In photos: Workers' lives in Northern Alberta, in three simple words
IAN WILLMS
Editor's Note: Canada has staked its future on the oil sands. In November, Report on Business magazine together with Thomson Reuters examine what that means both at home and abroad. Read more from the issue at tgam.ca/oil.
Tens of thousands of workers live in the barracks-like work camps in the oil sands. Noralta Lodge Ltd. owns nine lodges, housing more than 5,000 workers at any given time. We asked residents at the company’s Bighorn Lodge, 26 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, to give us three words that sum up their life in Northern Alberta.