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The Kearl Oil Sands Project is an oil sands mine in the Athabasca Oil Sands region at the Kearl Lake area, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada that is operated by the 143-year old Calgary, Alberta-headquartered Imperial Oil Limited—one of the largest integrated oil companies in Canada.
US-based Think Tanks focused on Politics and Economy Name Location Bias/Affiliation Founded Date City State Acton Institute: Grand Rapids: Michigan
CNRL plant with burn in foreground. The first of the complex fires to threaten oil sands mining and extraction operations was the Kearl Lake fire, designated MWF 030. This fire caused work stoppages at Imperial Oil's Kearl site near the settlement of Fort McKay, affecting over 3000 employees. [10]
The only French Think Tank mentioned in the "think tanks to watch" list of the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report [69] GenerationLibre is a French think tank created by Gaspard Koenig in 2013, independent from all political parties, which aims at promoting freedoms in France, in terms of fundamental rights, economics and societal issues ...
The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is an American think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that conducts research on geopolitics, international relations, and international security in the various regions of the world and on ethnic conflict, U.S. national security, terrorism, and on think tanks themselves.
The R Street Institute is an American center-right think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. [2] The institute's stated mission is to "engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government."
Tom Burke CBE is a co-founder of E3G, Third Generation Environmentalism (Environmental Think Tank founded in 2004) and former Chair of its Board.He is also a visiting Honorary Professor of Imperial and University Colleges, London and a Senior Associate of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
Politicizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking is a book by the George C. Marshall Institute, edited by Michael Gough. The book, published in 2003, encourages a disinterested objectivity on the part of scientists and policymakers: Ideally, the scientists or analysts who generate estimates of harm that may result from a risk would consider all the relevant facts and alternative ...