[19,38,39],{},"Central Saskatchewan"," — the broadest Solonetzic distribution in Canada, especially north and east of Saskatoon",[35,42,43,46],{},[19,44,45],{},"East-central Alberta"," — patches around Vermilion, Camrose, and Wainwright",[35,48,49,52],{},[19,50,51],{},"South-central Alberta"," — smaller patches around Drumheller and Brooks",[15,54,55],{},"These aren't huge contiguous areas — a typical Solonetzic patch is patchwork-scale, scattered through otherwise Black or Dark Brown Chernozem zones. A 160-acre quarter section can be entirely Chernozemic, entirely Solonetzic, or a mix.",[24,57,59],{"id":58},"what-makes-them-solonetzic","What makes them Solonetzic",[15,61,62],{},"Three structural features distinguish Solonetzic soils:",[32,64,65,71,77],{},[35,66,67,70],{},[19,68,69],{},"Sodium-enriched B horizon"," — exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) above ~15%. The sodium disperses clay particles, causing the B horizon to slump and harden when wet, then crust when dry.",[35,72,73,76],{},[19,74,75],{},"Columnar or prismatic structure"," — the B horizon often shows tall, narrow columns with rounded tops when exposed in soil pits. Distinctive.",[35,78,79,82],{},[19,80,81],{},"Surface salinity"," — sometimes visible as white salt crusts on the surface in dry years, especially in low-lying areas of a quarter.",[15,84,85],{},"The cropping implications:",[32,87,88,94,100,106],{},[35,89,90,93],{},[19,91,92],{},"Restricted root depth"," — roots can't penetrate the hard B horizon, so the effective root zone is shallow. Crops dry out faster in mid-summer.",[35,95,96,99],{},[19,97,98],{},"Patchy emergence"," — Solonetzic patches within a field often have poor stand establishment, leading to variable yield across the parcel.",[35,101,102,105],{},[19,103,104],{},"Lower base yield"," — typical penalty is 20-40% below the surrounding Chernozemic ground, depending on severity.",[35,107,108,111],{},[19,109,110],{},"Slow to respond to fertilizer"," — added nutrients move poorly in the dense profile.",[24,113,115],{"id":114},"how-to-spot-solonetzic-on-a-parcel-report","How to spot Solonetzic on a parcel report",[15,117,118,119,123,124,126],{},"When ",[120,121,122],"code",{},"\u002Fparcel\u002F[lld]"," returns soil order = ",[19,125,21],{},":",[32,128,129,132,141,148],{},[35,130,131],{},"This is the warning flag. The parcel has meaningful productivity headwinds vs. surrounding Chernozemic ground.",[35,133,134,135,140],{},"Cross-reference ",[136,137,139],"a",{"href":138},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Flsrs-soil-productivity-score","LSRS class"," — Solonetzic typically scores class 4-5 even in otherwise productive zones.",[35,142,134,143,147],{},[136,144,146],{"href":145},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faafc-crop-history-quarter-section","AAFC crop history"," — Solonetzic parcels often run shorter rotations (canola-wheat) without pulses, because pulses respond poorly to dense profiles.",[35,149,150,151,154],{},"The v2 SLC ingest will add an ",[120,152,153],{},"is_solonetzic"," flag that surfaces even when the dominant order is something else (Solonetzic patches inside a mostly-Chernozemic polygon).",[24,156,158],{"id":157},"what-solonetzic-means-for-buyers-lessees-and-operators","What Solonetzic means for buyers, lessees, and operators",[15,160,161,164],{},[19,162,163],{},"Buyers"," — Solonetzic ground should be discounted vs. surrounding Chernozemic value. Per-acre productivity is meaningfully lower, and rehabilitation is expensive (gypsum + deep tillage + drainage management, over multi-year programs). The right buy price reflects the productivity gap.",[15,166,167,170],{},[19,168,169],{},"Lessees"," — a Solonetzic-heavy parcel will yield poorly in dry years and is risky to bid up. Confirm via the parcel report before committing per-acre