Commentary: Don’t kill off Canada’s oil and gas sector
While the world grapples with the Coronavirus pandemic and an economic downturn, anti-energy activists have spotted an opportunity: to kill off Canada’s oil and gas industry—the one that provides hundreds of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenues to governments.
Fueling Canada’s economy: How Canada’s oil and gas industry compares to other major sectors
This Fact Sheet compares Canada’s oil and gas extraction sector (narrowly defined to include conventional oil and gas and oil sands) with the automotive and aerospace sectors on national and provincial GDP (in billions of dollars and as a percentage of GDP) and employment.
$359 Billion: What Canada’s energy sector paid governments from 2000 to 2018
This Fact Sheet details the direct contributions Canada’s energy sector made to federal and provincial revenues between 2000 and 2018, conservatively estimated at $359 billion.
Research Brief: Canada’s oil sands and local First Nations
First Nations involved in Canada’s oil sands industry experience significant and profound positive economic effects, finds a new research brief by the Canadian Energy Centre.
Yes Virginia, Canada needs more pipelines
This column first appeared in the Financial Post, December 19, 2019.