POL250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Pembina Institute, Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Dinosaur Provincial Park
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* whos in the alberta natural gas industry. * 1883- along canadian pacific railway at the langevin siding near medicine hat southeastern major. Gas has become a major propellant for the local economy in medicine hat the gas city. Biggest brick works in the country because of the free natural gas it provided to the city there. * subsequent major discoveries in turner valley and jumping pound and quickly spread throughout the province. * nikiforuk reffered to this sedimentary basin and it stretches from northeastern bc in the west all the way to mannitoba in the east. Line share is found in alberta, gas plays in ornage and oil and liquid plays in blue. Shale gas and cbm a small part of albertas gas production: * has gone from million cubic metres per day from 400 cubic petres in 2006 to to about 300 in: it is levelling off going forward in terms of forecast.