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   From: puela@nyet.ca   
      
   The best you Albertan sell-outs to foreign companies can hope for is that   
   they're all 'temporary foreign workers' that are being laid off.   
      
   Note the word game:  "It's not layoffs . . .  it's adjustments to the   
   organizational structure."   
      
   Those Canadians being laid off could always take a look at Ontario - where job   
   growth is expected to rise.    (=_=)   
      
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   Reuters - Friday, January 09, 2015   
      
   Shell to cut up to 300 oilsands jobs   
      
      
   Shell’s Shell trucks rolls along the Athabasca Oil Sands Project north of   
   Fort   
   McMurray, Alta. (Shell handout)   
      
      
   CALGARY – Royal Dutch Shell will cut from 5 to 10% of the about 3,000 jobs at   
   its Albian Sands mining project in northern Alberta, a company spokesman said   
   on Friday, but refrained from connecting the move to plunging oil prices.   
      
   Spokesman Cameron Yost said the actual number of job reductions at the Canadian   
   operation had not yet been finalized, adding it would be "well below" 10%.   
      
   The cuts were announced to Shell employees internally on Thursday.   
      
   "It's not layoffs in the traditional sense of the word," Yost said. "It's   
   adjustments to the organizational structure."   
      
   Albian Sands is the mining portion of Shell's Athabasca Oil Sands project near   
   Fort McMurray, Alberta, which also includes the 255,000 barrel-per day Scotford   
   upgrader.   
      
   Last February, Shell halted work on its proposed 200,000 bpd Pierre River oil   
   sands mine in Alberta, saying it was re-evaluating the timing of various asset   
   developments.   
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   Asked whether the reductions were related to the halving of global oil prices   
   in the past six months, Yost said: "Even if oil price had remained stable we   
   would still be looking at these areas of our business."   
      
   Global oil prices sank to their lowest level since April 2009 on Friday on   
   persistent worry over a global supply glut.   
      
      
      
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     It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the   
   environment   
      
                                ~  Ansel Adams   
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