Premier Redford... The TRUTH please...

[wilagro]

cottonpicken: Your ass is suckin' slough water if you think those companies are losing money. RECORD PROFITS were the headlines in the Calgary papers a while back.

Because those companies pay very, very little royalties until ALL capital costs are recovered, they can afford to pay big wages to their workers AND their MANAGEMENT. Its a waiting game for the province...they hope some day for these companies to make money but it so far has not happened. Good planning or what? Good crooked tactics is more like it.

The whole oilsands development is so secretive that the public is left in the dark about what really goes on. The governments of Alberta and Canada both withhold data claiming it to be privileged information. There is also a myriad of agreements that I doubt will ever be opened to the public.

[silverback]

I just hope and pray they keep giving money to their friends with the carbon capture and storage and the very much needed power line deals.

We would be lost without those projects.

[wd9]

Cotton, i would gladly pay a tax on
grain if all i had to do was **** the
land and take it for almost nothing.

You cannot compare the two. Raise the
royalties, listen to the whining for a
while, watch the companies continue
business as usual EXCEPT things like
free education, replacing roads that oil
companies destroy, pay for electrical
infrastructure, pay for reclamation
rather than mortgaging from our kids, on
and on.

But nope, give it away. Pathetic.

[ASRG]

uh...Tom....how did you get the private letter to PC members? Weren't you a die hard Wildrose boy....or were you a wolf in sheeps clothing?

[ASRG]

wd9: You have read it exactly right!

[Horse]

wd9 I think you hit a real sleeper to do with reclamation . How many orphan wells are there in alta and how many more will there be? I have a well on my land that is in recevership that I get no rent on for now at least as there is no money so who is going to foot the bill, us? There is about 20 wells in this deal( area).
These oil companys chamnge owners more often than a hooker changes partners so when the bills get to big they will declare bancrupsy and walk after the easy money is sucked off.
And no I dont believe there is this big pool of money to lookafter this kind of thing that the oil and gov hint about.

[cottonpicken]

The big bad boogey man companies,who are
raping and pillaging,except they are
companies,with shareholders,like pension plan
funds and mutual funds,but you dont own any,but
you might and not know it.

Then you get to the employees off those
companies,know how much those men working
for those companies are paying back in taxes?

Want me to show the frickin math on one of those
guys loosing their jobs compared to a couple of
guys pumpin gas for minium wage?the fall out
effects on government tax revenues?

We should bless our little hearts there are high
paying jobs whos workers fuel this collassal jabba
the hut government.

[ColevilleH2S]

^^^ X2. What Cotton said.

There are just some problems that are good problems to have. The 'sands are one of those.

[Horse]

Cotton Yea you got it right lets pay everyone double or mabey triple and all our money problems are solved. Or mbey every town get an pro team and just watch the mola roll in.

[TOM4CWB]

ASRG,

like the old saying goes... Keep your friends close...
and your enemies closer.

some of us did vote for who the premier was going to
be... AND LOST. Our family wanted to make sure... it
wasn't ... TED MORTON!

Nice to know what the P.C.'s are thinking... wouldn't
you say ASRG?

Cheers!