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Incorrect. If you've ever been through Alberta you'd already know that though.

Oil & gas fields, and wells, are distributed over much of Alberta.

https://static.aer.ca/prd/documents/catalog/Map90_Oil_Gas_Fi...

i did a bit of playing with aer data back in december, and was super surprised just how distributed the wells are.

without doubt there is a main concentration around Lloydminister though, and the developed oil sands at least are all in one place

I meant that the oil fields themselves could just as well declare that they wanted out of Alberta after Alberta splits. Splitting goes all the way down.

This is kind of ridiculous. The fields are geographical areas, not political or cultural entities, and most of the pople living within a certain field don't have the slightest idea what or if any field they live in.

And yet, somehow the people of Alberta suddenly are aware aren't they? Even though they previously were just "Canadians"? Why would the people now living close to all the money but getting bad representation in Edmonton be happier than if they got bad representation in Ottowa? Splitting goes all the way down.

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