5-minute read
Adieu téléphones, lunettes, stylos…
What is the best way to move oil across Canada.
4-minute read
Québec se rend à l’évidence, l’éolien est trop coûteux
The cost of wind power.
1-minute read
The Economic Benefits of Pipeline Projects to Eastern Canada
Filling up at the gas station represents only 43% of the oil we use. In fact, hydrocarbon by-products are all around us and shape our daily lives: telephones, ballpoint pens, clothing made from synthetic fibres, toothpaste… The city's petrochemical sector, which provides 3,600 quality jobs, is heavily reliant on a steady supply of affordable hydrocarbons. This is exactly what the Western provinces have to offer.
3-minute read
No More Oil Means No More Smartphones
What is the best way to move oil across Canada.
4-minute read
Post Lac-Megantic Let’s Talk Fact, Not Fantasy
Transportation of oil.
6-minute read
Transport du pétrole: la sécurité d’abord
Transportation of oil.
3-minute read
Blowing our tax dollars on windmills
The implicit subsidies to wind power.
5-minute read
Le ministre responsable de la Gaspésie fait économie… de logique
The Growing Cost of Electricity Production in Quebec.
1-minute read
The Growing Cost of Electricity Production in Quebec
Invoking “obvious economic reasons,” i.e., annual savings of $24 million, the Quebec government cancelled six small hydroelectric power projects this past February. In April, however, it announced new supply contracts for wind power, a sector that is already guaranteed to receive an implicit subsidy of $695 million a year until 2020. For Youri Chassin, economist at the MEI and the author of this Economic Note, we have an urgent need for rational decisions based on our actual energy requirements and not on artificial support of various energy sectors.
1-minute read
Que du vent ?
Quebec's new wind turbine projects.