Separating won’t help West with oil prices, Walkom, Nov. 6

I agree wholeheartedly with Thomas Walkom that the biggest source of economic woe in Alberta is the diminished price of oil per barrel. When oil was over $100 a barrel, it was worth extracting. Not now. The cost of digging the sand and processing the oil is no longer cost effective. Low royalty rates paid by the oil companies haven’t helped the situation, either.

But that is another conversation.

John Dickie, Toronto

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