Sentences with phrase «oil and gas extraction sector»

Alberta alone accounts for more than 96 per cent of Canada's oil reserves and in 2010, about 140,000 people were directly employed in the mining, quarrying, oil and gas extraction sector, including the oil sands.

The details of the report show that declines in manufacturing and mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction were the reasons for the negative month - on - month reading, with the 0.8 % contraction in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector being the main drag as well as the most disappointing since it marked the third consecutive monthly decline.

Statistics Canada's estimate for MFP in the mining, oil and gas extraction sector has been on a downward trend for decades.

Not exact matches

Some have argued the resource sector isn't all that crucial to Canada's well - being, since mining and oil and gas extraction directly account for just 4.5 % of the economy.

Over the last year, the solar industry added jobs twelve times faster than the rest of the economy, even more than the jobs created by the oil and gas extraction and pipeline sectors combined.

Increases in oil and gas extraction as well as support activities for the mining and energy sector more than offset a drop in mining and quarrying.

MLP investment opportunities tend to be in the energy sector because 90 % of the income generated by an MLP must come from exploration, mining, extraction, refining of oil and gas and the transportation of alternative fuels like biodiesel.

Compare this with agriculture, oil and gas extraction, and computer and electronics product manufacturing; those sectors contributed 1.0 percent, 1.1 percent, and 1.5 percent, respectively.