Resource Library of Subsidy Documents

P. J. Runci for the United States Department of Energy, 2003. Analysis of government funding for R&D in Canada.

Thomas Kåberger, presentation at the First Asia Pacific Green Power Conference, Tokyo. Spending government money on research and development has helped develop technologies for utilization of renewable energy. Systems of subsidies have made it possible to have the technologies demonstrated.

Updated regularly. Relies on data reported by members; not verified. Clean coal spending often missing from coal totals.

Joshua Skov and Nancy Myers, Science and Environmental Health Network. Free access to groundwater resources for coal risks is depleting the scarcest resource in the West (water) to produce subsidized gas. Since groundwater is a common resource crossing many property lines, there is little logic for…

James R. Kuipers. All the states require some form of "reclamation bonding" to ensure that mining operations are conducted responsibly and reduce their liability in the event mining companies fail to fulfill their responsibilities. Bonding levels may be inadequate or insufficiently enforced. Kuipers…

Review of the 1872 Mining Law, including its high fiscal cost and severe impacts on environmental quality.

Robert Repetto. The adequacy of Canadian and US mining companies' disclosures of material environmental information were found to be deficient, especially in the disclosure to investors of known material environmental risks and liabilities.

Produced by Revenue Watch of the Open Society Institute, the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University, and the International Budget Project. Guidance manual for how to track oil and gas revenues using government budget documents.

Kym Anderson and Warwick McKibbin. Brookings Institution, Discussion Papers in International Economics, November 1997.

(Working Paper). Miles Light, University of Colorado. Final version published in Energy Policy, V. 20, No. 4, pp. 117-148, 1999. Final draft available only through publisher.

World Energy Outlook 1999, International Energy Agency. CHINA, RUSSIA, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, SOUTH AFRICA, VENEZUELA, KAZAKHSTAN.

Matthew Saunders and Karen Schneider. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. AUSTRALIA, CANADA, UNITED STATES, JAPAN, EUROPEAN UNION, FORMER SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE, CHINA, INDONESIA, KOREA, THAILAND, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, MEXICO, ARGENTINA.

(Word Document). Doug Koplow, Dale Andrew, Jean Marc Burniaux, and Erkki Adorian. OECD, Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment, September 2001. Also available in French.

Department Trade and Industry. Brief overview of residual liabilities arising from the coal and nuclear industries’ past activities.

Government scoping paper to assess additional subsidization of the British coal industry.

Friends of the Earth, U.K. Briefing provides an overview of British privatization of nuclear fuel cycle facilities and the transfer of site liabilities to the taxpayer.

The Coal Sector and Mining Communities of Ukraine: Advancing Restructuring to the Benefit of All. World Bank.

Center for Energy Efficiency Russia, Igor Bashmakov. Paper derived from presentations on Russian energy subsidies to the IEA. Provides review of energy pricing in Russia, and arguments about how subsidies should be calculated. Includes detailed information on district heating systems and on budget…

Richard Douthwaite and David Healy for Comhar the National Sustainable Development Partnership. 2003.

Karoly Kiss, editor. Clean Air Action Group/Lelegzet Foundation. In addition to subsidies to the energy sector, the report provides an overview of government support to other activities that cause environmental harm, such as agriculture, transport, chemicals, and construction.