ATHABASCA TAR SANDS / OIL SANDS 1967 BECHTEL CORP. PROMO FILM ALBERTA CANADA 10494

[@negan7808]

My Father came up to Fort McMurray in 1964 And Started with GCOS i was born and raised here, he was the Bucket Wheel Operator until 1991 when he Retired .... i was born in 1969 .... Fort McMurray will always be my home, I am working at Suncor and will retire in 15 more years

[@formatagfys1903]

With all those $ why takes so long to retire?

[@Wildstar40]

@@formatagfys1903 For more $

[@ctdieselnut]

@Gurpreet Singh yes, but what can we do about it? What makes times of our life important is knowing it is finite. It's why you must live like theres no tomorrow, and cherish the good times and being with loved ones. Dont take life too seriously, no one makes it out alive!

[@ourdefiningmoments8528]

Hey Faron. My dad was Bob McClements who also went to Ft. Mc around the same time. He was the manager of the plant and always talked so fondly of all the people who worked there. We moved to the states in the early 70's, but I'm sure our fathers worked together. Good on your dad for being a bucket wheel operator for all those years!!

[@jobobthepatriot800]

@@formatagfys1903 because is spend all buying new truck ect ...loll

[@isaacpaulsen1158]

A guy could get addicted to these periscope films

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[@rentonarc]

This was a great documentary. I’ve been welding pipe up fort Mac area for 16 years now . Thank you to all our construction workers past and present .

[@ourdefiningmoments]

My dad is Bob McClements. He's in his last days of life and I know he would love to see this. GCOS was his life and the beginning of an incredible career and life. Boy did he grow into his public speaking skills over the years! :D

[@KonfusedDude]

I am a 20 year employee of Sun company. he was part of the transformation of Canada. Too bad the company was driven into the ground by the Glenmeade trust. Dividends were sucked out when the company was on hard times. He managed the golden age when there was a long term vision.

[@ourdefiningmoments8528]

@@KonfusedDude thanks for sharing this P JG. I never followed GCOS after dad retired and I'm sorry to hear that. Ahhhh the Golden age. So curious about what you see as the characteristics of the Golden Age? I have my thoughts but I'm a forever curious person about other people's views. Again, thanks for sharing.

[@ronobvious2159]

Wow, this takes me back, when Alberta had a future! Thanks for posting.

[@erics7712]

Just amazing what men built to become successful and create wealth not only for themselves but for tens of thousands of workers. All the criticism today’s entitled class has the privilege of casting upon the oil industry, would be dwarfed by the optimism of a generation back then. Today, tech giants create multiples of that wealth with a stroke of a keyboard and leave nothing of significance behind. In fact technology promotes the elimination of human capital to increase speed and efficiency. I am so glad I am old enough to have grown up in that period. Thank you for posting this film.

[@lightspeed4596]

Well said.

[@patrioticcanadian6997]

Never get tired of watching this Bechtel film , after being part of the massive startup of this plant Great Canadian Oil Sands in Sept of 1967, I retired from GCOS/Suncor 1996, it was the best place for anyone who wanted to work , for the economy, GDP of Canada & environmentally now producing most ethically clean oil . Canada’s most strategic energy reserve , great to see again all naysayers are wrong...

[@ctdieselnut]

It will be generations, if ever oil becomes obsolete. Cars are just one demand on oil, it powers, heats, manufactures, and moves our world. So long as there is demand, north America might as well produce as much as we can in our own back yard versus funding russia and the middle east. It's one hell of a piece of infrastructure, that's for sure. It looks like it will be producing for decades to come.

[@laurencezemlick1979]

I love watching these videos of American ingenuity and industrial strength. We have so much to be proud of.

[@woodduck]

Unfortunately it is american ingenuity. No Canadian firm or the government wanted to invest heavily into the tar sands so most of the production nowadays goes to the americans

[@brodyekvall3129]

I am a boilermaker and have worked at baseplant many times it's a treat to see this bit of history of the sites I work at.

[@nickw7619]

I saw someone write "THUMBS DOWN BECAUSE OF THE COUNTDOWN CLOCK ON THE SCREEN".... gtfoh. Thank you, mysterious periscope KZbin channel for making these lost treasures available again. Can't imagine the time and effort it takes

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@blainedahlseide780]

To all who made this possible I thank you so much!! This project has made such a positive outcome for me and my family! Iam blessed to have worked on and in this industry throughout my career.. one thing is clear we are lucky to have mined this asset as reasonable as we do, anywhere else the cost to the environment could be way worse then we could imagine just look at Venezuela!

