Natural Resources committee  Certainly the best plan for Alberta and Canada is to add the most value we can to the resources before they're exported, but right now the economics of doing so are not in our favour. The Alberta government has certainly been promoting technology development to change those econo

Natural Resources committee  They're interrelated, certainly. The 2006 to 2008 period could be described as frantic in Alberta. We certainly had workforce challenges, and they constrained the rate at which we could build projects and bring them online and start creating wealth. I think there's every expecta

Natural Resources committee  That is actually one of the charts in our reports. When you get the report, you will be able to look at one of the figures and track the total GDP in Alberta over time. There's a line where we have subtracted conventional oil, and another line where we have subtracted bitumen and

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chairman, we appreciate the opportunity to speak with the standing committee today and to provide the perspective of the Alberta Chamber of Resources. The Alberta Chamber of Resources is 75 years old. We had a great birthday party last Friday night in Edmonton, with 700 of o

Natural Resources committee  It is certainly something we've seen. Luckily, there is action well in progress in the form of a regulatory review process in Alberta, where just in the past few weeks they have announced some streamlining at the provincial level to eliminate duplication without reducing standard

Natural Resources committee  Madame, yes, as you point out, there are many challenges of being globally competitive with the development of our resources, so we attract capital to Canada. There are challenges to make sure that it is not development at any cost and that we do have that balanced development, t

Natural Resources committee  Well, I don't have red hair, so I'm not sure if I qualify as a fox.

Natural Resources committee  I can tell you that everyone with whom I deal in industry is passionate about this topic. They're passionate that we do things properly and that Alberta and Canada will be as good for our grandchildren as it is for us. Most of the operating companies produce environmental impact