I saw this today:
http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/11/16...velop-oilsands
Quote:
The province is on the march to attract thousands of demobilized U.S. military personnel to help develop what’s been touted as Canada’s economic engine for coming decades — the oilsands.
Its success would also act as a goodwill gesture for Canada’s controversial oilsands, said Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes.
The mission has attracted the attention of U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson and the encouragement of that country’s former consul general in Calgary, Laura Lochman, said Hughes.
“We’re trying to understand how we could produce employment opportunities for American service people returning from overseas,” Hughes said Friday.
“I’ve detected some interest in the States.”
Hughes said there are a half-million unemployed or underemployed younger military veterans in the U.S. — a force that could be tapped to satisfy a chronically-hungry energy industry in Alberta.
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Interesting idea. I know lots of guys that I was in with went into the patch. They said it was a lot like being in, but no uniform or weapons.
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Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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