rent.",[15,172,173,176],{},[19,174,175],{},"Operators with Solonetzic patches in otherwise-good ground"," — manage them differently. Less aggressive tillage, careful drainage, gypsum amendment where economically justified. Some operators map the Solonetzic patches and adjust seeding rates and fertilizer placement in those zones.",[15,178,179,182,183,187],{},[19,180,181],{},"Investors"," — the ",[136,184,186],{"href":185},"\u002Fapp\u002Fterritory","Territory & Prospecting tool"," can surface Solonetzic-heavy zones to avoid. Combined with LSRS, the filter lets you screen for \"Chernozemic only, no Solonetzic\" portfolios.",[24,189,191],{"id":190},"common-combinations","Common combinations",[32,193,194,200,206],{},[35,195,196,199],{},[19,197,198],{},"Solonetzic + LSRS class 4-5 + short rotations:"," Problem-soil parcel with confirmed productivity penalty.",[35,201,202,205],{},[19,203,204],{},"Solonetzic + low diversity index (canola-canola):"," Often a sign of operator giving up on rotation complexity because the pulses don't perform.",[35,207,208,211],{},[19,209,210],{},"Chernozemic dominant + Solonetzic flag (v2):"," Mostly-good ground with patches that need different management.",[24,213,215],{"id":214},"rehabilitation-prospects","Rehabilitation prospects",[15,217,218],{},"Solonetzic soils can be improved, but slowly:",[32,220,221,227,233,239],{},[35,222,223,226],{},[19,224,225],{},"Gypsum"," — calcium displaces sodium on exchange sites. Improvement over 3-7 years.",[35,228,229,232],{},[19,230,231],{},"Deep tillage"," — fractures the dense B horizon. One-time investment with multi-year benefits.",[35,234,235,238],{},[19,236,237],{},"Drainage"," — for low-lying Solonetzic patches, managing the water table reduces salt accumulation.",[35,240,241,244],{},[19,242,243],{},"Forage cropping"," — alfalfa with deep root systems contributes biological remediation.",[15,246,247],{},"None of this is cheap or fast. For most operators, the better economic decision is to manage Solonetzic ground differently (lower inputs, lower expectations) rather than rehabilitate.",[24,249,251],{"id":250},"what-solonetzic-is-not","What Solonetzic is NOT",[32,253,254,260,266],{},[35,255,256,259],{},[19,257,258],{},"Not saline."," Saline soils have excess soluble salts overall; Solonetzic specifically refers to sodium-dominated exchange. Both are problems; they're distinct.",[35,261,262,265],{},[19,263,264],{},"Not always visible from the surface."," A Solonetzic B horizon can sit under a normal-looking topsoil. The diagnostic is the dense B, not the surface appearance.",[35,267,268,271],{},[19,269,270],{},"Not a single bad-soil category."," Severity varies — borderline Solonetzic parcels still farm reasonably well; severe Solonetzic ground is essentially abandonment-grade.",[24,273,275],{"id":274},"related","Related",[32,277,278,284,290,295],{},[35,279,280],{},[136,281,283],{"href":282},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fchernozemic-soils-explained","Chernozemic Soils Explained",[35,285,286],{},[136,287,289],{"href":288},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fsoil-landscapes-canada-vs-lsrs","SLC vs LSRS: which to read when",[35,291,292],{},[136,293,294],{"href":138},"LSRS Soil Productivity Score",[35,296,297],{},[136,298,300],{"href":299},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Ffarmland-due-diligence-soil-and-crop","Farmland Due Diligence: Soil and Crop Checks",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":304},"",2,[305,306,307,308,309,310,311,312],{"id":26,"depth":303,"text":27},{"id":58,"depth":303,"text":59},{"id":114,"depth":303,"text":115},{"id":157,"depth":303,"text":158},{"id":190,"depth":303,"text":191},{"id":214,"depth":303,"text":215},{"id":250,"depth":303,"text":251},{"id":274,"depth":303,"text":275},null,{"label":315,"href":316},"Pull a parcel report","\u002Fparcel\u002FSE-14-29-21-W2","Solonetzic