Comparing Norway with Canada and Alberta’s Management of Petroleum Wealth
This report compares the Canada and Alberta experience of managing oil wealth to that of Norway, another major petroleum producing and exporting country. The report finds that for too long foreign and domestic petroleum interests have been appropriating a disproportionate share of the petro-wealth in Canada and blocking effective carbon reduction measures. It asserts that Canadian governments should heed the Norwegian example and reclaim control of the petroleum industry.
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Summary: Tables Comparing Norway with Canada and Alberta’s Management of Petroleum Wealth
About the author
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell is former Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Adjunct Professor, York University, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change; Senior Fellow, Toronto Metropolitan University, Centre for Free Expression. He is the author of The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, Justice Denied," (James Lorimer 2018). In French: Enquéte sur la Catastrophe de Lac-Mégantic: Quand les pouvoirs publics déraillent (Fides 2019).