Auteurs > Hon. Céline Hervieux-Payette
Hon. Céline Hervieux-Payette
NEXEN and a Proposal to define the opaque Net Benefit Criteria
Par Hon. Céline Hervieux-Payette le 28 octobre 2012
The proposed buyout of Nexen Inc., a Canadian oil and gas company which has been discovering and developing energy resources in some of the world’s most significant basins – including Western Canada, the UK North Sea, offshore West Africa and the Gulf of Mexico – has been causing quite the commotion amongst politicians and the public. Why is that? The interested buyer happens to be wholly owned by its government – a government, it can be argued, whose values and beliefs differ greatly from our country, Canada.
