Making Fort McMurray Home: Space and Place on Canada’s New Frontier of Oil Production

• Published in: L’Ordinaire des Amériques
• Main Author: Tolazzi, Sandrine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: IPEAT 2016
• Subjects: Fort McMurray; sables bitumineux; sables pétrolifères; espace; lieu; communauté; oil sands; space; place; community; arenas bituminosas; arenas petrolíferas; espacio; lugar; comunidad; areias betuminosas; espaço; comunidade; Soi
• Online Access: http://orda.revues.org/3008

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the city of Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta, has welcomed tens of thousands of newcomers attracted by the high salaries of a booming oil sands industry. In this context, one of the major challenges faced by the municipality and the companies is to retain e...