@ Justin ... calm down man
... dont get your pan*i*s in a knot
falling face first in cow pies
nobody said a ill word about BC but now that you bring it up it seems that you cannot help but admit that you guys have made horrible choices in government and that is why you are in the economic situation you are in
First the NDP and now the libs are going to take their pound of flesh
Say what you want about Ralph but he has used our economic windfall and prudently invested it to take us out of debt when Trudeau's policies of the late 70's early 80's sunk us in a economic void that has taken us 25 years to climb out of ... if you dont start now how long do you think it is going to take BC to get out of debt ?
And just so you know that what is rumoured to be true just because it was first repeated in the east ... aint always so
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Alberta Strikes Oil!
February 13, 1947, was an historic day for Alberta. It was on this day that Vern “Dry Hole” Hunter and Alberta struck oil. The effects from that one oil strike would bring people from all over Canada to work on Leduc #1 and change the economic, political and social climate of Alberta.
Born in Nanton, Alberta, Vern Hunter began his career in the oil industry as a junior clerk working for Royalite Oil. In 1927, Hunter had his first roughneck job on the early rotary rigs in the Turner Valley field. By 1940 he had made his way to tool push, in charge of one of the first portable diesel powered rigs in Canada. Vern Hunter, who became known for his lack of success in drilling for oil, earned the nickname "Dry Hole" Hunter.
While working as a tool push for Imperial Oil in mid-November of 1946, Vernon Hunter was ordered to move a rig to a different location, just miles west of Leduc. It was here that the monumental Imperial Leduc No. 1 was spudded and changed the oil industry in Alberta forever. It was Hunter's 134th hole.
On a miserably cold day in February 1947, hundreds of people met in the middle of wind-swept field a few kilometers outside of Leduc. They were there to witness Leduc #1 coming into production. Leduc #1 only yielded about 319,000 barrels of oil, but it remains a powerful symbol and signpost in Alberta’s history.
To help tell the continuing story of Alberta’s oil and gas industry, the Government of Alberta has provided centennial legacy funding to a number of public interpretive centres and museums. These projects include the Turner Valley Gas Plant Historic Site, the Oil Sands Discovery Centre and the Canadian Petroleum Interpretive Centre Museum at Leduc.
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Alberta seperation or western seperation is all about the same thing ... we dont have a say in what goes on at the federal level ... if sask, BC and manitoba want to come along ... great ! ... if not ... sadly we can go it alone as well.
As far as being isolated because we dont have a port ... Lots of Europen countries dont have a port and get by just fine so no port is not a threat worth considering ... and whatever we cant get due to possible economic embargo/retaliation by the rest of Canada we can get from the US who is our largest trading partner anyway.
The reality is that seperation would not be a issue if we had a voice in where our dollars are spent but politics in Canada is such that the Liberal Government
openly steals our money and get reelected anyway.
Enough is enough