All of this combines to make Fort McMurray the best job market on the continent.
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"We did not understand the science of cutting, " says Mr. McMurray, rubbing his hands together.
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All that pipeline bickering in the U.S. originates in Fort McMurray and its giant oil sands fields.
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Associated Press reporters Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City and Jeff McMurray in Chicago contributed to this report.
Mr McMurray said that because the company is in administration the workers will only get statutory redundancy payments.
He also added that the assets north of Fort McMurray have performed well.
Ryan Newman was seventh, Brian Vickers was eighth and Paul Menard and Jamie McMurray rounded out the top 10.
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Amanda Parker, 41, moved to Fort McMurray six years ago from Ontario with her children and husband, an oil worker.
As the plane gained altitude, I could see the vast black pits of the tar-sands mines that surround Fort McMurray.
"Every track we go to, I think we're going to have a chance to break the track record, " McMurray said.
Over the next five years, investment in the Fort McMurray area is expected to amount to more than seventy-five billion dollars.
David McMurray of the Unite trade union said it was one of the "bleakest weeks in manufacturing since the Thatcher years".
The town of Fort McMurray occupies a set of irregularly spaced hillsides on either side of the Athabasca River, in northern Alberta.
Mr. McMurray and his team of scientists have worked out advanced mathematical equations, complex graphs showing "cutting systems" and precise anatomical diagrams of chickens.
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We also stop by Seattle's Experience Music Project, where we speak to curator Jacob McMurray about the role technology has created in building a better music museum.
To keep the thousands of oil field workers from clogging the one artery to the oil sands, 500 buses run in a continuous loop from Fort McMurray to the oil fields.
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"It's such a cool part of our sport, " said Jamie McMurray, the 2010 Daytona 500 champ, who recalled how fans wore shirts touting Ford and Chevrolet when he was a kid.
As it happens, while I was visiting Fort McMurray a company called the Energy Alberta Corporation filed an application to build a pair of nuclear reactors four hundred miles west of town.
Below was the wilderness, then the perfectly square clearings in the trees, and, finally, as we headed into Fort McMurray, the vast pits and the black ponds, with the bitumen bobbing on top.
Oil States operates in the Canadian oil sands region of Fort McMurray, where firms like Exxon and Suncor need homes for their personnel, and the same is true in Western Australia, where Oil States services iron ore and LNG producers.
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Mr. MARK McMURRAY (Calcasieu Parish Administrator): Well, my wife, particularly, is interested in getting it and is wondering why--since I was spending 16 and 18 hours a day here while they were evacuated, why we can't get the money, you know, so...
All the applications opposed by Fort McMurray officials were ultimately approved, and just a few months ago an American company, Hyperion Resources, announced plans to build the first new oil refinery in this country in thirty years, to handle increasing volumes of tar-sands crude.
Such is the demand for natural gas around Fort McMurray that a consortium of companies, including Shell Canada and Imperial Oil, has proposed building a seven-hundred-and-fifty-mile pipeline from the Arctic Ocean through the largely undisturbed wilderness of the Mackenzie River Valley and down into northern Alberta.
Entrepreneurs and con men sunk dozens of wells around Fort McMurray in the second half of the nineteenth century. (One enterprising German immigrant who claimed to have struck oil apparently poured the stuff down the hole himself.) Eventually, it became clear that there was no oil, and attention turned to mining the bitumen.
In the winter, it is possible to drive the hundred and fifty miles from Fort McMurray to the lake on an ice road. (Because of rising temperatures, the number of days that the road is passable has been steadily shrinking.) In the summer, the only way to make the trip is by boat or by prop plane.
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