Alberta is filled with luminaries and forward thinkers, several of whom took the time to respond to Alberta Oil’s Share Your Vision survey. Here are select responses to survey questions provided by prominent figures in Alberta’s government, industry and research sectors.
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April 01, 2009
Category: Environment, People, Policy, Services, Technology
Tags: compensation, pipeline, surface rights act
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By Dean Watt
For years, pipeline operators in Alberta and other provinces have had to address recurrent arguments made by landowners seeking annual compensation for surface rights, citing ongoing impacts of buried pipelines. Operators have argued against these awards on grounds that the losses suffered by landowners are only temporary More →
April 01, 2009
Category: People, Policy
Tags: Alberta, Energy, Mel Knight
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By Gordon Jaremko
Energy prices have been worse, especially for natural gas in the early 1970s, Knight recalls in an Alberta Oil interview. More →
April 01, 2009
Category: People
Tags: census, human resources, Saskatchewan
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Saskatchewan has long been the little brother to the energy power-house next door More →
April 01, 2009
Category: People
Tags: financial forecasting
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By Gordon Jaremko
Seismic shift? Not likely. But innovative solutions will pave the way forward. Strategy West Inc. president Bob Dunbar is a prominent oil sands consultant and industry veteran More →
April 01, 2009
Category: People
Tags: Charlie Fischer, Nexen
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Charlie Fischer gave credit where it was due when he retired at the end of 2008 after 36 years of career successes More →
April 01, 2009
Category: People
Tags: Bonnie DuPont, gender barriers, glass ceiling, Kathy Sendall, Linda Cook, Sue Riddel Rose
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By Sydney Sharpe
When Linda Cook pushed through the corporate glass ceiling in the summer of 2003, the sun seemed to shine on women’s possibilities More →
February 02, 2009
Category: People, Policy
Tags: Energy Resources Conservation Board, ERCB
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By Gordon Jaremko
A fragile truce blooms as industry tempers generations of mistrust More →
February 01, 2009
Category: People
Tags: aboriginal, Aboriginal Programs Project, Alberta Chamber of Resources, Cameco, mining, Northwest Territories, relationships, Royalty Review, Syncrude, uranium
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By Bill Sass
Trade secrets inform a breakthrough guide to industry and aboriginal relations More →
December 04, 2008
Category: People, Policy
Tags: Christian Labour Association of Canada, CLAC, Construction Owners Association of Alberta, labour, Merit Contractors, union
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By Bill Sass
To organize or not to organize? The question is no longer so simple in worker-hungry Alberta More →
December 01, 2008
Category: People
Tags: ConocoPhillips, Energy, Kevin Meyers
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The new era of big oil’s attempt to repair its public image and its connection to communities where it operates is marked by several innovative approaches. More →