National energy security from an exporter's perspective

With the collapse of energy prices in the mid 1980s and continued soft commodity prices until the early part of this decade, energy research and development fell off the agenda of most governments and companies for an extended period of time. [...] NaTioNal ENErgy SECuriTy from aN ExPorTEr’S PErSPECTivE: THE CaNadiaN ExPEriENCE 34 Energy Policy in Canada •. Provincial governments own and have jurisdiction over virtually all of the natural resources in the Given the importance of energy resources and country, outside of the offshore and Arctic regions, production to the Canadian economy, one might and thereby directly control the development [...] The Canadian energy industry has of the desired direction of urban and industrial become the behemoth of the national economy, a energy systems other than to “do something” when critical continental supplier, and a significant global consumers feel the pinch of higher prices. [...] The FTA and World Trade Organization We began this discussion by noting how the allow governments to restrict production and regionally-varied distribution of energy resources and exports of goods (largely unknown is the fact that a federal system of government greatly complicate the proportionality clause applies to all trade in the articulation of a coherent or robust national goods) under certa [...] However, over the course of cooperation has broadened beyond the IEA the decade after its founding the IEA adapted and countries as manifested in the Hemispheric placed more emphasis on softer measures such as Energy Initiative in the Americas, the energy information sharing, coordinated demand restraint discussions under APEC, the so-called producer- and coordinated release of strategic reserves.