CANADIAN ENERGY PROSPECTS: NATURAL GAS, TAR SANDS, AND OIL POLICY

Brian L. Scarfe

Contemporary Economic Policy, 1985, vol. 3, issue 4, 13-24

Abstract: This paper provides a brief overview of recent oil and gas developments in Canada. It describes marketing problems that the Canadian natural gas industry is facing and reports on some encouraging new developments in the recovery of bitumen from the Alberta tar sands deposits. Finally, the paper analyzes the current pricing, royalty, and taxation regime existing in Canada and where this overall fiscal system seems to be heading.

Date: 1985
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