The industry uses regulated amounts of water from the Athabasca River to separate bitumen from the sand.
Nine crampon-footed hikers crunch up the slope of Athabasca Glacier before stopping to catch their vaporous breath.
' He displays a crumpled photo from decades past showing Athabasca's blue-streaked tip almost nudging the roadside.
And it is the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada, that are number one on the list.
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The hottest dig on earth is taking place in the Athabasca tar sands, with 57 projects in the works.
The company owns a 50 per cent interest in the Cigar Lake mine in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan.
The Athabasca River flows north, into Lake Athabasca, which spans the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.
In the province of Alberta are three major oil sands areas: the Athabasca (the largest), Peace River, and Cold Lake.
Their specialized techniques, production leases, and lower steam-to-oil production ratio, make CVE well-suited to harvesting the northeast Athabasca oil sands deposit.
The town of Fort McMurray occupies a set of irregularly spaced hillsides on either side of the Athabasca River, in northern Alberta.
New technologies allow for the vast development of the Athabasca tar sands in Alberta, helping make Canada's oil reserves the world's second largest.
Areva controls one of the most lucrative uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan, a province accounting for 30% of global uranium production.
They have complained for years that pollution from oil sands projects was fouling their drinking water and making the Athabasca River unsafe for swimming and fishing.
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Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil announced today that they will build a carbon capture and sequestration mechanism into their 225, 000 barrels per day Athabasca Oil Sands Project.
It moves oil from the Athabasca oil sands region in Alberta, Canada to hubs and refineries in the US. The pipeline system spans 2, 150 miles and currently has the capacity to deliver up to 590, 000 bpd of crude oil from Canada into the US markets.
The OER Foundation, Otago Polytechnic (New Zealand), the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada) are collaborating in this project as founding anchor partners to provide flexible pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credit and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit.
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