Nominations Now Being Accepted for our Board of Directors
The Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors team is made up of community-minded professionals from all areas of the business world. This is the group that influences the direction and priorities of the Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber acts as the voice of local businesses at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.  This is your chance to get involved, network, and to help the business community flourish. 

All members of the Board of Directors must be employees of Chamber member companies and will be elected at the Annual General Meeting on March 17, 2016.  All directors sit on the board for a two-year term.  For more details please download the Call for Nominations package below. 

This year we will be electing our president, 2nd vice president and 5 director positions. 

For more information please click here.

  Holiday Shop Local Passport Program

The Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce would like to extend a huge thank you to all businesses and individuals who participated in our Holiday Shop Local Passport Program. This was the program's first year and it raised over $44,000 for local businesses!

Thank you! 

Participating Businesses:

Achieve Wellness Spa

Atmosfere Restaurant

Boston Pizza

Campbell's Music

Cheap Smokes

Dunvegan Gardens

Fabutan

Fotosource

Fountain Tire

Layers Wellness

Moxie's

MXC Automotive

Pizza Hut

Raven Truck & Motor Sport

Sawridge Inn & Conference Centre

Smitty's Restaurant

Stillbrook Spa

 Protecting the Investment

Edmonton–Three Fort McMurray-based organizations – the Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce, the Fort McMurray Real Estate Board and UDI-Wood Buffalo – today released a comprehensive report that examines the persistent socio-economic impacts of rapid oil sands development that constrain provincial revenues, thwart the ability of Fort McMurray to continue to host the oil sands, and undermine responsible oil sands development. 

“Albertans know how important the oil sands are to our economy,” said Nick Sanders, President of the Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce.  “Even during these uncertain times, oil sands royalties alone account for 20 to 30 percent of government revenues.  But oil sands development is not an abstract economic pursuit that occurs only in Alberta’s hinterlands.  There are 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray for whom that development is on their doorstep and on whom orderly, responsible development relies.

“Because the Province does not have a coordinated approach to oil sands development – notwithstanding important macro-studies underway to review the royalty structure, develop a climate change strategy, review capital infrastructure planning, and the announcement of a new Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy – the government is risking its own considerable investment of our tax dollars and the ongoing prosperity of all Albertans,” continued Sanders.  “The newly elected New Democratic government has an opportunity not seen in a decade, when oil sands production has nearly doubled, to ensure that it gets its full responsibilities with respect to oil sands development right.”

The report released today provides a blueprint for cross-government collaboration to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of oil sands development that will help ensure responsible development continues to benefit all Albertans.”

WHAT:     Protecting the Investment in Our Future report release

WHERE:  World Trade Centre Edmonton

                  Sixth Floor, 9990 Jasper Avenue

                  Edmonton, AB

WHEN:     10:00 a.m., Monday, October 26

The report makes 69 recommendations to address persistently vexatious socio-economic irritants that reduce profits, government revenues and municipal sustainability, examples of which are provided in the Backgrounder. 

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For more information, contact:

Mike Evans

Cell: (780) 425-4484

E-mail: dmenigma@shaw.ca




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