Canada has and should continue to expand its role as a natural gas supplier of choice to the world. The cautionary concerns are not markets, demand, resources or economics; but signals of regulatory confusion or activist interference. The industry and public can actively engage with vocal support to halt the pattern of activist interference in Canadian resource development. The International Energy Agency forecast shows the scale of the need. Natural gas is a key energy supply that will [Read more]
Column: The energy sector needs to focus on the public
The energy sector has too often made a bad assumption; focusing on politicians and opponents as intermediaries to garner public support. A better choice would be active, broad, regular and direct engagement with the public. Who better than the public, as the counter party to energy, who receives its benefits and can directly agree with balancing the impacts, it’s the public that is the best choice to engage. In political contests political parties benefit by attracting marginal voters, those [Read more]