Reading Time: 6 minutes Stop obsessing over changing others’ narratives
Author: Bill Whitelaw
Bill Whitelaw is a director and advisor to many industry boards, including the Canadian Society for Evolving Energy, which he chairs. He speaks and comments frequently on the subjects of social licence, innovation and technology, and energy supply networks.
A proposal for the future of the petroleum industry
Reading Time: 5 minutes Striking a balance between energy and sustainability in Canada
Why energy change sparks controversy and protest
Reading Time: 5 minutes Boomer vs. Millennial in a battle of words on energy change
How language shapes our understanding of issues
Reading Time: 5 minutes How we define the term exposes our different value systems and often leads to misunderstanding
Alberta Premier undermining the very fundamentals of democracy
Reading Time: 4 minutes By throttling questions she doesn’t like, Smith is forgetting that the media plays a critical role in ensuring democracy works
A Q and A with skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg
Reading Time: 7 minutes How evangelical and partisan discourse can blind stakeholders to solutions that would resolve a broad range of societal ills
Little evidence Alberta energy panel engaging with the public
Reading Time: 4 minutes Any plan of any substance needs to be a plan in which Albertans see a reflection of themselves and the energy future they want
Alberta inactive assets trial balloon shot down
Reading Time: 5 minutes Cleaning up inactive assets continues to hang over the energy sector like a dark cloud
Alberta’s blueprint for its energy future works in the shadows
Reading Time: 4 minutes Premier Smith’s retread energy panel seemingly only out to please only one particular constituency
How to fix Alberta’s old-school energy panel
Reading Time: 5 minutes Premier Smith should create a parallel panel of energy players from the constituencies neglected in the first kick at the cat