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• Danny Millions State Capitalist

  Published: September 13, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Oil, Petroeconomy, Ed Stelmach, State Capitalism, Alberta, Newfoundland, Danny Williams, Big Oil, Oilsands

  Alberta, tarsands, oilsands, Canada, state capitalism, royalties, oil, profits, Atlantic Accord, Newfoundland, Premier, Danny, Williams,

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• A Little Golf A Little Hustle

  Published: September 28, 2007, 7:55 am

  Tags: Candu, Softwood Lumber, Nuclear Power, Tarsands, Wilkins, Nuclear, Nuke The Tarsands, Oilsands

  not to "grandfather" out any oilsands plants "on the grounds of fair treatment for all participants."In October he will return to address that august body the Whitecourt Chamber of Commerce. Whitecourt is softwood lumber country, and it just so happens Alberta is named in the U.S. softwood suit.Whitecourt is the site of three mills: Blueridge

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• Hugo Stelmach

  Published: October 13, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Royalties, Ed Selmach, Alberta, Tarsands, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Venezuela, Chavez, Oilsands

  The tactics used by the oil bosses in Venezuela are now being used in Alberta.Media Advisory - Oil Workers to Gather at Legislature to Save Jobs ...A misleading headline, they aren't really the 'oil' workers. Like Venezuela they are the self interested oil bosses forcing their non-union workers to rally for their jobs that they threaten to cut to

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• I Am Malcontent

  Published: October 13, 2007, 6:38 am

  Tags: Royalties, Ed Selmach, Alberta, Tarsands, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Oilsands

  [The royalty report] has tapped into a pocket of malcontent that nobody knew existed, said David Yager, chief executive officer of HSE Integrated Ltd., a small energy services company, and a columnist for Oilweek magazine.That's because the oil elitists and their special interests live in the golden petro towers of Calgary. Far above the

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• Who Will Decide About Royalties

  Published: October 13, 2007, 6:03 am

  Tags: Royalties, Ed Selmach, Alberta, Tarsands, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Oilsands

  Big Oil and their pals in the investment industry according to this story in the Globe and Mail today.The folks who have been whining the most are having secret meetings with Stelmach's Government.According to Tristone, which has worked closely with Alberta civil servants in Edmonton to produce new work it will present on Monday I think

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• Headline Says It All

  Published: October 12, 2007, 6:03 pm

  Tags: Royalties, Ed Selmach, Alberta, Tarsands, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Oilsands

  And just as he was going up a wee bit in the polls the National Post ran this screaming full banner headline on their front page today;STELMACH BLINKS FIRST Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has indicated he may be willing to give in to intense oil-industry pressure Which then resulted in this: Premier Stelmach quoted as saying he won't trounce

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• Real Oil Workers Rally

  Published: October 17, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Royalties, Ed Selmach, Alberta Alliance, Alberta, Tarsands, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Oilsands

  In response to the right wing rally by oil company executives in hard hats today at the Legislature the Alberta Federation of Labour will be holding a real oil workers rally in a real oil city.Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 9pm to 10:30pmTimberline Room, Sawridge Hotel, Fort McMurrayThe Real Oil Workers Forum and RallyCome sign our petition urging

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• Rent A Crowd

  Published: October 17, 2007, 8:10 pm

  Tags: Royalties, Wild Rose Party, Ed Selmach, Alberta Alliance, Alberta, Tarsands, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Venezuela, Chavez, Oilsands

  The right wing press pundits and those opposed to Albertans getting their fair share will make a big deal out of the Oil Bosses Venezuelan Style Protest at the Leg today. Until you realize that the workers there were bussed in by the bosses and paid to be there, complete with signs provided by their bosses.Also most of them have not read the

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• Robot Protest

  Published: October 18, 2007, 9:26 am

  Tags: Royalties, Wild Rose Party, Ed Selmach, Alberta Alliance, Alberta, Tarsands, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Venezuela, Oilsands

  Robot comes from the Russian word Robotnichki, meaning drudgery and worker. A wage slave by any other name.And when the Oil Rig bosses pay their wage slaves to protest on their behalf against the workers own self interest this is what you get.During the speeches, the workers showed little emotion, cheering only sporadically.The Alberta government

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• Nationalize The Oil Patch

  Published: October 18, 2007, 10:19 am

  Tags: Royalties, Workers Control, Nep, Alberta, Big Oil, Nationalize, Encana, Oilsands

  available economic rent on oilsands project.The left-leaning institute also noted that the nationalized oil companies in Norway, China, Korea and Japan have taken stakes in Alberta's oilpatch, and that a predecessor to energy giant EnCana was once partly province-owned."Public ownership is the best way to capture royalties, as 100 per cent goes

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• Alberta Oil Royalty Sell Out

  Published: October 20, 2007, 10:58 am

  Tags: Royalties, Ed Selmach, Alberta, Tarsands, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Oilsands

  to boost royalties on oilsands projects - but not as much as is currently discounted in stock prices. The scenario - under which royalties would increase to 5% from 1% before project payout, and to 30% from 25% after investment is recovered, and also involves the scrapping of a proposal for a new super royalty - was seen as positive for

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• Turncoat Dwarkin Recants

  Published: October 21, 2007, 8:20 am

  Tags: Royalties, Ed Selmach, Alberta, Tarsands, One Party State, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Oilsands

  As I posted here yesterday the Big Oil ringer Dr Judith Dwarkin who sat on the Oil Royalty Panel issued her own report on the Oil Royalties, one that was countering her own panels recommendations and denounced her fellow committee members in unflattering terms. Her paper was sanctioned by her company in defense of their pals in the Petroleum Club

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• Alberta Election In The Offing

  Published: October 25, 2007, 8:01 am

  Tags: Royalties, Ed Stelmach, Tarsands, Alberta Election, Peter Lougheed, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Tired Old Tories, Strom, Oilsands, Harry Strom

  Alberta, tarsands, oilsands, Canada, state capitalism, royalties, oil, profits, Province, Bill Hunter, Alberta Royalty Review,Alberta Cabinet, CAPP, Ed Stelmach,Big Oil,oil royalties, PC, Calgary, Party of Calgary, politics, NEP, Conservatives, Peter Lougheed, Harry Strom,Alberta Election,Fort McMurray,One Party

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• The Economist On Alberta's Fair Share

  Published: November 7, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Royalties, Economics, Ed Stelmach, Tarsands, Big Oil, Royalty Review, Oilsands

  Alberta, tarsands, oilsands, Canada, state capitalism, royalties, oil, profits, Province, Bill Hunter, Alberta Royalty Review,Alberta Cabinet, CAPP, Ed Stelmach,Big Oil,oil royalties,

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• Behind Closed Doors

  Published: November 6, 2007, 8:37 am

  Tags: Fort Mcmurray, Autarch, Stephen Harper, Homeless, Oil Workers, Tarsands, Rent Control, Oilsands

  area, Harper flew over the oilsands in a helicopter, toured part of the vast Syncrude site in a three-storey high "heavy hauler," and visited employees at the Syncrude control centre before meeting with oilsands executives and other business and community leaders.Fort McMurray is one of the mostapidly growing cities in Canada, expected to hit a

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