#oilsands — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oilsands, aggregated by home.social.
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The "Oilsands Region" refers to not just the active surface mines, but a large region across 1/5 of Alberta that overlays #bitumen deposits. Most of it is in fact still native vegetation, but it is highly fragmented by seismic lines and other human footprint. After ten years, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has finally been able to publish this report https://osr-report-2026.abmi.ca/osr-home?mc_cid=dc38273590&mc_eid=726c727c41 #oilsands #alberta #biodiversity
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HT @miki_lou
"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. "
#BigOil #TarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #WaterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #ToxicChemicals
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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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"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. " https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-dying-and-canada-is-watching?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true
#BigOil #tarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #waterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #toxicChemicals
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Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Alberta #Canada #OilSands #CancerCrisis #EnvironmentalJustice #CleanWater #Health #ToxicTailings #ClimateChange #StopPollution #OulAndGas
https://the-14.com/alberta-chiefs-say-oilsands-causing-cancer-surge-call-for-halt-to-tailings-plan/ -
The Dig, Part 5 - Fort Mac, Part II: Life in the Dig.
Wranglers ride flame-lances, oozes bleed fuel, & camps choke on plastic smoke. Hard work, short lives, whispered legends — survival is ritual.
https://www.hodgepocalypse.com/2025/10/the-dig-part-5-fort-mac-continued-and.html
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Fort Mac
Fort Mac: the Dig’s beating heart.
oozes in the alleys, Barons trading fuel for blood.
Survival is commerce. Danger is currency.
One bad deal & the pit swallows you whole. https://www.hodgepocalypse.com/2025/10/the-dig-part-4-fort-mac.html #drevrpg hodgepocalypse #dnd5e #apocalypse #alberta #oilsands -
Alberta has long accused Ottawa of trying to destroy its oil industry. That’s a dangerous myth
#Alberta #Canada #DanielleSmith #AlbertaOil #Oilsands #CanadianPolitics #ClimatePolicy #FederalSupport #EnergyMyths #OilAndGas #EnvironmentalPolicy #CanadaEnergy
https://the-14.com/alberta-has-long-accused-ottawa-of-trying-to-destroy-its-oil-industry-thats-a-dangerous-myth/ -
Alberta has long accused Ottawa of trying to destroy its oil industry. That’s a dangerous myth
#Alberta #Canada #DanielleSmith #AlbertaOil #Oilsands #CanadianPolitics #ClimatePolicy #FederalSupport #EnergyMyths #OilAndGas #EnvironmentalPolicy #CanadaEnergy
https://the-14.com/alberta-has-long-accused-ottawa-of-trying-to-destroy-its-oil-industry-thats-a-dangerous-myth/ -
#ClimateChange #Canada #SpringForecast #ClimateEmergency the only way to fix this is #RenewableEnergyTransition #GetOffFossilFuel 50% by 2030, #netzero by 2050 #Alberta #OilSands #OPEC #CAPP
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@markhamhislop.bsky.social does a great job of calling out the BS hatred and foolish propaganda from #Alberta #oilandgas cheerleaders. #UCP #OILSANDS #NATURALGAS #CAPP #LIBERALS #CPC #NDP @markcarney
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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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Indigenous led group monitors #Athabasca river to track the effect of #oilsands extractions
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Suncor Criticizes Federal Bill C-59 for Impact on Environmental Transparency https://epicnews.ca/canada/ecology/suncor-criticizes-federal-bill-c-59-for-impact-on-environmental-transparency-20240623/
#Alberta #Canada #ClimateChange #ecology #environment #government #greenwashing #news #OilSands #Suncor -
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pathways-alliance-bill-c59-oilsands-1.7241078
Whiney babies can't lie if there are consequences for lying. #pathwaysalliance #Oilsands
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“While individual companies are pursuing other emissions-reducing technologies at their operations, such as using solvents instead of steam and using new in-pit extraction processes, a 2022 analysis by the #PembinaInstitute found that Canadian #OilSands companies have done little to follow through on their public pledges to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
