I had the pleasure this week of attending a Canadian Energy Executives’ Association annual conference in Banff, always an inspiring setting for any activity. When I was in the energy business many years ago , I often met with the Calgary energy establishment. In the mid-eighties they had the air of vintage explorers and promoters, swashbuckling oilmen of the old school, with a stylistic touch of Tex Ritter and John Wayne.
Last week in Banff there was some reflection on the irony that where Pierre wanted to take the money from an industry that he regarded with fiscal greed, Justin Trudeau wants to shut down the same industry, which he regards as a threat to the environment and a menace to the inalienable rights of native people.
The motto for the conference was “Peace Love Energy” and the able minister of energy in Jason Kenney’s new government, Sonya Savage, has set up a war room to develop the strategy of the energy sector in alliance with the industry to counter the entire coalition of interests and attitudes arrayed against them. Savage is a post-graduate academic authority on environmental questions and has a solid background in pipelines.
Kenney is poised now to fight a battle for all Canadians to end our national status as the world’s greatest geopolitical chump
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