Reading Time: 3 minutes Policy preventing resource extraction puts additional pressure on entrepreneurs, their businesses and taxpayers to pay for provincial government programs
Tag: Canadian Energy Centre
Autocratic regimes use energy as a weapon
Reading Time: 4 minutes International power politics employed by the likes of Russia have resulted in many countries looking for new energy sources
Why oil and gas are fundamental to Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The $493 billion in oil and gas revenues paid to governments since 2000 is more than family allowance and children’s benefits since 1970
U.S. natural gas producers benefit from Canada’s retreat
Reading Time: 3 minutes Less supportive policies and regulatory constraints has led to natural gas stagnation in Canada
How oil and gas fuels the nation’s economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The importance of oil and gas extraction to Canada’s GDP, jobs, incomes or tax revenues can’t be understated
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?
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
Oil and gas sector critical to Canada’s economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The COVID-19 crisis can’t be used as an excuse to kill one of Canada’s largest, best-paying industries, which benefits us all