Canada to Create International Bureaus to Recruit Skilled Immigrants to Alberta.

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As many of you know, I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The growth in this province is staggering because it looks like Canada potentially has the largest supply of oil in the world.

That’s eight times the amount of reserves in Saudi Arabia. The oil sands are buried under forests in Alberta that are the size of Florida.
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As seen on "60 Minutes":
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/60minutes/main1225184.shtml

Needless to say the boom in this province is amazing. Some pundits compare the growth as the same as the growth in China.

That being said, Canada is:

....opening Alberta "desks" around the world, possibly in Canadian embassies and consulates, that would recruit immigrants.
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Don't be surprised if you see one of these desks at the Canadian Consulate in SA. If the deal is signed, skilled workers will likely be fast tracked into Canada.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070503.wimmigration03/BNStory/National/home
 
IamCanadian said:
As many of you know, I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The growth in this province is staggering because it looks like Canada potentially has the largest supply of oil in the world.



As seen on "60 Minutes":
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/60minutes/main1225184.shtml

Needless to say the boom in this province is amazing. Some pundits compare the growth as the same as the growth in China.

That being said, Canada is:



Don't be surprised if you see one of these desks at the Canadian Consulate in SA. If the deal is signed, skilled workers will likely be fast tracked into Canada.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070503.wimmigration03/BNStory/National/home
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Cool .... now i wonder if they will have Siemens PLCs to program for me :D
yay drinks all around !! :cool:
 
"Canada is cold" So what, people adapt to the cold, have double glazed windows and walk around in T-shirts most of the time.

Anyway, I spoke to a lecturer today about Canada, the qualification I have, Honors CIMA, is not recognised as such in Canada, they have another syllabus closer to a MBA course here for cost accountants. The most I can expect there is recognition of a Bcom degree. In Britain though my degree is fully recognised.

Anyone have information about the accounting profession there? I wouldn't mind to be a director eventually or manager of a company there, just would feel like a waste if I didn't work as a cost accountant at least for a bit.
 
Oil? Sounds like a good enough reason for the US to finally annex the place. ;)
 
In canada you can also go flyfishing for salmon and when you catch one, you can just pull it out of the water and eat it raw right then and there!! Awesome stuff... free sashimi!!!
 
bwana said:
Oil? Sounds like a good enough reason for the US to finally annex the place. ;)
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Sounds like a good reason for Ol' GW to pay a visit to Canadian Prime Minister/President. Come to think of it, I don't know much of Canadian politics, which is a good thing.
 
The Idea of moving to Canada is briliant... have you seen that place in Summer ?

I would love to move there.

2 problems.

1. They need skilled workers.. I don't mind studying but that would be another 2-3 years :(
2. Work and study in Canada would be cool but they don't need labourers they need skilled workers :(

So back to studying for now..... :(
 
Dude, have you seen what a staggering impact the mining of the Canadian tar sands is having on the environment? The scary thing is that the effects thereof has not even been studied in detail. Secondly, do a Google search for the EROEI of tar sands.

I quote from a random link that is pretty much echoed everywhere else:
The production of Canadian Syncrude continues though the EROEI is negative. That is because the energy cost of natural gas required to make syncrude is not considered. The natural gas is "stranded" meaning that it is too far away from markets to be useful in any other way. You might say that Syncrude production is a way to export natural gas.
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The energy requirements of mining the tar sands is so high that Syncrude was actually considering building a nuclear power plant in Fort Mcmurray a while ago in order to energise the process! That's just insane.

Still, I understand that the Macdonalds in Fort Mcmurray are battling to get hands to flip patties at double the going rate because the tar sand refiners are paying incredibly well. I wouldn't mind a piece of that action, even if just for the short term gains...
 
Laws exist to rehabilitate the environment afterwards, nothing grows in the oil sands, once the oil is extracted plants do start to grow, once all the oil is extracted the artificial environment created would be akin to terraforming the province.
 
edc said:
Laws exist to rehabilitate the environment afterwards, nothing grows in the oil sands, once the oil is extracted plants do start to grow, once all the oil is extracted the artificial environment created would be akin to terraforming the province.
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Nope:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/alberta_tar_san.php
http://www.dogwoodinitiative.org/bulletins/tarsandstokitimat
http://www.onedayvancouver.ca/calendar.php?id=282
http://www.oilsandswatch.org/

I can go on and on but we all know how to use Google, don't we?

Here's an indication of what is required to produce one barrel of oil from tar sands:
The mighty waterways of Alberta will all be threatened to varying degrees before the process of constructing the tarsands is complete. As of right now, the water usage approved for tarsand production is over three times that of Calgary, Alberta (over one million population) before any new projects are begun. The waste tailings ponds are already vast enough to spot from space. That water gets used up helping turn four tonnes of earth into one barrel of oil. There has been no such thing as land reclamation in any report or panel yet, but four million tonnes of earth a day is being set to go as high as twenty. The emissions from tarsands are set to go from 3 to 7 times their current output of c02.
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...and I like this one...
tar sands are a shell game, the energy it takes to produce the actual oil makes ethanol look cost-effective.

if it werent for the $5Bn in tax credits that companes like syncrude get(get it sin crude?) (thats $5Bn for them , not for the industry) it woudln't even seem doable on the wasteful scale it already is...

and if you think that companies being told to clean up afterwards makes it really happen, look at our boreal ex-forests from alberta to BC if you fly over it, you will puke, its' so sad how much has been clearcut and then (some) replaced by weak monoculture treefarms that dont even survive...

great! so we can have more bowren valleys (clearcut so huge you can see it from space)
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Latest news from Bush24:
1. Canada is helping Al-Quaeda
2. Canada has weapons of mass destruction
3. We have to invade and set the Canadians free
 
sabagamma said:
Latest news from Bush24:
1. Canada is helping Al-Quaeda
2. Canada has weapons of mass destruction
3. We have to invade and set the Canadians free
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Wasn't that the topic of a South Park movie a few years ago! :D
 
StrongTurd said:
Still, I understand that the Macdonalds in Fort Mcmurray are battling to get hands to flip patties at double the going rate because the tar sand refiners are paying incredibly well. I wouldn't mind a piece of that action, even if just for the short term gains...
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They are paying burger flippers $18-$20 per hour.
 
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