CALGARY — More than 50 Alberta CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry leaders are in Ottawa this week in an effort to raise the profile of their province and promote “collaboration” on issues related to energy, climate and the economy.
“We’re first trying to educate people out here about the diversity of businesses and opportunity in Alberta — and on top of that, you know, there are a lot of issues at play right now.” But Pourbaix said Alberta’s business leaders are keen to focus on policy, rather than “the political issues that could work more to separate us than bring us together.”“We share a lot of the aspirations of the federal government when it comes to decarbonization … but we have to have very, very thoughtful discussions about the pace of that, and the impact on Canadians in terms of what it is going to mean to our cost of living, and what it is going to mean to our quality of life.
Pourbaix, for example, through his role with Cenovus, is heavily involved in the Pathways Alliance — a group of Alberta oilsands companies which has been lobbying the federal government for financial and policy support for a proposed massive carbon capture and storage network to help reduce emissions from Canada’s oil industry.
Nicole Janssen, the co-founder of Edmonton-based artificial intelligence company AltaML, said while the province is known for its oil and gas industry, it also has emerging strengths in AI, biotechnology, low-carbon energy and more.“We just really wanted to bring all of those industries together and come to Ottawa and say, ’you know, it’s important for all of Canada that Alberta live up to its full potential,”’ she said.
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