Archive for 2007
Interviews with mostly members of the Fort MacKay and Fort Chipewyan communities, discussing cultural and environmental impacts of living downstream of the tar sands (allegedly causing cancers in these villages) plants
Tags: adobe, arts, Fort, fuels, global, haulers, impact, members, national, news, pollution, Sand, tar sands
On Tuesday, September 25th, shortly after the Premier of Alberta, Ed Stelmach, began his “Alberta: Canada’s engine of growth” luncheon speech at the Sheraton Centre in downtown Toronto, a suited ecoSanity.org volunteer rose in protest with a cloth banner that read GET SANE in bold, black letters on white and repeated the following statement until he was willingly removed: “Mr Stelmach, right now, the people of the most impoverished nations are suffering and dying because of environmentally negligent ventures like the Alberta tar sands. Canadians and the world need a clean, sustainable energy economy, not a pillaging, murderous one
Tags: advertising, fire, flash, gas, glenn, mine, obama, sands, water, wheel
These coker ovens weigh more than 500 tons, 10 meters in diameter, 80 meters long, are are on their way from Edmonton to the oilsands plants at Fort McMurray. They have as many as 7 tractors pulling and pushing, the Scheurle trailer units have 160 wheels each.
Tags: -52, 18%, alberta, bottom, cessco, fort mac, global, have, oilsands, per, reason, side
A news segment on fort mcmurray
Tags: adobe, alberta, city, fort mcmurray, infrastructure, land, oil, oil-sands, politics, tar