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and the whole system is stable as long as the oil price is high enough to subsidize the discomfort premium it is an entire industrial operation structured around the fact that nobody would voluntarily live where the bitumen is and so the industry has to buy the labor s tolerance of not living there over and over shift after shift for however many decades the deposit lasts which brings me to kate beaton beaton is from mabou cape breton which is one of those canadian places that the twentieth century was mostly unkind to cape breton had coal and cape breton had steel and cape breton had fishing and cape breton lost all three of these industries in the space of about forty years and what it has now is diminished the island s culture which is gaelic inflected and absurdly musical and which has produced a shocking amount of art per capita has as one of its load bearing assumptions the idea that you will probably have to leave to make a living and that this leaving will be sad but necessary and that everyone you know will do it too and that it s been going on since the highland clearances and will go on after you this is the cape breton structure of feeling it predates the oil sands by about two hundred years the oil sands are just the current destination so when beaton graduated from mount allison in 2005 with an arts degree and a pile of student loans she did what her cousins and the boys from her high school had already been doing for a decade which was get on a plane to alberta she went to the camps she worked tool cribs she worked supply offices she worked at syncrude s long lake and at shell s albian sands and at a couple of the smaller operators whose names i can t remember off the top of my head and she kept a notebook and eventually many years later after she d become internet famous for hark a vagrant which is a different story she turned the notebook into a graphic memoir called ducks published in 2022 by drawn quarterly which won pretty much every prize available to graphic novels and landed on obama s list that year and which is i think the single best book anyone has written about what the oil sands actually are which is a very specific kind of social machine the book is called ducks because in 2008 while beaton was there 1 600 migratory ducks landed on a syncrude tailings pond and died in it which became briefly a global news story and got syncrude fined three million dollars which is roughly the kind of money syncrude made every forty five minutes that year the ducks were the visible atrocity the book is about the invisible one the invisible one is that the ratio of men to women in the camps was depending on which camp and which shift somewhere between 30 to 1 and 50 to 1 beaton spent two years as one of the maybe two or three women at any given installation surrounded by several hundred men who were working twelve hour shifts living in single occupancy dorms a hundred meters from hers drinking heavily when off shift because there was nothing else to do doing cocaine at a rate that surprised even her isolated from their wives and girlfriends and mothers and daughters and this is the part the book builds very patiently and very devastatingly slowly losing the ability to behave like the people they used to be when they were still at home the book is not a condemnation of the men it is explicitly not that the book s most painful move is that it keeps humanizing them keeps showing how they re also trapped also miserable also being used up by the same machine even as they do the things they do to her which without getting into the specifics read the book include the full range of what several hundred isolated men will do to two women when the hr function is a phone number in calgary that nobody is going to call and the thing beaton sees the thing she sets up with complete economy and then lets the rest of the book bear out is that the machine is designed to produce exactly this it s not a bug the camp structure produces isolated men away from their social networks in exchange for money isolated men away from their social networks given enough money and enough boredom will do predictable things and those predictable things are accepted by the operators as part of the cost of doing business the way a mine accepts that a certain number of miners will get silicosis it s a function of the design nobody up the chain at suncor or syncrude or shell wants the women in the camps to be harassed it s just that preventing the harassment would require reorganizing the entire labor rotation structure of the industry which would raise the cost per barrel which would make the operation uncompetitive and so the harassment is priced in as an externality the women are told they have a bad attitude the men are told to knock it off the rotation continues the oil flows what makes ducks extraordinary and what makes it a book about the oil sands rather than a book about harassment though it is also that is that beaton also sees the men she sees the welders from cape breton she grew up around except here they re trapped in a way she recognizes because she s trapped in the same way a way her dad would recognize from his own generation going to boston or toronto a way her grandfather would recognize from the mines the maritime out migration has been happening long enough that it has a folk repertoire a whole tradition of songs about leaving and the men in the camps are inside that tradition whether they know it or not some of them are actively dying inside it there s a running count in the book not emphasized just there in the margin of young men who die on the highway between fort mcmurray and edmonton or who kill themselves in their dorms or who disappear the mortality of the rotation is ambient it s baked in nobody makes a particular fuss because making a particular fuss isn t what anyone there has the cultural equipment to do and the thing i keep coming back to reading that book is how precisely it maps onto earlier canadian industrial extractions cape breton exported its own men to its own mines in the 1890s and they died of black lung newfoundland exported its men to the banks and they died drowning the cod collapsed in 1992 and those men went to fort mac there is a temporal rhyme here that beaton doesn t belabor but that sits underneath the whole book this is what canadian industrial history is a series of extractive operations that consume the bodies and social networks of men from places the previous extractive operation already hollowed out the oil sands are just the current iteration when the oil sands go and they will go either because the world stops buying the product or because the bitumen that s economically recoverable runs out or because a carbon regime finally prices the externalities whatever comes next will be staffed by the grandsons of the men who died at fort mckay who were themselves the grandsons of the men who died at glace bay same as it ever was the industry knows all this by the way none of it is secret the oil companies have sociologists on retainer the turnover statistics are studied the mental health crisis in the camps is a line item it has a budget there are contractors whose entire business is running crisis response services for a workforce they know is coming apart the 2016 wildfire which evacuated 88 000 people from fort mcmurray in the largest wildfire evacuation in canadian history which burned down 2 400 homes which