Hi folks,

    I see you have a lot of heat in  parts of  US. I would be glad if
 I   could to send rain. We had  another 6mm at supper  time last
 night   and another 1 over  night. The rivers are going down but not
  before   taking roads  out. Water running down ditches eroded the
 roads in   places.  Other places it ran over the road and cut a new channel.
    One  place  it does not go under the bridge anymore and a new bridge
    needs to be built.  Can not get to well sites and the new leases
 are   too soft to work at. When  the level drops some more, I  will
 have to   get out the gold pans as the high  flow will have
 deposited gold   dust where it slowed.

    Cheers and  have  a good day.

    Dale Davies

    Dale
    Are you in Australia? I googled 'Rain in Australia " after your
    comment and  it seems to be confined to the bottom part of the
    continent. Paul's favorite  places seemed to be dry. I was  there
    last in '91 and it was dry. Peter

    All of Oz is  just great. I highly recommend it.

    Paul Lamar

    Hi  Peter,

    No. I am in west central Alberta, Canada. Whitecourt. 54.10960N  and
    115.81553W. Local airport is CYZU. Lots of flooding in west
 central   Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. Lot of other places
 like Pakistan   also  flooded. Chile is buried under 7 - 9 ft of
 snow. Other places   in drought  and fires.

    Dale Davies

    --
    Hi Dale

    I am west of Chicago and we have had heat and rain. A record 7"
 in 2   hours last weekend and 2 more big storms since then. Hope you
 keep   pumping oil up  there because our current leadership wants to
 use   your oil first.

    Peter Duffecy

    The waste product of Alberta oil sands is nice white clean beach
    sand :) They ought to start selling that too.

    Paul Lamar

   In the area shown in the satellite photo, there is the CNRL mine
 and  upgrader  plant. That facility was evacuated for almost a month
 earlier due to a  forest  fire that went through. There was another
 large fire farther north on  the edge  of the Wood Buffalo National
 Park. It was 300,000 hectares in size. Fires  started before the sap
 started running up the trees and the dead grass  from  last year
 coupled with two weeks of strong east winds. The Wood  Buffalo fire
 was about 100 miles north to south. Winds of up to 60MPH took fire
  through the  town of Slave Lake and burned out 1/3 of the
 buildings. Then after the  residents were allowed back into town the
 rain started and flooded  basements.  People were living in other
 peoples basements while they try to get their  lives back together.
 We are supposed to start to get heat which will  be almost
  unbearable as we will not be used to it and it is forecast to be above
   normal.
   What a year!

   Dale Davies

   At 4.6 meg the ppt is too big to publish Dale. Try getting some
 jpgs  out of it and send those.

   I have a question. Is there a Slave Lake AND a Great Slave Lake?
   I flew the C182 up to Yellowknife over the Great Slave Lake.

   Paul Lamar

     Hi  Dale,
                        What is the rectangular patches shown in the sat
 pictures? are the patches farming paddocks or where the mining companys
 have been clearing strips? There seems to be a big patch of oil
 sands=-O , is this the oil sands that they have to use steam to boil
 the oil out of the sand?                   I am in OZ., we had some
 flooding here this year and last year, supposed to be "climate
 change", not "global warming" anymore, funny that when one looks at
 the weather records about 50-60 years, and 100-120 years ago the
 same thing happened, but now people live in the rivers and creeks
 and think they can control nature. Our smart government has
 announced that they are going to have "Carbon Cops", with $1,000,000
 fines and 10 years in prison if you burn carbon:'( , or somesuch
 thing, nobody has told them that every living thing is made up of
 carbon:-D .   Sorry for the rant.                 John Burey.


Hi John,

I believe the strips are areas that have been clear cut logged.

The first photo (maps.html) is a SAGD site. Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
facility. They usually have two sections and pump steam down directional wells
to heat the bitumen. Then they switch and recover the bitumen and water and
pump steam down the other side. Usually have pads with 10 to 12 pump jacks in
one place with a plant to separate the water out and reboil it.

The second photo is of the CNRL; Canadian Natural Resources Limited; Horizon
site. There is a road going horizontally across. Just above and in the center
is a V rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise. The tops are the dumps from the
strip mine. The bottom is the primary crusher, and the ore is sent up and down
to the slurry prep. Steam and caustic soda are added and then it can be sent
to the plants. The mine pit is to the left of the crusher and the camp and ore
prep and upgrader plants are to the right. The settling ponds are farther to
the left and up.

Dale Davies

Dale, that htm file comes across badly in text only.
One the other hand links to web sites are OK.
Use XP screen capture to capture the graphics and send them
as png or jpg. There is a key on most keyboards that captures
the screen. Then you must paste it into paint and save it as
a jpg. If you are using a Mac or Linux there is a free utility program
that captures the screen and automatically saves it.

Another crude way of doing is take a picture of the screen with a
digital camera :) That puts it in a jpg file.

Also check the size of the picture file. There are lots of jpg editors that
can change the size of a picture. You want to keep them down below
one meg if possible for email purposes. I understand that can be a bit
of trouble with recent high rez cameras so I can do that on this end.

Paul Lamar