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Alberta’s Energy Legacy: Ideas for the Future
Edited by Robert Roach, Director of Research, Canada West Foundation
Featuring chapters by:
Lance Carlson, President and CEO of the Alberta College of Art & Design
Brett Gartner, Canada West Foundation Senior Economist
Roger Gibbins, Canada West Foundation President and CEO
Curtis Gillespie, Author of Crown Shyness
Penny Hawe, Markin Chair in Health and Society
Byron Miller, Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Calgary
Martha Piper, Former President of the University of British Columbia
Robert Roach, Canada West Foundation Director of Research
Sydney Sharpe, Author of A Patch of Green
Alan Shiell, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair in the Economics of Population Health
Fred Stenson, Author of The Trade
Aritha van Herk, author of Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta
Allan Warrack, Professor of Business Emeritus, University of Alberta
Deborah Yedlin, Columnist, Calgary Herald
Most people in Alberta understand the value of having the provincial government save some of the non-renewable resource revenue it collects for future use. The provincial government has responded by stashing away money in a variety of endowments and by adding to the Heritage Fund. But without a clear sense of what the money will be used for, it is difficult to get Albertans excited about a more aggressive savings program. Rightly so, saving for the sake of saving does not make a lot of sense. After all, you can’t take it with you and there are pressing needs facing the province right now. If we are saving for a rainy day, many argue that it is time to break out the umbrella.
As a result, it is hard to justify delaying gratification and saving more for the future. Albertans need and deserve a sense of what the earnings on a super-sized Heritage Fund could be used to achieve. They need a sense of what is possible. That is where Alberta’s Energy Legacy: Ideas for the Future comes in. It presents 10 ideas for how Albertans could use the money generated by a larger savings fund to permanently transform the province in positive ways.
It is up to Albertans to decide where they want their province to go. The ideas found in Alberta’s Energy Legacy will help them answer this critical question and they will help them determine if saving for this future makes sense.
Chapters
1: "Save Your Money!" by Robert Roach
2: "Alberta's Money Jars" by Brett Gartner
3. "The Butterfly Effect" by Martha Piper
4. "All Aboard" by Fred Stenson
5. "Metamorphosis" by Deborah Yedlin
6. "Whither a Heritage Fund Public Dividend Policy?" by Allan Warrack
7. "Alberta by Design" by Lance Carlson
8. "An Apple a Day" by Penny Hawe and Alan Shiell
9. "Alberta on the Enivronmental Cusp" by Sydney Sharpe
10. "Atelier Alberta" by Aritha van Herk
11. "Green Cities Are Great Cities" by Byron Miller
12. "A SURE Thing" by Curtis Gillespie
Author(s): Robert Roach
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