Alberta Premier to Head Office - All's Okay

Alberta's Tory Premier, "Special Ed" Stelmach has checked in with the Big Boys in Washington to assure them that his government's paltry royalty increases won't interfere with the supply of America's oil.

Washington is counting, big time, on Stelmach to at least treble tar sands production by 2015 to feed America's insatiable appetite for SUV juice and he's determined to show himself an obedient puppy. Maybe Ed knows what happens to local big shots who screw up America's oil supply. Then again...