Resources

Alternative Water Futures in Alberta - The Parkland Institute released this report on Dec 5, 2011. It explores the history of water policy in Alberta, current efforts to reform water allocation, issues with applying market mechanisms to Alberta's water problems, and two alternate ways of addressing Alberta's water problems -- as a common-pool resource or as a public trust. The report shows that the water market plans for Alberta provide a poor solution to Alberta's water woes and that non-market solutions would be better for the environment, the public interest, and First Nations.

Our Water Is Not For Sale - Visit the resource section of the Our Water Is Not For Sale website, including backgrounders--Municipalities Backgrounder, First Nations' Backgrounder and Rural Backgrounder. Also, access reports on water markets and information about international experiences with water markets.
Water is life. Protect it. Don`t commodify it.

Green Jobs: It's Time to Build Alberta's Future - Commissioned by Greenpeace, Sierra Club Prairie Chapter and the Alberta Federation of Labour, this report puts forward concrete measures that will create jobs and take us towards a green economy.

Misplaced Generosity: Extraordinary profits in Alberta's oil and gas industry - A report from the Parkland Institute, illustrating who is really capturing the tremendous wealth created through resource extraction in the province. “Albertans have foregone tens of billions in potential revenue as a result of overly generous royalty cuts and the government’s failure to meet even its own modest targets.”