NEW ALBERTA PREMIER PLEDGES TO TACKLE MARKET ACCESS ISSUES

摘要

With each passing year—and each passing premier—the challenge of opening new markets to Alberta oil and gas grows more and more urgent. Jim Prentice will be the fourth new premier in Alberta in just three years. He inherits from his predecessors a government plagued by spending scandals and sagging in the polls. But few problems are quite as pressing as the need to move the province's landlocked resource riches to the vast international marketplace—a challenge thatthe premier has acknowledged will be one of his top priorities.