Canadian Controls on Natural Gas Exports: Recent Developments by G. C. Watkins

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This paper provides an assessment of changes in the Canadian government’s natural gas export policies that increasingly became more liberalized thr... (More) This paper provides an assessment of changes in the Canadian government’s natural gas export policies that increasingly became more liberalized throughout the 1980s through the time this article was written in 1991. Prior to NAFTA, the ratification of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989 reinforced the liberalization of controls governing Canadian natural gas exports. The first section of this article summarizes Canadian reserves, production, and pricing. Changes in provincial policies are dealt with in the second part. Last, the author discusses changes in Canadian government regulations and the impact of FTA on Canadian natural gas exports to the United States. (This paper by G. C. Watkins, “Canadian Controls on Natural Gas Exports: Recent Developments,” was publsihed as Occasional Paper 11. Boulder, Colorado: The International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development, 1991. ISBN 0-918714-23-0). (Less)