Alberta’s oil production is the highest in our province’s history.
Alberta’s oil production is the highest in our province’s history.
- Thread starter B00Mer
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keep dreaming.. your gas price should be going up soon
Help pay for Alberta’s economy
Not production workers. Exploration and construction has been slow for the past few years, but most of the producers just kept chugging along. The big problem has been transportation.
Oh, dear. Somebody, I think it was pgs or Jin, recently whined about oilpatch workers starving in shacks or somesuch.
You mean to tell me it wasn't true? Oh dear.
Ain't saying whoever said it was lying, mind. More just recycling a standard whimper outta sheer ignorance and laziness.
It would be interesting to see employment stats over the past decade in terms of just how many people were working. The strategy among producers since the price crash in 2014/15 has been to improve efficiencies to deliver higher output with fewer workers, that and continued downward pressure on wages and benefits. That producers are doing better isn't necessarily an indication that Albertans are doing better.
Sometimes what is considered part of an industry gets stretched pretty far. Like fab shops, or even hi tech that is mostly aligned with one industry. Here in BC, depending on the perspective of the claimant sawmill and pulp are often lumped in with loggers as forestry workers, when in fact they are factory workers.