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+ Feb. 28; Husky Energy Inc, Calgary

+ Clayton Leonard to Partner @ MacPherson, Leslie & Tyerman LLP

+ Dave Taylor, MLA from Calgary Currie, to member of the Alberta Party

+ David Swann, Leader @ Liberal Party of Alberta to step down

+ Dr. Malcolm Wilson to Exec. Dir. @ Petroleum Research Training Institute

+ Ed Stelmach, Premier of Alberta announces he will step down

+ James Blackwell to Exec. VP Technology & Services @ Chevron Corp.

+ Jason Grelowski to Managing Dir., Business Dev. @ Solvera Solutions

+ Joan Lee to CEO @ VRRI

+ Lucien Bouchard to Chairman @ Quebec Oil and Gas Association

+ Mark Wallace to Principal @ DIALOG

+ Naresh Arora to Principal @ DIALOG

+ Ray Hillman to Managing Director, Consulting Services @ Solvera Solutions

+ Rhonda Zygocki to Exec. VP Policy & Planning @ Chevron Corp.

+ Ted Morton, Alberta Treasurer, resigned

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+ City of Calgary plans to get its SE rec-centres; council approved a P3 procurement solution that will involve and $83 million contribution from the Government of Canada’s PPP Canada

+ Alberta Utilities Commission to launch public hearing process for Western Alberta Transmission Line

+ Enbridge to do $150 million expansion of its U.S. gulf coast facility at Venice, Louisiana

+ energy prices live link to Bloomberg.com commodities data ; oil dropped from a two-year high in New York as signs of slowing economic growth in China prompted traders to sell contracts after the biggest two-day rally since May; meanwhile, Brent crude jumped over $101/barrel on concern unrest in Egypt would disrupt Suez Canal traffic of mid-east crude

+ kudos to Scotia Capital; ranked No. 1 for the third year in a row in the Bloomberg Underwriter League Tables for Canadian Corporate Underwriting (Bonus)

+ kudos to Peter Aceto, Pres & CEO @ ING Direct Canada, named Communicator of the Year by International Association of Business Communicators

+ farewell . . . Danny Copithorne, Calgarian extraordinaire, died.  He did it all, with a lot of class; former right-arm of Gerald Knowlton/Knowlton Realty, former President of the Calgary Stampede Board, and one of the gentlest hard-nosed negotiators you ever met

+ the race is on to replace Alberta’s PC Leader, Premier Ed Stelmach; names like Morton, Dinning, Redford, Griffiths, Horner and Hancock are showing up in news coverage, but it is clearly too soon to know when or how the race will shape up

+ congrats to Harold Milavsky, a.k.a. Mr. Calgary, celebrated his 80^th birthday last week!

+ Alberta Energy is planning to integrate oil & gas policy and regulatory system

+ Alberta Environment announced its selection of twelve experts for oil sands monitoring; co-chaired by Hal Kvisle and Howard Tennant

+ ARC Resources Ltd.  closed $170 million sale of non-core central Alberta assets to OMERS Energy Inc. & Superman Resources Inc.

+ Badger Daylighting agreed to a $247 million buyout by Clean Harbors Inc.

+ Terry Energy Corp. announced its 2011 CapEx Budget of $ 29 million

+ Total E & P Joslyn Ltd.; Joint Review Panel …on Josyln North Mine Project released; report available on the ERCB Web site

+ TransCanada Corporation to build Cushing Marketlink project to move 150,000 bpd of U.S. crude oil production from Cushing, OK to the U.S. Gulf Coast; to be operational in 1^st qtr. 2013

+ weekly economic update from ATB Financial

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