City weighs gas field purchases as prices dip
Medicine Hat council discussed expanding the energy division inventory with cheap gas assets after Coun. Bill Cocks urged buying low and selling high. Officials weigh diversifying from shallow gas toward oil while noting gas remains essential for residents and industry amid low prices. The updated 2014 division budget projects net earnings of 14.6 million.
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Medicine Hat Gas City to replace fuel inventory
The Gas City Medicine Hat plans to replace its fuel inventory. It posted a 2013 loss of 54.7 million including a 52 million impairment. After factoring a 24.5 million municipal dividend, the department forecasts a 4.7 percent return on equity in 2014, improving from a 17 percent loss last year.
Grain Growers president warns of real jeopardy for future business
Grain Growers of Canada president Gary Stanford told the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs that Canada risks losing imports as a record crop sits idle in ports and rails. He cited ship delays at Vancouver and Prince Rupert, CN Rail moves through Churchill and Thunder Bay, and a winter hampered grain flow. He urged federal action to raise shipments to one million tonnes weekly and noted locomotives leased to the US as a potential fix, though Canada would face economics.
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Flaherty’s Final Days Highlight Friendship and Golf Dreams
The Canadian Press report recalls Jim Flaherty’s brief retirement filled with dinners with Kellie Leitch, plans for a summer Ireland golf trip, and a sense of relief from public duty. Paramedics arrived after Leitch performed CPR at his Ottawa condo, while MPs and the public mourned in Parliament Hill.
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