Links to some of the newspaper articles about the trip - if you find more, please forward them here!
Red Deer Express
http://www.reddeerexpress.com/express/edition02/news-004.html
Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=6529b34e-93be-45c3-aae5-82f25e65ac08&k=84683
CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/08/12/edm-oilsands-trek.html
Fort McMurray Today
http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1157354
Vue Weekly Edmonton
http://www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=9372
Filed under: Commentary, Fort McMurray, Media, RTTTS on August 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This entry comes from dialogue the following 4 workers.
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Bruce currently works as an Operating Engineer for Syncrude and his wife Morgan used to work at the Oil Sands Discovery Center and as public affairs representative for Syncrude. The 17 To the Tar Sands bikers stayed at their home for two nights in Fort McMurray.
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Johnny is [...]
Filed under: Commentary, Fort McMurray, Labour, TTTS on September 24th, 2007 | 8 Comments »
By the time we reached Fort McMurray, it had been built-up so much that we were bound to be underwhelmed. After countless warnings about how dangerous and extreme the town was, I was expecting to be welcomed by bar brawls spilling out onto the streets, homeless in every doorway, and prostitutes and fiery car crashes [...]
Filed under: Fort McMurray, TTTS on September 12th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’m sitting here in a moss bed in the progressive beautiful For Mackay. I made it. Its hard to be mindful of the fact that we are here. A handful of random youth. Now greater minds that agree on something and disagree on others. We rode hard and well. Learned people we depart. The stories [...]
Filed under: Fort McMurray, TTTS on September 11th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Bad
Fort Muck: place of sex, drugs, violence, homelessness, massive trucks, polluted air and contaminated water. This is what we were told we would find at the end of deadly Highway 63, or in our case Secondary Highway 881. The city of 70 000 has been growing at a most alarming rate. In response, city [...]
Filed under: Fort McMurray, TTTS on September 11th, 2007 | 3 Comments »