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1. Federal carbon tax falls well short of textbook design

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, April 3, 2019 On Monday, April Fool’s Day, the federal carbon tax kicked in, in the four provinces that do not have their own carbon taxes—Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick. The federal carbon tax (technically ...

2. Imperial taps the brakes as Alberta diminishes in the eyes of investors

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, March 27, 2019 Imperial oil recently announced its approved $2.6 billion oilsand project (the Aspen project), which was expected in 2022 will now be delayed by at least one year. Rich Kruger, chairman of Imperial, blamed the ...

3. Taking a page from Ontario’s power-pricing playbook

   As Fraser Institute researchers have shown, Ontario’s embrace of green energy has come with a painful price tag: Ontario now has the fastest growing electricity costs in the country and among the highest in North America. Between 2008 and ...

4. Throne speech provides scant details on key Alberta issues

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, March 20, 2019 Alberta’s speech from the throne, while overshadowed by Premier Notley’s election call a day later, was long on pomp, ceremony and platitudes but short on specifics, particularly on one of Alberta’s most ...

5. Alberta's oil and gas tax regime offers hope for economic recovery

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, March 13, 2019 It’s easy to be gloomy in Alberta these days. It seems like pretty much everything is against us—oil prices are low, our oil remains landlocked and discounted, unemployment is at 7.3 per cent (compared to a ...

6. The two sides of Rachel Notley

   Premier Rachel Notley loves Alberta. She loves Calgary. She loves the working people of the oilsands. And she loves pipelines and rail cars to move Alberta’s oil to more lucrative markets. At least, that’s what she loves when in front of ...

7. Annual Survey of Mining Companies, 2018

   This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2018 annual survey of mining and exploration companies. The survey is an attempt to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulatory uncertainty affect ...

8. Latest Trans Mountain greenlight unlikely to end pipeline paralysis

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, February 27, 2019 Canada should celebrate the recent decision of the National Energy Board to recommend approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, with its promise of jobs and economic benefits. According to Natural ...

9. Another second-best solution for Alberta’s oil transport woes

   On top of the second-best solution to buying railroad cars (putting Alberta taxpayers into the railroad business) and the second-best solution of curtailing oil production in Alberta, Premier Notley recently rolled out still another ...

10. Time to rollback NDP’s onerous energy regulations

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, February 20, 2019 With the election of Premier Doug Ford, Ontario has embarked on a near-Trumpian crusade to cut red tape and lower tax burdens. In Alberta, Premier Rachel Notley has taken the province in the opposite ...