[news] As Baghdad Burns, Calgary Booms

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The invasion of Iraq has set off what could be the largest oil boom in history...This isn't the boom in Iraq sparked by the proposed new oil law--that will come later. This boom is already in full swing, and it is happening about as far away from the carnage in Baghdad as you can get, in the wilds of northern Alberta...As Baghdad burns, destabilizing the entire region and sending oil prices soaring, Calgary booms...Iraq's oil boom has not been delayed; it has been relocated.

  


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