And a study from Britain-based climate think tank InfluenceMap, said the #PathwaysAlliance is actually blocking #ClimateAction .” -
New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants [TEMPO, NASA]
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https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles/tempo-overview <-- shared overview
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TEMPO - Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #NorthAmerica #Mexico #Canada #USA #oilsands #tarsands #emissions #earthobservation #pollution #pollutants #troposphere #O3 #NO2 #SO2 #ozone #CFCs #climatechange #ozonelayer #OMPS #JPSS #satellite #monitoring #instrumentation #ESA #TROPOMI #sentinel5 #TEMPO #geostationary #airpollution #GeoAQ #model #modeling #emissions #atmospheric #atmosphere
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New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants [TEMPO, NASA]
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https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles/tempo-overview <-- shared overview
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TEMPO - Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #NorthAmerica #Mexico #Canada #USA #oilsands #tarsands #emissions #earthobservation #pollution #pollutants #troposphere #O3 #NO2 #SO2 #ozone #CFCs #climatechange #ozonelayer #OMPS #JPSS #satellite #monitoring #instrumentation #ESA #TROPOMI #sentinel5 #TEMPO #geostationary #airpollution #GeoAQ #model #modeling #emissions #atmospheric #atmosphere
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I've written another newsy science article exclusively for my website. In this one, I talk about a major new paper that's been hitting the headlines - it shows that emissions from Canadian oil sands facilities may be many times higher than we'd realised https://www.lauriewinkless.com/journal/oil-sand-emissions-may-be-64-times-higher-than-reported #climatechange #oilandgas #athabasca #oilsands #canada #emissions
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Whatever infinitesimally small shred of social license the #oilsands had has evaporated. Close them asap and all that is associated with them.
#oilsands #climateEmergency #ClimateAction #cdnPoli #CanPoli #tmx #bcLNG
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/01/26/Oilsands-Air-Pollution-Much-Higher-Than-Industry-Estimates/ -
Polluter Pay Alberta Garbage Day
October 28, 2023
Alberta Legislature
To protest the Alberta government’s lack of action on holding resource extraction industries responsible for their pollution. Tailings ponds from tar sands extraction now spread over an area larger than metropolitan Vancouver. Recent tailings leaks from the Imperial Oil Kearl site went unreported for months.
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#yeg #yegdt #ableg #abpoli #tarsands #oilsands #tailings #edmonton #alberta #photojournalism #yegphotographer -
Keep watching this story...
"#Imperial, #Alberta regulator knew for years about #tailings #seepage at mine"
Quotes: "Documents filed by Imperial #Oil Ltd. show the company and Alberta’s energy regulator knew the #Kearl #oilsands mine was seeping tailings into #groundwater..."
"...#sulphates at a sampling station in the #Muskeg #River began climbing drastically in March 2022. Within a year, they were 18x higher than the 2021 average."
🛢️🎣🦆🦌🛢️
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While #Alberta is burning,
"The man hired to turn around the flagging fortunes of #Suncor Energy Inc. said he believes the company has been too focused in recent years on the #EnergyTransition and must get back to an #oil-centred business strategy.His stated goal to refocus Suncor's efforts on its #oilsands assets comes even as the company has publicly committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas #emissions by 2050."
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"The estimated [$123 billion] cost of environmental liabilities laid out in the report includes #cleanup or reclamation of #oilsands mines, #abandoned or #orphaned #oil and gas #wells, and #TailingsPonds."
“Now is when these companies are still making massive, massive, massive #profits. And they must be forced to use the profits, to use the revenues, to clean up their mess now.”
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Oilsands lobby group spent $1.6 million to sway the Alberta election. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) ran ads and campaigns to promote pro-oil candidates and policies. This could undermine democracy and environmental protection in the province.