[@jamesserediak1198]

Born and raised there. Loved it. It will always be home. My father started with GCOS in the summer of 1974. I was born two years later. The history there is amazing. I still work up there but live in Edmonton now. Lots of friends and family still living there as well.

[@rnplante1560]

Lived across from your dad's place in waterways.

[@ourdefiningmoments]

Hi James. I think we just missed each other! My dad was at GCOS from 1967 until 1974 and I was 4.

[@gower23]

The narration sounds so endearing. Beautiful flowing intonation.

[@aerialcat1]

Gower23, It is interesting how the timber and intonation in the voices of North Americans have changed over the decades... and the pauses, no one’s got time for that anymore.

[@toberrdrawforc]

Agreed, and I caught the Freudian slip! (tree being failed) Tenor!!!!!

[@dmaze8457]

Is the Clearwater River still clear?

[@BobbyIronsights]

Thanks for the upload.

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[@afreebeaver8040]

A wonderful time for Alberta and all canadians. I whole heartedly agree with the other comment of "Cleaning up the largest oil spill ever." better than it ending up leeching into the river.

[@shadesilverwing592]

My dad was a Chef from NAIT in Edmonton in the 80's, he worked at the Peter Pond Hotel, and occasionally helping to feed the Rig crews. Dad met my mom in the Pond hotel after she knocked another fella out cold from trying to hit on her at the bar. My dad also tells me stories of how it was so cold most winters in Fort Mac that he would take foil wrapped steamed potatoes home in his jacket pockets to keep warm.

[@mafic_taco7061]

Cool stuff Dave! I recently watched a really neat old mining/promotional PeriscopeFilm video on the oil sands of Albert . Good watch

[@HiwasseeRiver]

Old school Bechtel project- solving problems you didn't know you had in ways you won't understand.

[@texaswunderkind]

And leaving behind toxic superfund sites and bankrupt subsidiary companies to legally protect the parent from lawsuits.

[@RioSul50]

I worked at Syncrude and Suncor in the mid 1980's. Great pay but oh so cold in the winter. I still have some of training manuals and a jacket I think. The man who tested me (for a job at Suncor) in late 1983 had himself started at Suncor in 1967. I recognize the cokers and the hydrogen furnace in the model. The food was endless and GREAT! I gained weight even as I became the strongest I have ever been in my life. I lived in camp at Suncor for a few months. An employee was killed by a black bear in recent years at Suncor. The feeling of isolation was STILL there when bad weather the roads and airport was closed. Also for younger single men there were not may ladies around.

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[@FAngus-ly8lk]

In the 24th minute there are various shots of people arriving by aircraft for the official opening of the GCOS plant in September, 1967. My Dad is shown stepping off a plane with a Bechtel insignia on it. His company supplied the Caterpillar equipment that was used to clear and prepare the site of the plant and operate the oilsands mine. He was involved in the development of the oilsands and Fort MacMurray from the beginning of planning of the GCOS facility right through the building of the Syncrude plant in the 70s and 80s. It's pretty cool to see him in this video.

[@Jeff-go3pt]

Your father wouldnt happen to be the founder of R.Angus?

[@FAngus-ly8lk]

@@Jeff-go3pt - Yes.

[@badcompany-w6s]

Never knew about this place. Learn something new everyday. Thank you Periscope for posting this film.

[@TeamAsia86]

Born there in 86, worked on the bucketwheel and dragline on the last year of operation

[@larmar]

Worked 30 years there. Retired at 50. Greatest place in Canada. Now it gets such a bad rap!

[@norcanexs.g.llc.4625]

...The bad rap is mostly due the USA and its greed by trying to get the oil for nothing.

[@trentland]

@@norcanexs.g.llc.4625 It's a commodity.

[@titancribbing3363]

Place gets a bad rap because it’s a shit hole. Companies are garbage, town is garbage. Whole place is a gutter.

[@TheManLab7]

50! You must of had a great pension then?

[@mrfingers4737]

@@norcanexs.g.llc.4625 our own govt sabotaged fort mac.

