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Friday Night at the Bar. Mining Motives, Memories, and Misdemeanors.
Posted in brandy, British Columbia, consulting, People, tagged infidelity, miining, misdemeanors, Pebble Mine, pub, vanvuver on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Cultural Norms Affect Mining
Posted in brandy, British Columbia, First Nations, Human relations and mining on February 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Friday. An early end to the day. A quick stroll to a disreputable pub amidst the glass towers of Vancouver. Four miners around a small round table, heavy with IPA ale and serious talk.
Mining Impact Benefit Agreements
Posted in British Columbia, First Nations, Jobs and Salaries, mining, North America, tagged aboriginal, Ekati, First Nations, impact benefit agreement, mining, PDAC on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Monday and to serious mining topics. Today’s topic is mining impact benefit agreements. I received an email from somebody asking me what I knew of the topic. Very little in truth. I sought help and this is the reply I received:
Anna Nicole: Opera, Swearing, and Tragedy
Posted in British Columbia, opera, tagged anna nicole, beatrice di tenda, Bellini, dockers restuarant, opera, swearing on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A perfect Vancouver day: sun and clear mountains topped with snow. We rode the seawall around Stanley Park and then to lunch at Dockers. Supper with friends and then to a new DVD of the opera Anna Nicole.
Valentine’s Day at Britannia Mine Museum
Posted in British Columbia, Mining history, tagged britannia, day, mine museum, valetine on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you live in or around Vancouver, here is how to show your support for mining and show your support for your loved one. Take them to the Britannia Mining Museum on Valentine’s day. At this link you can read why, including: Three-course fine dining meal with wine parings See the buildings, gallery and underground mine [...]
Oil Sands Mining Jobs for British Columbia Academics and Graduates
Posted in British Columbia, Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, Peru, tagged Fort McMurry, jobs, John Wayne, research, Vacncouver on January 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A group of professors sat around a table in a glass-clad building and wondered why they are not involved in oil sands mining. They talked of getting funding for a new professorial chair—why does the oil sands industry not sponsor a chair at our university? They bemoaned the fact that none of their students wants [...]
Obama, Keystone, and USA & Canadian Mining Jobs
Posted in About the news, British Columbia, oil, Oil sands, People, tagged gore, mckibben, Oil sands, pipeline on January 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The news wires are abuzz with the announcement that Obama has caved into his party’s environmental wing and killed the Keystone pipeline that would have carried Canadian oil to the refineries along the gulf coast. Obama spluttered some words about reducing car fuel consumption as a way of making up for the jobs the pipeline would have generated. [...]
Mining Obama vs Romney vs Gingrich vs Ron Paul as Supporters of Mining
Posted in British Columbia, Coal, environmental, Europe, Mining history, North America, People, tagged ann romney, coegnant colliery, david davies, Disney, gingrich, Grand Canyon, mining, Obama, romney, ron paul, vancouver junior, wales on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
With Mitt Romney well on his way to being the next president, I thought it time to examine their attitudes to mining. OK, I know there are a few more pesky elections and attacks on Romney’s for his capitalistic sins (firing excess workers at unprofitable companies) to get through, but still the news snippets are fun. [...]
Frivilous Mining Conundrums: WalkAway Sustainable Solutions
Posted in acid mine drainage, British Columbia, decomissioning, Enviromental, Reclamation, tagged donlin creek, Huntington Beach, wlak away closure on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The sun is shining bright and the day is warm here is Huntington Beach, California, where I am spending time with kids and grandkids. Somehow or other, the pressures of taking the kids to McDonald’s and other diverse hamburger places for lunch, riding the bike down to the beach, being nice at parties to old & [...]
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