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Canada's federal government is expected to unveil on Thursday a budget that would channel the recent windfall from skyrocketing energy prices toward new spending on programs, including on climate.  

The budget is expected to continue the track record on public spending of the Liberals of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from recent years, Bloomberg notes. Trudeau has preferred new spending plans to shore up budget deficits since he became prime minister of Canada back in 2015.

The new spending on social and climate programs would come from considerably higher federal government revenues in recent months due to the high inflation rate and the highest oil prices since 2014.

Also as part of the budget, the federal government is expected to unveil a program for emissions reductions that would impact the oil and gas industry in the top oil-producing state of Alberta. The budget is also expected to propose more investments in the creation of jobs in the green energy sector, federal government insiders told CBC News.

Canada's federal government approved on Wednesday the proposed Bay du Nord Development Project, saying the project "is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects when mitigation measures are taken into account. The project is therefore allowed to proceed with strict measures to protect the environment." The project, expected to cost around $12 billion, is led by Equinor and proposes to install and operate a floating offshore oil and gas production facility in the Flemish Pass, approximately 500 kilometers east of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that $100 oil incentivizes increased production in Canada's crude-producing province of Alberta, the ramp-up of production is being held back by an issue all too familiar to the U.S. shale patch—there are not enough skilled workers to employ. During the 2020 slump induced by the pandemic, the industry lost a lot of jobs, and many of the workers previously employed in oil and gas in Alberta have now moved on to other sectors of the economy, seeking stability, which is a rare and short-lived occurrence in today's oil market.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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  • Daniel Hangartner on April 07 2022 said:
    If Trudeau runs networks of pipelines, he can afford to buy every Canadian an electric vehicle.
    The route he's taking about how pipelines like that will take a few years to build, and that by then the world won't have any use for them as the world will learn to forgive atrocities. At least that's how we understand his such deprived thinking of time heals.
    So, Albertans keep drilling with a different version of time heals.
  • Daniel Hangartner on April 07 2022 said:
    Trudeau is fighting Alberta energy hard. These announcements scare well enough when the price of oil is low.
    Alberta is going to keep working in the oil patch and keep pumping oil to pay for Quebec's green deals. We learned from Ontario that those green deals double the home heating bills and other energy bills in the end. Then they revert back to gas and Alberta's clean hydrogen.
    So, Alberta is going to drill and drill.
    The oilfield workers available that we have are worth ten anywhere else.
    It's back to drillers and pushes doing the roughnecking gig. And, that atmosphere to work in is pure bliss.

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