Oil sands benefits spread to other provinces
Posted Feb 21, 2013 7:12 am.
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Oil sands success has the Fort McMurray airport bursting at the seams.
The president of the Fort McMurray airport authority says traffic has increased by 37 per cent in three years.
Scott Clements says the energy industry which is in need of professional engineers, geologists and bodies of all kinds is pushing millions of people through an airport designed to hold only a quarter of that volume.
That boom is expected to ripple across Canada.
The Globe and Mail reports a big chunk of the 830,000 jobs expected to be created in the next 25 years will be outside Alberta.
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