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Alberta's Oil Boom Goes Bust
2015-10-14 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: At a camp for oil workers here, a collection of 16 three-story buildings that once housed 2,000 workers sits empty. A parking lot at a neighboring camp is now dotted with abandoned cars. With oil prices falling precipitously, capital-intensive projects rooted in the heavy crude mined from Albertas oil sands are losing money, contributing to the loss of about 35,000 energy industry jobs across the province. Yet Alberta Highway 63, the major artery connecting Northern Albertas oil sands with the...
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