The dean of the Haskayne School of Business says the energy sector has been keeping the city’s real estate market growing.
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Oil patch salaries rise 5 times as fast as rest of Canada
The average salary of young men working in Canada’s oil patch increased by 21 per cent between 2001 and 2008, more than five times the pace of gain seen by those workers in other parts of the country.
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Alberta wages surged, young men chose work over school: Statistics Canada
CALGARY – A new Statistics Canada report provides fresh insight into the skyrocketing wages that accompanied Alberta’s most recent energy boom.
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Lethbridge fights proposed well project in city limits
A provincial government review of the policies surrounding urban energy development remains ongoing, even as furious Lethbridge residents sign “No Drilling” petitions and their city council takes a unanimous stand against a proposed well project.
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ARE THE WORLDS LARGEST OIL POOLS ABOUT TO BE UNLOCKED?
With so much excitement over U.S. shale plays lately, it’s hard to justify why investors should be looking anywhere else in the oil and gas space.
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Yedlin: Obama dithering again on Keystone
It looks like U.S. President Barack Obama has done it again. As per Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s remarks earlier this week regarding the Keystone XL pipeline decision, Obama has punted.
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Peak Oil becomes an Issue Again after the IEA Revised its Predictions
Among the big energy stories of 2013, “peak oil” — the once-popular notion that worldwide oil production would soon reach a maximum level and begin an irreversible decline — was thoroughly discredited. The explosive development of shale oil and other unconventional fuels in the United States helped put it in its grave.
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7 Known Energy Facts which are Actually Untrue
Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” And, there are many, many things that the public and policymakers know for sure about energy that just ain’t so.
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How an unforeseen U.S. oil boom is upending global energy markets
NEW YORK — The U.S. oil boom has put European refineries out of business and undercut West African crude suppliers. Now domestic drillers threaten to roil Asian markets and challenge producers in the Middle East and South America.
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Economic sights set on 2014
Agriculture and knowledge-based areas are what will continue to propel Lethbridge’s economy. Not just for 2014, but for the foreseeable future, says the CEO of Economic Development Lethbridge (EDL).
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