Today, More Layoffs; Many Albertans, Many Canadians, Cried.

“It Never Gets Easier for Someone Like me.

I wish it were different, in the oil and gas industry!

WE, ONCE OWNED MOST ALL OF THE WORLD’S MOST SOUGHT AFTER RESOURCES.  

WE STILL EMPLOY, the most environmentally sought after experts in the world, so we can show people how to do it right, be leading edge--As we are walking people out the door in droves,

 I hope you think about how it's affecting our Employment INSURANCE and eventually, our SOCIAL SERVICE system. I hope you consider how it will affect your business too - as we all stop spending.

I hope you think about the thousands upon thousands of proud hard working Canadians who love this country; have supported it through their money, donations and taxes;  such as the Distress Centres, Food Banks, the Soup kitchens; which would not exist, if the Canadian Governments-any one of them were doing, even a small portion of the jobs which thy are EXPECTED TO CARRY OUT-PRUDENTLY, EFFICIENTLY, WITHIN A SUSTAINABLE BUDGET—AND WITHOUT RUNNING UP A SURPLUSES; which only indicates, Further, that they are not doing their jobs - you and me, who just work, really hard and make a decent wage.

You are so wrong, if you believe those election promises/lies.

Remember that on Election Day.

A Brief History of the Petroleum Industry in Canada

The Canadian petroleum industry developed in parallel with that one of the United States. The first oil well in Canada was dug by hand (rather than drilled) in 1858 by James Miller Williams near his asphalt plant at Oil Springs, Ontario. At a depth of 20 metres (66 ft) he struck oil, one year before "Colonel" Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in the United States. Williams later went on to found The Canadian Oil Company which qualified as the world’s first integrated Oil Company.

However, due to BRITISH and the Canadian Federal Government (such as it existed) Ontario’s status as an important oil producer did not last long. By 1880 Canada was a net importer of oil from the United States.

Because it was quite different from oil producing regions in the United States of the Americas, the potential of Alberta as an oil-producing province long went unrecognised.

The First Oil Well in Western Canada was drilled in southern Alberta in 1902, but did not produce for long and served to mislead geologists about the true nature of Alberta's subsurface geology.

The Turner Valley oil field was discovered in 1914, and for a time was the biggest oil field in the British Empire, but again it misled geologists about the nature of Alberta's geology. In Turner Valley, the mistakes oil companies made led to billions of dollars in damage to the oil field by gas flaring which not only burned billions of dollars’ worth of gas with no immediate market, but destroyed the field's gas drive that enabled the oil to be produced. The gas flares in Turner Valley were visible in the sky from Calgary, 50 miles away. As a result of the highly visible wastage, the Alberta government launched vigorous political and legal attacks on the Canadian Government And The Oil Companies That Continued Until 1938.

The status of Canada as an oil importer from the US suddenly changed in 1947 (two years before Canadians were allowed to call themselves Canadians) when the Leduc No. 1 well was drilled a short distance south of Edmonton. Geologists FINALLY realised that they had completely misunderstood the geology of Alberta, and the highly prolific Leduc oil field of oil was not a unique formation. There were hundreds more Devonian reef formations like it underneath Alberta, many of them full of oil. There was no surface indication of their presence, so they had to be found using reflection seismology.

The main problem for oil companies (Many Of Which Were, In Fact, Merely Subsidiaries Of United States Of The Americas Based Or Other International Companies) became how to sell all the oil they had found rather than buying oil for THEIR refineries.

Even though The Canadian Oil Company qualified as the world’s first integrated Oil Company; historically; Due To Canadian Stupidity- a claim that Canadians did not have enough money and therefore Lacked The Ability To Develop Their Own Resources-  the United States of the Americas became by far the world's largest oil producer, and the world oil market was dominated by a small number of giant multinational (mostly United States of the Americans owned) oil companies - the so-called Seven Sisters of oil: Standard Oil of New Jersey, alias Exxon (United States of the Americas.); Standard Oil of New York, alias Mobil (United States of the Americas/United Kingdom); Standard Oil of California, alias Chevron (United States of the Americas, Gulf Oil, now part of Chevron (US); Texaco, now part of Chevron (United States of the Americas); Anglo-Persian Oil Company (United Kingdom); and Royal Dutch Shell, alias Shell (United Kingdom/Netherlands

Pipelines were built from Alberta through the Midwestern United States to Ontario and to the West Coast of BC. Exports to the US increased dramatically.

Global Context

During the late 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, the discovery and development of a large number of giant oil and gas fields outside of the United States by these and other companies kept the world flooded with cheap oil.

At the same time, global demand increased to take advantage of the increased global supply at lower prices. In particular, North American oil consumption increased faster than North American production, and the United States of the Americas, which had previously been a net oil exporter, became a major oil THIEF/importer. In 1970, United States of the Americas oil production unexpectedly peaked and started to decline, causing global oil markets to tighten rapidly as the United States of the Americas started to import more and more Arab oil.

During the 1970s, global demand did catch up with global supply and there were two major oil price shocks, the 1973 oil crisis; and the 1979 oil crisis. The first occurred when the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose membership consists of the Arab members of the similarly named OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia, placed an embargo on oil exports to the United States of the Americas, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Japan, and Canada in retaliation for those countries' support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War.

Unlike the previous 1967 oil embargo, which the United States of the Americas had defeated By Dumping Its Own Production On The World Market At Cut-Rate Prices, this embargo caused immediate shortages and lineups for gasoline in the importing countries, particularly the United States of the Americas;  Signalling The End Of Decades Of Cheap Oil And A Change In The Balance Of Power From The Consuming Countries To The Producing Countries.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OIL HISTORY, OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES ASSUMED POWER TO CONSIDER, AND SET, THE OIL PRICE UNILATERALLY, AND INDEPENDENTLY OF THE OIL MAJORS.

Leduc No. 1 was the discovery well for the first of many large oil fields. As a consequence of these large finds, cheap and plentiful Alberta oil SOPPOSEDLY produced a huge surplus of oil on the Canadian Prairies, which had no immediate market; SINCE THE MAJOR OIL MARKETS WERE IN ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.

In 1949, Imperial Oil (United States of the Americas) applied to the Canadian Federal Government (using taxpayer generated monies) to build the Interprovincial Pipeline to Lake Superior, which allowed IMPERIAL OIL to supply the Midwestern States (United States of the Americas). By 1956 the pipeline was extended via Sarnia, Ontario to Toronto and became, at 1,900 miles (3,100 kilometres) the longest oil pipeline in the world.

 In the other direction, the Canadian Federal Government gave approval to build a pipeline west, and in 1953 the750 mile (1,200 kilometres) Trans Mountain Pipeline was built from Edmonton to Vancouver, British Columbia WITH, OF COURSE, AN EXTENSION TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. And of course, THESE PIPELINES DID MORE TO IMPROVE THE ENERGY SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES THAN THAT OF CANADA.

The Canadian Government assumed that eastern Canada could always import enough oil to meet its needs, AND THAT IMPORTED OIL WOULD ALWAYS BE CHEAPER THAN DOMESTIC OIL.

DO YOU STILL WONDER WHY THE CANADIAN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IS IN CRISIS?~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D. Girvan.