The present Regulation ensures the implementation of the Oil Sands Conservation Act. It contains at the outset a definition clause relating to various terms employed therein, such as “central processing facility”, “commercial scheme”, “evaluation well”, “experimental well”, “liquid spill”, “mine site”, “oil sands strata”, “solution gas”, etc. According to section 3, no operator shall commence, suspend or abandon an oil sands site, an experimental scheme, an in situ operation, a mining operation