David Staples: Four major takeaways on Alberta's petrochemical future

There’s little but depressing news out of Alberta’s pipeline business but not so with petrochemicals.
Indeed, the first of four major takeaways from Thursday’s Alberta Industrial Heartland stakeholder event is there’s much reason to be bullish about with petrochemicals.
Twenty years ago, the Heartland’s first such stakeholder event was held at a hotel in Fort Saskatchewan and attended by 70 people. On Thursday, after two decades that saw an estimated $40 billio