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Article: Target: Alberta's oilpatch; Menacing comments from a top Liberal critic put the province's oil industry on guard.(ENERGY POLITICS)(Cover story)
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- Western Standard
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- March 12, 2007
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The mid-afternoon Alberta sky was a characteristic ice blue, the temperature a typically bracing -17[degrees]C, and the southerly wind an unsurprisingly brisk 17 kilometres an hour. In all respects, then, Feb. 13 was just another normal winter day in the central part of Canada's most westerly Prairie province.
Normal outside, that is, but markedly special inside of an otherwise nondescript, boxlike building just south of the town of Devon. There, politicians from downtown Edmonton, 40 kilometres northeast, businessmen from both the capital city and Calgary, and journalists from who knows where were gathered at the Canadian Petroleum Discovery Centre to mark a ...