AIMS/ECANS Second Electricity Conference
AIMS and ECANS present an update on how power markets are evolving, what it means for this region - and which region is the “right” one for electricity purposes.
AIMS Sparks Dialogue on Regional Power Grid
Closer U.S. ties would create jobs, provide more choice, and promote prosperity
AIMS On-Line for November 6, 2003
New AIMS Paper: Proposed Restructuring of New Brunswick Power Leaves Huge Problems Unresolved, Getting the politics out of power, Mike Harris outlines his economic vision of Canada and AIMS fellow Peter Fenwick examines the priorities of a new Newfoundland government.
Get politics out of power
Why do politicians so consistently get electricity policy wrong? Economic truth is often politically unpopular, and politicians have been only too willing to pander to voters' desire for artificially cheap electricity and unjustified massive construction projects today by storing up far worse electricity prices and massive debt for tomorrow. New Brunswick is the latest province to have reached a crisis because there are no more quick fixes. The noose is tightening, but the provincial government and New Brunswick Power seem determined to pretend that the rope is nothing but the latest fashion in neckties.
Troubling Response by NB Power and Minister
Utility still not dealing with substantive issues facing New Brunswickers in power policy
Proposed Restructuring of New Brunswick Power Leaves its Huge Problems Unresolved
Province simply shifting debt from one pocket to another, does nothing to improve grim financial outlook.
Unleashing Canada: AIMS hosts former Ontario Premier Mike Harris
Mike Harris spoke at the Fraser Institute's eighteenth annual Dr. Harold Walter Siebens Lecture
Quotas key to profitable, sustainable fishery – Give fishermen control
New Zealand and in Iceland did it. Why can’t we? What these two fishing nations did was to revolutionise their fisheries by giving fishermen, not politicians, ownership and control over the fish through Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs). But while the experience from around the world is that ITQs improve conservation, economic returns from fishing, safety, and standards of living for fishermen while improving relationships with the government regulators. Yet progress in implementing ITQs in Canada, while important, has been slow and halting. In this article published in the Halifax Chronicle Herald and the Moncton Times & Transcript, October 22, 2003, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley says that if the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is serious about creating a sustainable fishery that creates wealth for coastal communities and isn’t merely a way to get stamped up for EI, he needs to champion this change.
AIMS On-Line for October 16, 2003
What's New at Atlantic Canada’s Public Policy Think Tank.
Special AIMS On-Line for October 9, 2003
UNLEASHING CANADA: A Luncheon with Mike Harris