soils are sodium-affected with dense, hard-pan B horizons. Patches inside the Chernozemic belt mean meaningful productivity penalties — here's how to spot them on a parcel report.","md","agriculture",[321,322,323,324,325],"solonetzic soils","salt affected soil alberta","sodium soil prairie","solonetz quarter section","problem soils ag belt",{},true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fsolonetzic-soils-explained","how-to",{"title":5,"description":317},"learn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fsolonetzic-soils-explained",[333],"DLS","kzJHZYEVhoMPuOjpcqLOihBWxDM5cDzFS2e4em2Wugs",[336,527,773],{"id":337,"title":338,"body":339,"category":313,"createdAt":313,"cta":514,"description":515,"extension":318,"icon":313,"industry":319,"keywords":516,"meta":522,"navigation":327,"path":145,"province":313,"relatedPages":313,"section":329,"seo":523,"stem":524,"systems":525,"updatedAt":313,"__hash__":526},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faafc-crop-history-quarter-section.md","AAFC Crop History: Look Up 5 Years of What's Been Grown on Any Quarter Section",{"type":7,"value":340,"toc":507},[341,345,348,352,359,385,388,392,398,404,415,421,425,428,450,454,473,481,483],[10,342,344],{"id":343},"aafc-crop-history-per-quarter-section","AAFC Crop History per Quarter Section",[15,346,347],{},"Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) publishes a national raster called the Annual Crop Inventory (ACI). Each ~30m pixel carries an integer crop class — canola, spring wheat, soybean, fallow, etc. — for each growing season from 2009 onward. Township Canada aggregates the most recent five years to a per-cell summary and surfaces it on every parcel report.",[24,349,351],{"id":350},"what-the-summary-returns","What the summary returns",[15,353,354,355,358],{},"For any quarter section in Alberta or Saskatchewan, the AAFC crop summary card on ",[120,356,357],{},"\u002Fparcel\u002F\u003Clld>"," returns:",[32,360,361,367,373,379],{},[35,362,363,366],{},[19,364,365],{},"Dominant crop"," — the crop class that occupies the most acres across the 5-year window",[35,368,369,372],{},[19,370,371],{},"Rotation"," — the year-by-year sequence of dominant crops (e.g., Canola → Wheat → Canola → Lentil → Canola)",[35,374,375,378],{},[19,376,377],{},"Shannon diversity index"," — a 0-1 measure of how varied the rotation is (0 = monoculture, ~1 = even mix of several crops)",[35,380,381,384],{},[19,382,383],{},"Years covered"," — which years are included in the aggregate",[15,386,387],{},"The pipeline reprojects each year's raster, takes the modal crop class per 1km vector cell, and joins to AAFC's published colour table. Coverage extends across Alberta and Saskatchewan; the layer can be toggled as a full map overlay at the Ag Farmer tier and above.",[24,389,391],{"id":390},"how-to-use-it","How to use it",[15,393,394,397],{},[19,395,396],{},"For farmers checking a new lease."," Before signing, pull the report on the parcel. If the dominant crop is wheat-monoculture for five straight years, that's relevant — both for understanding what came off and for nitrogen\u002Fdisease pressure planning. If the rotation is canola-wheat-canola-wheat, that's a different signal.",[15,399,400,403],{},[19,401,402],{},"For agronomists prepping visits."," A territory of 20 parcels with dominant crop and diversity already in the report lets the agronomist build the visit list around what's actually growing — soybean visits in one cluster, canola in another.",[15,405,406,409,410,414],{},[19,407,408],{},"For carbon project developers."," The Alberta TIER Conservation Cropping protocol requires historical crop history per parcel. The per-parcel AAFC summary serves this directly without a manual GIS query against AAFC's published rasters. See ",[136,411,413],{"href":412},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fcarbon-credits-legal-land-descriptions","Alberta