Four Tanks and Pipes Bitumen or diluent storage tanks at Enbridge’s Cheecham Terminal beside Highway 881 south of Anzac. The 140 kilometre Woodland Pipeline transports blended bitumen from Imperial Oil-Exxon Mobil’s Kearl Project to Cheecham Terminal; the 380...
SAGD Pad in Muskeg A SAGD pad in a wet, muskeg area of stunted conifers. This pad, connected to similar ones spread over a large area northeast of Wabasca-Desmarais, is part of Cenovus’ Pelican Lake Grand Rapids SAGD operation. Beautiful...
Arbour The arbour built in time for Treaty Days 2013 in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. Not only the oldest permanent community in Alberta, Fort Chipewyan is also the oldest settlement east of Unalaska, Alaska, north of Los Angeles and west of North Battleford, Saskatchewan....
Muskeg Forest Island A small rounded island of higher ground, rising out of saturated muskeg in the vicinity of Livock River. There is extensive in situ bitumen drilling work throughout this area. Beautiful Destruction, p. 186 Livock River,...
Baseball Diamonds Newly constructed camp for workers at CNRL’s Horizon project. The mines and refineries require tens of thousands of workers, many of whom are housed in camps similar to this one, often with recreation facilities such as these newly sodded baseball...
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