Here we take a 360-degree snapshot of who’s up, who’s down and who’s reinventing themselves in the oil and gas business >
We’re in the process now of putting together our annual “Best and Worst” feature for the December issue and, oh, what a year it’s been. Choosing our top 10 business stories of the year has never been so competitive. Do you go for the arrest of Calgary’s $400-million Ponzi schemers or Capital Power Corporation’s $500-million initial public offering? >
No sooner had we dispatched our October issue, featuring a special report on innovation, to the printers than some counterintuitive news came to light. In contrast to the history of technology companies, ideas and talent leaving the province – a fact we sought solutions to in our cover story, “Building the Economy of Ideas” – we learned that Radient Technologies Inc. was relocating its operations from Ontario and British Columbia to the Edmonton Research Park. >
It would be funny were it not so ominous for all of us the Alberta government’s belated reaction to the threat to it posed by shale gas. >
In just a few short years, the conventional wisdom about natural gas has been upended by an unconventional resource. Here’s what it means for Alberta’s industry >
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