I think I'm going insane!

[94Mazda626 10+ year member]

I work in northern Alberta, Canada and we have been going through a cold snap lately. According to health and safety regulations here we cannot work outside when it is below -41C (-42F) with the wind chill. The last four days it has been -45C (-50F) so they have the construction site I work on shut down and everyone is in camp. Instead of 10 hours a day, I worked four hours on Sunday, three hours on Sunday, and nothing the last two days. That's over $1000 I've missed out on.

But the worst part is that I'm stuck in camp all day in a 9x12 foot room, yesterday we got a notice that because of the cold weather we can't use the bathrooms in our trailers, so now we have to get dressed up and take about a five minute walk to the main camp just to piss or crap! Thank god I'm going for days off in 13.5 hours, eight days off then back to this hellhole for 20 more.

I'm glad I've got my 360 and my old xbox up here, can't even go over to a buddies room and drink myself to a stupor (all on days off or in another camp and no way to get there)

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[hoss 5,000+ posts]

?pmaC ?FTW

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

I would suggest moving out of shit *** canada, anyplace that reached -45 it not somewhere that is suitable for man let alone somewhere to go start building shit..

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

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[tappin_azz 10+ year member]

what are you building? igloos?

 

[94Mazda626 10+ year member]

Yes, it's a camp. I'm about 1000km (600 miles) from home and about 60 miles from the closest city (Fort McMurray, AB). I don't have much for images but this is what I could find:

Main camp:

http://www.ptigroup.com/project_showcase.php?id=44

However they filled all those up so they brought in a bunch of these:

http://www.aqp.ca/images/PM-CNRL.jpg

There's a link to a video on this page that shows the inside of the rooms:

 

[94Mazda626 10+ year member]

what are you building? igloos?

Dog-sled factory actually.

It's a huge oil-sands mine/refinery, budget was for something around :greedy:11-12 billion dollars:greedy: if I remember right, for more info google CNRL Horizon project.

I'm a little surprised Bush hasn't tried to invade and seize the oil potential here like he did in Iraq. Quoted from http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/OurBusiness/oilsands.asp

"Second only to the Saudi Arabia reserves, Alberta's oil sands deposits were described by Time Magazine as "Canada's greatest buried energy treasure," and "could satisfy the world's demand for petroleum for the next century".

Oil Sands are deposits of bitumen, a molasses-like viscous oil that will not flow unless heated or diluted with lighter hydrocarbons. They are contained in three major areas beneath 140,200* square kilometres of north-eastern Alberta - an area larger than the state of Florida, an area twice the size of New Brunswick, more than four and half times the size of Vancouver Island, and 26 times larger than Prince Edward Island. However, only about two per cent of the initial established resource has been produced to date."

 

[WildcatNate 10+ year member]

Problem with the oil there is it has to be purified alot more than the stuff from over in Saudi. Shell owned it all but dumped it because it was costing them $40 a barral of oil at the time. That was when oil costs $10 a barral. Too bad they don't still own it. I bet someone got fired over that.

But yeah, you **** Canadians are the world's second largest producer of oil now. Crazy stuff.

Do you get to see the machines that refine it? I'm sure, I didnt look at the vids. I know that they use the world's largest tires. Saw it on Discovery or something like that.

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

I'm a little surprised Bush hasn't tried to invade and seize the oil potential here like he did in Iraq.

That is actually a good idea, hell we probably wouldn't even loose any troops trying to take over Canada.

You said you made a lot of money and after seeing that info about that place you deserve it.. What do you guys do for fun? Are there any chicks or other towns around at all?

I would go nuts, kind of reminds me of some type of jail camp except you get paid nicely! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[94Mazda626 10+ year member]

Yeah I've been on sites that have the big cats, but this one I'm working on building the primary upgrader.

There's a few women up here but most are pretty hideous, and the good looking few are all pretty much ****s. Quite a few of them make a lot more money after work than they do at work.

They fly us in and out so I don't have my car up here, but if I could get a ride into town there really isn't much point at this site. It's about a hour and a half drive to town and even then all you could do is maybe grab a meal and go to the rippers. That's part of the reason drugs are so bad here. This camp is better than some though, there is a bar ( that charges $6 a beer), a little store (last time I bought a bottle of coke it was $3), and an exercise room. The big attraction is the Tim Horton's, there's always a line up of 15-20 guys there for coffee or donuts.

There isn't much to do, I'm not a druggie and I'll usually take about 6 months to drink a dozen beers, so for me it's xbox and movies. I've got a few friends that are in this camp too, but they're all on days off right now. I've also gone through the first two seasons of family guy and still have four more to go.

I'm an electrician and for me I make about 2.5x what I would get from working around home.