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AGRICULTURE: Alberta to attend Washington DC conference on food, agricultural truck transportation

        (AlbertaIndex, April 24) --- Ensuring efficient and effective transportation of food and agricultural commodities in the future will be the focus of the National Summit on Agriculutre and Food Truck Transport in Washington, DC on April 25-26.

 
MARKETS: Middlefield to launch uranium energy fund on TSX
        (AlbertaIndex, April 24) --- Fund manager Middlefield Group said it has filed a preliminary prospectus in connection with an offering of rights to its unitholders to subscribe for its Uranium Focused Energy Fund.
 
HOUSING: No signs of bubble as house prices seen doubling by 2026, says CIBC World Markets
        (AlbertaIndex, April 23) --- There is no sign of a housing bubble in Canada, says CIBC World Markets, which predicts prices are likely to double in the next 20 years.
 
ENERGY: Innisfail chosen as site of giant bioenergy refinery

        (AlbertaIndex, April 23) --- Riverstone Holdings, The Carlyle Group and Dominion Energy Services LLC have jointly announced that they have chosen the town of Innisfail, Alberta as the site for their investment in a huge biofuels refinery. The project comprises a 100-million gallon ethanol plant, a 100-million gallon canola crush facility and a 100-million gallon biodiesel facility.

 
HEALTH: Doctors agree to pay rise

        (AlbertaIndex, April 20, Friday) --- Ninety-one percent of Alberta’s physicians this week voted in favor of a new agreement to make the province a more attractive place for physicians to practise, to stay and to put Patients First®.

 
ECONOMY: Record C$18.2 billion capital plan to focus on Alberta’s growing infrastructure needs
         (AlbertaIndex, April 20, Friday) --- The Alberta government has announced it will boost infrastructure investments in the province by 37% to C$18.2 billion over the next three years. The investments in municipalities, schools, health facilities, roads and post-secondary projects reflects the increased need for infrastructure as Alberta continues to grow rapidly.
 
CONFERENCE: Bioenergy conference in Red Deer on April 23-24
          (AlbertaIndex, April 19, Thursday) --- A bioenergy conference will be held at Westerner Park in the Heritage Centre in Red Deer on April 23 and 24.
 
ENVIRONMENT: Green building products featured in new website, www.GreenAlberta.ca
       (AlbertaIndex, April 19, Thursday) --- The Alberta government said it is supporting the initial development and launch of a website providing consumers and industry with information on green or environmentally safe building products.
 
ENERGY: Ottawa to invest US$300,000 in biofuels project in southern Alberta
           (AlbertaIndex, April 18, Wednesday) --- The Canadian government said it is investing C$300,000 in a local organization in Lethbridge town, Alberta to help them participate in the emerging biofuels industry. The announcement was made by Rick Casson, Lethbridge’s Member of Parliament on behalf of the Chuck Strahl, Minister of Agriculture and Agri Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board.
 
ECONOMY: Alberta was the “biggest story” of 2006, says StatsCan
        (AlbertaIndex, April 18, Wednesday) --- Alberta’s dominant role in Canada’s economic growth and the continued migration of people into the province was the biggest economic story of 2006, said Statsitics Canada in the online edition of Canadian Economic Observer.
        The year-end review said the most surprising development in Canada’ economy last year was not that a surge in oil prices or the bursting of the American housing bubble failed to dampen growth.
 
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