E N E R G Y  &  E N V I R O N M E N T

Energy drives all economic activity, and no industrial or post-industrial society can do without plentiful, affordable supplies of it. Consumers and businesses need affordable, reliable energy to conduct their day-to-day affairs, and energy production can be a viable industry and driver of economic growth. This is particularly true in a country as vast and as cold as ours.

AIMS research focuses on generating ideas that can help ensure that all Canadians have access to affordable and reliable energy, and examines policy ideas that can help ensure the successful, sustainable development of Atlantic Canada’s energy resources. We focus on a wide range of energy policy issues including those surrounding electricity, oil and gas, tidal power and wind generation.

POLICY PAPERS & OP-ED COMMENTARIES

 

Fuel Fax: Regulation – The AIMS View

June 27, 2000 Fuel Fax – Gasoline Price Monitor: Atlantic Edition Regulation – The AIMS View By Brian Lee Crowley Had Winston Churchill been an economist, he might well have said, “Competitive markets are the worst form of consumer protection – except for all others.” After all, the recent rapid ...
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/ / Energy, Op-ed, Regulatory Reform

Energizing New Brunswick Power

Author: Tom Tucker This report’s primary purpose is to analyse the official submissions of the New Brunswick Power Corporation (NB Power) to the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Crown Corporations (the Committee) regarding the utility’s 1996-2001 business plan and to analyse the utility’s public response to other ...
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/ / Energy, Policy Papers

Fear and loathing on the pipeline route

3 February 1997 Fear and loathing on the pipeline route Brian Lee Crowley One of the fastest ways to bring out the worst in people is to make them believe that they’re going to come into a lot of money. Look at how many great Agatha Christie murder mysteries hang ...
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/ / Energy, Op-ed

Government can’t fill this bottomless pit

Government can’t fill this bottomless pit. by Don Cayo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HALIFAX You’ve no doubt heard the story: A whole bunch of Atlantic Canadians are thrown out of work, they land down on their luck, and Ottawa offers mere token aid. Again. No, this isn’t about fish. And it’s not ...
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/ / Energy, Op-ed

New Brunswick Power Failure

Author: Thomas Adams Thomas Adams, executive director of the Toronto-based Energy Probe prepared for this report for AIMS. Adams and AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley presented the findings in October of 1996 to the New Brunswick Legislature's Standing Committee on Crown Corporations. Adams' report recommends quickly opening up New Brunswick's ...
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/ / Energy, Policy Papers
MEDIA MENTIONS

 

AIMS Contributor highlights weaknesses in new plan for N.B. Power

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE29 NOVEMBER 2011 AIMS Contributor highlights weaknesses in new plan for N.B. Power Halifax: Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) contributor Gordon Weil is proposing revisions to the ...
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After Hydro-Quebec, NB Power returns to its past

by: Gordon L. Weil The demise in 2010 of the proposal to sell NB Power to Hydro-Quebec left the New Brunswick government with the challenge of reforming its electric utility ...
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NB Power rate increases inevitable says AIMS

SAINT JOHN, NB - An Atlantic analyst says New Brunswickers better brace for a sizable increase in power rates when a three-year rate freeze expires. Charles Cirtwill of the Atlantic ...
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More support for gas deregulation

A local economist is weighing in on the renewed debate over whether Nova Scotia should deregulate gas prices. The head of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies said regulation leads ...
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