Plugging in Atlantic Canada: AIMS/ECANS first major conference on electricity
How will competition, deregulation and privatization in the continental electricity market affect us?
Atlantic Canada Should Aim For Regional Pwr Mkt-Thinktank
Here is the Dow Jones News Service report on Tom Adams' keynote speech at Plugging in Atlantic Canada.
AIMS announces conference on electricity deregulation & restructuring
Plugging in Atlantic Canada
Fuel Fax: Regulation – The AIMS View
“Regulation is ponderous, it moves at the pace of government, not the real world.” In this piece from Fuel Fax – Atlantic Edition, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley discusses the negative impacts that gasoline price regulation has on the local distributors and the consumers. Crowley shows how average gas prices, what consumers will pay for gas in the long haul, are higher in regulated provinces where bureaucrats dictate the prices - such as PEI, than deregulated ones where intense competition dictates costs.
In for the long haul: Alberta’s 50 year struggle to create a world-class Oil and Gas Industry
The Hon. Peter Lougheed speech to AIMS 5th Anniversary Banquet
Subsidizing offshore exploration
In this article for the Monton Times & Transcript and the Halifax Daily News in 1999, Fred McMahon writes, "Count on it - no matter how badly Nova Scotia messes up the offshore, companies will bid for exploration rights where there's money to be made, and politicians will take credit for it."
AIMS clarifies position on NB Power paper
Intended to focus debate
Energizing New Brunswick Power
In Energizing New Brunswick Power, AIMS author Thomas Tucker provides analysis of NB Power's submission to the NB Legislative Committee on Crown Corporations.
Nouvelle étude fait une mise en garde
Hausse possible des tarifs d'Energie NB en 1997
Fear and loathing on the pipeline route
AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley on the 1997 debate over the natural gas pipeline route in eastern Canada.