[@rapman5363]

Alberta bound...Alberta bound It’s good to be..Alberta bound

[@grosvenorclub]

Was up there in 1968 and based in Edmonton. Just a gravel track up there in those days .Recognised the old town .

[@hoboonwheels9289]

I had the privilege of working in the camps, as a coach driver 2010-2015, when there was no work for us in Edmonton, 4 months we were to be there turned into 5 years. It was a great experience and I learned what the oil sands were about, not what is portrayed, often. My first camp was Barge landing, north of the "bridge to nowhere in 1965." Interesting when barges came in how many cars were going down there😉 altold I took people to about 17 work sites and stayed in almost as many "camps". I imagined before my first turnaround, tents and sleeping bags😁

[@nightshift5201]

How on earth did they build a pipeline with no reflective vests or hard hats?

[@xyvwz1568]

The horror

[@cyb_structure]

😂

[@user-ne3ze4zz7r]

Really cool - the people that really built this country!

[@mnmountainman9343]

Thanks for the old film...almost 28 ...1993

[@stevemino142]

Same here my birth place fort McMurray alberta was working in that same area as a boom operator started in 1975 this is a good film

[@ctdieselnut]

18:40 - what a sight. 7 welding rigs all welding away at the same time. That's some production going on right there. When you have hundreds of miles of pipe to lay, that's how its done.

[@paulgaskins7713]

God how amazing one of these events must have been without screaming protestors

[@Rorschach00Testing]

🇨🇦 I was sent to Syncrude and Suncor numerous times as a contractor to build massive RCC pads (Roller Compacted Concrete) for the heavy haulers. (huge dump trucks) I enjoyed working in Fort Mac because of the great pay and the awesome food. The bitumen covered everything and made driving hazardous because the roads were so slick.

[@A-classic-smithy]

Syncrude basemine has another 4 years or so left, however they have another deposit just 15 minutes away to the east and will have more 797s in the next 2 years, they are slowly bringing shovels out there. Then the big reclamation will be ongoing at old basemine. Basemine is incredibly depressing 😂

[@marksmith7054]

that was a LOT of work to get oil production giong. Good job to ALL involved with this massive undertaking.

[@grumpystruckshop3807]

Had wild times in the riviera hotel,

[@arliesample8632]

Also the Peter Pond Hotel...

[@grumpystruckshop3807]

@@arliesample8632 bet you didn't. know Kathy Hanna?

[@cyb_structure]

Absolutely excellent historical documentary 🍿 What a Alberta project 👊🏼

[@OldCanadianguy953]

Amazing!

[@lynneboucher1717]

My birth place, 58 years ago, 😉

[@countdown2xstacy]

Wow Cool

[@deadnorth8648]

403

[@spacewurm]

Do you poop tar?

[@michellecarew7778]

So you got cancer then?

[@lynneboucher1717]

@@michellecarew7778 yes

[@FullCircleTravis]

My great uncle ran the shovel for the test plant, and my grandpa was the guy who greased the machine. My grandpa knew the Sutters of NHL fame, and he was good friends with Bobby heart and the other guys who ran Stampede wrestling, which became WWE.

[@jstogryn1]

I was born and raised in Fort McMurray 25 years

[@kenlindsey3169]

Kept the rest of canada going for decades.Was called the capital of newfoundland.

[@grosvenorclub]

We were visiting St Johns 2 years ago and many of the cars had Alberta plates !

[@yosemitesam6945]

Lots of them working in the BC mining industry also .

[@yz8302]

when us needs our oil, it was called oil sand. When us dont need it, the name quickly changes to dirty tar sand.

[@iguanapete3809]

You just want our warm water ports to send your oil to China. If it destroys our Ogallala Aquifer will you send Canadian water down the pipeline to water our wheat fields?

[@keithjurena9319]

Brandon has no brain. Gone in 26 months or sooner.

[@walterkersting6238]

Oil sands now, thanks to Brandon.

[@c.g.3931]

I didn’t realize oil sands were a thing back then.

[@Laura-wc5xt]

what a great film....thanks

[@jimmy9639-x3x]

Alberta has shared over $600 billion to our fellow Canadians, not including our brothers and sisters from other parts of the country that found a high paying job from places that don't have employment. You're welcome!

