energy production

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Ottawa should learn from energy pain in California and Texas

The number of interruptions in California’s power supply increased from 12 to 42.


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Texas remains much more attractive than Alberta in eyes of energy investors

Almost three-quarters of respondents said the cost of regulatory compliance was a deterrent to investment in the province.


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Canada must come back down to ‘energy’ reality

Canadian governments have worked to keep oil and gas resources locked in the ground.


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The carbon taxman is coming

The federal carbon price will reach $50.00 per tonne by 2022.


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Alberta can help alleviate energy poverty at home and abroad

Atlantic Canada had the highest incidence of energy poverty—20.6 per cent of households.


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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 superpower” that his government “intends to build.”  The prime minister and Joe Oliver, minister of natural resources, have repeated this claim on various occasions since.

While the term “energy superpower” sounds exciting and important, that likely isn’t where the country is heading (and likely not what we want to be). Rather, Canada is on track to become an energy “superproducer” if the right policy framework is in place.


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Quebec’s political leaders seem to have fallen for the Great Green Dream of economic prosperity without energy or natural resource production. It’s a magical vision of a world powered by unicorns and rainbows, where consumer goods are somehow conjured out of thin air rather than being manufactured with resources extracted from the ground. But experience in Europe as well as in Ontario show that chasing the green dream is a path to financial ruin, not utopia.