Fort McMurray

Journal Entry 2 – Economics – By Kyra Cameron This article by Ian Austen is about explaining the damages caused by the fires in Fort McMurray, Alberta to the Oil Sands industry, leading to a negative effect on the Canadian Economy. During the fires in Fort McMurray many oil companies slowed down or stopped pumping oil and production stopped by approximately 1 million barrels a day. With oil being a major industry in Alberta, overall output dropped by about 40 percent due to the decrease in…

around the world to some of the world's most polluted places. Blackwell asks if the human race destroying the Earth with all the pollution that we have been creating. In the book Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell travels to Chernobyl, Fort McMurray, Port Arthur, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch , The Amazon Rainforest, Guiyu & Linfen, and the Yamuna River, which are some of the world’s most polluted places. Also, the book states that,” today that society is an industrial one,…

An intense wildfire filled on the oil city of Fort McMurray, Canada, destroying at least 1600 structures and more than 88,000 citizens were forced to flee, vacating the fire-gutted area chaotically. The fire blazed at least 1,010 square kilometres which is larger than Singapore. Due to the climate change, Alberta’s oil sands region was driven by strong winds and hot, dry weather causing a monster blaze. Even though scientists claim that it is impossible for global warming to cause the fire,…

abstraction at work in Burtynsky’s OIL. In the following passage, the poem describes “Burtynsky’s drone helicopters” and the photographs of the Alberta Oil Sands he is able to take with them: . . . Foreground entered at distance, the eye surveils the McMurray Formation’s freestanding ruin mid-aspect to an infinity of abstraction. In Burtynsky’s photographs of the Oil Sands the foreground of the image is, as “Bitumen” points out, at a vast…

us overcoming obstacles is a possibility. Michael Oher the main character in the movie The Blind Side faced many challenges and obstacles as he was growing up. He had a rough past and managed to survive. Additionally an obstacle I faced was the Fort Mcmurray wildfire. In the book ‘Hunger Games’ the character Katniss as well faced numerous obstacles from before the games to after the games. Everyone deals with problems,…

mixture may be that of yogurt. it may take as long as or even more than 30 years for a tailing pond to fully be reclaimed. The main reason why I chose this ecological issue of tailing ponds is because as a Canadian citizen who lives in Alberta, Fort McMurray - a city which has often been labeled the least environmentally…

that they cannot prevent an oil spill. A very recent example of an oil spill was on August 5th, 2015, where 5 million litres of bitumen-water sand droplets were found to have leaked, from the Nexen Energy Pipeline. This event occurred south of Fort McMurray, Alta. What this means? This means even in 2015 with all the technology we have, we still can’t prevent an oil…

Dofasco Acid STSE 1. Summarize this article in your own words. Include all the main points. (4) On September 7, a burst pipe at ArcelorMittal Dofasco sprayed hydrochloric acid mist through the Crown Point neighbourhood, which runs south of the plant. The Hamilton’s public health department is gathering information on this incident and its impact on the neighbourhood from the Ministry of Environment and ArcelorMittal. Evidence of the leak was witnessed across Crown Point neighbourhood. Residents…

considered to be a postindustrial society. Hughes (2011) defines an industrial society as one in which sources of energy fuel a production system to process raw materials. Examples of such industry in Canada would include the oil industry at Fort McMurray Alberta, the Diamond mines in the N.W.T. farming in the central and prairie regions. Statistics Canada (December, 2015) shows the goods producing industries as contributions to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country between…

of David Ricardo’s labor theory of value in which ‘surplus labor’ creates the ‘surplus value’ upon which capitalist profits are based” (p.47). Drawing upon data from in-depth interviews with live-in caregivers, I trace how— in the wake of the Fort McMurray wildfire— families extracted surplus value from caregivers as a way of coping with the financial, social, and psychological effects of crisis. Ultimately, I make the case that in studying a community in its moment of reconstitution through the…