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Imagining the Tar Sands 1880-1967 and Beyond [PDF]
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2012 eng
Mike Gismondi, Debra J. Davidson
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Feasibility study of tar sands conditioning for earth pressure balance tunnelling
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2015 This paper presents the results of laboratory test on the feasibility of soil conditioning for earth pressure balance (EPB) excavation in a tar sand, which is a natural material never studied in this respect.
Daniele Martinelli, Daniele Peila
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Durability of bitumen binder reinforced with polymer additives: Towards upgrading Nigerian local bitumen [PDF]
HeliyonOne of the major obstacles to Nigeria's techno-economic development has been a lack of good road infrastructure. Despite a large deposit of natural bitumen in the form of semi-liquid and bitumen sand, the reliance on imported bitumen/asphalt for road ...
Salawudeen Taofeeq Olalekan +7 more
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Unlocking Efficiency in Radio-Frequency Heating: Eigenfrequency Analysis for Resonance Identification and Propagation Enhancement in Nigerian Tar Sands [PDF]
ACS OmegaAdamu A. Adamu +3 more
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Excavating CBC’s Docudrama The Tar Sands
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2022 This article examines the political controversy around the banned 1977 CBC docudrama _The Tar Sands_, which portrays the personal and political struggle of Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed to secure the Syncrude agreement to develop Alberta’s bitumen sands.
Patrick McCurdy
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The Viability of Oil Extraction from Trinidad Tar Sands by Radio Frequency Heating: A Simulation Approach [PDF]
Journal of Petroleum Science and Technology, 2018 Trinidad has tar sand resources of about 2 billion barrels of oil on land in the Parrylands/Guapo and Brighton areas. With an oil price of over USD 25 per barrel, the commercial extraction of oil from Trinidad tar sands is viable, but it requires a ...
Tamitha Ramcharan +2 more
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Founding Fathers (in a Tailings Pond)
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2022 This speculative essay uses an imaginary (and non-existent) comic to call a tar-sands industry founder who may have thought of himself as a goose back to Fort McMurray to see how waterfowl fare in tailings ponds. It treats S.C. Ells (1878-1971), an early-
Melanie Dennis Unrau
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Alberta and the Global Commons: A Climate Change Tragedy [PDF]
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2020 The Canadian province of Alberta contains the third-largest proven reserve of oil on earth, yet the disconnect between politics and the sciences has never been more severe or as consequential.
Robert Boschman
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, 1990 Research on tar sand is briefly discussed. The research program supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) includes a variety of surface extraction schemes. The University of Utah has process development units (PDU) employing fluidized bed, hot, water-assisted, and fluidized-bed/heat-pipe, coupled combustor technology. Considerable process variable
McLendon, T.R., Bartke, T.C.
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Resistance as Grounds for Futurity: Placemaking and Unsettling through #StopLine3
Open Rivers, 2023 Protecting the water is protecting life. Two-spirit Anishinaabe activist Taysha Martineau thus insists that Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline “should scare you so much that you feel called to step into that water”.
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