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Alberta, Alison Redford, Canada, Energy, Stephen Harper

A National Energy Strategy for Canada: Current Opportunities and Challenges

In Leonardo Tovar, Public Policy on January 13, 2012 at 10:00 am

Leonardo Tovar

You’ve probably heard this argument many times. The U.S. needs energy resources. Canada has the human capital and physical infrastructure to deliver them cost-efficiently. Let the market do its job and Canada benefits from its trade surplus with its southern neighbour. What about the environment, you say? Well, according to the Federal government, Canadians want to focus on the Copenhagen and Cancun accords that are as hazy as the mechanisms currently available to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.

This has been essentially Canada’s approach to energy since the 1980s.

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Alberta, Environment, Green Energy, Keystone XL, National Energy Strategy

Is it time for a national energy discussion?

In Caitlin Schulz, Public Policy on September 20, 2011 at 10:00 am

Caitlin Schulz

In 2010, the Canada West Foundation published a report calling for a national energy strategy to be influenced by Western Canada. Typically, when the terms “national” and “energy” are used together, what results are snide and scathing remarks from Western Canadians who remember Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s flawed and alienating National Energy Program.

However, the renewed discussion on national energy policy has garnered interest from the Senate, the Calgary Chamber of Commerce (located in the heart of Alberta’s energy sector), Public Policy Forum, the Pembina Institute and the Energy Council of Canada, to name a few. Interest has also been expressed by top industry officials such as Shell Canada’s President, Lorraine Mitchelmore, who are looking for clearer direction for future energy development and infrastructure in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

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