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1. Canada will likely need more pipelines over next decade

   A memo to the Canadian Minister of Finance dated December 2015 reportedly states that “the low price environment has led to oil production forecasts being revised downwards, meaning that sufficient capacity (from both rail and pipelines) ...

2. Delaying pipeline projects leads to economic loss for Canadians

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, July 20, 2016 In a recently released study, we reviewed the economic consequences of insufficient pipeline capacity to ship western Canadian crude oil to refiners in the U.S. Gulf Coast and to ocean ports with access to ...

3. New tidewater connections for oil exports would increase royalties for Alberta

   The importance of crude oil prices in the determination of Alberta royalty revenues from conventional crude oil and bitumen production was brought home by the large downward adjustment in estimated royalty revenues in the province’s ...

4. The Costs of Pipeline Obstructionism

   This paper reviews how Western Canadian oil producers are being con­strained by the inability to access new markets via ocean ports and how this constraint, along with the drop in oil prices, the Alberta ceiling on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in oil ...

5. Global Petroleum Survey 2014

   The Fraser Institute’s 8th annual survey of petroleum industry executives shows that barriers to investment in oil and gas exploration and production facilities in various jurisdictions around the globe include high tax rates, costly regulatory ...

6. Paying More for Power

   Canadians are paying more for their power, on average, than our neighbors to the south. When outlier Honolulu is excluded, rates for small commercial electricity consumers are 8 percent greater in Canada than in the US, while rates for small industrial ...

7. Global Petroleum Survey 2013

   This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 7th annual survey of petroleum industry executives and managers regarding barriers to investment in oil and gas exploration and production facilities in various jurisdictions around the globe. ...

8. Canadian Oil Transport Conundrum

   Recent events have elevated the importance of how we transport energy—specifically oil—to high profile status. The long-stalled approval of the Keystone XL pipeline is probably the highest profile political event that has caused oil transport to surge to ...

9. Not a superpower but Canada on the brink of becoming energy superproducer

   Appeared in the Guelph Mercury, Hamilton Spectator, Stratford Beacon Herald and Winnipeg Free Press In a speech to the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce in London on July 14, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper referred to Canada as the emerging “energy ...

10. Canada as an emerging energy superproducer

    Canada as An Emerging Energy Superproducer explores the meaning of the term "energy superpower" and whether Canada could become an energy superpower or a superproducer of energy. It also examines how Canada's energy resources, production, ...