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Athabasca oil sands. / 57.02; -111.65. The Athabasca oil sands, also known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen, a heavy and viscous form of petroleum, in northeastern Alberta, Canada. These reserves are one of the largest sources of unconventional oil in the world, making Canada a significant player in the global energy ...
April 1 – March 29. Statistics. Population. 4,421,876 (2020) [ 1] GDP. CAD$338.2 billion (2018) All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars. The economy of Alberta is the sum of all economic activity in Alberta, Canada's fourth largest province by population. Alberta's GDP in 2018 was CDN$338.2 billion.
The price of the carbon tax began at CA$20 a tonne in 2017, rose to CA$30 a ton in 2018 and was tied to a 2% increase based on rising inflation, which Tombe considered to be "reasonable". [ 20] Tombe estimated the impact of the carbon tax on the 3 "most carbon-intensive consumer purchases".
Oil reserves in Canada were estimated at 172 billion barrels (27 × 109 m 3) as of the start of 2015 . This figure includes the oil sands reserves that are estimated by government regulators to be economically producible at current prices using current technology. [ 1] According to this figure, Canada's reserves are third only to Venezuela and ...
110. 1875 Halifax Medical College, 1911 Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. [ 2] In 2010, University of New Brunswick and Dalhousie University established a medical school on the UNB Saint John campus. [ 3] Ontario. McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. Hamilton, Waterloo, St. Catharines. MD. 1965.
In August 2021, based on AESO data, wholesale power prices in the province increased sharply to over twice the average 2020 Alberta Power Pool price. From January to August 2021 the average pool price was $103.51/MWh; in August it was $142/MWh representing the highest annual price of electricity in twenty years.
The National Energy Program ( French: Programme énergétique national, NEP) was an energy policy of the Canadian federal government from 1980 to 1985. The economically nationalist policy sought to secure Canadian energy independence, though was strongly opposed by the private sector and the oil-producing Western Canadian provinces, most ...
In March 2022, the Alberta government announced it would suspend the collection of the fuel tax starting April 1, as a way to fight the rising cost of fuel. [19] In December 2023, the Alberta government announced that with lower oil prices, the fuel tax would be phased back in after Dec. 31, 2023. [20]