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Fear, anxiety as thousands flee their homes in Fort McMurray due to threat of wildfire
Fear, anxiety as thousands flee their homes in Fort McMurray due to threat of wildfire Evacuees directed to Cold Lake, Edmonton for accommodation A highway camera photo shows traffic in Fort McMurray jammed in the southbound lane of Highway 63 on the north side of the Athabasca River. The image was captured at 3:11 p.m. […]
Is This The Beginning Of An Oil Sands Revival?
Is This The Beginning Of An Oil Sands Revival? New life was breathed into the Canadian oil sands with a decision by foreign-owned Harvest Operations Corp to commission its BlackGold project south of Fort McMurray. The Calgary-based arm of South Korean state-owned Korea National Oil Corp announced on Dec. 21 it will start the 10,000 […]
Wildfire Nears Canada’s Major Oil Sands Plants
Wildfire Nears Canada’s Major Oil Sands Plants A massive wildfire raging through the northern part of Alberta has swelled in size and surged north of Fort McMurray, destroying an evacuated oil sands camp on Tuesday and it is projected to encroach on major facilities shortly. The flames consumed a 665-room oil-sands work camp north of […]
We are all Albertans now
We are all Albertans now It would be easy–too easy–to point to the wildfires which have devastated huge areas of northern Alberta near Fort McMurray, the hub of tar sands mining in Canada, and say that Albertans are reaping what they have sown. Yes, it’s true that climate change is coming to one of the very […]
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames Connecting extreme weather events with climate change isn’t exactly a new thing. After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey in 2012, Bloomberg published a front page spread proclaiming, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” For years, major storms, droughts, floods and fires have been connected to climate change. The climate […]
Blowout Week 123
Blowout Week 123 A few careless campers who forgot to extinguish their campfire, or maybe a few kids playing with matches, or a cigarette, or an arsonist, a piece of glass, whatever, have in the last few days done more to bring the global oil market back into balance than OPEC and the rest of […]
Fort Mac Blaze: Brace for New Era of Infernos
Fort Mac Blaze: Brace for New Era of Infernos What’s turning northern forests into tinder? Biggest reason is climate change, but that’s not all. A police officer surveys smoldering devastation wrought by wildfire in Fort McMurray on May 5, 2016. Source: RCMP Alberta. A sudden shift in the wind at a critical time of day […]
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History
Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History The gigantic wildfire that has forced the evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta has been nicknamed “the Beast“, and mainstream news reports are telling us that it is now approximately 25 percent larger than New […]
Chaos & Volatility On The Rise
Chaos & Volatility On The Rise The systems that support us are breaking down No, that’s not a ‘click bait’ sensationalist title. Things are getting ‘weird’ out there if you’re trying to be polite, and downright ‘chaotic’ if you’re being blunt. Everywhere we look, we see signs that the systems that support us are breaking […]
“Out Of Control” Canada Wildfire Could Double In Size Today: Fort McKay Evacuated
“Out Of Control” Canada Wildfire Could Double In Size Today: Fort McKay Evacuated Since we first reported on the massive fire (and the fallout) that was burning in Canada’s oil sands gateway, Fort McMurray, things have gone from bad to worse. Today we learn that the fire that has already devastated 600 square miles, growing an additional 50% […]
As Oil Markets Tighten, Geopolitical Events Matter Again
As Oil Markets Tighten, Geopolitical Events Matter Again Oil prices jumped on Thursday as surprise outages came from Canada and Libya, reversing several days of losses. WTI and Brent surged by more than 4 percent in early trading on May 5. The hellish wildfires sweeping swathes of Alberta near Fort McMurray forced the evacuation of tens of […]
More evacuation orders issued for Fort McMurray area
More evacuation orders issued for Fort McMurray area Anzac, Gregoire Lake Estates and Fort McMurray First Nation forced to evacuate late Wednesday Many evacuees forced from their Fort McMurray homes by wildfire Tuesday are on the move once again. Three communities south of Fort McMurray, one including an evacuation centre, were ordered to leave as changing weather patterns turned […]
A carbon tax is bad for Alberta
A carbon tax is bad for Alberta Yesterday, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley asserted that Canada was “absolutely” closer to a new pipeline due to her province’s new carbon tax. According to the premier, “Alberta is not the Alberta that they thought of a year ago, or two years ago, or three years ago. After years of […]
Explosion At Syncrude’s Mildred Lake Site, All Workers Are Safe
Explosion At Syncrude’s Mildred Lake Site, All Workers Are Safe FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — An explosion at a Syncrude oilsands processing site near Fort McMurray has interrupted operations at the facility. Ryan Bartlett with the Alberta Energy Regulator says the blast happened early Saturday morning at Syncrude’s Mildred Lake site. Bartlett says in an email that the […]
Syncrude bird deaths, Nexen pipeline spill show oilsands’ degradation of ecosystem: First Nation
Syncrude bird deaths, Nexen pipeline spill show oilsands’ degradation of ecosystem: First Nation ‘Something is seriously wrong,’ says Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation The recent bird deaths at a Syncrude oilsands facility in northern Alberta along with last month’s Nexen Energy pipeline spill — one of the biggest in the province’s history — show the need for better oversight, a local […]
