Are We Getting Too Rich Too Fast?

Albertans fear their growing energy windfall is becoming an irresistible target for Ottawa

Calgary Herald

The books balanced, the debt eliminated and coffers continuing to overflow, Alberta has become a super province at age 99.

Don Martin toured Alberta, talking to political and business leaders about a vision for the next 100 years, and the struggle to curb separatist leanings and national envy.

It’s growing by more than half a million dollars every hour, a tidal surplus requiring little imagination to crest at $10-billion by year-end; a motherlode so vast, it has given birth to a super province floating on a sea of black gold, awash in black ink.