[Ost-news] Fort St. John "won't be another Ft McMurray"

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Fri, July 4, 2008  
Fort St. John ready to handle oil and gas boom  
By LAUREN KRUGEL, THE CANADIAN PRESS

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C., -- Whose motto is "The Energetic City" -- will be able to avoid many of challenges that have become synonymous with the oilsands boomtown of Fort McMurray, Alta., said the city's mayor.

Two enormous natural gas finds in northeastern B.C. -- the Montney Trend and the Horn River Basin -- have piqued the interest of a number of big U.S. and Canadian oil and gas names and sent a massive amount of investment pouring into the region.

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