don't discredit the power of a strong economy especially one with oil AND other things.. cities like this grow very fast and can grow very large
If we stay on track with all these developments!
Even the capital of Kazakhstan was a little village then they decided to build a capital there in 1999 and it now has like 770,000 people (another oil country)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana
The city of Calgary itself in 1956 had a population of 181,780 people and now has a population of 1,096,833 metro 1,214,839
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary
Dubai has a population of 183,000 in 1975!!! lol now has 1,200,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai
so if we can tap into our potential in the right way there's no reason why we wont see large population growth in the coming decades
Energy cities attract people
So you throw in our salmon DNA haha and what happens with energy cities .. add in the economy with all the mining and hydro to the oil mix .. and
BOOM!