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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Pretty much every oil sands company has jacked their spending for 2012 significantly so I would imagine that would translate into a tighter labour market. It won't be as crazy as 2006-2008 though because gas related spending is down as well as electricity prices. I think a lot of companies have learned to avoid the 'free-for-all' approach to hiring of crews and rapid development as that approach ended up not being as economic on a full cycle basis.
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Gas being down is definitely freeing up people to do oil/oilsands work. I would say electricity prices are pretty high right now, though.