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Investing in our Future: Responding to the Rapid Growth of Oil Sands Development — Final Report

1. Table of contents
2. Executive Summary
3. Introduction
4. Setting the context
   • What are the oil sands?
   • Upgrading oil from the oil sands
   • What do the oil sands mean for Alberta?
   • How are projects approved?
5. Projecting future growth
   • Where do we stand today?
   • The outlook to 2011
   • In summary
6. Where are the gaps?
   Please note, errors on pages 64 and 82 were corrected on February 28, 2007.
   • Housing
   • Transportation
   • Basic municipal infrastructure
   • Health Care
   • Education
   • Social services
   • Policing, fire and emergency response
   • Environmental impact
7. Drawing conclusions
8. Recommendations
   • Part 1: Over-arching recommendations
   • Part 2: Addressing gaps in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo/Fort McMurray area
   • Part 3: Addressing gaps in Cold Lake – Bonnyville and Peace River Areas
   • Part 4: Addressing gaps in the Industrial Heartland
   • Part 5: Next steps
   • Part 6: Costing of recommendations
   • Part 7: Outstanding policy issues
9. Concluding comments
10. Appendices
    • Appendix 1: Acknowledgements and Methodology
    • Appendix 2: List of organizations consulted
    • Appendix 3: Major Oil Sands Project List
    • Appendix 4: Selected maps
11. Bibliography