Alberta getting nudged off center-stage as tax hikes prompt big E&P companies to shift capital spending to United States

The verdicts are rolling in for Alberta’s proposed new royalty regime as the leading E&P companies take the wrapping off their 2008 capital budgets. But, in the process, those companies are reinforcing a number of deeper, more troubling elements. It’s well understood that conventional oil and natura....

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Companies decisively scaling back

EnCana to spend C$500 million less in Alberta

Petro-Canada to slash Western Canadian gas activities

Alaska well-placed in global survey

Survey before Alberta royalty review