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- First solid bitumen test shipment on its way from Alberta to China Sun, 29 Sep 19, 3:00pmFrom Mining.com A test shipment of bitumen oil from Alberta is on its way to China, but it didn’t get to a British Columbia port by pipeline – it was moved by train through Prince Rupert in a semi-solid form commonly...
- Why is the FBI paying visits to American anti-tar sands activists? Tue, 10 Feb 15, 2:13amIt seems that being an anti-tar sands activist in the United States is getting to be a riskier business, as those opposed to the Canadian oil development have been getting unexpected visits from the FBI...
- Canadian Teen Finds a Way to Scrub Toxic Tar Sands Using 5th Grade Science Wed, 1 Oct 14, 12:44amCanada's Hayley Todesco has developed a method to speed up the detoxification of oil sands tailings ponds using 5th grade science. The 18-year-old Google Science Fair 2014 finalist won a $25,000 scholarship for her idea,...
- “Canadian oil sands pollute nearby lakes. Report is blow to Keystone pipeline.” (Or Not) Fri, 11 Jan 13, 7:01pmThe only “blow to the Keystone pipeline” is in the exaggerated reporting of the science… The “report” (Kurek et al., 2013) did find slight elevations (relative to 1950) of polycyclic aromatic...