Reading Time: 3 minutes WHITELAW: The stars are aligning for the energy and mining sectors, but the two sectors must collaborate to take advantage of the changing landscape
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.
Petroleum products pervade every corner of our lives
Reading Time: 3 minutes If Canadians threw away everything connected to petroleum, they wouldn’t have much left in their homes
How Alberta can make the most of a changing world
Reading Time: 3 minutes We can use Alberta’s carbon levy to rebuild our carbon-based economy, tasking an idle workforce to create investment-worthy technology
What the world really thinks about Canada’s energy industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes We get high marks for industry transparency, balanced development, environmental sustainability and consultation
Canada at a carbon crossroads
Reading Time: 3 minutes How to get past the toxic debate in this country and start finding ways to be good stewards without crippling our nation
Looking for answers: energy jingoism vs energy xenophobia
Reading Time: 3 minutes The process to review the NEB’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline proposal takes us into a strange land of negativity
The polarizing nature of man’s relationship with carbon
Reading Time: 3 minutes We’re making a hash of an important socio-economic and environmental debate that ought to be building the nation but isn’t
Me and my (carbon) shadow
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians have to stop demonizing the energy industry and start to accept responsibility for their carbon consumption
The hamster wheel of Canada’s carbon conversation
Reading Time: 3 minutes We’re going around and around faster and faster, but the momentum doesn’t get us any closer to a carbon solution now or into the future
Canadians have a duty to truly understand energy issues
Reading Time: 3 minutes Manipulated by politicians and environmental activists, Canadians are often passive rather than pro-active participants in energy policy initiatives