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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A community of northeast Alberta, Canada, at the conjunction of the Athabasca and Clearwater Rivers. It is located on a large deposit of oil sands.
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And that's what's giving birth to a boomtown called Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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And that's what's giving birth to a boomtown called Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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"And I say that as a proud parent ... who has called Fort McMurray home for the last 31 years.
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Bloomberg News A truck carries oil sands at a Syncrude Canada Ltd. mine in Fort McMurray, Alberta, last year.
Canada Readies New Plan for Monitoring Oil Sands Paul Vieira 2011
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Bloomberg News Sand mining operations at Fort McMurray, Alberta, seen last year.
Canada, EU Spar Over Climate Rule Guy Chazan 2011
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With expansion of the tar sands industry, instances of domestic violence in Fort McMurray have spiralled upwards, and few women have safe places to go, forcing many to return home to their abusers.
Emma Pullman: Why Ethical Oil's Deceptive 'Women's Rights' Defense of Tar Sands Is Insulting and Wrong Emma Pullman 2011
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Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images A view of the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray in Alberta Province, Canada.
Oil Prices Stumble as Dollar Gains Angela Henshall 2010
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Cardinal is standing near one such hole just off Highway 63, north of the town of Fort McMurray.
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Cardinal is standing near one such hole just off Highway 63, north of the town of Fort McMurray.
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This is what drew me to Fort McMurray; I wanted to see first-hand Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental destruction it has wrought.
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