Oil Royalty and Oil Price Forecasts (2015) #nlpoli
Don Mills says people in Newfoundland and Labrador have a false impression of the state of the provincial economy. Wade Locke says Mills is full of it. To bolster his…
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Oil and polls #nlpoli
Two things for Tuesday after a monster snow storm. Oil: Brent crude hit a low of $52.50 before rebounding to finish Monday at just below US$55 a barrel. Newfoundland light,…
Sometimes living in Alberta is like living in Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day
Sometimes living in Alberta is like living in the classic film Groundhog Day, in which actor Bill Murray finds himself in a time loop, repeating the same day again and…
Thinking about the Unthinkable #nlpoli
Only a decade ago, voters turfed Roger Grimes and the Liberals from office as punishment for – among other things – signing a deal to develop a nickel mine even…
The cost of not doing the math #nlpoli
Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy admitted over the weekend that he had not done the calculation to figure out if the equity stake in Hebron was worth the cost compared…
Oil and Democracy #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Michael Ross contends there is a relationship between oil revenues and democracy. Crudely put: oil hinders democracy. First, the oil-impedes-democracy claim is both valid and statistically robust; in other words,…