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Oil Sands

posted by [personal profile] elanya at 09:48am on 20/12/2007 under , ,
I talk a lot about the oil sands, and how they are a horrible blight on the Canadian landscape, but I don't know that a lot of my American friends always know what I am talking about. I got a link to these two pieces by the national, a CBC new program, so I thought I would post so you could have a better understanding:

Crude Awakening Part One - environmental impact stuff.
Crude Awakenings Part Two - more of the same.

A Town's Toxic Questions - a write up on some of the impact of the oil sands on Fort Chipewyan. This is where my friend [livejournal.com profile] ladyiolanthe lives, and I thank her for the links!

There are a lot of social problems cause by the oil sands that aren't covered by this video, though - like the fact that they dropped the legal working age in Alberta because they couldn't find people to fill service industry jobs. Bleh.
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posted by [identity profile] amaena.livejournal.com at 04:14pm on 20/12/2007
Haha! I know Dr. O'Connor! He was my doctor for many many years!

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posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 04:21pm on 20/12/2007
Health Canada *hates* him right now.
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posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 04:27pm on 20/12/2007
Alternet and The Tyee both have run a lot of articles over the past year about the oil sands. And it's a regular part of the discussion at The Oil Drum: Canada (they lack a search function, though, so it's hard to zero in on).
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posted by [identity profile] ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com at 07:27pm on 20/12/2007
Another social problem is that the oil companies are hiring people right out of high school. So they don't bother going to university because they can get a really high paying job just with their grade 12. It's fine for the short term, but the bitumen reserves are limited. When they are gone in the next 25 years or so (at the current pace of development) what are we going to do with this large workforce who only have the skills and training for an industry that no longer exists?
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posted by [identity profile] celestialbuddah.livejournal.com at 01:44am on 21/12/2007
Well you could do what the mines did and turn the mines into a tourist attraction manned by gruff surley tourism employees and then fail miserably
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