Marc Lalond, Federal Energy Minister, Nov 19 - "Just imagine, if you can, that 72% of the revenues in the oil and gas industry in the United States went to foreign-owned companies in 1979. Or imagine that 82% of those revenues went to foreign controlled companies. Given that situation in the U.S. do you suppose it might have become an issue in your recent election campaign? We really do mean it. We know what we are doing."
Jim Gray, VP of Canadian Hunter, April 6 - "The solution to our energy problem is in a very real way tied to the solution to Canada’s broader constitutional debate. The debate is being waged on an ideological front, on a political front. The real dispute is over power and control."
G.S. Fletcher, President of Regal Resources Ltd, Jan 8 - "The federal government in Canada neither wants nor listens to the opinions of the oil industry and we are unfortunately powerless when dealing with the current regime. We can only work for and hope for a change in government in Canada which will lead to economic sanity."
J. C. Phillips, Gulf Canada, March 23 - "The economic recession and recent world energy developments have brought home once again, and quite forcefully, a fact that policy makes seem to forget with alarming regularity. Canada is vitally affected by world economic developments, and policies which assume we live in a vacuum are bound to be ineffective at best."
Pat Carney, Federal Energy Minister, April 3 - "We delivered, now it's industry's turn. With deregulation of crude oil prices and export controls and with the scrapping of numerous levies, taxes and changes, I am challenging industry. It's a clear cut message - go and find oil and gas and sell it on the open market."
Don Getty, Alberta Premier, Oct 15 - "Frankly, at this stage I have the feeling that there is little hope of federal assistance now that the PGRT has been removed. I think that’s a shame if it works out that way because this is not a provincial industry. This is a national industry. It requires national assistance in tough times."
Doug Stoneman, President of CPA - "For more than a century, we have typified ourselves as free-enterprisers, proud that we are willing to take a high cost, long term risks, yet in the last year so there have been a chorus of cries from oilmen for government help and exemption of certain sectors of the industry from competition."
After one of the "longest running courtships" in Canadian business history, the marriage between Dome Petroleum Limited and Amoco Canada Petroleum Company, Ltd. is completed.
Noel Cleland, President of Sproule Associates Limited, Sept 28 - "It is my opinion that over the next 20 years, the development of natural gas is going to be the area in our industry with real growth."
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