NEP and Falling Energy Prices
The energy price declines of the early 1980s prompted the federal and provincial governments to update their revenue sharing agreements. The amended agreements allowed for $4.2 billion in higher revenues ($1.7 billion federal government, $1.2 billion each for provincial government and industry), which was 30 per cent of the increase that would have been gained from going to world prices. Interestingly, under the NEP industry was in fact not significantly exposed to the declining global oil prices but rather the largest part of direct revenue losses accrued to governments, meaning that the industry operated throughout the period of the NEP under relatively similar oil prices, the 'made-in-Canada' price of oil (see item (a) in National Energy Program Details, above).
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