Death by a Thousand Cuts? Western Canada’s Oil and Natural Gas Policy Competitiveness Scorecard

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Page Title:Death by a Thousand Cuts? Western Canada’s Oil and Natural Gas Policy Competitiveness Scorecard – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:Death by a Thousand Cuts? Western Canada’s Oil and Natural Gas Policy Competitiveness Scorecard
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/death-thousand-cuts-western-canadas-oil-and-natural-gas-policy-competitiveness-scorecard/
Published Date:February 1, 2018
Accessed Date:February 18, 2025

Government policies are piling on to reduce the competitiveness of energy producers in Western Canada, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In the first edition of the annual policy report card for the energy sector, “Death by a Thousand Cuts? Western Canada’s Oil and Natural Gas Policy Competitiveness Scorecard,” author Benjamin Dachis performs an apples-to-apples comparison of the policy-induced costs on natural gas and conventional oil producers in Canada and the United States.

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