briefly shut down most of the industry revealed in passing that the regional municipality s shadow population was around 40 000 people at that moment people who lived here but didn t live here who were uncounted in most of the news coverage because they weren t from there they were from somewhere else and they all went back to their somewhere elses during the evacuation and some of them simply never came back the 2018 post fire census found the shadow population down fifteen percent the oil didn t care the oil kept flowing the rotations restarted and the indigenous piece which i ve been circling without saying directly is that all of this is happening on land that belongs by every reasonable reading of treaty and prior occupation to the athabasca chipewyan and the mikisew cree and the fort mckay first nation and the métis communities of the region who have been variously co opted partnered with sued into submission paid off or simply bulldozed over depending on the decade and the specific negotiation some of the bands have significant ownership stakes in the operations now which is a development the 1970s activist version of this story did not predict some are still in active litigation over water quality and cancer clusters downstream on the athabasca river both things are true the oil sands produce billionaires and elders dying of bile duct cancer and they produce them in the same watershed and if you want a tidy story about which is the real one you ll have to write it yourself because the ground doesn t offer one beaton s book ends more or less with her going home to cape breton having paid off her loans she is permanently changed she does not know if she is changed in a way she can live with the book came out fourteen years after she left the camps and you can feel in it the time it took her to process what she d seen which tracks it takes that long usually to figure out what a thing was and sometimes you never figure it out you just get old enough to stop being wrecked by it she is one of the very few people who went through those camps and came out with the specific combination of linguistic ability and patience and moral seriousness to write about them the others the welders and the mechanics and the engineers and the heavy equipment operators mostly did not they went home they drank they worked the next rotation they raised kids who statistically also went to alberta because the maritime economy did not improve the book is as much about them as it is about her and the fact that their version of the book doesn t exist and won t is part of what the book is finally about there is a thing you learn if you read enough industrial history which is that the machine doesn t need you to understand it in order to keep running understanding the oil sands does not stop them beaton writing ducks did not stop them the 1 600 ducks in the tailings pond did not stop them the 88 000 person wildfire evacuation did not stop them the carbon math does not stop them the chipewyan cancer clusters have not stopped them the only thing that will eventually stop them is the price and the price is set in a market that does not weight any of the inputs i have just listed and so the bitumen will keep coming out of the ground until it doesn t and the men will keep flying in and the women who work among them will keep being what they have to be to survive the rotation and somewhere a cape breton teenager is right now considering her options and thinking about student loans same as it ever was so it turns out this is posted by a slop blog an llm that churns out these lengthy posts in the style of a specific tumblr user the first line of this post is part of the prompt i don t think i quite have the words to describe how breathtakingly disrespectful it is to take a genuine work of passionate and life wrenching creativity like ducks dealing with these huge issues of abuse and violation on multiple different axes and just stick it in the plagiarism machine because you couldn t be bothered to say anything about it yourself jesus christ blocking this stupid piece of shit op and their new blog immediately 2 013 notes middot reblog makeitdewey poolboydivision shaydh theshitpostcalligrapher andmaybegayer andmaybegayer measure once cut also once no prablem i know i already reblogged this but i need to like cross stitch it or carve it into wood or quilt it or something concept for a vcarving project no i get you this was perfectly centered when i wrote it i have done the cross stitch in honor of all the times i ve made this mistake irl 702 miscellany of fine and decorative arts 128 193 notes middot reblog 3000s tromboneralert 3000s if you re not 26 years old right now you will be soon but i just turned 30 please dont make me go back there i m sorry there s nothing we can do about it 24 600 notes middot reblog angelicguy bearie angelicguy bearie every post on iwaspoisoned com starts with a guy being like yeah this smelled really bad and tasted really bad and looked wrong and i became violently ill after consuming it and you look at the attached photo and its a big jug with three x s and a skull on it this is crazy i made this exact joke in a personal discord chat the other day but this was posted 5 hours ago what gives do you want custody of the post i just wanna hang out 26 663 notes middot reblog 97642 yviisxo rest in peace to this diva 24 736 notes middot reblog halles comet i love when you go on a date with someone and you re like well that was neither wonderful nor horrendous you seem fine i m sure if this was the 18th century and we were gentry arranged married to secure our fathers respective land interests we would care for each other in our way you would buy me nice horses that i really had no interest in but would admire how gentle you were with them and when i died in labor during my third pregnancy you would tell our surviving heirs that their mother was a handsome woman who never drank too much and embarrassed herself in company 35 005 notes middot reblog ominous signs muttsandmustelidae muttsandmustelidae from the nashville zoo s fb page here s the petition please please please take a moment to add your name even if you re not from nashville if you are from tennessee contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center this is an aza accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals we need to protect it make your voice heard because people will pay attention to cute animals here are some of the critically endangered endangered species housed at the nashville zoo the amur leopard and clouded leopard which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo the sumatran tiger the red ruffed lemur and ring tailed lemur the cotton top tamarin and white cheeked gibbon the colobus monkey and de brazza s monkey and the mexican spider monkey look at them look at them and fight like hell to save them there are 405 749 verified signatures on that petition as of reblogging this june 14th let s see how much more it can go up 32 741 notes middot reblog the chaos crew op turned reblogs off but as someone with a crazy wicked scar that s been called body horror a few times i really wanted this on my blog in fact i think all of these are beautiful cool neat or just neutral nothing negative about any of it also goes for implants i ve known people with implants of all kinds be made fun of but that shit isn t ugly or gross either it s just neutral and or p...
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