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#GHGemissions associated with #logging & #WoodUse were approximately 75 megatonnes in 2020, matching #emissions from all of #Canada ’s #oilsands operations, & making logging one of the #HighestEmitting sectors of Canada’s economy.
Canada’s #failure to #report #LoggingEmissions is a #SeriousProblem ..#StopEcocide #CorporateGreed #corrupt #Unethical #Dishonest #LackOfTransparency #ClimateChange #ecojustice #StopClearcutLogging #JustTransition #Degrowth #StopDeforestation
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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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#Canadian #Federal #environment #minister wants to set up a new group with the #Alberta government & #Indigenous communities to #monitor #contamination problems in the #oilsands .
#LostTrust #NativeLand #pollution #StopEcocide #CorporateGreed #environmental #ImperialOil #Canada #ABPoli #CanPoli #accountability #CleanUpCosts #EndCorporateWelfare #CutCorporateSubsidies #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #ConsultationIsNotConsent #NoConsent #JustTransition #Alberta #DirtyOil
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The “let’s clear the air” 'campaign acknowledges #ClimateChange, but claims that #PathwaysAlliance is “part of the solution.” #untrue — #oil produced from #Canada #OilSands is actually some of the most #environmentally #damaging and #energy #intensive on the #planet .
Catherine McKenna, Canada’s former minister of #environment & climate change & currently Chair of the #UnitedNations #HighLevel #Expert Group, has added her name to #Greenpeace Canada’s #complaint .
https://ricochet.media/en/3938/oil-sands-coalition-facing-new-greenwashing-complaint
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"Some accuse the #FederalGovernment of abandoning the province. Others point to what they call a captive provincial regulator. All agree that there’s no way #leaks from #ImperialOil ’s #Kearl #TailingsPonds should have gone #unreported for nine months to both #Ottawa & #Edmonton , as well as the people who live near it."
#Alberta #Canada #Pollution #Oilsands #StopEcocide #EndFossilFuels #Irresponsible #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #ClimateJustice #ecojustice #Environment
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Global News BC: Teck completes sale of Fort Hills stake to project partners; exits oilsands https://globalnews.ca/news/9458969/teck-fort-hills-oilsands-sale/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #TotalEnergiesEPCanadaLtd. #FortHillsoilsandsmine #TotalEnergiesEPCanada #TeckResourcesLtd. #Albertaoilsands #SuncorEnergyInc #TeckResources #SuncorEnergy #Business #oilsands #Suncor #Money #teck
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Global News BC: Teck completes sale of Fort Hills stake to project partners; exits oilsands https://globalnews.ca/news/9458969/teck-fort-hills-oilsands-sale/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #TotalEnergiesEPCanadaLtd. #FortHillsoilsandsmine #TotalEnergiesEPCanada #TeckResourcesLtd. #Albertaoilsands #SuncorEnergyInc #TeckResources #SuncorEnergy #Business #oilsands #Suncor #Money #teck
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Global News BC: Teck completes sale of Fort Hills stake to project partners; exits oilsands https://globalnews.ca/news/9458969/teck-fort-hills-oilsands-sale/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #TotalEnergiesEPCanadaLtd. #FortHillsoilsandsmine #TotalEnergiesEPCanada #TeckResourcesLtd. #Albertaoilsands #SuncorEnergyInc #TeckResources #SuncorEnergy #Business #oilsands #Suncor #Money #teck
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Global News BC: Teck completes sale of Fort Hills stake to project partners; exits oilsands https://globalnews.ca/news/9458969/teck-fort-hills-oilsands-sale/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #TotalEnergiesEPCanadaLtd. #FortHillsoilsandsmine #TotalEnergiesEPCanada #TeckResourcesLtd. #Albertaoilsands #SuncorEnergyInc #TeckResources #SuncorEnergy #Business #oilsands #Suncor #Money #teck
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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
