April 20, 2012 – MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley is quoted in a CBC News article today on the economics of oil refining. Here is what he has to say: Brian Lee Crowley of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute agrees that the economics of refining are tricky. “Anything below 200,000 barrels per day isn’t economical anymore,” he notes. ...
Ottawa must play major role in unlocking natural resource development across the country MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, April 11, 2012 – The world’s insatiable appetite for Canada’s twin endowments of vast natural resources and well-functioning institutions could unleash an unprecedented wave of prosperity, especially in the west. Yet at the very moment when these endowments could ...
March 24, 2012 – In his new column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley outlines several reforms that would help facilitate a more constructive focus to the National Energy Board’s work while balancing opponents’ rights to be heard with the country’s right to reach informed decisions in a timely manner. The full column is below. Seeking a cure for ...
MLI authors show ban would mean job losses, lower income, disputes with the U.S. and almost no discernible environmental benefits MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, March 14, 2012 – Recent opposition bills in Parliament have proposed a ban on oil tanker traffic through West Coast waters with the goal of pre-emptively preventing the possibility of an oil ...
February 25, 2012 – In today’s Financial Post, MLI author and University of Guelph economics professor Ross McKitrick writes a column on how the costs far outweigh the benefits when it comes to reducing transportation-related GHG emissions. This column is based on a recently released study commissioned by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute by Professor McKitrick, The ...
February 25, 2012 – In today’s Ottawa Citizen, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley discusses why we shouldn’t care about how the EU will treat oil from Canada’s oilsands. Crowley says, ”Oil is a globally traded commodity and a decision by Europe not to buy Canadian oil is not a decision to consume less oil, but merely not to buy ...
MLI author says that the costs far outweigh the benefits when it comes to reducing transportation-related GHG emissions MEDIA RELEASE February 22, 2012, Ottawa, ON – Canadians overwhelmingly depend on the convenience and savings of private automobiles. Despite this, policymakers are constantly solicited to use public policy to reduce private vehicle use and increase use ...
January 29, 2012 – In his latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI’s Brian Lee Crowley addresses why we don’t process the oilsands here at home. An excerpt below: Forcing investments of billions of dollars in unproductive capacity and delaying oilsands development won’t improve Canada’s standard of living, but the reverse. Our current policy of ...
July 30, 2011 – In his regular column for the Ottawa Citizen, MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley examines the claims made by Premier Dalton McGuinty that “the oilpatch is subsidized by Ottawa; that his own green energy initiatives are somehow equivalent to the oil industry, and that his energy efforts should be subsidized to ...
In the July 21, 2011 edition of the Moncton Times & Transcript, Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley and Toronto-based electricity consultant Tom Adams discuss how “Canadians should be entitled to an open national electricity system where no province can hold its neighbours hostage and where power can be bought and sold freely.” The commentary coincides with the recent ...