[@kenc4240]

Two Thumbs Up Awsome

[@d.g.rohrig4063]

14:40 Unfortunate that at the production time of this documentary, they predicted the future wrong. I truly miss my past in Alberta, boom-time abundance of work, affordable living and most of all, thee most kindest, open hearted, friends I’ve ever met. The only things that lead to me exiting stage left after 8 years were the winters and the continuous horizontal plane...err..FLAT!

[@daneduttry8957]

Thru this entire documentary I seen only one somewhat obese man. EVERYONE was skinny and healthy. These were real true working men. Most men nowadays can't even step out into that weather not alone work a full day in 60 below.

[@timthetiny7538]

True. And we live 25 years longer because of it

[@prairiestrong1106]

Long live the worlds greatest resource to mankind.

[@Leviathan02464]

Great video! Love Alberta and love working in the oil industry!

[@paulrath7764]

Only a few places on earth are smart and responsible enough to handle the blessings of such great natural wealth, and Canada is one.

[@gumbootcloggers8330]

Was.

[@antiprogpragmatist859]

@@gumbootcloggers8330 ..IS!

[@texaswunderkind]

What part of "responsible" involves the ONE TRILLION-liter tailing ponds leaking a toxic sludge all over Alberta?

[@roosell793]

Turns out Alberta has not been responsible at all at handling this blessing.

[@donchristie420]

Yummm, tar sands- I love it on toast😳

[@CoastalAutoReactionCAR]

Crazy seeing how it used to be! Worked in Ft Mac for years! Until 2016

[@ianmcclelland9773]

That is absolutely incredible!

[@leeme8947]

That was great. Thank you

[@mikecheques3833]

You're welcome

[@michaeltarasenkoop2389]

Great video keep it going ! Very informing and interesting please do more videos of this type ! Most of us never know how the oil was produced !

[@donaldjleslie5956]

i worked on the assembly of the marion draglines during winter of 1977, had some chilly shifts,

[@davidsteen2785]

I was there in 77 too, I was on the bucyrus Erie then the Marion then extraction building

[@RB-nx8ut]

Great history!

[@HockeyVictory66]

Cool video. Glad they went over the extraction process. So, they. just put the sand.back where it came from? Wouldn’t it be full of chemicals from the separation process?

[@mikecheques3833]

No it's all separated

[@Cheezz_Montgomery_Burns]

21:53 that bridge is still standing today and is now the southbound bridge after the highway was twinned.

[@bradjames6748]

And then along came Ralph Klein and broke open the piggy bank and spent it all and now the goose can't lay as many golden eggs.....

[@TheGoshood]

your title is wrong. It should be Athabaska oil sands.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Apparently the world believes the spelling is correct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_oil_sands

[@eastcoastrifraf]

Been to Fort Mac, huge operations! But the sad part is the tailing ponds left to rot forever...

[@jeffreyoliver4735]

Sorry partner but you had better find some better information. Pit 86 was recovered and return to nature in 2012.

[@markbarber7839]

Thanks for the video! If you think about it, nothing can replace oil unless we're all willing to dog sled while our leaders jet around

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[@AndrewBrowner]

@@PeriscopeFilm you still need donations to fund a video that was filmed and no doubt paid for by the oil industry FIFTY THREE years ago!

[@deepbludude4697]

Awesome undertaking!

[@marttimattila9561]

My son both stocks from oil sand industry, I wish to thank you and wish you luck.

[@TheSpyder1960]

Worked there for 12 years

[@mikecheques3833]

Want a reward?

[@TheSpyder1960]

@@mikecheques3833 don’t need another one the pay was fine just a point my lost little friend hopefully your life gets much better

[@laurencezemlick1979]

11:23 curling as an activity makes a lot more sense when you consider how freaking bored these dudes must have been

[@kunletaiwo2077]

Waow! This is a very good video. I learnt a lot from it.

[@Dmitriy_Pivko]

Super interesting

[@shizlittlebam]

Look what's been stolen from us. Such better times.

[@abdirashidabdi9051]

I am surprised that the engineering juggernaut Bechtel (Canada), doesn't capitalize on their impact on such projects of such nature. 😊

[@jackpontiac52]

Extraction plant @30 min. I worked there after the 1987 fire

[@GenealogistBuchanan]

Cleaning up the world's biggest natural oil spill.

