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Just now, chon derry said:

not a whole lot of surplus cash these days in cow town since a barrel of oil has fallen to less than 40 a barrel .wont get any better until they get rid of the ndp there. unemployment is a big problem for alberta these days

Alberta is a boom bust economy.  It has been since the Leduc strike.  When the petroleum is gone, the province becomes a ghost of its current self.  The Saddledome is a very cool concept building, but it does need to be replaced.  

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7 minutes ago, chon derry said:

not a whole lot of surplus cash these days in cow town since a barrel of oil has fallen to less than 40 a barrel .wont get any better until they get rid of the ndp there. unemployment is a big problem for alberta these days

So the ndp are responsible for the $40 barrel, after 6 months? in office?

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/big-oil-to-rachel-notley-bring-on-a-carbon-tax-1.3084357

Big Oil is urging Alberta's new government to toughen up the province's environmental policies.

To hear an oil industry chieftain advocate for a carbon tax, as Suncor's Steve Williams did in front of a downtown Calgary crowd on Friday, may feel incongruous, but consider who those comments were directed to — the NDP — and the situation takes on a tinge of the surreal.

Oil industry pushing for carbon tax in Alberta

It's the latest sign of how much the political landscape has shifted in Alberta, as well as the global discussion about climate change.

'We think a broad-based carbon price is the right answer.'— Steve Williams, CEO of Suncor

"We think climate change is happening," Williams, Suncor's chief executive, told reporters. "We think a broad-based carbon price is the right answer."

 

 Seems that some big business agrees with them anyway?

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