[Ost-news] Fort McMoney, Fort McProblems

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FORT MCMONEY, FORT MCPROBLEMS  
[http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=6751][1]  
ANDREW CISAKOWSKI / [cisa at vueweekly.com][2]

For the past decade, Fort McMurray has grown at a rate of 10 per cent per year, over twice the provincial average. During this time it has developed all the characteristics of a boomtown: skyrocketing prices, overstretched infrastructure and a growing homeless problem. Only able to raise money through increasing property taxes, the city is at a loss of how to deal with these problems. More and more, public pressure is mounting for oil companies to foot the bill.

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    [1]: http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=6751 (http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=6751)
    [2]: mailto:cisa at vueweekly.com
    [3]: http://oilsandstruth.org/fort-mcmoney-fort-mcproblems

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