Reading Time: 3 minutes Being energy-ignorant is almost fashionable in certain circles
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.
That sound you hear is the Canadian economy imploding
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada has a growing global reputation as a place where nothing happens unless it suits a small and clamorous minority
Driving the next wave of clean resource innovation
Reading Time: 3 minutes If Ottawa is serious about clean energy, the bureaucrats and politicians pulling the levers would do well to learn about CRIN and its potential
How the energy industry can reimagine itself
Reading Time: 2 minutes Blockchain could influence the way the energy sector does things, from extraction and production processes to financing and transactions
Mourning an Alberta publishing icon
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ruth Kelly understood she had a unique responsibility: to cheerlead and promote but also to criticize constructively and objectively
Staking out the moral high ground in the energy debate
Reading Time: 3 minutes Othering can help understand energy discourse in Canada – and its tension and polarization – in a sector where natural sciences sensibilities ought to prevail
It’s time for a cross-country, face-to-face energy conversation
Reading Time: 3 minutes The petroleum sector needs to move in synch with changing societal expectations. And Canadians will be surprised to discover how far the sector has progressed
Trust the Trojan Rig in the fight for the minds of Canadians
Reading Time: 5 minutes The big challenge is convincing Canadians to be courageous enough to take off the blinkers that have so effectively sidelined them to date
Malls a microcosm of our energy-consumption society
Reading Time: 3 minutes The typical Canadian mall is an example of the interplay of energy systems, carrying the weight of a functioning society with them
Should the energy sector trust Canadians?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many Canadians are hypocrites: they want to have their energy cake and burn it, too