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5 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 Jordan Tidey Manager of Economic Development Nick Lapp Director of Planning and Development community and attract new investment. One sector the county is looking to engage in is service businesses, specifically companies that support the existing industries. “If you look at drilling and the production and the exploration, there are all kinds of service companies that have to support that,” Marshall elaborates. “That also carries over to our forestry industry, there are two sawmills in our immediate area, as well as a pulp mill. Even our agricultural industry, with the number of farmers in the region and even in northern Alberta, there are those supply chains, and also those service companies.” The County of Grande Prairie is supporting an initiative known as the GIG (Greenview Industrial Gateway), a large-scale industrial development that is focused on natural gas and oil exploration and processing. “Because we’ve got the resources right here, you don’t have the transportation costs. We do have a couple of industry players that are, we’re hoping that they’ll have the