Energy and Environmental Policy Trends: Addressing the Threat of COVID-19 and the Oil Price War in the Petroleum Sector

Abstract

Canada’s petroleum sector faces the dual challenges of the COVID19 epidemic and an oil price war between two of the world’s largest producers. Helping this sector to stay solvent will mean it is ready to contribute to Canada’s and Alberta’s economic recovery when conditions improve, and avoids adding to Alberta’s alreadyconcerning backlog of orphaned wells.