Mastodawn

🛢️ Due to a dispute between my husband and I came across this article and thought I would pass it along to anyone who might be interested in the history of the Alberta Tars Sands, the dirtiest most polluting oil on the planet, as told by "The Alberta Energy Sector"

So take it in with a grain of salt, or as in this case, a few drops of lubricating oil ...

#Alberta #TarSands
#Canada #Polllution #Energy

https://www.oilsandsmagazine.com/technical/history-of-alberta-oil-sands-development

How it all Began — A Brief History of the Canadian Oil Sands | Oil Sands Magazine

TIMESTAMPS: 0:10 • Introduction 1:38 • Early pioneers (1715) 2:53 • The Clark Hot Water Process (1926) 3:05 • Bitumount (1929) 3:25 • First Athabasca in-situ trial (1959) 3:48 • First Cold Lake in-situ trial (1964) 4:45 • First commercial oil sands mine (1967) 5:47 • First CSS pilot (1975) 5:30 • F

Oil Sands Magazine

LM Little 1d ago

"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

They Are Dying. And Canada Is Watching.

Mikisew Cree’s own health study confirms what the community has always known: the oil sands are killing them. If governments and industry don’t act, they say they will shut it all down.

Indigenous Insider

Ricardo Harvin Apr 7

RE: https://mastodon.online/@quiosque/116361660887019828

#OperationBrentCrude

Shale oil is very profitable again and it's likely that even heavy, dirty, #Venezuelan oil extraction and refining is profitable with Brent Crude priced this high.

Distraction from the #EpsteinFiles is a coincidental bonus and absolutely *NOT* a primary reason we're attacking Iran.

#ShaleOil #TarSands #Oil #Venezuela #BrentCrude #OPEC #US #Israel #Canada

Dean Mar 22

Apparently Pierre Poilievre is receiving many positive reviews for his performance on the U.S. BROcast Joe Rogan. Here's a link to a somewhat less nuanced review. #cdnpoli #manosphere #tarsands #fossilfools #spin
https://youtube.com/shorts/kLERHw5OyJ8

aeshnid Mar 14

Muskeg/Mine pit, Alberta Tar Sands. 2004.
#MarshMadness #Wetlands #Photography #DeathOfNature #TarSands #Mining

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❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Mar 12

@dyckron
We have very few truly Canadian owned oil companies. The big winners in the Canadian oil industry will be the US

Most Canadians think we own a good portion of the oil sands through
Imperial Oil but here is the breakdown :
Exxon 🇺🇸 69.6%, First Eagle Investment Management LLC 🇺🇸 3.85%, Fidelity Management & Research Co. LLC 🇺🇸11.62 %, Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co. 🇺🇸 1.378 %, Merrill Lynch International 🇺🇸 , and two other US companies, plus
👉 Canadian companies : Royal Trust Corporation of Canada 1.444%, TD Waterhouse Private Investment Counsel, Inc. Less than 1% , Fidelity Investments Canada ULC less than 0.5 %
https://ca.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/IMPERIAL-OIL-LIMITED-1410448/company-shareholders/

Other companies involved are:

Suncor is mostly US owned https://ca.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/SUNCOR-ENERGY-INC-1411810/company-shareholders/

Canadian Natural Resources Limited: Mostly US owned
https://ca.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/CANADIAN-NATURAL-RESOURCE-1409525/company-shareholders/

Devon Energy- US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_Energy
Chevron- US
Look up the list for yourself-
#Canada #Energy #TarSands

https://ca.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/IMPERIAL-OIL-LIMITED-1410448/company-shareholders/

[email protected] has moved Feb 13

AB-Ottawa MOU. One less suitor for a pipeline from #tarsands through B.C.

🛢️Enbridge CEO says: The company is unwilling to take on the financial risk of developing a new oil pipeline from Alberta to Canada’s west coast... his company has no intention of floating such a project.

https://archive.ph/K75xM#selection-2673.160-2673.217

🛢️"Enbridge has started a major pipeline expansion project to increase crude oil transportation from Canada and the U.S. Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/enbridge-pipeline-expansion-puts-gulf-151503916.html

#CdnPoli #BCpoli

LM Little Feb 3

“The companies now are at the point where they just want to start dumping the tailings ponds. It’s not OK,” https://cabinradio.ca/277841/news/health/what-are-the-risks-to-the-nwts-water-quality/

#WaterisLife #BigOil #tarsands #abpoli #cdnpoli #NWTpoli #CorporateCapture #RegulatoryCapture #EcosystemDestruction #BorealForest #environment

What are the risks to the NWT’s water quality?

Life's Better at the Cabin

Cabin Radio

LM Little Feb 3

"#Canada’s #oil and gas industry is steadily building an #environmental time bomb." https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/30/opinion/oilpatch-liabilities-oil-oilsands-syncrude-wells-cleanup-alberta

#tarsands #BigOil #ClimateCriminals #BorealForest #WaterisLife #toxic #abpoli #cdnpoli #NWTpoli

The multi-billion problem Canada’s oilpatch doesn’t want to disclose

Canada's oil and gas industry is a fiscal time bomb due to oil well cleanup liabilities that have been kept off the books.

Canada's National Observer

WINGS_radio Jan 27

In contrast to my previous post, this author says #Venezuela #oil #wells have been #neglected for #years. However, he #agrees that there is relatively #little #demand for that #heavy #oil
(#Canada is already #supplying the need for such, with its #tarsands #mining and its enlarged #pipeline.)

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/oil-isnt-the-real-reason-behind-the-venezuela-operation

Oil Isn’t the Real Reason Behind the Venezuela Operation

The oil industry is in the midst of a supply gut, producing millions of barrels per day above demand. Prices are low and major companies in the sector are contracting. According to Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, these economic facts undercut President Trump’s intimations of an oil bonanza in Venezuela.

Yale Insights