RE: my home is heated with natural gasAs a senior Albertan I like to see a little more fairness toward the royalty question.Why should all the oil wealth go out of the Province and/or go toward a small group of people? I am a shareholder of Encana and have been since its inception, but unless I sell out I cannot partake in the the wealth that I as an Albertan suppose to own.(the piddle dividend ECA dishes out does not account for very much) Natural resources are ours or are they? Atleast that's what what we had been told.
The problem is not a fair royalty,(1% or 2%higher will not hurt any one) it is how that royalty is being distributed! Bottomless greed has created a condition which cannot go on without upsetting the social fibre of our society.
As for the energy companies, what difference does it make to them if they pay it to the Alberta Government as a royalty or to the federal Government as an Income tax? These are the questions one should ask.