Kearl Lake Think Tank

[@evanhamelin7040]

10 yrs after the vid was made, it's still spot on.

[@XMG3]

I worked at kearl phase 1 and currently in phase 2 in commissioning, and this video is unbelievably accurate.

[@newzealandallblacks3726]

How is it possible that this video is 11yrs old but is still so accurate? I'm here at Kearl and the food at Wapatraz is like something the Alpo dog food company rejected. Funny and accurate

[@arlenmentonable]

Porkchops were rubber, veggies mush and potato's leather

[@ThePauliebuck]

They no longer have the Al a Carte. Stayed there for 4 years. They refurbished the intire kitchens over to the al a Carte set up in 2017-18

[@rickszabo4312]

Wow ,just found this, I was their in 2008-2009 doing a winter drilling program. Figured out early enough on my rotations out when you got back to Kearl camp I would linger around to be near last in line to get a room there, only to be told it's full, then I would be assigned a room at the old Huskey Sunrise camp, rooms bigger, place 3/4's empty your own bathroom, access to lots of washers and driers, food was awesome, no line ups, you could pack a real good lunch. You know the place was good when all the safety nazie's and consultants were staying there.

[@kingharryannis]

Kearl Lake rather than build it in Edmonton Alberta with Canadian workers and materials enriching Canada. It was built in Korea. Shipped to Vancouver Washington USA. Transferred to barges towed by tugs up the Columbia river. Unloaded .The Modules would not fit on Washington state Highways. So they were dismantles, trucked over the mountains to Edmonton. Where they were reassembled and many costly mistakes were found $$$$.Rectified $$$ .Then trucked to site. So $$$$$$$$$$$ was spent extra to fuck over Canada and Canadian workers and our politicians were in on it .

[@friendofvinnie]

UCP conservatives who gave us the GST and NAFTA! Who knew 😮

[@dannymcnamara2554]

@@friendofvinnieLiberals in Conservative clothing 😂

[@1joshjosh1]

This is 90% true for 95% of the jobs/camps in OSSA.

[@jamescody9982]

This is almost too perfect

[@slimjim1690]

This is still true to this day. #Wapatraz

[@TurmiteRS]

Lmfao Kearl 2021 baby!!!

[@snarkanoid]

Hahaha I hadn't watched this since before I started at Kearl, and sometimes you forget how pointless the loop around the perimeter is! The food isn't as bad as people say, but they definitely did not try to maximize your downtime. Hope you have an iPhone and like 50 books, cause you're gonna be doing a loootttttta sitting. Also, they recently had to evacuate the buses because the air quality was poisoning everyone on board. True story.

[@sturek4201]

We need a new kearl think tank for covid

[@slimjim1690]

How is it there now? Booked in for next week ffs....

[@sturek4201]

@@slimjim1690 might even be worse then what this video says lol . Your in for some fun surprises

[@righthandstep5]

Now I really am worried. Soo many bad reviews about this work camp.

[@300mphmartyr]

you’d think they would’ve seen this by now & done something about some of it. 12/06/19

[@jacobwalker2863]

Should do one for LNG Canada in Kitimat… this video sounds quite similar 😂

[@landrykkb]

Amen to that,my friend!Everybody wants to go where the money is until they've spent any length of time in those places.I mean,who's kidding who?Money is a drawing card,but it's not the be all that ends all of everything.

[@nochancecw]

This has aged like a fine wine!

[@XMG3]

i'm going to kearl next week lol, this is very assuring !

[@superdrunkard2]

@rcmgn1214 Good for you, happyness is most important in life, and my friends say i am always happy and positive. They never see me at work tough. I do a 7/7 shift in the mac and its hard not to get frustated at the BS that goes on up here, managment is fucked don't matter what site your on. sorry for the you should have more than that comment, I am a pipe fitter and can't read opps. Like you said its not a dream job but allows one to live a good life. Cheers fellow patch worker

[@Dante7407]

You almost made me choke on my food!!! LMFAO....... Fuck me that's funny!!! My job shows you the nice permanent camp and them say " oh sorry we're all full" ( of their friends) and ship us to a temporary camp 15 min away. Worst part is management have trucks and they park them at perm camp.

[@jfarrell85]

You can add to this video now! So the installed gang showers in the 3 camps now. So on your last day they're making you check out before you go to work. Have to either put your bags in storage the night before or that morning. When you get back to camp before your flight you have no room to go to. You have to shower at the gang showers if you want a shower. And you can only get into the showers if you have already checked in for your flight. And everyone at kearl lake is just letting them do th

[@friendofvinnie]

To hell with the labor code in that fascist place 😮

[@reppiznov001]

Hahahhahahaha its so true! !! PTI stands for part. time. inmate.

[@hanktoni]

@jackpontiac52 whats wrong with Ledcor? worked there since 2008 and made a good living for my family.

