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Oil Sands Pain Spreads to Canada's Far-Flung Eastern Shores
2015-03-20 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Cory Troke joined the exodus west two years ago, leaving scenic but job-scarce Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, after being laid off as a machinist. Troke, 37, headed to the Alberta oilsands, apprenticing as a pipefitter and finding 19 months of steady work, flying in for two weeks, returning home for one. By October Troke was out of work again, and he was not alone. A downturn driven by tumbling crude prices is causing turmoil in an island economy that has grown dependent on workers commuting more...
Is there a cancer cluster around the Alberta Tar Sands
2015-02-26 13:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: In 2006, Canadian doctor John OConnor made a startling realization. Specialists had diagnosed three of his patients in the northern Alberta village of Fort Chipewyan with cholangiocarcinoma -- a deadly cancer of the bile duct. The same cancer had killed his own father years earlier in Ireland. Only about one in 100,000 Canadians contracts this type of cancer, so the likelihood of three cases in a town of about 950 was minuscule. OConnor suspected pollution from Albertas tar sands, 100 miles...
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Imperial Oil to construct new oil sands research facility in Calgary
2015-02-20 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Canadian petroleum firm Imperial Oil will construct a new oil sands research centre in southeast Calgary.
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Anti-Oil Sands Activists in the U.S. Are Getting Visits from the FBI
2015-02-09 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States - knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members. The visitors are federal agents. Opponents of Canadian oil say they've been contacted by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to Canada's oilsands. A lawyer working with the protesters says he's personally aware of a dozen people having been contacted in...
Lower Oil Prices Strike at Heart of Canada's Oil Sands Production
2015-02-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Time: For as long as 400-ton dump trucks have been rumbling around the open pit mines of Canadas oil sands, crews from Kal Tire have been on hand to replace and repair their $70,000, 13-foot diameter tires. But the relationship, going back over a decade, didnt spare the company when oil prices began plummeting. Dan Allan, the senior vice president of Kals mining tire unit, said that customers immediately began looking for price concessions. Others asked Kal to withdraw personnel from some sites or...
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