Syncrude Oil Sands Production in Alberta, Canada


API conducted a tour of oil sands development in Alberta, Canada for reporters and bloggers. At Syncrude, they learned how a form of oil called bitumen is processed into 350000 barrels of oil per day, and about land reclamation efforts post production. To learn more about oil sands and energy development, visit EnergyTomorrow.org.


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The Syncrude Shuffle


This video was filmed on a boring evening at the syncrude upgrader in ft mc murray, i was on 21 night straight and this is the insanity that had developed by the 13th eve, it's approximately 2:30 in the am and i hadn't gotten out of my work truck until the video since i arrived on the site at 11:00 that eve. The only saving grace of this is I was getting 23.50 plus OT to be there. so overall it could have been worse. Hope you enjoy. ps i can't hear the music once i get out of the truck!!!!


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Driving through Syncrude on Highway 63


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Stu and I visit Syncrude in Fort McMurray.


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Ron Lewko, Environmental Research, Syncrude


I'm Ron Lewko and I look after environmental research at Syncrude and my job is to reclaim the land. So this whole area was a mining operation about 15 years ago. It was a 30 meter deep hole right from the top of oil sand right down to the limestone. There was really nothing here. About 12 years ago we started replacing the over-burdened back into this area, contoured the land, put reclamation soil on it. After that...we start planting the seedlings in about year two. We have a standard reclamation prescription on planting of trees and as you can see they're everything from white spruce to poplar. I think we've planted over five million trees and shrubs. Once reclamation started, nature took over and the wetland took off by itself. These bulrushes came in naturally. The willow trees around the lake came in naturally. We've got wildlife in here. Some of the wetland's wildlife that we've seen is ducks, the sandhill crane but also the macrophytes, the little stuff that sustain it. All the bugs and bacteria that are at the bottom of the food chain to sustain some of the bigger wildlife here. I'm involved in some of the aboriginal consultation and that's where we get some of the ideas that rat root is very important... they've been telling us for quite a while in the past that LFH was very important to them...meaning that we'd take the top of the forest floor and put that on the final lift of our reclamation and in fact what they said was true, it just took off and we've seen <b>...</b>


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Inside Syncrude Canada's research nerve center


Tenacity and a $60 million budget help bring bright ideas to life. Alberta Oil magazine takes you inside Syncrude Canada's state-of-the-art research center. This was made with support from Zoom Web Video. www.zoomwebvideo.com


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Danny Sahl Wins Syncrude Boreal Open


Danny Sahl won the 2011 Syncrude Boreal Open in convincing fashion in Fort McMurray, Alberta.


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Syncrude Oilsands Tailings Ponds


See Syncrude's tailings ponds and hear about the new methods the company is exploring to deal with them. Video by Bruce Edwards, edmontonjournal.com


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Syncrude hits 2 Billion Barrels of Oil


CLUB LUCHADOR T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE AT www.cafepress.com Jim Ginch talks about Syncrude's newest accomplishment and his newest wardrobe


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Syncrude & Suncor Base Mines, Alberta, Canada (Athabasca oil sands)


Panoramic view from the edge of an oil sands tailings pond. There are mountains of light-coloured sand with flecks of coke. If you listen carefully there are the occasional dull thuds that are the sound of canons fired to keep birds of the tar-laden tailings.


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Peak Oil vs Ducks


April 30, 2008. 500 Ducks mistake toxic sludge for Duck pond. Oil company keeps silent, concern Canadian calls Alberta government. Alberta government have press scrums excellent PR move.


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More Dead Ducks at Syncrude, Sootaanaah (Duane) Goodstriker, Maude Barlow "The Fight for Water"


The Fight for Water: Challenging Water Markets in Alberta. Presented by Our Water is Not for Sale Network, Council of Canadians -www.canadians.org, Public Interest Alberta- http Sierra Club Prairie- www.p.sierraclub.ca, Parkland Institute http . Sootaanaah (Duane) Goodstriker is a 50-year-old Blood Indian and trained biologist. Currently he serves as the Ambassador of Environmental Affairs for the Sovereign Blackfoot Nation. From 1995-97 he was the Advisor to the Chiefs of Alberta's Treaty Nations Environmental Secretariat. He has served as a Fireman-EMT, with the RCMP and as a National Park Warden. He is a lifelong environmentalist, intervening on such projects as the Enbridge Pipeline, the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline, and helped to the prevent the expansion of the EPCOR water management plant onto sacred Indigenous grounds. He is a published author with a chapter, "Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) Wars" in the book Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice, and co-hosts a radio program titled Acimowin on CJSR in Edmonton. Maude Barlow National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly Globe and Mail: Hundreds of ducks are dead after landing in a toxic Syncrude tailings pond on Monday, igniting yet another public-relations disaster for a company and an industry that was slapped with the largest environmental penalty in Alberta court history just <b>...</b>


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Jeff Cuzzort Speaks to Canadian Tour TV at the Syncrude Boreal Open


Jeff Cuzzort tied the course record shooting a round of 6-under-par at the Syncrude Boreal Open in Fort McMurray, AB.


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Syncrude at Night


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Steve Gaudet, B.Sc, Syncrude Canada


This area here used to be a mine. The distant hills has now been reclaimed to a forest. It's really important to us that people hear about the good work that we're doing. Back about 3 decades ago it was all about trees. Now we've gone from about 4 to 5 types of trees but also adding different types of shrubs and other types of plants. Oh there's two squirrels chasing each other for a cone over here, sorry to interrupt. It's pretty exciting that they're returning. We want to leave restored land that people are proud see for generations after that. New ideas are making a difference. Get the real story at www.capp.ca/oilsands


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Hundreds of ducks die in Alberta oilsands tailings pond


Fingers are being pointed after hundreds of ducks were found dead or dying in a toxic tailings pond belonging to oilsands giant Syncrude Canada Ltd. CTV Edmonton's Joel Gotlib told Newsnet on Wednesday that it's the worst such incident in the history of northern Alberta's oilsands. Environmentalists are furious, governments are demanding answers and Syncrude -- located about 40 kilometres north of Fort McMurray -- is scrambling to contain the damage, he said. The tailings ponds are formed during the oilsands extraction process, Miles Kitagawa of the Alberta Toxics Watch Society told CTV.ca on Wednesday. "Syncrude utilizes something called the Clark hot water process, where they crush bitumen-containing oil, mix it with heated water and use that to separate the bitumen out of the ore," he said. The leftover water is dumped in the tailings ponds, which contain a mixture of clay, sand water and hydrocarbons, he said. Drinking a glass of water from a tailings pond would be like drinking a diluted glass of oil or gasoline, Kitagawa said. The ponds are supposed to have measures in place that keep migrating waterfowl from landing on the ponds, such as scarecrows and noisemakers. In a news release issued Tuesday, Syncrude's president and CEO Tom Katinas said noisemakers had been deployed at all the company's other tailings ponds. "However, due to the extreme winter weather conditions in the region last week, the deployment of these devices on the Aurora Settling Basin was delayed <b>...</b>


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Syncrude "Capping 10 Years" September 1988


A commemorative video provided to Syncrude employees celebrating 10 years of production and the completion of the Capacity Addition Project.


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Why Did the Alberta Government Give Away $18 billion to Syncrude?


In this Question Period clip, Alberta Liberal Shadow Energy Minister Kevin Taft asks the government to justify its transfer of $18 billion in oil and gas royalties from the people of Alberta to Syncrude.


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Syncrude Recruitment Promo Video


Marc Theriault, Vice President, Production, Syncrude Canada Ltd. invites you to Inclusion Works 09.


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