Posted in About the news, Jobs and Salaries, Oil sands, People, tagged avatar, Fort McMurray, michael moore, mining, movies, Oil sands, republican on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Many years ago in Tucson, I went with some hard-core Republicans to see a Michael Moore film. They hated him as the incarnation of liberalism and anti-commerce. Yet today’s news is that this same Michael Moore is in deep support of mining. How so? (more…)
Posted in Church, Law (Mining), North America, tagged avatar, Bill C-300, law, NGO on April 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A brief note to note that Bill C-300 marches on. At this link is another new exhortation to pass the bill and the news that: (more…)
Posted in brandy, health and safety, Human relations and mining, tagged alice, avatar, mining, practice, theory, wonderland on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
These past two days I have been in that dreaded institution: meetings to decide on what theory to apply to practice. All in a mining context of course. Midway through another grueling session, the old man (not me) of the group produced a piece of paper with this written on it. It is so true that I must repeat it below, but be warned, it deterred neither the theorist nor the practitioner in the meetings. (more…)
Posted in environmental, Human relations and mining, Latin America, Oil sands, tagged avatar, haiti, miing, Oil sands on January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A short note to call your attention to a posting on the site The Oil Drum on the mining of oil sands and Avatar. The posting includes a well-illustrated summary of the processes of oil sands mining and a brief note that the movie gets the mining process wrong: they use a bucket wheel excavator. As the posting notes: (more…)
Posted in blogs, Church, Community relations, Enviromental, First Nations, Human relations and mining, Latin America, Mining history, tagged avatar, Bill C-300, james cameron, nonobtainium, Pebble Mine, sustainable mining, tribe on January 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
My grandson, four-years old, and me went this afternoon to see Avatar. This is the billion-dollar-grossing movie from James Cameron that is now all the rage. (more…)
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