To thank the one person who, nearly singlehandedly, brought this about;
[Saskatchewan’s] record haul of $265 million from its oil and natural gas land sales in April — the first of the 2008-2009 budget year — is $73.5 million more than the province budgeted for the entire year.
It followed a record sale in February, which bodes well for the five other land sales that will be held this budget year.
Here’s to you, Ed Stelmach!
“A person only has to look at the difference between oil monolith Calgary and Edmonton, which has a diverse, culturally-rich population.”
Let me guess that you live in the City of Chumps. This particular ‘cultural superiority’ screed has been going on since Edmonton’s ivory tower clashed with Bible Bill back in the thirties. Aintcha got nuthin new?
I am still waiting for some answers. The questions weren’t all that difficult. Were they?
Semper Fi.
Hugger
Hello Kate,
Care to offer some insight?
Please consider, I have scars.
Love, Hugger
Check up the thread. I think Cal2 answered your question, Greg.
Hey Brad why not give me a break on the Education taxes(the highest in Canada)on my house. The real question is,Is Brad Wall a tax cutter or a TAX and Spend Liberal in Sask Party Clothes?
May I remind you of how Albertans voted? Or would you prefer to be ignorant of the fact that “Albertans voted for what was best for the province, not what’s best for Calgary’s head office clientele formerly serviced by Ralph Klein?
Can you articulate one good reason why B.C. and Saskatchewan should be unable to develop their oil industry while Alberta’s overheated economy takes a breath?”
Well “set you free”, very few Albertans voted at all, possibly b/c non-socialists had no options to vote for. If the Liberals wanted to capitalize on Ed’s ignorance of basic economics, they could have resisted the “us vs them” illogic Ed used to set the ignorant against their hand that feeds. Instead, they chose to be even more out-of-touch, and got absolutely hammered. The few Albertans that voted chose the least-socialist option available. Had they been given a real choice, there would have been an actual contest.
There is no need for you to go on with your Ralph Klein rant. Many Calgarians would also have prefered a conservative as a premier, but we got Ralph instead.
Lastly, please stop with the strawman argument. I never suggested that Sask. and BC should be held back from developing their oil industry. I would never wish a Trudeau, Chavez, or Stelmach upon them. They, b/c of Alberta’s misfortune (having had liberals tamper with the election of the conservative leadership) now have a golden opportunity to prosper. Hopefully, Sask doesn’t elect a leftist down the road who plays on the ignorant, demanding “our fair share”, which history shows is never “fair” enough so long as the citizens who take all the risks, quietly suffer losses, and develop all the innovations, make anything more than leftards consider “fair” at the time.
Truth be told, I think maybe farmers are making more than their “fair share” of profits on grain sales. After all, all they have to do is plant stuff in the soil and watch the money flow. Plus, their fertilizers are bad for the environment. Perhaps they should be forced to buy Fertilizer-credits to offset their damage. Also, a percentage of their income (not their profits) should go to the “people”. Sound good to you, “set you free”? If you don’t agree, you must be part of “Big Wheat”, what with their ties to Regina and all…
Manitoba wants their cut.
Dave:
Notice how the Stelmach Tories have as big a representation as Lougheed and Klein ever had?
The people have spoken and how many voted or did not vote matters not.
If Stelmach tapped the brakes on Alberta’s economy for a while, so what?
Time for our good neighbours to the east to shine and nail down the type of lifestyle Alberta has enjoyed.
As they say on the farm: ‘Make hay while the sun shines.’
Oil will not be here forever. In about 100 years, many people will have to return to the land.
BTW. I’ve visited farms, but have never lived on one. Sounds like you have a superiority complex against farmers.
Gong to you.
Glad to see the citizens in Sask. have seen the light.
It’ll take more than a change from socialism to socialism lite to make the Backward Province more than a retirement community.
Attitude is everything, and the Backward Province doesn’t have it. More than sixty years of socialism has seen to that.
As of April 15 Alberta has 63 rigs drilling. The Backward province has 9. The proof is in the pudding.
Posted by: Dave at April 15, 2008 9:41 PM
Straight out of the Oil Cartel’s Jr. Executive handbook?
That’s a special kind of fertilizer, wot?
Hugger
Posted by: ol hoss at April 16, 2008 5:50 AM
Wa’ll, ol hoss, you’ve heard the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, right?
Now the way I sees it, if them fellers in Sas catchy wan manage things right, what with oil being at $114 a barrel, it shouldn’t take them long to put away 35 Billion or so.
Now how much oil did them Alie bertans pump out of the ground at $20 or $30 bucks a barrel do ya figger?
Pa…
Posted by: cal2 at April 15, 2008 6:18 PM
Posted by: Kate at April 15, 2008 8:30 PM
Thanks, I was just wondering about how different it might be there to how it’s done here. All we have here is surface rights, and your ability to negotiate access is limited by legislation. They can force you to co-operate and to provide an area for an access road. No royalties whatsoever to the land owner.
Bureaucracy is the art of self perpetuation, designed and practiced by legions of Sybil Servants everywhere. So don’t feel picked on, they are like locusts. They are not fussy where they feed.
Now how much oil did them Alie bertans pump out of the ground at $20 or $30 bucks a barrel do ya figger?
Enough to make Alberta the richest province in Canada. Who’s the tortoise and who’s the hare? Considering the choice is $20 – $30 versus get rich quick $114?
Kinda trapped yourself on that one.
It’ll take more than a change from socialism to socialism lite to make the Backward Province more than a retirement community.
One thing it’s going to take is to get freeloading farmers like ol hoss a real job and out of the public trough.
Anything that gets us oil service guys that got caught in Stelmach’s meddling back to work (in Canada) quicker is welcome.
Immediately after the “Royalty Review” annoucement last September, my contracts were suspended until further notice. After Knight’s “will not blink” statement, the jobs started to disappear and the writing was on the wall. By December the winters work that had been arranged was gone. I was forced to layoff my employees (before Christmas!), tighten the lid on Company expenditures and start looking overseas.
Might sound exotic but it isn’t. Until you have suffered a Siberian winter or rural Indian monsoon with substandard equipment and work practices to provide for your family on the otherside of the world you will not see Stelmach and Co. for what they are. Incompetent, cowardice fools interested in political power mongering instead of proper governance.