[@SharpCats371]

Good Advent, Merry Christmas🐾🐾😻🕯🎄

[@scottishwarrior8014]

How do they separate the sand from the oil ? Think I need to head to google

[@mfbfreak]

They explain that around 29:30

[@Censoredbyfscists]

If you trust Google your a moron.

[@timpratten2258]

Hot water steam and caustic

[@antiprogpragmatist859]

@@Censoredbyfscists ..if you think that the answer can’t be found there...YOU!....are a moron

[@raybin6873]

@@Censoredbyfscists Be kind now - no need to be so gruff...

[@turdferguson74]

Humans can conquer just about anything…..except himself

[@marymary4868]

what - they're referring to this deposit as the Athabasca tar sands ??

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

Now if only our brainless President would reverse his stance on the pipeline going south from Canada it would lower the price of gasoline and several other petroleum based products.

[@texaswunderkind]

I'm fine with the toxic sludge remaining in Canada where it belongs. No one stopped Canada from piping it west so it could be sold to the Chinese directly.

[@richardluce775]

@@texaswunderkind have to kind of agree. Lots of backlash when they wanted to pipe it to BC. It failed to get built there too.Einstein in the above comment doesn’t realize most was destined for offshore consumption.

[@1978garfield]

@@texaswunderkind You do realize the "toxic sludge" gets put in to train cars and sent to the US anyway? Rail shipment is much less efficient and more likely to leak.

[@DannySavage306]

I'm in my late 20s but when I was A kid my grandparent use to tell me there was A military base close to Peter pond in the grizzley hills area I'm not sure if its true but there is land marks from growth at some places but idk rumors but I believe there was something up there its close to A little village called (michel village) on Peter pond lake

[@andrewbowers_]

Those were the days when men where in charge. Their magnificent machines were of secondary importance - their wives came first.

[@KonfusedDude]

Pew was ahead of his time

[@billdornan4379]

June 2023 👍👍🇨🇦

[@mikewilkinson4588]

Very interesting.....

[@southwestxnorthwest]

Fabulous

[@jean-francoisriverin2890]

Whatever your believes, engineers and scientists can tackle any problems and will solve those to come like global warming.... Loved my time there but is it ever cold....

[@jafo49]

Too bad Alberta wasn't able to keep the profits in province instead of paying for eastern welfare programs.

[@redwater4778]

Too bad Alberta never formed it's own oil company.

[@antiprogpragmatist859]

@@redwater4778 ...I don’t think we need politicians that can change every 4 years running companies. CN was a dog of a company until it was privatized. Now it’s the number one class 1 railroad in North America

[@James-wp3zc]

It would appear that the federal government funded most of the infrastructure in the original development.

[@redwater4778]

@@James-wp3zc Yes and they formed the National Energy Board ( Petrocan)

[@jackpontiac52]

@@redwater4778 Petrocan= Pierre Elliot Trudeau Rips Off Canadians !

[@johnbabu3640]

And so the politics of Sand oil started before everyone of us were born and continues even today !

[@snazzyengineering]

Ernest Manning, the last politician in Alberta who actually earned their salary.

[@nightshift5201]

Peter Lougheed.

[@snazzyengineering]

@@nightshift5201 Ernest Manning, the last politician in Alberta who actually earned their salary.

[@seekter-kafa]

fabulous? yeah right

[@sunroad7228]

"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).

[@Dmitriy_Pivko]

Вобщем город Эдмонтон, это как для росийских вахтовиков город Нижневартовск - пепевалочный пункт для вахтовиков

[@davidlagle7000]

This is good stuff

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

Now for this company to tie getting the fluid out of the sand and not waste half the product by burning this fluid to get it out with molten salt thorium reactors and to chemo

[@floorpizza8074]

What?

[@michaelmcmahon5439]

Yeah this was understand when that big digger was 50ft from the plant.

[@markschweikert3322]

how come i don't see any diversity in this film? Didn't they build the country?

[@rachelbrinkley3240]

This is how Suncore came into being.

[@lassepeterson2740]

I want that scale model for my model train layout !

[@timmilder8313]

2.2 Trillion barrels OOIP.

[@Fr1ti4e88]

Back before Canada was ruined by Castros son