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Royalty Review Panel released its report
last September, Gosbee helped lead the
charge against it. This was his latest campaign, and the one with the highest profile.
“I wrote a letter to the citizens of
Alberta and put it in 17 newspapers around
the province,” he says. “There is an opportunity for increased royalties, but the math
is wrong. We can’t make this kind of decision on faulty math.”
He adds, “I dumped on the panel’s
report, and I dumped on the process, and I
dumped on the result. It seems as though
the people of Alberta are now taking the oil
and gas industry for granted. I think we’re
in a dangerous situation.”
Strong words, but he backed them
up at a news conference (more than 25
reporters were present) at which he provided Tristone’s thinking about why the
formulas are wrong.
“Yes,” he says, “I was upset with the
outcome, but that doesn’t mean I’m not
going to continue working with [the gov-ernment] and the premier in trying to come
up with solutions to the unintended consequences of what they have done. I think
the government respects my comments
because we can back them up with our
team’s research.”
In Gosbee’s view, the most important
failing of the Royalty Review Panel was its
impact on natural gas, which he calls the
province’s economic driver.
“If you mess with the economic driver of
this province, then we’ve got a mess on our
hands. The general public didn’t know about
it. Even the premier didn’t understand it.”
Now he rolls out the statistics. “About
64 per cent of Alberta’s royalties come
from natural gas, and 5 per cent of the gas
wells—the deeper wells—account for 64
per cent of the gas royalties paid. Now we
have a problem on our hands. The [deeper]
gas wells are marginally economic at
today’s gas prices, and those recommendations [scheduled to come into effect at
the beginning of 2009] are going to make
them uneconomic.”
