“Alberta is a different beast,” said organizer Julia-Maria Becker of the energy think-tank Pembina Institute.
“People don’t feel comfortable the moment they start talking about this. They get shut down because they feel they are going to offend someone.” To get past that, the project used a method developed in the United Kingdom. It convened 55 meetings across the province with a total of 482 people. Each group had something in common. There were meetings for church-goers, engineers and geologists, school children, farmers, women, business leaders, oilfield workers, immigrants, parents, environmentalists and small-c conservatives.
“The language comes across as too politic-y, not authentic or genuine,” said Bennett. “People wanted language that isn’t so carefully worded and sterilized, but language we use in our everyday conversation.Recognition was universal that Alberta owes much to its energy industry, as was a love of the province’s outdoors. People agreed weather is changing and the province needs to prepare. Everyone feared Alberta has too many eggs in one economic basket.
globebusiness Take the fear mongering amd activism out of the equation and I think you would find most people are pretty close on the issue.
globebusiness BS: Pembina propaganda amplified by Globe...