In the month of May, CGA hosted the world in Banff, Alberta, over four days of discussion on energy innovation – broadly defined – at the IGRC2024 conference. It was a very insightful symposium for the over 500 attendees from 30 countries who joined us. Each panelist, speaker, and delegate contributed to a wide-ranging discussion on how important the gas energy industry and gas energy innovation are to human flourishing. In this issue, we bring you a series of stories that underscore that importance.
In our conversation with Alberta’s Minister of Environment and Protected Areas, Minister Rebecca Schultz, we delve into the importance of reducing emissions – but not gas energy use, noting that the two are not the same.
Building on that provincial engagement, in our political commentators discussion, we ask our three contributors to address the question of how much influence federal policy should have on provincial energy decisions.
In our spotlight interview we profile Executive Vice President and President, Gas Distribution and Storage at Enbridge Gas, Michele Harradence, about how she’s been leading Enbridge’s gas distribution and storage business, ensuring their four – a number growing to seven as we write this – million customers, have safe, reliable, affordable, and sustainable access to energy.
In line with said access to energy, Graham Chandler writes on the significance of energy as a means to supply food and meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal regarding food security by 2030 in his piece, “Feeding a growing and hungry world.”
Still thinking beyond our borders, we discuss how our American industry friends are dealing with the various challenges posed by natural gas bans and the rush to forced electrification.
And looking forward to this year’s COP29 meeting, our interview with Professor of Practice at Azerbaijan’s ADA University Damjan Krnjević Mišković, gives our readers a glimpse into what we can expect on deck for that event in November in Azerbaijan.
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