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Syncrude, headquartered just north of Alberta's booming Fort McMurray, is a consortium of U.S. and Canadian oil companies including Imperial, Petro-Canada and ConocoPhilips that produces 350,000 bbl. of light, sweet crude per day from tar sands at three mines on the banks of the Athabasca River. About two-thirds of that gets piped to the U.S. Syncrude accounts for about 27% of the 1.3 million bbl. extracted by oil companies every 24 hours from this stark landscape of jack pine, spruce and poplar forests shot through by a bright northern light...
...around the corner. Canada is poised to become Venezuela north--without the loopy President and the deadweight national oil company as unwanted partners--as the biggest oil boom in North American history hits terminal velocity. An estimated $124 billion will be invested from 2007 to 2012, according to the Athabasca Regional Issues Working Group, an industry association. Production in Alberta's oil sands will more than quadruple, to about 5 million bbl. daily, by 2015; Canada currently exports an average of 1.9 million bbl. daily (from all sources) to the U.S., more than any country, including Saudi Arabia. That...
Eight hundred miles north of Montana, in upper Saskatchewan, sprawls a land of vast evergreen forests laced with lakes and streams, windblown sand ridges--and the world's richest deposits of uranium. From this Canadian wilderness, centered on the Athabasca Basin, fully a quarter of the world's annual supply of uranium is unearthed, most of it from a single mine called McArthur River. In a world increasingly concerned about the flow and price of oil from the Middle East, demand for the mine's controversial product is quietly rising...
Only when he was safely atop the Silverthorn Ice Corridor of 11,452-ft. Mount Athabasca in Alberta could Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 62, finally take a breather during his vacation. He has been on a two-week cross-country trip in a private railway car, and from the start in Vancouver the Prime Minister was met at virtually every stop along the way by picketers, protesters and assorted Trudeauphobes, who screamed obscenities and lustily pelted his railway car with eggs and tomatoes. Particularly annoyed by out-of-work demonstrators at Salmon Arm, B.C., Trudeau responded before TV cameras...
...Athabasca, MacLean...