The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Don Mills says people in Newfoundland and Labrador have a false impression of the state of the provincial economy. Wade Locke says Mills i...

Two things for Tuesday after a monster snow storm. Oil:   Brent crude hit a low of $52.50 before rebounding to finish Monday at just belo...

Only a decade ago, voters turfed Roger Grimes and the Liberals from office as punishment for – among other things – signing a deal to develo...

Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy admitted over the weekend that he had not done the calculation to figure out if the equity stake ...

Michael Ross contends there is a relationship between oil revenues and democracy.  Crudely put:  oil hinders democracy . First, the oil...

[Editor's Note:  This is a post originally scheduled for publication in September 2007.  For some reason, it never appeared. Here it is,...

West Texas Intermediate crude is hovering around a price that some analysts say puts some oil sands in doubt . Meanwhile, North Sea Brent ...

Without new oil and gas discoveries, the Newfoundland and Labrador petroleum industry will dry up within a couple of decades.  There hasn’t ...

“Back of the envelope calculations”,  a recent Telegram story assured us all, “put royalties for the first three months of the [current] fi...

The provincial government’s 2010 budget – due to pass the House of Assembly by next Monday – is based, in part, on crude oil average about U...

“The oil industry success we enjoy today is not what many expected… many people could not believe in the vision of Newfoundland and Labra...

According to the Telegram , the Hebron partners won’t be filing their development application for the project until December 2010. That’s ...

For those who have been following along with the discussion of oil prices and provincial government revenue, it’s interesting to compare the...

While gross domestic product in Newfoundland and Labrador is now forecast by the provincial finance department to shrink by 8.5%, finance mi...

High prices and better royalty rates on Hibernia didn’t offset oil production declines in September for the Newfoundland and Labrador offsho...

Forget the bubble, the imaginary protection Newfoundland and Labrador supposedly enjoyed from the global recession. Forget any prospect o...

After two e-mail requests to the provincial finance department yielded nothing but delays for two weeks, a simple e-mail to the federal natu...

If the provincial government acts on a provision of the Hebron fiscal agreement, the government’s own energy corporation could wind up payin...

Not surprisingly, some people attending the NOIA conference in St. John’s are wondering what is next on the horizon. As CBC reports , ther...

From the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers , projected total annual oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.  The CAPP r...