Comments on: BC’s shale gas is more important then Alberta’s oil sands

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Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:24:02 +0000

[...] gas is more important then Alberta’s oil sands.’ Horn River News. 04 May 2009 < http://hornrivernews.com/2009/05/04/bc-hornriver-important/ [...]

By: Chris Stephenson

Chris Stephenson — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:18:27 +0000

While this may sound significant, in reality it’s not.

North Americans are about to dramatically change the type of vehicles they drive leading to large reductions in the demand for gasoline.

NG may go on to hold some small niche markets (bus fleets,etc) but it’s overall share of transportation fuel will be negligible. It’s simply to costly to switch existing infrastructure for minimal environmental gains.

Most of the shale gas will never be drilled for regardless of royalty rates or incentives.

By: OuaisBla

OuaisBla — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:10:07 +0000

Alberta might become a NG Gas competitor to BC. Note that Horn River Basin extension are discovered on the Alberta side of the border.

By: cyberclark

cyberclark — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:54:53 +0000

There was no increase in royalty! The fair for all PR royalty increase was an outright scam. Alberta changed their take from US$ to Can$ in that document increasing resource revenue between 18 and 25 percent!

The whole show was to placate voters!

Alberta’s royalty at 19% Canadian is far lower than BC and Saskatchewan at 30% US.