[@soulshaker205]

This is every job in the patch! Lol

[@mattt4266]

Hahahah SO FUNNY the buses and the potholes sooo bad.. LOL dont speed EVER

[@d3br34k5]

Ha ha, welcome to the Lower Matagami River Project, north of Kapuskasing, Ontario.

[@alexmitchell3501]

sick to watch

[@waltermcmillan3654]

I worked there for two and a half years as part of Fluor's Management team, it wasn't bad, the food was ok, the rooms were clean- the internet sucked and the hours were long, I've experienced better and way worse.

[@deanolaflamme]

So true

[@darleneduerks5774]

not just in camps

[@addykochain2362]

Just wanted to give IOL a big F U for not providing bottled water to all the workers slaving away in 35c.

[@jackpontiac52]

@StrangerAnimal They will supply 'Soap On A Rope' !!!

[@mike49ers84]

God damn hilarious

[@nachofnub]

You can see more vids of the camp on my page.

[@jackpontiac52]

Just watch the Video. What they say is TRUE!

[@MrSupertwo]

hi rcmgn1214, I was wondering if you could tell me a bit more about the Kearl Lake Operation? Or about the Operations out there in General. I am a Liscenced Truck and Transport and Automotive Mechanic, but, am looking to get into Heavy Duty.

[@jackpontiac52]

Don't plan on ever going there! Waiting for a CITY JOB. If you can AVOID this place, DO SO! Even if you have to work for Flint or Ledcor etc. 424 Electrician

[@Explicitories]

oh so true

[@Hometown6112]

oh so true (been there done it)

[@nickloro24]

i know

[@hanktoni]

I AM in camp man, I have been since 2008. All I am saying is, most of the people in the world are suffering, they dont have food or shelter. They pay us hundreds of dollars a day, give us steak and other good food, and nice rooms. i dunno, i am just counting my blessings, imagine living in a 3rd world country, we would gladly work at camp for room and board.

[@willytrolls]

Working in camp is a privilege!!!

[@1joshjosh1]

Ok

[@chodatime]

you wouldnt be saying that if you were in camp. we get treated like cattle, kinda sad

[@skylineowner1990]

MLV camp and Syncrude. MLV is by far the worst camp in Fort Mac. Moldy, shitty food, bed bugs, gang showers, gang bathrooms, built in the 1950s, horrible piss smell everywhere, gotta walk outside to eat in -40 weather, have to smell Syncrude plant all night, need to listen to Syncrude plant all night. By far worst camp ever

[@bufflovechest]

go through the union hall

[@shawnrichard9213]

Hahahaah soooooo accurate

[@Desvena]

@SuperHappyCakesHehe oops wrong person haha!

[@jackpontiac52]

BAWAAAAAAA! Read my post. About fixing the kearl Mods that were made in Korea!

[@leslieanthony2331]

Perfect; fuck big oil

[@Lovecamping290]

Good Lord still true to this day May 2024, Kitimat LNG CVL

[@josholiver4543]

Yep. Was there October 2023 to July 2024. Never seen anything like it in my working career

[@Desvena]

@SuperHappyCakesHehe Lol, any time any place? hahahaha defiantly! If you give me your real name first and last I will give you mine.

[@icelineman]

prison!!! hahahhah

[@kuramakitsune6167]

😂😂

[@dubs10703]

😂

[@B-902]

Lol people In camp are super spoiled & do nothing but complain. Wapasu is a nice clean camp, Iv been to camps for oil rig work and I would love to throw sone of you guys in there and hear your complaints. Everything at the camp is free, they PAY for your flights to anywhere in Canada, AND on top of that they pay you a high wage. What the hell are you complaining about? Don't wanna be here? The doors always there

[@willytrolls]

Wapasu was my favourite camp when I was working at fort hills!!!

[@rickszabo4312]

@@willytrolls Mine was the Old Sunrise and over the border in Sask ,Oil Sands Quest.

[@jackpontiac52]

Union rate is $44/hr plus benefits. Who is the LOSER ?

[@Jmehix]

Six years later and the rate hasn't changed 🤣

[@matchewblk]

7 years later union rate is 42.50 ....

[@alanw73]

Ignoring the negative doesnt mean its not there. If you are swimming and a shark is coming at you would you just ignore it and pretend its not there because that would just be negative. Of course not. Your kind of attitude its going to lead to shittier and shittier work conditions.

[@hanktoni]

i dunno, most people in the world are hungry and suffering, kinda funny how camp people are spoiled brats.

[@willytrolls]

Yep payed there wage by the companies housed for free fed for free. Lots of jobs you get fly in and out all paid for by the companies and they still complain up north about it all haha. To be in camp up there I think is a privilege!

[@lurch56]

so true