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Petrolia Topic: Natural Resources Minister told Lambton was ‘first’ with oil

Feb 17, 2012

Lambton County, Ontario’s cultural services general manager Robert Tremain didn’t miss an opportunity to set the record straight with federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver after his ministry issued a news release in which the minister stated Imperial Oil’s Leduc No. 1 discovery of crude oil near Leduc, Alberta, 65 years ago “was when Canada’s modern oil industry was born.”

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