Doubling Down with Taxpayer Dollars

Some transfers and programs Without reform of these fiscal supports for the are designed to support innovation in the fossil oil and gas industry, the level of public money fuel industry’s activities, such as encouraging a flowing to the industry may continue to grow, reduction in the intensity of their emissions or even though Canada has committed to phase water use, improving energy efficiency, [...] The prime minister stated in terms of the sale (including the valuation of September 2018 that TMX “would be dead” the indemnification into the sale prices) are if the government had not purchased the released, it might be possible to quantify the pipeline and proposed expansion project.68 This size of the subsidy. [...] DOUBLING DOWN WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS: FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES FROM THE ALBERTA GOVERNMENT ALBERTA’S MASSIVE OIL AND GAS CLEAN-UP LIABILITY 26 Any discussion of the costs and benefits that the clean-up bill dwarfs the $41.3 billion of Alberta’s oil and gas industry would be in royalties collected by the province between incomplete without addressing the massive 1970 and 2016.79 The Alberta government [...] Fiscal supports for fossil fuel extraction and Alberta has recognized that the era of coal is production make oil and gas expansion more coming to an end and has determined the need financially attractive while undermining for a phase-out of coal-fired power plants and the attractiveness and competitiveness of a just transition for their workers and families.