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...bothers keeping figures, but poultry industry estimates suggest that millions of birds will be posted this year. McMurray Hatchery in Iowa alone packs 200,000 chicks a week during Easter...
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...
...production was falling. Yet in Canada, Exxon has muscled aside some of its Syncrude partners and parachuted in a new management team to meet aggressive expansion targets. "Everything up here is American, pretty much," says an oil worker earning $130,000 a year, a fairly typical salary in Fort McMurray, which has earned the nickname Fort McMoney because it has the nation's highest average income. The timing seems right for Canada too. Carpenters and truck drivers are fetching six-figure wages in Alberta--and working in -50°F (-46°C) temperatures in the winter--but Canada...
Somewhat surprisingly, Canada has been reluctant to acknowledge its newly minted status as an energy power broker. "We need to start acting like an OPEC-level player with an ability to change the world economy," says Ross Jacobs of Fort McMurray, a Liberal who was recently defeated in a bid to represent his district in Alberta's provincial legislature. "Canadians need to start thinking globally...
...working in the oil sands complains about the big paychecks, but beyond the project a serious backlash is growing against the economic and environmental pressures that come with maxing out oil production. A shortage of housing in Fort McMurray has pushed the price of an average home to more than $600,000. Two-bedroom apartments rent for about $3,500 a month. "The tar sands are being developed in an unsustainable fashion from virtually every point of view," says Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party...