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1. LNG—will Oregonians eat B.C.’s lunch?

   Back in 2015, we conducted a study asking the question, “What would delays in LNG export capacity cost the people of British Columbia?” What we found, in a nutshell, was “a lot.” British Columbia’s natural gas resources are substantial ...

2. Trump plays trump on Keystone XL pipeline

   Today, on President Trump’s second full weekday in office, he once again showed that what he talked about on the campaign trail was not idle chit-chat. According to news reports, Mr. Trump signed five Executive Orders today involving ...

3. The good and the bad of a Trump presidency for Canadian energy

   Today, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, and while nobody knows how Mr. Trump will actually govern, his rhetoric leading up to today’s inauguration offered both potential opportunities for Canada, ...

4. Canada needs the Trans Mountain pipeline to access growing Asian markets

   Yesterday, only 11 days into the new year, the British Columbia government approved the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The approval comes after the federal government gave its consent to the project at the end of last year. The ...

5. Another celebrity tour of the oilsands, another woefully incomplete picture

   We’re barely into 2017, and we’ve had our first celebrity tour of the oilsands, with much rhetoric and lamentations (not to mention lots of spent jet, helicopter and motorcade fuel). Jane Fonda is visiting Canada for the now obligatory ...

6. Global Petroleum Survey 2016

   This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 10th 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. ...

7. Prime Minister Trudeau emphasizes transport safety, environmental stewardship while greenlighting pipeline projects

   Yesterday the federal government approved two important infrastructure projects—the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement—which will provide Canada with nearly one million barrels per day of additional ...

8. Spending choices, not a drop in oil prices, spurred Alberta’s chronic deficits

   Avoiding deficits during an oil boom should be a relatively straightforward proposition for governments in oil-rich jurisdictions. Unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case in Alberta. A recent Fraser Institute study compared how Alberta ...

9. Trump at two weeks, and what he could mean for Canadian energy

   It has been two weeks since the world order (and some of my research agenda for the next four to eight years) was thrown into complete turmoil by the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States. (I hope at this point ...

10. During the oil boom, Texas spent prudently, Alberta did not

    The oil boom between 2004 and 2014 presented a substantial opportunity for governments in oil-producing regions to bolster their public finances. Unfortunately, while some jurisdictions such as Texas did just that, Alberta did the ...