Posts Tagged ‘ canada ’

Fun with Customs and Border Guards in the U.S. and Canada

Jul 25th, 2011 | By | Category: International, Politics
"Sir, you can go ahead and button your shirt back up," said the TSA agent. We'd only been trying to help. We were passing through Houston on our way from Acapulco to the Agora Financial Symposium in Vancouver. We'd opted out of the Rapiscan irradiation machine and so had to be felt ...read more

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Update on Canada Oil Sands, Part I

Aug 24th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Oil
Recently, I had the unique opportunity to tour two different oil sands operations near Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta. I saw a massive open-pit oil sands mine, and the associated reclamation effort, operated by Syncrude Canada Ltd. I also visited an in situ oil sands recovery project called Surmont, operated ...read more

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