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Ross Belot

Hamilton
As seen in: National Observer, Yahoo Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Flipboard, Calgary Herald, The Tyee, iPolitics
Retired oil guy, poet, photographer, film maker, opinion pieces for National Observer on energy & climate, translator of French Surrealist poetry.
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Canada's oilsands are a big cash cow, being milked for all they're worth

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By Ross Belot
| Flipboard
4 hours ago A rapidly evolving confrontation between the United States and Iran in and around the Strait of Hormuz is straining an already fragile ceasefire, with both sides testing limits through military manoeuvres and rhetoric
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Canada's oilsands are a big cash cow, being milked for all they're worth

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By Ross Belot
| National Observer Verified
Back in business school in the late 1970s, I took a business policy course where we talked about the Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) "Growth-Share" model, developed to explain company strategy on the back of a napkin. This model is still taught in business schools today. The crux of it is you need to understand which of these four categories of businesses you have: dog, star, question mark or cash cow.
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Reality trumps a Poilievre oil fantasy

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By Ross Belot
| National Observer Verified
"With the U.S. potentially lifting sanctions, Venezuelan heavy crude production could rapidly rebound to historic levels, directly competing with Canada's very similar oilsands crude for limited and highly-specialized U.S. refining capacity….We need to move millions of barrels a day to overseas markets quickly to reduce our dependence on the U.S. market.
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