Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Why did Alberta not have a game plan for low oil prices? Why did they spend $56 billion more than they needed to over the last seven years?

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Alberta has had a serious windfall in oil revenues for the last decade or so and somehow they did not set themselves up to look after the pr...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

UBCM Ferry Report - I hate flawed economic analysis

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The UBCM released a report on the socio-economic impact of ferry fare increases in BC.  It looks all nice and fancy and has some provocativ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

The Complication of Multiple Partners for LNG Plants

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Most new proposed LNG plants in the world have multiple partners as part of the project.   This clearly is necessary because of the large ca...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

BC MSP revenues are rising much faster than other revenue sources

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The portion of the annual revenues of the BC government that comes from MSP has been rising for a number of years. Year      MSP in     an...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Galore Creek as a cautionary tale for LNG

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When I wrote up the factors that go into deciding if an LNG project will go ahead or not , I based it on close to 20 years of my analytical...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

The Working Poor, Hours and Pay

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The working poor are more and more of an issue in Canada.  There are two aspects to this, the rate of pay and the number of hours of work. ...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Where does our energy come from in Canada?

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However you slice it, we need energy to most things in our society, so what are the main sources of the energy that make Canada work? Oil...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

TransCanada's proposed Energy East poposed east - west pipeline

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This Energy East pipeline is a big deal, it could be moving 1,100,000 barrels of oil per day, though I saw some reports with higher numbers...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Should we build the next large ferries in BC?

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BC Ferries announced last week they are moving forward with plans for three new intermediate size ferries to replace Queen of Burnaby and t...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Keynes versus Hayek - humourous videos by Econstories

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These videos from Econstories actually make this classic economic argument interesting - I admit I tend to see more accuracy in what Hayek ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The Liberal focus on LNG is bugging me

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I know many others have recently posted about this issue .   I posted about this in mid February pointing out the problems with seeing LNG a...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Government Debt in BC

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In looking through the BC Budget and Fiscal Plan - 2013/14 to 2015/16 I am worried about the direction the debt of the province is going. ...
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Friday, February 15, 2013

LNG - Some Inconvenient Truths

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I do not doubt that there need to be some LNG terminals on the west coast of North America, but how many and where?   Even more importantly,...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

FIlm Tax Credits - how much should be subsidize the business?

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BC is offering a very good tax credits as the Production Services Tax Credits (PSTC)  for foreign film companies and I think we should not b...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The "Site C" dam does not make economic sense to me

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On many levels building the "Site C" dam on the Peace River is attractive.   The Peace already has two dams on it so much of the ...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

CNOOC take over of Nexen

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I am not a fan of economic nationalism but in thinking about the move by the government of China to buy up an energy company based in Canada...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Canadian Federal deficits or surpluses from 1963 to 2011

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This data comes from CBC News .   Amounts are billions of dollars.  Column 1 is the actual amount and column is the amount adjusted for in...