The Alberta government has not contributed any resource revenue to the Heritage Fund since 1986/87.
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September 29, 2021
10:49AM
Saskatchewan’s resource revenue will be roughly $360 million higher than initially projected in 2021/22.
September 8, 2021
9:53AM
By limiting the amount of resource revenue included in the budget, the fund could restore discipline to government spending.
August 19, 2021
9:50AM
If Alberta had followed Alaska’s model, Albertans could have received $101.5 billion in dividends.
June 15, 2021
8:28AM
In 2020/21, Alberta’s non-renewable resource revenue will comprise only 4.7 per cent of provincial revenue.
March 20, 2014
3:00AM
Albertas provincial government has provided plenty of political theatre as of late, with, as I write, three resignations from the government, including that of Alison Redford as premier. However, the Redford resignation may not be the end of her influence on Albertas future, and in particular, upon the Alberta Heritage Savings and Trust Fund.
October 26, 2013
2:00AM
If there was ever a place that was the anti-Greece when it comes to public finances, it must be Alberta. Compare Alberta to many places around the world, be it European fiscal disasters, or even nearer to home, and in most decades, Alberta shines in comparison.
March 8, 2013
2:00AM
In 1987, the value of Albertas Heritage Savings and Trust Fund stood at $12.7 billion. That year, the province faced a massive budget deficit and transfers to the fund from resource revenues were suspended. Such deposits did not resume again until almost two decades later and only lasted two years before being suspended again.