Funny how we all know ever detail of the US Republican presidential hopefuls, yet know nothing about those seeking to head up the NDP, the official opposition party in Canada. Today at this link, I got a taste of who might become the next NDP leader and got a smattering of his attitude towards mining.
Archive for the ‘Oil sands’ Category
NDP on Oil Sands & Mining. What Thomas Mulcair says about coolies is not cool.
Posted in About the news, Oil sands, People, tagged NDP, Oil sands, tarsands, thomas mulcair on March 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Cover Technology in Mining: Wismut to Suncor’s Pond 5
Posted in Europe, North America, Oil sands, Reclamation, Tailings, tagged covers, pond 5, Suncor, Tailings, wick drains, Wismut on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Clap! The sound a big volume of mining proceedings made when it landed on my desk this morning. Dropped from on high, this volume is the collection of technical papers from an International Symposium on closure of uranium mines at Wismut in Germany. If you haven’t heard of Wismut, then I suggest you get a [...]
Cooking for Miners. Eating at Mines
Posted in Gold, Oil sands, health, Jobs and Salaries, Mining history, brandy, consulting, tagged East Geduld, Ekati, Fort McMurray, Greens Creek, Guatemala, Oil sands, Professor Jennings, Suncor, marlin mine, cooking, free state, escobal, guatemala. suncor.il sands.east geduld. ekati, food, hawk inlet, bull cook, bhp billiton, tro on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Most mines have a place where the miners eat. Let us celebrate the cooks at these places by telling of the many fine meals we have enjoyed in these mining canteens. In celebrating cooks at mining canteens, I also seek to describe a job in mining that most do not write about. If you like [...]
Oil Sands and Other Tailings Trafficability
Posted in Oil sands, People, Tailings, tagged dirk van zyl, donald McCleary, ed nowatski, karafiath, nowatski, Oil sands, Tailings, trafficability, Tucson, van zyl on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Rummaging through old papers this weekend, I came across a short hand-written piece that I penned in 1982. I repeat it here with no edits. This piece is interesting in light of the muddle made by the Alberta ERCB in demanding an oil sand tailings strength of 10 kPa so that the deposit can be [...]
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. [...]
Does Every State Need Its Own Grand Canyon and Its Own Uranium Mine?
Posted in blogs, Colorado, Enviromental, environmental, Investing & Finance, Jobs and Salaries, North America, Oil sands, Uranium, tagged Grand Canyon, Pebble Mine, Saskatchewan, uranium mining on January 10, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The news is that the area around the Grand Canyon is off-limits to uranium mining for the next 20 years. The Obama administration has banned new mining near the Grand Canyon, an area known to be rich in high-grade uranium ore reserves, the Associated Press reported.
2012 Mining Opportunities & Jobs (In Canada?)
Posted in About the news, California, Colorado, consulting, Jobs and Salaries, Latin America, Mining history, Oil sands, Peru, tagged 2012, Canada, jobs, mining, opportunities on January 5, 2012 | 6 Comments »
In a previous posting on this blog, I made my mining predictions for 2012. One of them was that we would be regaled by a continuing plethora of articles saying mining will be detrimentally affected by a shortage of workers. Here is one comment on that posting (I edit for spelling and punctuation):
Mining Reading in 2012: Murder, Mayhem, and Oil Sands
Posted in California, Mining history, Oil sands, tagged 9 Dragons, athabaska, death comes to pemberly, history, joyce hunt, mockingjay, Oil sands on January 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The New Year begins but holiday time continues for a while at least. There is still time to settle down and read a good book. Here is my list of those that I plan to pull out and read.
Total’s Joslyn Mine 6-Year Approval Disgrace
Posted in About the news, consulting, environmental, feasibilty studies, North America, Oil sands, tagged approval, joslyn, mining, Oil sands, permit, total on December 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today’s Globe and Mail reports: “The Harper government has approved Canada’s fifth oil sands mine after the project spent six years under regulatory scrutiny, prompting a senior cabinet minister and energy executives to argue lengthy reviews are unacceptable.”
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