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Archive for December, 2008

The dike of a waste-holding pond at a power plant fails, moving houses off their foundation and spreading sludge far and wide.  Here is a quote from one report: The 40-acre pond was used by the Tennessee Valley Authority to hold a slurry of ash generated by the coal-burning Kingston Steam Plant in Harriman, about [...]

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The snow is still deep and the car is still lost in the drifts; but it is Christmas day so there is no concern or urgency to dig it out.   The daughters are preparing the large-meal.  Up until now I have pretty much done the cooking as they fussed the kids.  But just for this meal, [...]

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The snow continues unabated.  All the kids are in town—except for one spouse who choose to come up late and is now faced with a long drive along snowy roads.  It truly is a white Christmas, and so I say HAPPY CHRISTMAS, HOLIDAY SEASON, Celebration, or just family-gathering time according to your instincts, beliefs, and [...]

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As the holidays progress and people get to their destinations in spite of snow and ice, we pause to enjoy this story  –OK we should not glorify the thief, but these two are so inept, we can but relish the comedy: Merced County sheriff’s deputies took two Chowchilla men into custody early Sunday on suspicion [...]

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  One final triumph from the First International Oil Sands Tailings Conference:  a link to the presentation by Gord McKenna of BGC Engineering on Landscape Design for Oil Sands Tailings.

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The weekend has been snow and more snow.  We cannot get out of the townhouse and to the sights of the city.  And the kids from Iowa cannot get in from Dallas where they are stranded by non-flights.  I spent an extra night in Seattle as the Californians could not leave Long Beach due to [...]

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It is good to see support from the National Mining Association for Obama’s pick to head the Interior Department, namely Senator Ken Salazar.  I quote: Oil and mining interests praised Mr. Salazar’s record as a state official and as a senator, saying that he was not doctrinaire about the use of public lands for resource exploitation. [...]

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Last night with the usual crews that likes Hollywood action movies, we went to see Body of Lies.  In brief, great acting by Crowe and DiCaprio taking out the bad guys (terrorists) in Iraq and Jordan.  It certainly aims to leave you believing that one more dead from that part of the world is a good [...]

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A short note to direct your attention to one of thePowerPoint presentations from the First International Oil Sand Tailings Conference.  I am grateful to the presenter for allowing us to make this more readily available to a wider audience than will ever see the proceedings.  The presentation is Application of Block Modeling to Suncor Tailings Characterizatiionby [...]

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     Breaking the cycle of poverty is a noble aim and a laudable action.  The instinct of rich Canadian women to do good is inevitably drawn to such “business” activities as making small loans to the otherwise dispossessed.  They call it microlending.  Here is the latest report on more noble action by rich ladies [...]

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