Canada should resist the overtures of gigantic, state-owned oil companies.
JOE OLIVER, THE FEDERAL NATURal resources minister, has been showing a better understanding of Alberta’s interests than Alberta’s premier herself. Alison Redford’s continuous but uninformed urgings for a national energy strategy – sounding like fingernails on chalkboard to Albertans of a certain age – have gotten the province nowhere while exposing it to extreme risk. […]
Last spring's surge in the polls for the Wildrose Party could lead to a big win within a few elections
It hit me while some telephone installers were wringing their hands over mounting a new satellite dish for me.
The technocrats are at it again. Experienced people of high standing and nominally conservative bent are annoyed at the messiness of free markets. They want to bend an entire, $250-billion-per-year economy to the will of provincial bureaucrats. This in Alberta, allegedly Canada’s most pro-free enterprise, risk-taking, individualistic province. They seem oblivious to the beneficial power […]
The boom in shale gas wells is keeping prices down, but their steep production dropoffs could affect future prices in unexpected ways
Despite being awash in oil, Alberta’s public debt continues to spiral. It’s a self-perpetuating malaise that could use an injection of entrepreneurial principles
Intermediate exploration and production companies dangle the promise of cash yield with capital appreciation
Alberta’s 2007 royalty regime never made sense. Now that it is gone, both oil and gas drilling and land sales are soaring