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Mine at the Athabasca Oil Sands. According to the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB, now known as the Alberta Energy Regulator, the AER), Alberta's oil sands areas contain an ultimately recoverable crude bitumen resource of 50 billion cubic metres (315 billion barrels), with remaining established reserves of almost 28 billion cubic metres (174 billion barrels) at year-end 2004.
The Clearwater Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Early Cretaceous age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in northeastern Alberta, Canada. [2] It was first defined by R.G. McConnell in 1893 and takes its name from the Clearwater River near Fort McMurray.
A & T offered the site to the Chicago Maritime Society to conduct a survey. The project generated a great deal of interest from Illinois divers, prompting three of the Chicago Maritime Society members, David Truitt, Valerie (Olson) van Heest , and Kurt Anderson to found the Underwater Archaeological Society of Chicago in 1989 as an offshoot ...
Good morning, Chicago. Hours before heavy rains swamped Chicago and Cook County suburbs on July 2, the region’s $3.8 billion flood-control project appeared ready as can be to bottle up storm runoff.
The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
Chicago air quality unhealthy as Canadian wildfire emissions reach record levels and send smoke to Europe. Gustaf Kilander. June 27, 2023 at 2:42 PM.
Since it was established, Chicago Wilderness has increased its member count to over 250 different public and private organizations who work together to conserve and protect these diminishing ecosystems. On March 29, 2017, the leadership of Chicago Wilderness announced that the Chicago Wilderness Trust would be ceasing operations effective March 31.
It is located 15 miles (25 km) northwest of Chicago, below O'Hare International Airport. Its origins date back to the first freight yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) in 1916, which by the early 1950s had grown into a large marshaling yard with 70 directional tracks. The Milwaukee Road was taken over ...