#oilsands — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oilsands, aggregated by home.social.
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"The most active #fossilfuel #lobbyists were the companies making up the Oil Sands Alliance – an alliance of the largest #oilsands companies, who are behind the Pathways CCS project – with a total of 305 meetings." https://environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/06/fossil-fuel-lobbying-skyrockets-in-first-year-of-pm-carneys-government/
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They Are Dying. And #Canada Is Watching.
#Mikisew #Cree’s own health study confirms what the community has always known: the #OilSands are killing them. If governments and industry don’t act, they say they will shut it all down.
by Brandi Morin
Apr 13, 2026Excerpt: "The findings confirmed what this community has carried in their grief, in their graveyards, for generations: cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 percent higher than the rest of Alberta. Since 1993, there have been 149 documented cases — and that number, Tuccaro says, is a gross underestimate. People who leave the community for treatment are no longer counted in local statistics. Factor those in, and the real number for Mikisew Cree members alone, he estimates, is closer to 250 to 300."
#CanadaPol #FortChipewyan #MikisewCreeFirstNation #NativeAmericanNews #TarSands #BigOil #FirstNations #EnvironmentalRacism
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For #Indigenous communities in ‘#Alberta,’ the #OilIndustry has left an ugly stain
Facing #OilSpills, evacuations and #illness — nations downstream of the #OilSands grieve their way of life, as the #corporations polluting their water get richer
By Brandi Morin, December 7, 2023
Excerpt: "The rush of the wind and sprays of water add to the thrill as Jason Castor guides his riverboat through a stretch of #LakeAthabasca near #FortChipewyan, in #Treaty8 territories. If he slows down, his boat could get stuck in the mud or even flip over because the water levels in this spot are remarkably low. He steers around buoys, dodges logs and other debris while accelerating to the mouth of the channel, which he knows should be deep enough to navigate at an average speed.
"While trawling his boat further down the river, Castor points to odd-looking clusters resembling dirty foam floating by.
" 'There’s just a slurry of a foam that looks like #oil or some kind of #chemical in there,' says Castor, a 42-year-old father, construction business owner and member of the #AthabascaChipewyan #FirstNation (#ACFN).
"He’s been a traditional hunter, trapper and fisherman for nearly 20 years and has documented strange changes in the water, the land and animals.
"Something’s going on in the river, he says.
" 'They say that it’s natural, well, I know that that’s not natural because I’ve been on the river my whole life,' he explains as he points to brown and #WhiteFoam, #OilSheens and other discoloured formations floating on the river.
"Nowadays, it’s risky to navigate these waterways because of industrial intakes like the #WACBennettDam to the west in B.C.; the #AlbertaOilSands just up the river and impacts from #ClimateChange.
"The #PeaceAthabascaDelta is the second-largest #freshwater delta in the world.
"The #AthabascaRiver, and the larger delta, also sit atop the world’s largest known reservoir of #CrudeBitumen.
"The industry that has sprung up around it drives Alberta’s and Canada’s economy, employing about 138,000 people. In 2021, crude bitumen production totaled approximately 3.3 million barrels per day. The oil sands energy sector including oil sands, conventional #OilAndGas, mining and quarrying is valued at about $18 billion.
"But while Canada prospers off the oil sands industry, #Indigenous communities downstream are dealing with its #toxic impacts.
"Not only are the water levels fluctuating, but the health of the water flowing through the Athabasca River is jeopardized."
#CanPol #CanadaPol #Alberta #TarSands #BigOilAndGas #OilSands #WaterIsLife #Pollution #Environment #Oiligarchy
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FR - Parmi les dernières vidéos de The Narwhal, il y a celle présentant la situation des pipelines au Canada, et quelques-uns des enjeux liés. Sidérant quand des chiffres concrets sont avancés. Plus de 800 000 km de pipelines au pays ! [en anglais]
ENG - Among The Narwhal's latest videos is one presenting the situation of pipelines in Canada and some of the issues involved. It's staggering when concrete figures are presented. More than 800,000 km of pipelines in the country!
