Reading Time: 2 minutes The implications of Justin Trudeau’s Just Transition on Alberta’s energy sector
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.
Smith’s energy panel representative of a by-gone era
Reading Time: 5 minutes Where are the wind players, the solar players, the geothermal players, the First Nation communities, the young professionals?
Alberta premier’s latest scheme blares BOONDOGGLE (ALL CAPS)
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Liability Management Incentive Program is both bad politics and bad policy
How to save ESG from charges of wokeism
Reading Time: 7 minutes ESG is not new. It’s easy to find drivers of ESG values and principles that date back hundreds of years
The “bass-ackward” state of energy transition in Canada
Reading Time: 5 minutes Until politicians get out of the driver’s seat, we will never get energy transition right
If we don’t get energy transition right, we’re screwed
Reading Time: 4 minutes But politicians are fiddling while Canada combusts
Indigenous land acknowledgements have outlived their usefulness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Reconciliation should not be the stuff of soothing platitudes
Protecting AER protects Alberta energy industry integrity
Reading Time: 3 minutes It might be tempting to vilify AER as playing a part in the woes that have befallen the industry. But quite the opposite is true
Alberta Energy Regulator overhaul a dangerous game
Reading Time: 4 minutes Weaken the regulatory framework at your peril. Sloppy regulation begets sloppy industrial operation. And that drives investment away
Canadians must start to act as responsible resource owners
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is time that Canadians become more accountable for their resource ownership responsibilities