Few new oil-sands projects have been announced since ... north of $100 a barrel prior to the crash that started in 2014, man camps served as a relief valve. They housed workers who might otherwise ...

Fort McMurray, the remote Canadian town largely built by the oil-sands industry ... construction of temporary worker housing known as man camps, as it seeks to push producers to hire locally ...

Thousands of workers from Canada and elsewhere work on the oil sands. To house these workers, “man camps” were built next to the processing plants. The “man camps” are precisely what their ...

The promise of ready jobs and lucrative paychecks has lured thousands of workers to the oil fields of North Dakota. But many aren't prepared for the hardships of life on the plains: the cold, the ...

Attempts to address the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis could be counteracted by the problems “man camps” cause ... would transport oil sands from Canada down to the Gulf Coast ...

it’s time to get back to work in the oil sands. Smith, the head of a lodging company that runs camps for oil workers, has been going full out ever since as the industry gets set to resume ...

“The oil sands has to compete for capital with all ... It’s definitely possible to do, but the old paradigm of 4,000-man camps and long construction periods is over,” Tertzakian told Alberta ...

Two Years in the Oil Sands, which recounts the time she spent working and living in Canada’s oil industry man camps. Lavery and Beaton take on two letters. First, someone who wants to break-up ...

If built, the pipelines would rapidly expand Alberta’s oil sands, cause massive environmental impacts, and trigger thousands of new jobs, according to several observers. The first project – ...

Kate Beaton depicts the experience of being far outnumbered by men in her powerful new graphic memoir, “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands,” which ... Beaton considers camp life with profound ...