Even after the devastating Fort McMurray wildfire and an oilsands production shutdown, Wood Buffalo’s regional economic growth is expected to outpace Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer into 2018.
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Category Archives: Alberta
Balancing Pools saves $500M by cancelling PPAs, but power bills expected to rise
The Alberta Balancing Pool has decided to terminate two power agreements that should help save consumers about $500 million, although the move is also expected to push up electricity prices in the next two years.
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Alberta Medical Association chief targets rural doctor shortage
The new president of the Alberta Medical Association is a football-loving pediatrician and sports medicine doctor who says the province needs to recruit more physicians to work in a rural areas and a new health information system to help caregivers treat their patients.
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Global power players from Switzerland to South Africa eye Alberta’s green market
Alberta’s first auction to inject more green power into the province’s grid has entered the final phase, but electricity players from around the world are already preparing for future bids.
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Varcoe: Don’t count out oilsands to power future global demand
As foreign companies pack up their bags to leave the Canadian oilsands, there’s a notion the sector will soon enter a no-growth era.
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CFIB annual study says small business hit with unfair property tax burden
A new report released today by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says municipalities in Alberta are sticking small business owners with an unfair property tax burden with the average business rate almost two and a half times the residential rate across the province.
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No end to pine beetle battle in Alberta, experts say
In Alberta’s drawn-out fight against mountain pine beetles, slowing the invasion is as close to winning as the province will get, researchers say.
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Alberta labour force stats
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Hicks on Biz: A Little of This, a Little of That
A few small business/money related stories, each capable of being much bigger…
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Balls of bitumen: Calgary breakthrough will make oil pipelines unnecessary, researcher says
A Calgary engineer thinks an invention he stumbled upon in the laboratory could transform the way Alberta gets its heavy oil to market.
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