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Unconventional Crude.(Alberta; land development; oil exploration)
The town of Fort McMurray occupies a set of irregularly spaced hillsides on either side of the Athabasca River, in northern Alberta. It has a dozen check-cashing joints, a roughly equal number of hotels, and a gaming center called the Boomtown Casino. It also has a museum, which is devoted to the region's most important resource, the Alberta tar sands. Exhibits include an eight-foot-long rotor, half of a hundred-and-fifty-ton truck, and a pump of Brobdingnagian proportions. Near the entrance to the museum sits a black mound covered by a clear plastic dome. A sign invites visitors to scratch around in the mound with a little retractable rake, then lift up a flap and take a ...
- MEDIA ADVISORY: KAIROS Tar Sands Delegation Meets Fort McMurray Community and...
- News wire article from: Canadian Corporate News May 25, 2009 700+ words
...484 Signal Road, Fort McMurray WHEN: May 25...in the Athabasca tar sands. To listen, discuss...about the Alberta tar sands projects and their...Northern Alberta tar sands and affected communities...representatives in Edmonton, Fort McMurray and Fort ...
- Capital Reserve Canada Acquires Key Strategic Assets Near Fort McMurray.
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 31, 2006 700+ words
...Two Hills, Alberta is accessible from Fort McMurray Alberta, Canada's premiere tar sands production site. This acquisition brings...whereby CRC may participate in the nearby Fort McMurray tar sands and other oil and gas projects. Two Hills...
- Uranium Power Corporation: Suspended well re-entry program planned for April...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 28, 2002 700+ words
...AOC 7-32-89-10 well near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. The current...adjacent to and below the Athabasca Tar Sands Deposit it is expected that this...deposit, approximately 5 miles from Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. For further...
- Fort McMurray: future city of the far north*.(Geographical Record)
- Magazine article from: The Geographical Review Krim, Arthur April 1, 2003 700+ words
...August 2002 visit to Fort McMurray was to assess its...rapid growth of Fort McMurray is founded on the...Athabasca oil-tar sands that underlie the...set the bounds of Fort McMurray before the oil-tar sands were developed in...
- Tar sands: environmental justice, treaty rights and indigenous peoples.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Thomas-Muller, Clayton March 1, 2008 700+ words
...indigenous communities of Fort McMurray, Fort McKay and Fort Chipewyan. The tar-sands development around Fort McMurray and Fort McKay is located...Athabasca River basin. Current tar-sands development has completely...
- Faulty environmental assessment of Tar Sands Project.(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Mackintosh, Karen May 1, 2008 700+ words
Environmentalists have won a landmark lawsuit against the Kearl Tar Sands Project north of Fort McMurray. Ecojustice filed a federal lawsuit in 2007 challenging a federal-provincial report that concluded the project is not likely...
- Uranium Power Corporation - Acquisition Of The Firebag Oil Play, Fort McMurray,...
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 16, 2002 700+ words
...interest. The Firebag Play is located within the Athabasca Tar Sands Deposit, which is the world's largest hydrocarbon...exceeding 1.3 trillion barrels oil. Production from the Tar Sands will exceed 2 million barrels oil per day by 2003...
- Png Ventures Inc.: Deep Drilling Progress Report Athabasca Oil Prospect Fort...
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 27, 2002 700+ words
...expected in more fracture zones to depth. The data compiled to date suggests that a source of the petroleum in the Athabasca Tar Sands may exist at depth. In addition, on reviewing the seismic data from the primary target, it may have porosity of 8% to 10...