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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>Photo by Ryan Jackson<\/span> \/Edmonton Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\nArticle content<\/h2>\n Tyler Pubben was making as much as $1,000 a day working in the oilpatch when he was fresh out of university in the early 2010s. The pay was enormous for a man in his 20s, but he worked hard. As a trained geologist, he was also a hot commodity in a rapidly growing industry, putting in 12-hour days and bouncing from one project to the next.<\/p>\n
A big, black gold rush had taken hold in Alberta. Many of the world\u2019s biggest oil companies \u2014 hailing from Beijing to Houston \u2014 converged on a remote patch of Canadian hinterland to strike it rich.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nArticle content<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\nArticle content<\/p>\n<\/section>\n
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