This 1984 document from Imperial Oil Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of Exxon, is an article from the “Norman Wells Project Review” titled “Information Pipeline.” This document is part of the ClimateFiles Imperial Oil document set, gleaned by DeSmog researchers from the Glenbow Imperial Oil Archive Collection.

The article focuses on the “break-up of ice on the Mackenzie River, noting that “the intensive monitoring of ice on the big river has been going on for six years now,” and that more research is being done to better predict the behavior of ice on the Mackenzie River and “on major ice-covered rivers in general.”