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Alberta. The cost of water management at the Clive legacy oil field—which still held "vast oil reserves"—had closed "oil revenue profit margins". Enhance Energy expects to
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that since his company is "carbon mitigation company" not an oil company, and would therefore would benefit as the carbon tax increases. Eventually, Enhance would no longer "need to produce oil anymore to be profitable".
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