out toexamine Alberta's current fiscal situation. This paper highlights recent trends affectingprovincial revenues and expenditures. On the revenue side, the paper concentrates on the province's recent adoption of the single rate tax (SRT) and increased reliance upon oiland gas royalties for ...
Generating Electricity in a Carbon Constrained World: Wind, Gas and Nukes A linear programming model is used to examine the impact of carbon taxes on the optimalgeneration mix in the Alberta electrical system. The model permits decommissioning ofgenerating assets with high carbon dioxide emissions and...
Alberta has recently started a comprehensive review of its oil and natural gas extraction tax system. Newfoundland and Labrador is looking at a redesign of its royalty system. And British Columbia has set up a new tax on liquefied natural gas production. These provinces can all improve their ...
Manitoba’s NDP government is suspending its fuel tax in the new year. Gas tax relief from Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives will save a family with a minivan and pickup truck about $185 through June 2024. And the Liberals in Newfoundland and Labrador cut their gas tax by 8¢ per...
Many perceptions of prosperity and opportunity in the current generation are fraudulent. They rely on continuing to get away with understandably unacceptable behaviour. An example I am very familiar with is the actions by Alberta business and political leadership (supported by federal leadership) to ...
Building up a new dataset, I found agreement rates as high as 78% when looking at the top 50 largest oil and gas companies who have expressed their opinion on the question. I ask why fossil fuel companies are so active in promoting the introduction of carbon taxes? I offer a survey of...
The office notes that the estimates were made based on existing policies, and Environment and Climate Change Canada has said the effects of some new clean technologies have not yet been modelled. ALSO READ:‘Climate change in action:’ Scientist says fires in Alberta linked to climate change ...
AW:It’s a concern when our government said they don’t want to provoke the Americans by adjusting stumpage, but they’ve already adjusted it in Alberta with no adverse effects. So what’s going on with our forests minister? He’s reluctant to meet with forest communities because...
AW:It’s a concern when our government said they don’t want to provoke the Americans by adjusting stumpage, but they’ve already adjusted it in Alberta with no adverse effects. So what’s going on with our forests minister? He’s reluctant to meet with forest communities because h...
Saskatchewan eyes joining Calgary in tax rate cut. (Alberta oil and gas taxes)Morton, Peter