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Canada’s Shale Boom: Unlocking Alberta’s Oil & Gas

JT Shining Oneside shared stories about her Ojibwe and Anishinaabe inheritance during the Native American Heritage Month Celebration on Nov. 15. She spoke about the coming-of-age and traditional birth ceremonies. (Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame)

f you want to profit from North America’s shale boom, all you have to do is follow the drill rigs. Today in Alberta Canada there are 433 rigs spinning. Although that’s “only” about half that of Texas, there’s a lot of opportunity brewing up north. Last week I ventured to Calgary, Alberta to get a good (cold) feel for what’s happening. From what I saw, the next leg of North America’s shale boom is taking […]

Canada’s Shale Boom: Unlocking Alberta’s Oil & Gas appeared in the Daily Reckoning. Subscribe to The Daily Reckoning by visiting signup for an Agora Financial newsletter.


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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.