carbon credits legal land descriptions",".",[15,416,417,420],{},[19,418,419],{},"For investors underwriting a portfolio."," Dominant crop and diversity across 60 candidate parcels give a quick read on intensification level — high-canola, low-diversity portfolios behave differently than mixed grain-pulse-oilseed portfolios in price-shock years.",[24,422,424],{"id":423},"whats-not-in-the-summary","What's not in the summary",[15,426,427],{},"A few clarifications:",[32,429,430,437,443],{},[35,431,432,433,436],{},"It's ",[19,434,435],{},"modal per pixel, then aggregated"," — a quarter section that grew canola on 60% and wheat on 40% reports canola as dominant, not \"60% canola \u002F 40% wheat.\" The parcel-level acreage breakdown is in the underlying data; the surfaced summary picks a single dominant.",[35,438,432,439,442],{},[19,440,441],{},"observed, not declared."," AAFC ACI is satellite-derived; what gets reported is what the imagery sees. A canola crop that failed in May and got reseeded to oats may show as oats; an unseeded fallow shows as fallow.",[35,444,445,446,449],{},"The rotation is ",[19,447,448],{},"chronological",", not most-recent-first. Year 5 (oldest) → Year 1 (newest).",[24,451,453],{"id":452},"coverage","Coverage",[32,455,456,462,467],{},[35,457,458,461],{},[19,459,460],{},"Alberta:"," full coverage",[35,463,464,461],{},[19,465,466],{},"Saskatchewan:",[35,468,469,472],{},[19,470,471],{},"Manitoba, BC, Ontario:"," partial; AAFC publishes for the agricultural land base only",[15,474,475,476,480],{},"See the ",[136,477,479],{"href":478},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fdata-layers\u002Faafc-crop-inventory","AAFC layer reference"," for the data pipeline.",[24,482,275],{"id":274},[32,484,485,489,496,501],{},[35,486,487],{},[136,488,294],{"href":138},[35,490,491],{},[136,492,493,494],{"href":316},"Parcel report at ",[120,495,122],{},[35,497,498],{},[136,499,500],{"href":412},"Alberta Carbon Credits Legal Land Descriptions",[35,502,503],{},[136,504,506],{"href":505},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsaskatchewan-quarter-section-guide-grain-farmers-scic-filers","Saskatchewan Quarter Section Guide for Grain Farmers",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":508},[509,510,511,512,513],{"id":350,"depth":303,"text":351},{"id":390,"depth":303,"text":391},{"id":423,"depth":303,"text":424},{"id":452,"depth":303,"text":453},{"id":274,"depth":303,"text":275},{"label":315,"href":316},"AAFC's Annual Crop Inventory shows dominant crop per pixel since 2009. Township Canada aggregates it to a 5-year rolling per-quarter summary with rotation and diversity score.",[517,518,519,520,521],"aafc crop history","crop history quarter section","what was grown on this parcel","aafc annual crop inventory","5 year crop rotation lookup",{},{"title":338,"description":515},"learn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faafc-crop-history-quarter-section",[333],"LEUX2tZFsJoDRyPH08HITsQ9QWBP7Y5_dJDRUHljFLE",{"id":528,"title":529,"body":530,"category":313,"createdAt":313,"cta":757,"description":759,"extension":318,"icon":313,"industry":760,"keywords":761,"meta":766,"navigation":327,"path":767,"province":768,"relatedPages":313,"section":329,"seo":769,"stem":770,"systems":771,"updatedAt":313,"__hash__":772},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-facilities-eight-categories.md","AER Facilities Map: 8 Categories from 40+ Petrinex Sub-codes",{"type":7,"value":531,"toc":749},[532,536,539,543,654,661,665,668,671,675,681,687,693,699,703,706,708,721,723],[10,533,535],{"id":534},"aer-facilities-map-8-customer-facing-categories","AER Facilities Map — 8 Customer-Facing Categories",[15,537,538],{},"The AER's ST102 facilities dataset lists every licensed midstream and processing facility in Alberta — batteries, gas plants, compressor stations, disposal wells, custom treaters, terminals, water source wells. The raw dataset uses 40+ Petrinex sub-codes for fine-grained facility typing. Township Canada collapses these into eight customer-facing buckets so the data catalog UI stays readable and the icons mean something visually.",[24,540,542],{"id":541},"the-eight-categories","The eight categories",[544,545,546,562],"table",{},[547,548,549],"thead",{},[550,551,552,556,559],"tr",{},[553,554,555],"th",{},"Category",[553,557,558],{},"Petrinex sub-codes covered",[553,560,561],{},"What it represents",[563,564,565,577,588,599,610,621,632,643],"tbody",{},[550,566,567,571,574],{},[568,569,570],"td",{},"Battery",[568,572,573],{},"Multi-well, single-well, group, oil sands batteries",[568,575,576],{},"Crude\u002Fmultiphase production facility — typically the first downstream point from wells",[550,578,579,582,585],{},[568,580,581],{},"Gas plant",[568,583,584],{},"Gas processing, sweet, sour, dehydration",[568,586,587],{},"Gas treatment \u002F processing",[550,589,590,593,596],{},[568,591,592],{},"Compressor",[568,594,595],{},"Compressor station, booster, gathering compressor",[568,597,598],{},"Pressure-boosting along the gas transport path",[550,600,601,604,607],{},[568,602,603],{},"Disposal",[568,605,606],{},"Acid gas disposal, water disposal, salt cavern, deep well",[568,608,609],{},"Sub-surface disposal of produced water, acid gas, etc.",[550,611,612,615,618],{},[568,613,614],{},"Custom treating",[568,616,617],{},"Custom-treating facility",[568,619,620],{},"Third-party processing for non-operator volumes",[550,622,623,626,629],{},[568,624,625],{},"Terminal",[568,627,628],{},"Pipeline terminal, truck terminal, rail terminal",[568,630,631],{},"Crude\u002Fcondensate transfer and storage",[550,633,634,637,640],{},[568,635,636],{},"Water source",[568,638,639],{},"Water source wells, fresh water facilities",[568,641,642],{},"Source of water for industrial use (frac, injection)",[550,644,645,648,651],{},[568,646,647],{},"Other",[568,649,650],{},"Anything not in the above (typically rare or unusual facility types)",[568,652,653],{},"Catch-all",[15,655,656,657,660],{},"The category mapping lives in ",[120,658,659],{},"app.categorize_facility()"," on the database. Updates land alongside AER ST102 publication cycles.",[24,662,664],{"id":663},"how-the-map-renders","How the map renders",[15,666,667],{},"Each category gets a distinct icon style on the map, sized to be readable at zoom 8 (province scale) without overcrowding. Labels use the facility name; clicking a facility opens a popover with the licensee, status, full Petrinex sub-code, and DLS legal description.",[15,669,670],{},"The layer is part of the Energy Bundle data catalog. Toggle it on alongside AER Wells and AER Pipelines for the full midstream view.",[24,672,674],{"id":673},"use-cases","Use cases",[15,676,677,680],{},[19,678,679],{},"Operators evaluating new tie-in options"," — Batteries and compressors near a proposed wellsite are the candidate destinations for new pipeline. The 8-category breakdown lets you filter to just the relevant facility types in a single click.",[15,682,683,686],{},[19,684,685],{},"Custom treaters and water source operators identifying coverage gaps"," — toggling just the Custom Treating or Water Source categories surfaces the geographic distribution; useful for siting new capacity.",[15,688,689,692],{},[19,690,691],{},"Acid gas disposal planning"," — the Disposal category surfaces existing acid gas disposal wells; new injection projects need to evaluate proximity to existing infrastructure for risk assessment.",[15,694,695,698],{},[19,696,697],{},"Closure obligation analysts"," — facilities follow a similar lifecycle to wells (active, suspended, abandoned, reclamation-certified). The lifecycle filter applies here