Alberta convoy heads east to promote jobs and pipelines

Alberta convoy heads east to promote jobs and pipelines

in Feb 14, 2019

[ad_1] Thu, Feb 14: A convoy left Red Deer for Ottawa Thursday to protest several issues including the carbon tax & bill C-69. As Tracy Nagai reports, people have been showing their support as the group travels across the country. [ad_2] Source link

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CNRL says oil curtailment adjustment will keep ECHO pipeline going and save Alberta jobs

CNRL says oil curtailment adjustment will keep ECHO pipeline going and save Alberta jobs

in Feb 01, 2019

[ad_1] Workers in eastern Alberta are breathing a sigh of relief Friday after CNRL said the province easing the oil production cap means it can keep the ECHO pipeline running. “Following the Government of Alberta’s announcement of production limits easing for February and March 2019, Canadian Natural’s curtailment volume for February 2019 will be reduced,”[…]

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Eastern Alberta communities fear NDP’s oil production cap change will mean job losses

Eastern Alberta communities fear NDP’s oil production cap change will mean job losses

in Jan 29, 2019

[ad_1] Workers in communities like Bonnyville, Lakeland County, Elk Point and Lloydminster are worried changes to Alberta’s oil curtailment formula will cost as many as 1,000 people their jobs. “Everyone’s in kind of a state of panic,” said Kurt Muller, who runs Jacknife Oilfield Services, a transportation and mechanical repair company in Bonnyville. “It’s challenging.[…]

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‘This is B.C. vs. Canada’: Alberta has spent $23M on Keep Canada Working campaign

‘This is B.C. vs. Canada’: Alberta has spent $23M on Keep Canada Working campaign

in Jan 24, 2019

[ad_1] The Alberta government is full steam ahead on an advertising campaign trying to convince Canadians that the Trans Mountain Pipeline is a must-build project. Work began on the Keep Canada Working campaign back in January, and as recently as November, the government said it had spent $10 million on the project. But on Jan.[…]

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Roiled in oil: Alberta votes in 2019 as energy issues, Trudeau dominate debate

Roiled in oil: Alberta votes in 2019 as energy issues, Trudeau dominate debate

in Dec 28, 2018

[ad_1] “I know that the opposition wants to sort of revel in what they insist on hoping is defeat, but we’ve made more progress on getting a pipeline to tidewater than any other government has in the last 70 years,” Notley told The Canadian Press in a year-end interview. Notley will take voters to the polls in[…]

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