Andrew Leach
@aleach.ca
Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Alberta. Interested in climate change, constitutional law, and energy infrastructure. Find me here or on the web at aleach.ca.
Here's Canada's refined product sector. We basically produce what we use, with exports and imports on the margin for most products.
February 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Here's Canada's refined product sector. We basically produce what we use, with exports and imports on the margin for most products.
We produce most of our own products. The bigger issue is that we move a lot of our crude *through* the US to Ontario and QC.
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
We produce most of our own products. The bigger issue is that we move a lot of our crude *through* the US to Ontario and QC.
Very small net exporters.
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Very small net exporters.
Too many Canadians are under the impression that we export crude and import refined products in our trade relationship with the US. The first is true, and the second is true to a much smaller degree only in some parts of Canada for some fuels. In general, we're net exporters of refined products too.
February 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Too many Canadians are under the impression that we export crude and import refined products in our trade relationship with the US. The first is true, and the second is true to a much smaller degree only in some parts of Canada for some fuels. In general, we're net exporters of refined products too.
Offered without comment: almost all of the US supply of nuclear fuel is imported. Here's where it comes from:
February 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Offered without comment: almost all of the US supply of nuclear fuel is imported. Here's where it comes from:
When was this Canada where "everyone who works hard gets a powerful paycheque and a pension?" And given that much of our remaining pension coverage is in the public service, how is PP going to make this happen? Expand the PS? Force private companies to offer pensions? Push unionization? What?
January 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When was this Canada where "everyone who works hard gets a powerful paycheque and a pension?" And given that much of our remaining pension coverage is in the public service, how is PP going to make this happen? Expand the PS? Force private companies to offer pensions? Push unionization? What?
@jlisayoung.bsky.social opened a browser and chose academic violence...
December 16, 2024 at 1:41 AM
@jlisayoung.bsky.social opened a browser and chose academic violence...
The long-awaited follow-up to this Icelandic masterpiece
December 14, 2024 at 3:45 AM
The long-awaited follow-up to this Icelandic masterpiece
Graphic design is my passion.
December 14, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Graphic design is my passion.
Those who enjoy reading the specific wording of the Constitution in terms of provincial jurisdiction over resources might want to take a glance at sections 91(2) and 92A(2) and (3). Section 92A(3) is particular worth reading carefully.
December 12, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Those who enjoy reading the specific wording of the Constitution in terms of provincial jurisdiction over resources might want to take a glance at sections 91(2) and 92A(2) and (3). Section 92A(3) is particular worth reading carefully.
Are you just interpolating around the confidential months? Also, how is this the state of our data?
December 11, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Are you just interpolating around the confidential months? Also, how is this the state of our data?
Where in the US does Canadian crude oil go? Mostly to the midwest, with increasing although much smaller volumes headed to the Gulf Coast. Not as much of a bump into PADD V (West Coast) as I would have expected w TMX. cc @roryjohnston.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Where in the US does Canadian crude oil go? Mostly to the midwest, with increasing although much smaller volumes headed to the Gulf Coast. Not as much of a bump into PADD V (West Coast) as I would have expected w TMX. cc @roryjohnston.bsky.social
Each term, I have to recompile all of my data exercises and assignments for my economics class at which time I learn of all of the updates to column names, API content types, and other frustrating changes to public data!
December 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Each term, I have to recompile all of my data exercises and assignments for my economics class at which time I learn of all of the updates to column names, API content types, and other frustrating changes to public data!
Seems that Alberta must have built a whole lot of wind and solar plants that all came online simultaneously on Jan 1, 2021 and drove up price levels and market volatility? Or, perhaps it was something else? Gee, I wonder what it could have been? An increase in market concentration, perhaps?
December 11, 2024 at 4:32 AM
Seems that Alberta must have built a whole lot of wind and solar plants that all came online simultaneously on Jan 1, 2021 and drove up price levels and market volatility? Or, perhaps it was something else? Gee, I wonder what it could have been? An increase in market concentration, perhaps?
Updated my data and charts page on Alberta oil production with this week's data. st3.aleach.ca/st_3.html
December 5, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Updated my data and charts page on Alberta oil production with this week's data. st3.aleach.ca/st_3.html
As @blakeshaffer.bsky.social points out, it's crickets out there on political sustainability of green industrial policy. Industrial policy may be more politically sustainable than taxes, but the issue was and is never that. The issue is the political viability of action on climate change.
November 15, 2024 at 3:21 PM
As @blakeshaffer.bsky.social points out, it's crickets out there on political sustainability of green industrial policy. Industrial policy may be more politically sustainable than taxes, but the issue was and is never that. The issue is the political viability of action on climate change.
I'm pretty sure Nikiforuk is cheering for the pandemic here...
November 24, 2023 at 3:17 PM
I'm pretty sure Nikiforuk is cheering for the pandemic here...
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November 22, 2023 at 3:59 PM
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If you've convinced yourself that Poilievre would not touch industrial carbon pricing, or that he's just worried about the current affordability crisis, let me offer you this. The very notion of support for carbon pricing in general was enough to torpedo Conservative support for a trade deal.
November 22, 2023 at 3:27 PM
If you've convinced yourself that Poilievre would not touch industrial carbon pricing, or that he's just worried about the current affordability crisis, let me offer you this. The very notion of support for carbon pricing in general was enough to torpedo Conservative support for a trade deal.
Very creepy. Inside the lids of both boxes in a 2-pack of Honey Nut Cheerios were these messages.
November 22, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Very creepy. Inside the lids of both boxes in a 2-pack of Honey Nut Cheerios were these messages.
Three figures every Albertan should see from today's World Energy Outlook.
October 24, 2023 at 1:37 PM
Three figures every Albertan should see from today's World Energy Outlook.
Good morning / afternoon from Parliament Hill. I think this makes me intra umbra Parliament.
October 20, 2023 at 4:17 PM
Good morning / afternoon from Parliament Hill. I think this makes me intra umbra Parliament.
