Alberta increases 20% royalty rates charged to energy companies

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Energy companies will be charged 20 per cent more for the right to develop Alberta's oil and gas resources, Premier Ed Stelmach revealed in a long-awaited announcement Thursday.

% g8 s! q6 R3 ^# J1 ~' W+ T' ]Introducing what he called "a framework for a new century," Stelmach said oil and gas companies will be paying $1.4 billion more a year in royalties starting in 2009.

/ n6 s5 b9 T6 n5 }That figure is 25 per cent less than the $2 billion recommended by a government-appointed panel that reviewed the royalty formula, which had not changed since 1992.

" H8 w+ y7 p1 xStelmach rejected about half of the panel's recommendations, including a new tax on oilsands production.
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However, royalties will increase for conventional oil, natural gas and oilsands projects, with Stelmach promising a simpler framework that reflects fluctuations in market prices.
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: f0 ?2 L" J+ ?1 D) K"We recognize energy is a volatile industry. There is risk and there is reward. So when oil prices go up, the royalty goes up," Stelmach said in a news conference in Calgary.

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Will the oil price go up after the royalty rates have been increased?