It sucks. An entire industry. I feel for you guys. It's a livelihood gone and that is never good.
The worst of it is. Every one of those rigs indirectly touches countless jobs all across Canada. If Canadians understood the process from exploration, to lease construction, drilling, completions. The amount of manpower it requires they may think about this whole situation differently. Shit just the amount of tires the oilfield would burn through in a year would be mind blowing. This affects the factories out east. The countless trucks that aren’t getting pounded out, fixed with parts or completely replaced. Another hit to the east. Hotels, restaurants, gas stations. The poor cleaning staff that is laid off from empty hotels. All those single mothers who could make a great living being a waitress in an oilfield town.
I’ve seen it countless times when you get a bunch of guys sitting at a lounge having drinks and dinner. Most of the wages of the guys that work at the table are somewhere between 100-300k per year. Guess what, a $250 bill for a table will likely result in a $100 tip for the girl.
Canada has no idea what it has lost. No help from the government for the oilfield.
Even worse is fellow Canadians happy to see Alberta fail.
The fight for separation out here is real