When you live in Edmonton, it is apparent quite quickly that you are in oil country. The hockey teams are The Oilers and The Oil Kings. Oil tankers are seen on all the rail lines and the trucks pulling oil tanks pull out of the refineries at a quick pace. If Calgary is where the…
Tag: industry
Waste not want not
I had the most unusual experience Tuesday. Philip, Carlyle, and I were off early to get some errands done. One of those was to bring to the metal recycler some metal, to state the obvious. Now, I’ve been to a number of spots that collect things that are to be recycled. Philip took me to…
Saint John New Brunswick and my own history
Tonight I’m in Saint John NB…an industrial city known mostly for Irving Oil and as you fly in you can see the refineries and the oil storage tanks. This old city, and it was established in 1604. I lived here for just over two years when I was 5 and 6 years of age and…
