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Darn that is one depressing essay. While reading, I thought of Venezuela, how poor leadership has squandered that nation's opportunities in Oil revenue to the tune of untold billions of dollars.

Canada is on the similar path of squandering opportunities, but for the next decade or two, we can get by on borrowing, printing and credit.

Mining, O & G creates real wealth for the Nation.

Sad state of affairs.

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Excelent article, you put a lot of work into it. Thank you for that. Only a small correction: the process of producing aluminium plates or rolls is called Mannesmann, not Bayer.

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