Road Chats

In this episode of Road Chats, we talk to David Yager who has spent the last forty years working as a consultant and adviser in the oil and gas service industry. He is often called upon as an energy policy analyst and three years ago released a book titled, “From Miracle to Menace-Alberta, A Carbon Story. David talks about the politics of the oil and gas industry and the way forward for this sector.

In this episode of Road Chats, we talk to Ian Thomson, President of Advanced Biofuels Canada, an organization that works to promote the production and expand the usage of advanced biofuels across the country. Thomson has over 25 years’ experience in operations and industry development, including market development and sustainability.

As global demand for oil and gas continues, Alberta is doing its part to meeting increasing energy needs while reconfirming its commitment to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Alberta’s Energy Minister, Sonya Savage joins Road Chats this month to discuss the balance between increasing energy exports and decreasing its impact on the environment.

In this episode of Road Chats, Matthew Klippenstein, regional manager for Western Canada for the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association discusses the growing importance of hydrogen and how it can be used as part of our strategy to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Janet E. Silver and special guest Francis Bradley, President and CEO of Electricity Canada, discuss the need to move quickly if we hope to reach government targets for a net-zero electricity grid and economy; the importance of collaboration across the country and between Canada and the U.S.; promising technological developments; and the single greatest challenge facing the electricity industry.

Join Janet Silver, Senior Director of Advocacy and Communications at Syntax Strategic, and special guest Daniel Breton, President and CEO of Electric Mobility Canada, as they discuss the federal budget and Ottawa’s greenhouse gas reduction plan for 2030. Daniel was a former Quebec Minister of the Environment. He has studied carbon management and written books on transportation electrification, climate change, air pollution and energy transition.

In this episode, CEMA President Jennifer Stewart talks to Janet Silver, Senior Director Advocacy and Communications at Syntax Strategic, about Ottawa’s new emissions plan and what to expect when Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tables her budget on April 7. Tune in to hear about what the government is hoping to achieve with this emissions plan -- and what it means for stakeholders and consumers.

CIPMA President Jennifer Stewart talks to Canadian Fuels Association Vice President of Western Canada David Schick about what it was like to collaborate with different levels of government and other organizations to keep British Columbia supplied with fuel when the Trans Mountain Pipeline shut down last fall. Tune in to hear about the biggest challenges they faced and important lessons learned.

Join Michelle Coates Mather and special guest Sarah Herdman, CEO of AXOS Renewable Energy, as they discuss the evolving Canadian market for clean, combustible fuel solutions, the role renewables play in the path to decarbonization, and why this is such an exciting time to be an entrepreneur in the renewable fuel industry.

Join host, Michelle Coates Mather and special guest Andrea Kent, Vice President, Industry

and Government Relations, Greenfield Global, as they explore the role renewables

must play on Canada’s path to net zero.