The quality of the Google imagery, for obvious reasons is impressive in the area near Fort McMurray. The machinery at work is clearly visible, so is the potential cost to the environment.
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In a province where the liberal energy critic claims that the royalty structure has cost the taxpayers 16 million dollars, Enbridge has come out to break rank with the other oil companies to indicate a proposed hike in royalties will not impact oil sands investment. According to the Calgary Sun Enbridge vice-president Richard Bird […]

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This is my favourite article that has appeared since the release of “Our Fair Share.” The CattleNetwork in an article Alberta Angles For a Bigger Share of Oil Receipts as Futures Soar referred to the Canadian system of government as highly decentralized.
The CattleNetwork wrote:
Alberta isn’t the only province hiking taxes in Canada, whose system of […]

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Ever notice how in Alberta people are very anti-welfare or social assistance? But when corporations want welfare that is cool… hypocrtical no?
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — EnCana Corp., Canada’s largest natural-gas producer, said it will cut its 2008 investment in Alberta by about C$1 billion ($1 billion) if proposed increases in oil and gas royalties […]

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This is probably a good thing. From the Globe and Mail:
The fast and furious pace of migration to Alberta is finally starting to ease.
Interprovincial migration to oil-rich Alberta was estimated at just 7,400 people in the second quarter of the year, more than 2,000 fewer than in the same period of 2006, Statistics Canada said […]

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