Reading Time: 4 minutes The importance of oil and gas extraction to Canada’s GDP, jobs, incomes or tax revenues can’t be understated
Author: Mark Milke
Mark Milke, Ph.D., is a public policy analyst, keynote speaker, author, and columnist with six books and dozens of studies published across Canada and internationally in the last two decades. Mark’s work has been published by think tanks in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including the Fraser Institute, the Montreal Economic Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, and Brussels-based Centre for European Studies.
Canada’s foreign oil imports: $477 billion since 1988
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada is an energy superpower that still imports billions of dollars in foreign oil and that won’t change any time soon
Weak oil and gas investment still plagues Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes While oil and gas investment has grown substantially in other parts of the world, Canada has failed to keep pace
Paris emissions targets carry extra costs for Canada’s economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The gap between expectations and existing policy is wide. Closing that gap will cost thousands of jobs and devastate whole economic sectors
Busting the myth of anti-oil-and-gas First Nations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Most B.C. and Alberta First Nations favour oil and natural gas development. So why do we let activists claim otherwise?
Want richer First Nations? Say ‘Yes’ to pipelines
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s no easy way to spur economic opportunity for every remote reserve. But resource-related development will help many
Canada missing out on natural gas boom – again
Reading Time: 4 minutes The opposition to fossil fuels such as natural gas is driven by magical thinking and is against all empirical evidence
Tyranny oil should be treated like blood diamonds
Reading Time: 4 minutes Oil and gas revenues can be used by tyrannies, autocracies and dictatorships to oppress their populations
Exploding myths about energy subsidies in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite claims by some that ‘oil is dead’ and that the sector is heavily subsidized, the evidence suggests otherwise
Death of Canada’s oil and gas sector greatly exaggerated
Reading Time: 4 minutes Neither the lockdown not government diktat will end our dependence on fossil fuels for quite some time