Compensation What do Landowners really want

[coppertop]

Linda, cowman etc. I too was intrigued by the suggestion that all agencies should be abolished. If the agencies involved are doing what their mandate requires that they do, they are looking after the common good, which means looking out for the best interests of Albertans. Now, oil companies employ a lot of Albertans so the EUB et.al., have a fine line to walk, but doing away with the public interest regulators is certainly a stretch !!!

[cakadu]

I dunno copper, maybe I've watched one too many episodes of X-files or something, but when one's intuition goes off, I think you have to at least listen to it.

I'll be the first to admit I could be wrong and if I am, well then I am.

[cowdog]

Good god you are a bunch of paranoid fools. Unlike the rest of you I have a large successful farm to run, In cold weather like we have been having of late my work load triples and I have recently got movement on my wheat , so I am moving it.
thus I have very little time to be on the internet let alone the site.
Note that my responses tend to be rather long and far between, and that oilman's rather short and close together.

[cowdog]

Oilman: I am preparing a response to your origanal question but, have not had time to finish it, it is long and detailed. I have been asked many times the diffient questions you have asked by CEO's and other executives, so, I am not that suspisous of your identity and respect that you are who you say you are to the same extent I would anyone else in this type of website.
Respond on this thread by this Friday and I will start a new thread called: "Reply to Oilam's Questions." before next Monday unless calves start dropping the it will take longer.

[cakadu]

Cowdog, who you and Oilman are do not matter to me. My concern and quite likely my cynicism come to the fore whenever I hear someone say, "Hi, I'm from....(take your pick about government, industry or what have you)and I'm here to help.

I can agree with you about the cold and the work load increasing. At least for the next few days, it should be a whole lot less work and pretty enjoyable.

Hope the calves are healthy - I know that the lambs are much happier now.

[cowdog]

cakadu: glad to see that not everyone has taken their marbles and gone home.
Oilman's entry in to the debate does not surprise me. Oilman whoever he or she was is someone from the industry frustrated by the resistance of landowners to CBM and the EUB's attitude that only serves to complicate issues. The Surface rights Board is swamped to the point that there is huge waiting lists, therefore it is not unlikely industry would look for ideas where they could find them.
Anyway have a lovely lucky lambing.