Sentences with phrase «alberta oil patch»

Calgary entered the new year with more real estate sales reps than last year, despite its weakening housing market, the precipitous drop in the price of oil and significant job losses in the Alberta oil patch, brokers say.

It may take awhile for the agent count to drop in the city, despite the precipitous drop in the price of oil and significant job losses in the Alberta oil patch, brokers say.

Not exact matches

Charged with testing the technology in the real world is none other than an Alberta company, Western Hydrogen of Calgary, which will experiment with it in using crude from the oil patch.

The finding contradicts arguments by some environmentalist groups that bitumen, the tar - like substance extracted from Alberta's oil patch, corrodes or clogs pipelines, increasing the risk of ruptures.

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch, much of the wealth comes from tradespeople who work in the oil sands.

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

Canadian crude — extracted from Alberta's controversial oil sands patch — is the cheapest oil in the world.

«It's inevitable, in 2015, that we're going to see less migration toward Alberta, because the oil patch is going to go through a very painful period,» says Craig Alexander, chief economist at TD Bank.

For one thing Alberta, a province with a population half that of Quebec, has seen 35,000 oil patch jobs disappear so far this year.

The prospect of an NDP premier who has said «over my dead body» to the Enbridge Northern pipeline, which would take Alberta bitumen to the Pacific coast — Dix even has a legal team preparing to halt it — has spurred key oil - patch figures into action.

Alberta - based G7 Chen Fong introduced the founders to oil patch executives, securing an entree that might have otherwise taken years, and the team raised $ 3.3 - million (U.S.) in 2016 from investors in Canada and Silicon Valley.

The project had been heavily promoted by his predecessor, Stephen Harper, a Conservative from Alberta's oil patch.

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch much of the wealth comes from tradespeople that work in the oil sands.

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch, much of the wealth comes from tradespeople who work in the oil sands.

So, let's take the example of one of your typical clients these days, who perhaps is working in the oil patch in Alberta, perhaps they're working in the oil industry in your province.

So, I walk in to see you today and let's say that I've been working, still living out east, but working in the Alberta and the oil patch.

Often they'll go there, they'll spend 10 days, two weeks, fly back and back and forth because the economy was so good with the oil patch in Alberta.

The recent election results in Alberta were a shock to the Canadian Oil patch, including bigwigs in charge of the planet - killing Tar Sands extraction projects underway there.

The survey conducted of APEGA members, who primarily work in the oil patch of Alberta, showed that the majority of them attributed human activities to climate change.

A report from the University of Calgary and Alberta Securities Commission shows the number of women on boards in that province is on the rise, but the oil patch has a long way to go compared to other sectors.

These results may be a function of Alberta's generally more conservative political and social values but are more likely a consequence of the geographic separation of parents owing to lengthy periods of site - based work in the oil patch or the interprovincial relocation of separated parents to take work in the province, making shared custody arrangements difficult if not impossible to implement.

A number of our clients live in BC and work in the oil patch in Northern Alberta.

Alberta has a vibrant economy, with the activities in the oil patch and Fort McMurray — it's a great market with forecasts of 10 to 12 per cent increase in house prices,» says Guy Belland.