Looked at some of the economics from different sources regarding the royalty rate changes. Basically if you take 2006 activity and change the regime the province would indeed recieve 1.9 Billion in extra revenue (that is if drilling were the same). But a closer look reveals that the more mariginal projects (at the current regime) would be dropped and it would make other projects that made sense ecomnically last year marginal, if royalties were changed. Basically the government would not see any of that new revenue.
These companies invest billions of dollars to produce Albertas resources, there has to be some incentive to make money or they will literally go somewhere else.
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