Carl O. Nickle, Feb 20 - "Every owner of a share of Alberta oil company stock, every royalty holder, every lease owner, should se the pace for Canadians by insisting that gasoline he buys in the Prairie provinces be manufactured from Turner Valley or other Canadian crude. By doing so he will help himself and show clearly his indignation at the tactics of a foreign-controlled group that, professing Canadianism, apparently declines to make use of a Canadian product whose increased production would be of immeasurable value to our nation at the present time of stress."
Carl O. Nickle, Oct 24 - "One of these days, when that large chunk of the Red Deer River Badlands known as the Princess-Steveville area is famous as a crude oil producing area, or as the graveyard of many an oilmen’s hoes, it’s going to be recorded that one company, strong in its faith, conducted a thorough and expensive search that dwarfs anything yet undertaken by a single company in any other area of Alberta."
Carl O. Nickle, March 5 - "Get out and work – survey, geologize, drill and, we hope, produce increasing quantities of oil. If you develop production, you can set your own amoritzation rate, get your costs back before you pay a dime in Corporation Tax. We’ll help you pay for any dry holes by allowing you 40% of the costs against your taxes on income, whether income is current or in years to come. That, in effect, is what Finance Minister J.L. Isley told the Canadian Oil Industry Tuesday when he introduced the 1943 Dominion budget."
DOB, April 24 - "The concentration of a very large part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in the Prairie Provinces, the commencement of work on the 2,500 Alaska Defence Highway, the increasing Army gasoline requirements on the Prairies, the loss of and diversion of tankers in the Pacific, with the resultant increasing demand for fuel oil and gasoline from home sources, have made the Western Canadian Oil industry an ever more vital factor in the United Nations War Effort."
DOB, Dec 15 - "The long-time dream of the Canadian Oil Industry – a second Turner Valley in the Alberta Foothills – seemed close to fulfilment this week as the result of an important Discovery at SHELL OIL OF CANADA’s 4-24-J well at Jumping Pound. With the well sitting on the apparent crest of a long, broad anticline, the indicated Madison lime content opens and excellent prospect of oil in large volumes being found on the flanks of the anticline and on the north and south plunges."
Carl O. Nickle, July 4 - "The odds are that Gas – long regarded as a relatively worthless by product in the production of crude oil, or of little more immediate value than sulphur water found unaccompanied by oil in Alberta wildcat wells – will in the not distant future rank with coal and oil among the most valuable of the Province’s natural resources."
Carl O. Nickle, April 15 - "Professor F.H. Edmunds, head of the Department of Geology at the University of Saskatchewan, phoned this writer on Sunday evening to report that he had witnessed the first ‘Gusher’ in the Lloydminster Field. Flowing through 5 1/2” casing, S.A.C. OILS No. 4 gushed as much as 20 feet into the derrick at 0 p.n. Saturday …and by noon Sunday – after 15 hours – output was estimated at 1,000 bbls."
Carl O. Nickle - "In the long history of the Canadian Oil Industry, the brightest chapter written in the shortest time is headed ‘Leduc’. Written in ten months since February, 1947, it is the beginning of a series of chapters yet to be written, for time still hides much of the Leduc story and the implications of the ‘Leduc Discovery’ may bring new discoveries which might at long last make Canadians self-sufficient in petroleum."
Carl O. Nickle - "It is evident that Western Canada’s Oil Industry has become a giant-sized and healthy youngster. It will have growing pains, as industry rushes transport, refining and marketing facilities to keep pace with increasing production. The long term outlook, however, is that Oil will become a full-fledged adult. It will play in 1949, and thereafter, an increasingly vital role in economic life of the West, Canada and to an extent that can scarcely yet be anticipated, the world."
Carl O. Nickle - "The capital needs of our oil industry have changed in a short space of time from terms of millions to terms of hundreds of millions of dollars. If, in years to come, the cry should be raised that America capital dominates the Canadian oil and gas industry, it will only be because our friends across the border were more alive to, and more willing to risk and share in, the responsibilities and opportunities."
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