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...seven Canadians? Well, consider the plight of sophomore forward—and Calgary, Alberta, native—Charlie Johnson. Johnson watched the game with Grumet-Morris and said it was a “big mistake,” since Grumet-Morris grew up outside of Chicago and (apparently) knows many of the U.S. players...
...bond,” says Yi-chen Huang ’06, an EPS concentrator. In addition to extolling the trip’s educational merits, Huang mentions that Harvard bought the group plenty of good pizza and even beer—the drinking age in the province of Alberta...
...from sand, clay and other particles. Then 2,500-h.p. pumps, the world's largest, push the viscous oil sands through pipes to a plant on-site that converts it to crude oil. From there, it goes by pipeline to refineries in the U.S. The output of the Alberta operations is expected soon to reach 1 million bbl. a day, surpassing U.S. crude production on Alaska's North Slope. The U.S. now imports more oil and petroleum products from Canada than from any other country...
Canada did just that. As with the oil-shale deposits in the U.S., geologists and oilmen long knew about Alberta's immense oil-sands resources, but technological obstacles and high costs prevented development. Unlike conventional oil deposits that can be pumped to the surface, oil sand is a heavy, tarlike substance that must be mined and processed before it can be refined into gasoline and other products. Today's burgeoning industry is a testament to both government incentives and oil-company determination...
Though the first oil-sands plant, a small undertaking pioneered by Sun Oil Co., opened in 1967, it wasn't until the 1970s that Canada really got serious. Realizing that most oil companies would be reluctant to commit long-term money, the Alberta provincial government in 1974 launched the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA) to provide seed money and fund research. AOSTRA formed partnerships with oil companies and conducted tests. That work helped make oil sands economically feasible, says Eddy Isaacs, managing director of the Alberta Energy Research Institute. Perhaps more important, Isaacs says, the work showed...