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

 

Are we fighting climate change or capitalism?

This article originally appeared in the Chronicle Herald. With the latest UN conference on climate change underway in Paris, it is worthwhile remembering that there are two broad approaches to addressing environmental challenges. The first is the one to which most Canadians probably subscribe: environmental problems can be overcome within ...
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/ / Energy, Op-ed

Atlantic Canada and the U.S. Electricity Market: Projects and Perspectives

Halifax, NS – Electric companies in Atlantic Canada may expect to find markets in New England and elsewhere in the U.S., but they face tough challenges. That’s the conclusion of “Atlantic Canada and the U.S. Electricity Market: Projects and Perspectives,” a new (Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) paper by ...
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/ / Energy, Op-ed, Policy Papers

Cost of shunning fracking is just too high

An environmental regulatory agency in the United States has published a new major study that should lead to cautious lifting of moratoriums on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Nova Scotia’s former NDP government imposed a moratorium on fracking and the current Liberal government extended it ...
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/ / Energy, Op-ed

Premiers Should Pursue Balanced Resource Development

Canada’s premiers have a critical role to play in keeping Canada’s economy moving forward while abiding by our excellent environmental standards and ensuring that radical environmentalists do not impair Atlantic Canada’s chances for economic growth or the prosperity of Canadians. A clean environment with jobs for Canadians are not mutually ...
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/ / Energy, Op-ed, Public Finances

A Good Problem to Have

St. John’s (NL), Halifax  (NS), and Calgary (AB) – Provincial governments should begin examining what can be done to improve the stewardship of resource revenue in Atlantic Canada, a paper released today by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) says. Co-authored by Senior Fellow, Robert Roach, Research Associate, Jeff ...
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/ / Economic Development, Energy, Op-ed, Policy Papers, Public Finances
MEDIA MENTIONS

 

AIMS Radio: In Praise of Sovereign Wealth Funds

Listen about the AIMS proposal for provincial governments to save 100% of their natural resource revenue by clicking here. This radio spot was inspired by the recent AIMS Policy Paper, ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Save And Spend, In That Order

Save so you can spend more and better. This will feel like finding out that the money your rich grandma is giving you for graduating will be shares in a ...
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Alberta should save all of its resource revenue

By Robert Roach It’s blasphemy, but when Peter Lougheed decided in 1976 to put 30 per cent of natural resource revenue into the Alberta Heritage Fund, he got it wrong ...
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Grid Deal With N.B. Won’t Include Nuclear Power

Nova Scotia won’t be getting nuclear power from New Brunswick, even though the two provinces have just hitched their electrical grids together, an NB Power official says. Keith Cronkhite, vice-president ...
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