https://thenarwhal.ca/video-pipelines-canada/
#pipelines #GasPipelines #oil #Gas #oilSands #canada #environment #FirstNations @thenarwhal
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And one last plug. This is a link to my November 2022 conversation with the extraordinary comic artist and graphic novelist Kate Beaton, of Hark! A Vagrant fame, about her award-winning, genre-defying autobiography, Ducks, on her time working in the oil sands of northern Alberta. Two years later, this one still haunts me. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TmsHHwaApC05pfqYHI7aL?si=toLQn9QmRlqUnIc07QHEaA #KateBeaton #AlbertaUnbound #Ducks #oilsands #FortMcMurray
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Ep 3.6: " 3.6: Propaganda and Petroturfing with Dr Jordan Kinder" is live! What is petroturfing? What is an energy imaginary? If, as Thomas King says, we are all stories, how can we make sense of which stories are leading us to an understanding of things as they are, rather than misrepresenting reality or persuading us to take a biased view? And what can we do when we learn to critically interpret the world around us? What are some concrete actions we can take as regular folks if we decide that we want to push back against this narrative of “ethical oil” and intervene in the reactionary oil culture war?
Dr Jordan Kinder has spent the last decade of his life thinking about these questions, specifically in the context of the Canadian oil industry and Alberta. The result? His new book Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil, which covers these topics and more, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in spring 2024. Join @arielkroon and Jordan to learn about the many competing narratives about (and even by!) Canadian oil and gas—including but not limited to being labelled dirty oil, ethical oil, one of the world’s leading polluters, an underdog industry under attack, a Canadian success story, the ball and chain around Canada’s neck as it tries to avert climate catastrophe, and the list goes on…
http://solarpunkpresents.com/2023/09/04/3-6-propaganda-and-petroturfing-with-dr-jordan-kinder/
#petroturfing #OilAndGas #FossilFuels #EnergyImaginary #Petroculture #Petro-state #JordanKinder #narrative #propaganda #EthicalOil #Canada #CanadianPoli #CanadianPolitics #Alberta #OilSands #AlbertanOil #CultureWar #fracking #climate #ClimateCrisis #Resistance #solarpunk #podcast #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast @academicchatter
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The CBC's Canada Reads competition is in full swing. And so far, Kate Beaton's remarkable graphic memoir, Ducks, is still in the race. A good reason and moment to re-post my Alberta Unbound interview with her! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s4-episode-4-of-ducks-and-men/id1511810939?i=1000587140178 #AlbertaUnbound #FortMcMurray #Alberta #CapeBreton #CBC #CanadianBroadcastingCorporation #CanadaReads #CanadaReads2023 #MatteaRoach #KateBeaton #Ducks #OilSands #NovaScotia #SenateofCanada
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Delighted to see #Ducks by author/artist #KateBeaton chosen as one of the #CBC #CanadaReads nominees for this year. Not only is Ducks a powerful book about the lives of the people who work in the #Alberta oil sands - but this nomination gives me a brilliant excuse to repost my #AlbertaUnbound interview with Kate. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TmsHHwaApC05pfqYHI7aL?si=KyICe4ksSvWvFD5hvIZE7Q #Canada #oilsands #FortMcMurray #graphicnovels
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I worked in isolated treeplanting work camps for nine summers, and coming back from months of living in clearcuts often came with some mild culture shock.
I worked for one month in the Fort Mac oilsands, living in a work camp. Coming home from that was crazy disorienting. Industrial man camps are just removed from the social and personal structures of normal human life. It's dehumanizing, or maybe rehumanizing in an ugly way.
#ducks #KateBeaton #oilsands #tarsands #FortMac #FortMacMurray
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Finished Ducks by Kate Beaton in one sitting today (couching really).
So many people in Canada have connections to the oil patch and work camps, but only some have lived there. Beaton's book is deliberately personal and specific, but I'm glad more people can now have an additional view into how excruciatingly not-good that way of life is for people (especially but not only women).
Also, it's funny!
#Ducks #KateBeaton #oilsands #tarsands #comics #GraphicNovels #FortMcMurray #FortMac
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Our most recent Alberta Unbound episode featured Kate Beaton, talking about her extraordinary book, #Ducks - a graphic memoir of her years working in the oil sands. This is the book everyone is talking about - it's extraordinary. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s4-episode-4-of-ducks-and-men/id1511810939?i=1000587140178 #FortMcMurray #oilsands #KateBeaton #Alberta #CapeBreton
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Kate Beaton made her name with her witty web comic, Hark! A Vagrant. Her new book, #Ducks, is very different - a powerful #memoir of her years in the oil sands work camps north of Ft. McMurray. Proud to host her on the latest episode of Alberta Unbound. This is a dark, disturbing, and funny conversation. And if you want to understand #Alberta - or Cape Breton - it's a must listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s4-episode-4-of-ducks-and-men/id1511810939?i=1000587140178 #CapeBreton #KateBeaton #ymm #oilsands