Daily production is down this week by an estimated 800,000 to 1 million... Canada's daily production of heavy oil has been cut nearly in half as a result of the raging wildfire that has turned the Alberta city of Fort McMurray, once the boomtown of the northern Athabasca oil sands, into a ghost town.
The Treaty of Paris of 1898, 30 Stat. 1754, was an agreement made in 1898 that involved Spain relinquishing nearly all of the remaining Spanish Empire, especially Cuba, and ceding Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
This treaty is what gave the U.S the Philippines. The U.S. had to pay $20 million dollars for the Philippines and Puerto Rico. After this the Philippines army declared war to fight for its independence. Outcome: U.S. took over Philippine towns and took 63,000 soliders and three years to take control of the Philippines. Why did the United States want the Philippines? How Philippines finally gain independence