‘THE TABLE STAKES’ Energy companies pay premiums of 20% to lure staff
BY DEREK SANKEY
18 April 2007
Calgary and Edmonton have attracted widespread attention for the rapid growth of their economies and populations, but farther north in Fort McMurray, the growth has happened so fast it makes that of larger urban centres seem modest by comparison.
Professionals, from accountants to lawyers to engineers, are so desperately needed in booming Fort McMurray that energy companies are paying large premiums to attract white-collar workers to this remote region.
Compensation premiums that typically rangefrom about 15% to 20% on top of base salary are just thebe ginning, says David Fulton, vice-president of human resources for Shell Canada.
“Money is the table stakes, but after that it is [about] learning more, developing more, being stretched more,” Mr. Fulton says.
“You’regoing to get moree xperience, faster than you would working in a nicecomfor table officein Calgary [or] Toronto.”
Paul Ramesar, human resources business partner with ConocoPhillips Co.’s oilsands division, moved to Fort McMurray from Winnipeg last October becauseof theacce ss it affords to such massive, globally significant projects.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
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