U.S. power market may be harder to crack than expected
Joann Alberstat
Atlantic Canada and the U.S. Electricity Market: Projects and Perspectives
In his report, Atlantic Canada and the U.S. Electricity Market: Projects and Perspectives, commissioned by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Gordon L. Weil provides a catalog of current proposals for new transmission links between Atlantic Canada and New England.
Media Release: Binnion to deliver “game changing” speech on hydraulic fracturing in New Brunswick
September 29, 2015Halifax – The case for hydraulic fracturing in New Brunswick will receive a new boost this October as the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) invites renowned energy expert Michael Binnion to discuss fracking as the best green technology available in today's energy market. Titled Hydraulic Fracturing as Green Technology: The case for sustainable prosperity, [...]
TECO acquisition ‘very good’ for Emera, says expert
By: Joann Alberstat
Cost of shunning fracking is just too high
The newly released four-year study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should give pause to even the most ardent opponents of fracking and hopefully, cautious regulators in the two Maritime provinces. The study found no evidence to sustain oft-repeated assertions that the processes involved in fracking have “led to widespread, systemic [adverse] impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.
Premiers Should Pursue Balanced Resource Development
Canada’s premiers have a critical role to play in keeping Canada’s economy moving forward while abiding by our excellent environmental standards and ensuring that radical environmentalists do not impair Atlantic Canada’s chances for economic growth or the prosperity of Canadians.
Nalcor Energy Marketing looks to ship it out to Boston
Massachusetts governor says Canadian hydro key to meeting climate change goals
AIMS Radio: In Praise of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Saving resource wealth and spending only the interest brings stability and long term solvency to public finances. http://aims.wpengine.com/en/home/library/details.aspx/3835
MEDIA RELEASE: Save And Spend, In That Order
The recent drop in oil prices is an opportunity in disguise for Newfoundland and Labrador, and Atlantic Canada more generally. It’s an opportunity to step out of the intoxicating smoke of provincial resource revenue and say: “What on Earth were we thinking by spending all our oil revenue as fast it flowed in! Let’s get off this roller coaster and transform our oil resources into a permanent financial asset that will pay off in perpetuity.”
Alberta should save all of its resource revenue
It’s blasphemy, but when Peter Lougheed decided in 1976 to put 30 per cent of natural resource revenue into the Alberta Heritage Fund, he got it wrong. It should’ve been 100 per cent. In Lougheed’s defence, he got it a lot less wrong than the premiers who came after him, and he didn’t have the benefit of hindsight. The last 40 years on the resource revenue roller-coaster show that the best way to deal with the volatile and intergenerational nature of resource revenue is to transform it into a permanent financial asset that produces a steady stream of annual revenue.