Sentences with phrase «of oil patch»

The campaign, «much of which will be coordinated by the PR firm Edelman, will include expensive television, radio, and print ads, tours of oil patch facilities for lawmakers and opinion elites, and financial contributions to sympathetic think tanks and industry - friendly organizations.»

At a conference on oil field infrastructure in October, one executive noted that McKenzie County, which sits in the heart of the oil patch and had a population of 6,360 people in 2010, required nearly $ 200 million in road repairs.

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.

If you want to fit in to that Calgary neighbourhood it helps if you're married, voted conservative, earn more than a half million annually and have a taste for champagne — the denizens there drink more than twice as much bubbly than the national average (no doubt toasting their good luck to be part of the oil patch).

Not exact matches

The state Public Service Commission approved the Cherry Creek Pipeline project Monday, saying it will provide a safer transportation option and help reduce the wasteful flaring of excess natural gas in the oil patch, The Bismarck Tribune...

The collapse of oil prices wiped out profits and killed the incentive to expand in the oil patch, and economic growth of less than 2 % offers little incentive for non-energy companies to expand.

When the Bank of Canada cut interest rates in 2015 to offset the collapse of oil prices, it was worried about more than a blow to gross domestic product; it was also thinking about what mass firings in the oil patch could mean for the financial system.

Mesa Vista Ranch is the fullest expression of the man who started out in the Oklahoma oil patch and rose to become an energy titan.

Much of this contraction is due to the sharp pullback in investment in the oil patch, now expected to decline by 40 per cent over the course of the year.

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.

Oil prices are higher, but not high enough to inspire new investment in the oil patch, where retrenchment has lead to «very weak» overall business investment, the Bank of Canada saOil prices are higher, but not high enough to inspire new investment in the oil patch, where retrenchment has lead to «very weak» overall business investment, the Bank of Canada saoil patch, where retrenchment has lead to «very weak» overall business investment, the Bank of Canada said.

It's not too much of an exaggeration to say the 2012 budget was inspired by, and might as well have been written by, Ethical Oil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealOil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealoil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealth.

Papa's comments on Tuesday were a stark contrast to the tone of cautious optimism at the conference, where many executives claimed that data analytics and technology, like machine learning, will improve efficiency in the oil patch and fuel further gains.

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.

The good news is that the downturn has led to huge technological and process improvements in the oil patch, forcing domestic producers to either find ways to make money at $ 40 oil or go out of business.

These tracks are not independent — the cancellation of an investment in the oil patch will often lead to a hit in the manufacturing sector, for example.

Canadians did not vote to see government power used to carry out a mandate written by the oil patch in the interests of a single province.

When the airline industry was mired in bankruptcies a decade ago, we saw a huge wave of mergers and acquisitions, and we should expect to see the same in the oil patch.

And while some Canadian companies are finding success in clean solutions — Vancouver's Ballard Power is fresh off a record year for revenue — others, notably in Canada's oil patch, are at risk of falling behind.

But oil is still far cheaper than at the peak of the previous eight - year boom that began in 2006 North Dakota's Bakken oil patch and supercharged the city of Williston.

But while some Canadian companies are finding success in clean solutions, others — notably in Canada's oil patch — are at risk of falling behind.

This parched patch of land, under which lies the largest oil - producing rock formations in the United States, is the epicenter of a growth binge that shows just how tight the link remains between low unemployment, rising wages, and upward pricing pressure.

But an extended period of oil prices at recent levels is unlikely to lead to greater investment spending in the Canadian oil patch.

The Cenovus and Canadian Natural deals marked the first of many themes that emerged in 2017 — the withdrawal by foreign energy giants from Canada's oil patch, creating in its wake a couple of homegrown oilsands giants.

And, in our latest Business Outlook Survey, the Bank saw evidence of labour shortages easing in regions where some interprovincial workers are returning from the oil patch.

Rich donors, many of whom got rich in the oil patch, are cutting the university off.

, in part because of the drop - off in oil patch investment, but again, insufficient offset (That's the place where I think I'm most likely to be wrong).

It remains, to me, a tough sell that non-resource export growth and investment, along with any possible associated stimulus for the consumer (which I remain skeptical of, but again, have been wrong about), will prove to be larger than the investment hit in the oil patch.

Energy represents about a fifth of Canada's market cap and earnings growth is very much tied to fortunes in the oil patch (nearly half of the expected 22 % earnings growth for the S&P / TSX Composite Index in 2017 flows from the energy sector, we calculate).

But the profit takers were not out in the oil patch, as oil prices and the underlying equities, continued to rally for much of the day.

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.

«There are pockets of areas that are getting stronger and weaker — certainly there is less demand in the oil patch — but overall I have not seen any market change in the amount of deal flow over the course of 2014 or 2015,» reports Michael W. Scolaro, managing director and group head of Asset Based Lending at BMO Harris Bank.

She received her first foreclosure notice from the bank last January and, with the help of her teenage daughter, immediately set about trying to replace a chunk of her ex-husband's six - digit oil patch income during the court's six - month «redemption period.»

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.

Canada's oil patch booked three consecutive years of hefty losses after the oil price crash in 2014.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

According to Mr. Prentice, it is because there are currently more sellers than buyers in the oil patch (and with the new Investment Canada restrictions, Canada has just ruled out an important set of prospective buyers); because Canada has an infrastructure deficit (not enough facilities to get the product to the right markets — Keystone XL etc); and due to the impact of foreign investment rules.

Kathryn Harrison, «Pipelines are not a reconciliation of Canada's environment and economy» Dogwood, «Trudeau's climate plan: made for the oil patch»

As physics students will know well, the slight differences in path length for waves superposing cause interference patterns, rather like the rainbow effect on a patch of oil on the road or the colours formed by the surface of a DVD.

In fact, I had a flaky, itchy patch of skin just below my eyebrow that disappeared and has not returned, since regularly using coconut oil on my face — which has been just over a month now.

Many people that are allergic to certain plants don't have reactions to the essential oils because the proteins in the plant are not present in the essential oil, but that doesn't mean that one should start dousing themselves in an essential oil that they have a known allergy or intolerance to the plant or family of plants without doing a patch test first.

If you're using a new oil it's a good idea to test a little patch of your baby's skin the day before you want to start massaging, just in case he has a reaction.

Marchers in the heart of the Canadian oil patch came out by the hundreds on a sunny afternoon.

The sparring on energy was one of the most heated exchanges in the debate with both candidates trying to attract economically minded voters along coal seams, in oil patches and in industrial towns.

By linking Canadian fields to refiners in the Gulf Coast, the 1,200 - mile (1,900 - km) Keystone XL pipeline would be a boon to an energy patch where oil sands are abundant but that produce more carbon pollution than many other forms of crude.

Yesterday, in an effort to reduce the amount of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, crews began igniting parts of the spill in discrete patches.

Low oxygen levels were also detected near patches of oil, a sign that bacteria are feasting.

It consists of forest patches that have been highly degraded by timber extraction, which are sewn into a landscape of palm oil plantations and human settlements.

When they burst at the surface, the oil spreads into patches of rainbow sheen the size of dinner plates.