Alberta Oil on 60 Minutes tonight

[nfotiu]

Just saw an ad for it during football. They are doing a segment on the Oilsands in Alberta.

[Hack&Lube]

What time is 60 minutes on? I haven't watched it in like 10 years.

[HOZ]

Will they be showing all of our Asian slave girls scooping up the oil in our backyards as we bbq on our 3 acre porches?

I mean....hopefully they will show Eastern Canada how lucky we really are. The stuff just comes up on it's own!!!

[Tron_fdc]

I just watched it.....nothing too out of the ordinary and nothing most of us don't already know. Could be good for Joe American to see, though.

[snappyk]

Just like Tron said, nothing really out of place, you hear from the oil exects then the tree huggin environmental people saying that the minning is ruining the landscape.

[Displaced Flames fan]

I missed it, damn it.

Was curious to see if they talked about the shales in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

When they shut the project down my Dad was working on they had decided it could be profitable when oil reached $55/bbl. Will be interesting to see if any of the companies involved will go back to shale processing, although only one was actually successful in producing a significant amount of oil. They've since sold all their holdings.

[Displaced Flames fan]

That's kind of vague fotze, not really sure what you're saying.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Yeah, that's what I was saying. Back in the day, they shut the project down (one particular player anyway) with the notion that it would be profitable @ $55/bbl. We're significantly past that mark now, hence my post.

[BlackArcher101]

Just a heads up, it's starting now on CBS.

[browna]

Be interested to see if the story causes any reverberations (ie they interviewed a 22 year old who proclaimed he's going to make 120K$ this year working up there) as far as whats going on up there.

Of course, the Sierra Club goes on scolding the oil comapnies and the levels of governements of Canada for processing the oils sands...that we're feeding the US dependancy of oil with the Oil Sands when we should be "the friend that tells them to stop".

[BlackArcher101]

I recall a year ago or so they did the same story.... or was that moreso on Alberta being the Canadian Texas?

Anyways, it got some attention, but not much. I bet this will be the same way.

[Clarkey]

That guy doing the interview was a simpleton.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Clarkey

That guy doing the interview was a simpleton.

either that or he's relaying a story to a mass audience that we are more familiar with

I know what you are saying, but I always find that reporters (even ones I really like) all of a sudden look much simpler when talking about stories I understand well

anyways pretty much the generic story one might expect....theres lots of oil in those sands...interview old guy getting rich off it...mention china...interview tree hugger...random shot of cheezy fort mac country bar...interview kid making 125 k....random shot of Ralph Klein in New York...interview another old guy getting rich...mention Canada/US trade angle

you could pretty much write the 12 minute story in advance

[Muta]

Originally Posted by browna

Be interested to see if the story causes any reverberations (ie they interviewed a 22 year old who proclaimed he's going to make 120K$ this year working up there) as far as whats going on up there.

Wha? Wha? I'm 22 and I don't make anything near that.... I gotta find out what this kid does in the oilsands - surely he's not just a rig monkey, is he?

That's depressing (for me) if true....

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by browna

Of course, the Sierra Club goes on scolding the oil comapnies and the levels of governements of Canada for processing the oils sands...that we're feeding the US dependancy of oil with the Oil Sands when we should be "the friend that tells them to stop".

I generally side with the green types but that was pretty silly statement from a Canadian. We suck it down even faster than the Yanks.

It reminded me of when my old partner Ron would tell me to stop snorting so much coke but then I'd look over and he was snorting more than me!

[Displaced Flames fan]

Cue the avatar that you used to use on your CPHL GM page!

[@theCBE]

Originally Posted by Muta

Wha? Wha? I'm 22 and I don't make anything near that.... I gotta find out what this kid does in the oilsands - surely he's not just a rig monkey, is he?

That's depressing (for me) if true....

He was wearing a hard hat and blue jumpsuit... it is a possibility

Damn science degree.. what a waste of money

[Hack&Lube]

Let's put an NHL team in Fort Mac! They can afford it more than Winnipeg

[Reggie Dunlop]

Here I always thought that oil exploration was a simple matter of grabbing yer ol' trusty rifle an' up from the ground comes 'a bubblin' crude.

Learn something new ev'ry day I reckon.

[Incinerator]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Let's put an NHL team in Fort Mac! They can afford it more than Winnipeg

better yet just move the Oilers to Fort Mac, at least the name would then actually fit