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Hi Pat: Can I have your views on Canyon Services. Thanks.

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Canyon Services Group, $12.28, symbol FRC on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 60.9 million; Market cap: $710.9 million; www.canyontech.ca), provides specialized oil and gas fracturing and well services. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” involves pumping water and chemicals into rock formations that contain oil or natural gas. This fractures the rock and releases the oil and gas. In the three months ended June 30, 2011, Canyon lost $6.6 million, or $0.11 a share. A year earlier, it earned $91,000, or nil per share. However, the loss in the latest quarter was largely caused by wet weather across western Canada that slowed drilling oil and gas development. Canyon trades at 8.7 times this year’s forecast earnings of $1.40 a share, and yields 0.8%. Canyon Services Group is okay to hold. ..