From:	Philippe Garneau <aaa302@*****.ULAVAL.CA>
Subject:	Re: looking for info
Date:	Mon, 4 May 1998 17:00:27 -0400

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De : Lander Williams <lander@****.WAVE.CA>
À : SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET <SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET>
Date : 4 mai, 1998 15:18
Objet : Re: looking for info


>>At 02:02 04/05/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>>im looking for info on Calgary and area.
>>>i know its in the NAN, although the SRII manual doesn't seem to know
>>>which area its in <one map says algonquin <sp>-manitou, another
>>>says.. somewhere else.. dont remember off hand>
>
>>Dead town, IMO. Most of Alberta is too rural to survive properly when
>>'artificial' food comes into play big time. The only thing that could
>>still bring it enough money to keep Alberta afloat is the oil industry, if
>>it hasn't died by then. Do the experts have any guesses on when those oil
>>sands up north will run out at the current rate we're going?


The tar sands, if i remember correctly, are mainly located in the
Northwestern region of Alberta, which is in the territory of the Athabascan
council (which main export is petrolium products, as a matter of fact,
though certainly more from Alaska than from the Alberta fields). As a
note, Edmonton is located in the Athabaskan council too. The tar sands
fields have begun to be exploited in the recent years, and as the collecting
process is quite complicated (and slow), I would expect that a substancial
portion of the ressources are still unexploited in the 2050s. I would say
the same about the Albertan natural gas resources.

As for Alberta agriculture, I read somewhere in the NAN books that the
Awakening (or the Great Ghost Dance)have brought even more extreme weather
patterns in the Native lands, so rural life must be even more difficult.

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Philippe Garneau, a.k.a Filou
Bachelier en Sciences, Microbiologie

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