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The North Slope of Alaska is experiencing yet another oil clean-up due to a spill that occurred Monday at BP’s Milne Point oil field. The 24,400-gallon spill occurred when a tank overflowed onto a gravel pad. It is estimated that 90 percent of the spill is crude oil whereas the other 10 percent is saline [...]
On December 25, 2008, a corroded water-injection pipeline in the Kuparuk oil field of Conoco broke and let loose approximately 95,000 gallons of oil-laced water. One well was closed after the spill and is still closed today awaiting further repairs. Production on North America’s second largest oil field was not effected or slowed in any [...]
Oil products are central to modern society - from Kansas to Kazakhstan - whether we like it or not. Humans have been using oil - in the form of pitch - for thousands of years as a liniment or in construction. Later, it was used as a lighting fuel and then, with the Industrial Revolution, [...]
Alberta is a large province in Canada, located between British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Stretching from the 49th to the 60th parallel it has a diverse landscape that includes dry deserts, foothills, badlands, mountains, prairies and even a bit of tundra. There is also something else it has, and that is oil. The tar sands of [...]
A recent trip brought me face-to-face with some unexpected cultural differences. Although the UK and Canada have many features in common, stemming from some shared history and plenty of immigration,…
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My wife and I were born and raised in the province of Alberta. It is where we met, where our family is, and until we recently moved to British Columbia, it was our home. However, after hearing a…
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Producing ethanol from the cellulose in plant material may end up being be a part of the solution to humanity’s energy woes, but right now the process is expensive, slow and inefficient. Now…
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