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.
The US Acquisition of an Empire. For the Unites States, the aftermath of the war proved to be more significant than the actual victory. After the Spanish-American War, the United States gained the territories of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam. Furthermore, Cuba remained independent, but the United States was granted the right to intervene in the nation's affairs and was allowed to establish naval bases on the island.