Canadian oil sands lure Chinese investors

In 1778 when Alexander MacKenzie first sighted a sticky black substance in Canada, he wrote in his journal that the locals mixed it with spruce gum to waterproof their canoes. MacKenzie, one of the first Europeans to report seeing oil sands in Canada's Alberta province, also mentioned that heating the oil sands caused them to smell like black coal.

That, for the moment, was that.

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