too.",[24,700,702],{"id":701},"why-the-categorization-is-worth-the-work","Why the categorization is worth the work",[15,704,705],{},"A raw dump of all 40+ Petrinex sub-codes produces an unreadable map — the icon set has too many similar-looking types and customers spend time figuring out what each one means rather than acting on the data. The 8-bucket model maps to how operators actually think about midstream infrastructure: where does the production go (battery), how does it get processed (gas plant, custom treating), how is it moved (compressor, terminal), and what's the disposal pattern (disposal).",[24,707,453],{"id":452},[32,709,710,715],{},[35,711,712,714],{},[19,713,460],{}," full AER ST102 coverage",[35,716,717,720],{},[19,718,719],{},"Saskatchewan, BC:"," not yet — see roadmap",[24,722,275],{"id":274},[32,724,725,731,737,743],{},[35,726,727],{},[136,728,730],{"href":729},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-wells-lifecycle-status","AER Wells Lifecycle Status",[35,732,733],{},[136,734,736],{"href":735},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-pipelines-map","AER Pipelines Map",[35,738,739],{},[136,740,742],{"href":741},"\u002Ffor\u002Foil-and-gas","Township Canada for Oil and Gas Operators",[35,744,745],{},[136,746,748],{"href":747},"\u002Fuse-cases\u002Fenergy","Energy use case overview",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":750},[751,752,753,754,755,756],{"id":541,"depth":303,"text":542},{"id":663,"depth":303,"text":664},{"id":673,"depth":303,"text":674},{"id":701,"depth":303,"text":702},{"id":452,"depth":303,"text":453},{"id":274,"depth":303,"text":275},{"label":758,"href":741},"See the Energy Bundle","Township Canada collapses AER ST102 facility sub-codes into 8 clean categories (battery, gas plant, compressor, disposal, etc.) so the catalog UI stays readable across the full Alberta dataset.","oil-and-gas",[762,763,764,765],"aer facilities map alberta","aer st102 facilities","battery gas plant compressor map","alberta oil gas facility types",{},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-facilities-eight-categories","alberta",{"title":529,"description":759},"learn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-facilities-eight-categories",[333],"gussaU14ivYFnAcyL1Q1HksoKdSgOKBc-i7XY_L9B_c",{"id":774,"title":775,"body":776,"category":313,"createdAt":313,"cta":931,"description":932,"extension":318,"icon":313,"industry":760,"keywords":933,"meta":938,"navigation":327,"path":735,"province":768,"relatedPages":313,"section":329,"seo":939,"stem":940,"systems":941,"updatedAt":313,"__hash__":942},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-pipelines-map.md","AER Pipelines Map: Visualize Alberta Oil and Gas Pipelines on the DLS Grid",{"type":7,"value":777,"toc":924},[778,781,784,788,812,819,823,829,835,841,847,853,857,860,880,882,893,900,902],[10,779,736],{"id":780},"aer-pipelines-map",[15,782,783],{},"Alberta has roughly half a million kilometres of licensed pipeline distributed across natural gas, crude oil, multiphase, water disposal, fuel gas, and CO2 service. Every segment is licensed by the Alberta Energy Regulator and tracked by start\u002Fend DLS legal land descriptions. Township Canada renders the full network as a line layer on the same map as wells, facilities, and parcels.",[24,785,787],{"id":786},"what-the-layer-shows","What the layer shows",[32,789,790,796,806],{},[35,791,792,795],{},[19,793,794],{},"Line geometry"," for every AER-licensed pipeline segment",[35,797,798,801,802,805],{},[19,799,800],{},"Mid-point label points"," computed via ",[120,803,804],{},"ST_LineInterpolatePoint"," — drops the label at the centre of each segment so the line layer stays readable at low zoom",[35,807,808,811],{},[19,809,810],{},"Stack ordering"," with the line beneath label points so the geometry stays visible when labels are toggled",[15,813,814,815,818],{},"The