Sentences with phrase «alberta mlas»

That's because the new pipelines will connect Alberta's oil to international markets, where they can command higher prices than in North America.

These developments raise the possibility that Canada's two leading pipeline companies will lose out to American rivals in the race to get fast - rising oil production from Alberta, Saskatchewan and North Dakota to higher paying refiners on the Gulf Coast, Asia and California.

While Jurock frames the meltdown in the B.C. and Alberta recreational markets as a buying opportunity, he admits the worst may not be over.

The reaction to the Royal Society's report in Alberta provides a clue: hire teams of scientists outside the government orbit to investigate such claims and make their findings public.

Western Canada Select (WCS), a benchmark for heavy crude from Alberta, routinely trades at a discount to WTI.

Norrie, who studied geography and physical education at the University of Alberta, first landed at Mica's sister company, Island Lake Lodge, as a mountain guide in 1998.

One example is WestJet Airlines, which is down 24 %, largely due to its exposure to Alberta.

That conclusion is based in part by the recent experience of Alberta, where home prices sunk after oil prices collapsed.

Lamb determined that his 17 - year - old enterprise software firm, which provides cost accounting services to drilling companies (and is ranked 385th on the 2013 PROFIT 500), would thrive in Colorado's oil and gas sector, which is similar to Alberta's.

It is considered essential for Canadian gas producers, who have access to some of the richest gas fields in the world in Northern Alberta and British Columbia, but face depressed prices due to a glut of gas in North America.

«Let's say China decides to play hardball and suspends production at its facilities in Alberta during a time of conflict,» Byers says.

The last of a cluster of oil processors that once lined Vancouver's Burrard Inlet, Chevron's Burnaby refinery is hard - pressed to get its required supply of crude from Kinder Morgan's 1,200 - kilometre Trans Mountain pipeline out of northern Alberta.

The way the pipelines currently run out of Alberta, all the output of the oilsands ends up at refineries either in Canada or in the central U.S. Virtually none makes its way to either California or the EU.

Andrew Leach is an energy and environmental economist at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta.

The halting quest to expand pension coverage in Canada took a step forward last month when Alberta and Saskatchewan tabled legislation to introduce Pooled Registered Pension Plans.

Given that the economic benefits of the pipelines are, for the most part, due to an induced increase in the price of oil, the lion's share of these accrue to the Alberta government and to firms operating in Alberta.

Both Alberta and Canada's federal government have pledged financial support to the project, which would nearly triple capacity on an existing line from Alberta to a B.C. port.

They reminded him they'd been at the table with Enbridge back in 2007 when it said its Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia's west coast would be completed by 2011.

That didn't stop the Edmonton - based Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) from acknowledging the telecom giant's contributions to the province, however.

The Alberta, Canada - based Bitcoin exchange says its closing down after cyber thieves made off with about $ 600,000 worth of the digital currency.

«Even if it's not part of a trade agreement, you're going to see the Chinese wanting those restrictions relaxed,» says Ron MacIntosh, a senior fellow with the China Institute at the University of Alberta.

That number is high even by true - blue Alberta standards, but it's not surprising when you consider the name of the Calgary Southwest MP: Stephen Harper.

Net debt as a share of GDP is low (only Saskatchewan and Alberta's are lower), and B.C. has a shot at balancing the budget in 2013 - 14 — along with Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.

Among Alberta's richest neighbourhoods, Roxboro is in fifth place in terms of net worth; but residents here are in second place in terms of average annual household salary, bringing home $ 845,038 a year, and own the second - most - expensive homes, with home prices just shy of $ 1.4 million.

Despite signing a truce last month, Alberta and B.C. have agreed that any additional economic benefits to be provided to B.C. would have to be provided by the shippers or by Enbridge, not by Alberta directly.

Kim Truter, CEO of the Canadian arm of the South African diamond giant, says Alberta's biggest city was a natural choice for a new HQ

Credit unions have long been moving away from the hyper - local, one or two - branch model and consolidating, in some cases expanding province - wide, as Alberta's Servus did in 2008.

Unlike Alberta, where major oil and gas firms are based right in Calgary, the managers of the Colorado drilling companies he approached all said that their Houston - based head offices called the shots.

A parallel process to cabinet approval will be the ongoing consultation with First Nations in B.C. and Alberta.

Owned by Alberta - based Husky Energy, Wisconsin's only refinery produces gasoline, asphalt and other products.

One of the country's most connected business leaders, Murray Edwards made his billions in the Alberta oil industry.

It involves taking 550,000 barrels per day of bitumen from Alberta's oilsands via the pipeline, refining it and exporting products such as diesel and gasoline to Asia.

Watch for developments on this front with respect to David Black's Kitimat Clean Refinery, which may be well positioned to offer BC what it wants, while allowing Alberta to not appear to be directly compensating BC for oil transit.

In Alberta, resistance to mandatory PRPP access comes from the business community.

The cap: Oilsands operators in northern Alberta must reclaim disturbed land once they're finished with it.

There has been a lot of money and effort put into building pipelines to transport oil from Alberta to the Pacific coast.

«The prospect of losing Alberta, even in the short term, is not good at all, and that's why we reluctantly take this action.»

It said Alberta takes in 20 per cent of all bottles produced in B.C., making it the province's biggest customer.

In 2008, Ontario surpassed Alberta to become the province with the most wind generation capacity.

I recently spoke with a director of one of Canada's largest food companies about risk, which is particularly pertinent with an E. coli crisis now unfolding in Alberta.

For these and other companies, Alberta continues to offer an island of pre-2008 growth in a world overshadowed by secular stagnation.

By comparison, the average discount paid for Western Canadian Select oilsands blend crude from Alberta in the fourth quarter was US$ 12.26 per barrel and it has since spiked at times to around US$ 30 per barrel, a trend also blamed on constrained pipeline access.

Later would drive to Banff and Alberta multiple times.

She's rebuffed approaches by the Liberals, the Wildrose Party and the Alberta Party and is expected to be a big behind - the - scenes influencer in the post-Redford government.

For instance, retail sales rose 6.9 % last year in Alberta, compared with 2.5 % for the rest of the country.

FREDsense Technologies, a Calgary, Alberta - based outfit, has built sensors that detect chemicals in drinking water.

As impressive as Alberta's GDP growth has been, a stickier reason to invest there is its expanding population.

Cattle in pasture beside XL Foods» Lakeside Packers plant at Brooks, Alberta on Monday, Oct. 1st, 2012, 2012.

For me, the funny thing is that in a way I succeeded in what I wanted to do when I got my job in Alberta.

As the title of a June 10 Bank of Montreal paper explains, «There's Alberta, then there's everyone else.»