Program directory · Natural Resources Canada

Clean and Conventional Fuels

Department

Natural Resources Canada

Program code

BTO03 (NR)

Core responsibility

Globally Competitive Natural Resource Sectors

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Program provides evidence-based analyses to inform policy regarding all conventional and alternative fuels to reduce carbon intensity and promote economic growth. The Program focuses on the responsible development and management of Canada’s oil and gas resources. This includes delivering technical expertise to advance policies, programs and regulations in collaboration with stakeholders and other governmental departments, including pipelines that transport, crude oil, natural gas, hydrogen and its derivatives, biofuels, synthetic fuels, and refined petroleum products across Canada and to other trading partners. The program is the lead for engaging with the International Energy Agency on global energy security and oil markets.

The Program delivers statutory decisions related to three lifecycle regulators and two departmental agencies: Canada Energy Regulator, the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Energy Regulator, the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator, Northern Pipeline Agency and Energy Supplies Allocation Board. The Program leads engagements with proponents, provinces and territories, international partners, and other governmental departments related to facilitating project financing and enabling market diversification. The program jointly manages offshore energy resources in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador and the Canada-Nova Scotia offshore areas under the Accord Acts. The program leads participation in and negotiation of domestic activities for the full petroleum sector value chain, including market, technical, and environmental intelligence and on Canadian and international oil and natural gas supply, demand, prices, trade, and emergency management. The program manages Ministerial and Governor in Council decision making requirements under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, the Impact Assessment Act and the Accord Acts with Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.