To: Canadian electricity system planners and government leaders From: Brett Dolter and Nicholas Rivers Date: December 7, 2017 Re: Connecting Canada with New High-Voltage Direct Current Transmission Lines Canada has one of the cleanest electricity sectors in the world. In 2014, Canada generated 78.4 percent of its electricity using low-carbon technologies such as hydropower plants […]
To: Canadian Consumers and Taxpayers From: Benjamin Dachis and Trevor Tombe Date: December 5, 2017 Re: The Full Costs of Carbon Pricing to Households Governments across Canada are getting serious about putting a price on emissions of carbon dioxide, which is the most cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gases. But each is taking a different approach […]
From: Blake Shaffer To: Concerned Canadians Date: November 21, 2017 Re: What’s the Real Deal with Keystone XL? Keystone XL – the 830,000 barrel per day pipeline to deliver heavy crude from Alberta’s oil sands to the US Midwest and Gulf Coast – just passed its last major regulatory hurdle, receiving approval from the Nebraska Public Service Commission by […]
From: Blake Shaffer To: John Horgan, Premier of British Columbia Date: November 3, 2017 Re: Dam(ned) if You Do, Dam(ned) if You Don’t The B.C. government has a tough decision to make. What to do about Site C? Should it continue with its 1,100-megawatt hydro project on the Peace River? Or should it walk away, despite […]
From: Evan Herrnstadt and Richard L. Sweeney To: The Honourable Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Date: November 1, 2017 Re: What Lies Beneath: Pipeline Awareness and Aversion According to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, new natural gas pipelines “are facing unprecedented opposition from local and national groups” despite the fact that […]
From: Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Nicholas Muller, and Randall Walsh To: Concerned Canadians Date: October 5, 2017 Re: External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines versus Rail In the debates across North America about long-distance transportation of petroleum products, by rail and by pipeline, most of the attention has been paid to spill and accident costs. Relatively little […]
Listen to Benjamin Dachis, Associate Director, Research at the C.D. Howe Institute, summarize his co-authored report “All’s Well that Ends Well: Addressing End-of-Life Liabilities for Oil and Gas Wells,” which examines the significant cleanup costs of orphaned and inactive oil and gas wells in Alberta. To access this member-only podcast Institute members can sign in […]
If Alberta doesn’t change how it requires companies to finance their own oil and gas well cleanup costs, the energy industry and, ultimately, taxpayers in Alberta face cleanup costs of up to $8 billion, according to a report by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “All’s Well that Ends Well: Addressing End-of-Life Liabilities for Oil and […]
From: Sharon Mascher To: The Honourable Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Date: September 27, 2017 Re: Defining a Threshold for a Credible Federal Impact Assessment Process Last June, the Government of Canada released a discussion paper on environmental and regulatory reviews outlining a series of system-wide changes “to strengthen Canada’s environmental assessment […]
From: Peter Tertzakian To: NAFTA Negotiators/ Concerned Canadians Date: September 22, 2017 Re: Oil Under the NAFTA Microscope As NAFTA talks resume this weekend in Ottawa, oil is visible under negotiators’ microscopes. Last year, the bilateral trade of energy (including natural gas, oil and power) between the US and Canada was about $55 billion (all […]
From: Blake Shaffer To: Glenn Thibeault, Ontario Minister of Energy and Rosemarie Leclair, Chair of the Ontario Energy Board Date: September10, 2017 Re: An Ontario surprise: a good idea about electricity pricing There is no shortage of Ontario electricity policies to criticize, butthe Ontario Energy Board’s (OEB) recently announced pilot programs to test new ways to […]
From: Benjamin Dachis To: Canadian Energy Producers Date: September 4, 2017 Re: Hurricane Harvey Shows the Risk of Having Few Pipelines Canadians were spectators as Hurricane Harvey ravaged south Texas, but the storm shows the long-term risk of being reliant on our oil exports going to a single country. Alberta sent about 80 percent of […]
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To: Canadian electricity system planners and government leaders From: Brett Dolter and Nicholas Rivers Date: December 7, 2017 Re: Connecting Canada with New High-Voltage Direct Current Transmission Lines Canada has one of the cleanest electricity sectors in the world. In 2014, Canada generated 78.4 percent of its electricity using low-carbon technologies such as hydropower plants […] 
To: Canadian Consumers and Taxpayers From: Benjamin Dachis and Trevor Tombe Date: December 5, 2017 Re: The Full Costs of Carbon Pricing to Households Governments across Canada are getting serious about putting a price on emissions of carbon dioxide, which is the most cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gases. But each is taking a different approach […] 
From: Blake Shaffer To: Concerned Canadians Date: November 21, 2017 Re: What’s the Real Deal with Keystone XL? Keystone XL – the 830,000 barrel per day pipeline to deliver heavy crude from Alberta’s oil sands to the US Midwest and Gulf Coast – just passed its last major regulatory hurdle, receiving approval from the Nebraska Public Service Commission by […] 
From: Blake Shaffer To: John Horgan, Premier of British Columbia Date: November 3, 2017 Re: Dam(ned) if You Do, Dam(ned) if You Don’t The B.C. government has a tough decision to make. What to do about Site C? Should it continue with its 1,100-megawatt hydro project on the Peace River? Or should it walk away, despite […] 
From: Evan Herrnstadt and Richard L. Sweeney To: The Honourable Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Date: November 1, 2017 Re: What Lies Beneath: Pipeline Awareness and Aversion According to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, new natural gas pipelines “are facing unprecedented opposition from local and national groups” despite the fact that […] 
From: Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Nicholas Muller, and Randall Walsh To: Concerned Canadians Date: October 5, 2017 Re: External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines versus Rail In the debates across North America about long-distance transportation of petroleum products, by rail and by pipeline, most of the attention has been paid to spill and accident costs. Relatively little […] 
If Alberta doesn’t change how it requires companies to finance their own oil and gas well cleanup costs, the energy industry and, ultimately, taxpayers in Alberta face cleanup costs of up to $8 billion, according to a report by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “All’s Well that Ends Well: Addressing End-of-Life Liabilities for Oil and […] 
From: Sharon Mascher To: The Honourable Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Date: September 27, 2017 Re: Defining a Threshold for a Credible Federal Impact Assessment Process Last June, the Government of Canada released a discussion paper on environmental and regulatory reviews outlining a series of system-wide changes “to strengthen Canada’s environmental assessment […] 
From: Peter Tertzakian To: NAFTA Negotiators/ Concerned Canadians Date: September 22, 2017 Re: Oil Under the NAFTA Microscope As NAFTA talks resume this weekend in Ottawa, oil is visible under negotiators’ microscopes. Last year, the bilateral trade of energy (including natural gas, oil and power) between the US and Canada was about $55 billion (all […] 
From: Blake Shaffer To: Glenn Thibeault, Ontario Minister of Energy and Rosemarie Leclair, Chair of the Ontario Energy Board Date: September10, 2017 Re: An Ontario surprise: a good idea about electricity pricing There is no shortage of Ontario electricity policies to criticize, butthe Ontario Energy Board’s (OEB) recently announced pilot programs to test new ways to […] 
From: Benjamin Dachis To: Canadian Energy Producers Date: September 4, 2017 Re: Hurricane Harvey Shows the Risk of Having Few Pipelines Canadians were spectators as Hurricane Harvey ravaged south Texas, but the storm shows the long-term risk of being reliant on our oil exports going to a single country. Alberta sent about 80 percent of […]