PMTiles for the pipeline layer use ",[120,816,817],{},"--coalesce-densest-as-needed"," to keep southern-Alberta tile sizes manageable. In central-southwest Alberta where the density is highest (5000+ segments per township in a few areas), the PMTiles pipeline collapses adjacent segments at low zoom so the visual stays legible.",[24,820,822],{"id":821},"use-cases-by-role","Use cases by role",[15,824,825,828],{},[19,826,827],{},"Operators planning new gathering infrastructure"," — toggle the pipelines layer to see existing tie-in candidates near a proposed wellsite. Cross-reference with the AER Facilities layer (battery, gas plant, compressor, etc.) to identify the actual destination points.",[15,830,831,834],{},[19,832,833],{},"Integrity teams"," — for a planned ILI (in-line inspection) campaign, the layer shows the segments to schedule against. The mid-point labels make it straightforward to identify named lines from the map view.",[15,836,837,840],{},[19,838,839],{},"Right-of-way planning"," — for a new pipeline corridor, the existing network lets the engineering team identify parallel-routing opportunities (sharing existing ROW corridors saves environmental assessment time) and proximity conflicts.",[15,842,843,846],{},[19,844,845],{},"M&A diligence"," — when evaluating an acquisition target's infrastructure footprint, the pipelines layer plus the AER Wells layer plus the BA licensee snapshot API give a full picture without round-tripping the AER directives portal.",[15,848,849,852],{},[19,850,851],{},"Surface-rights holders"," — when a pipeline crosses your land, knowing the licensee and the line ID is the first step to engaging on integrity, leak history, or right-of-way maintenance.",[24,854,856],{"id":855},"combining-with-other-layers","Combining with other layers",[15,858,859],{},"The pipelines layer is most useful in combination:",[32,861,862,868,874],{},[35,863,864,867],{},[19,865,866],{},"+ Wells layer"," — shows which wells are tied into which lines; especially relevant for shut-in or suspended wells where the gathering infrastructure remains",[35,869,870,873],{},[19,871,872],{},"+ Facilities layer"," — shows the destination batteries, gas plants, and compressors that the lines connect to",[35,875,876,879],{},[19,877,878],{},"+ Crown dispositions overlay (planned)"," — shows the surface dispositions (PIL, LOC) that license the right-of-way",[24,881,453],{"id":452},[32,883,884,889],{},[35,885,886,888],{},[19,887,460],{}," full AER coverage",[35,890,891,720],{},[19,892,719],{},[15,894,895,896,899],{},"The pipeline layer ships as part of the Energy Bundle. See the ",[136,897,898],{"href":747},"Energy use case page"," for the full layer set.",[24,901,275],{"id":274},[32,903,904,908,914,918],{},[35,905,906],{},[136,907,730],{"href":729},[35,909,910],{},[136,911,913],{"href":912},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fdata-layers\u002Faer-wells","Wells data layer reference",[35,915,916],{},[136,917,742],{"href":741},[35,919,920],{},[136,921,923],{"href":922},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdls-tools-alberta-well-closure","DLS Tools for Alberta Well Closure",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":925},[926,927,928,929,930],{"id":786,"depth":303,"text":787},{"id":821,"depth":303,"text":822},{"id":855,"depth":303,"text":856},{"id":452,"depth":303,"text":453},{"id":274,"depth":303,"text":275},{"label":758,"href":741},"Township Canada renders every AER-licensed pipeline as a line layer with mid-point labels. For operators, integrity teams, and right-of-way planning.",[934,935,936,937],"aer pipelines map alberta","alberta pipeline gis layer","oil gas pipelines dls","pipeline integrity mapping",{},{"title":775,"description":932},"learn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-pipelines-map",[333],"pgR71Mu7_uVsfeZ2ASo-sjORRtvs9bKuegw3ZuVHeR0"]