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Energy Examined is a podcast that examines energy issues that impact Canada and the world. We tackle questions regarding growing global energy demand, the transition toward a lower-carbon future, and the role innovation and sustainable approaches can play at finding solutions to meet the economic, environmental and social priorities of all Canadians.

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Energy Examined is a podcast that examines energy issues that impact Canada and the world. We tackle questions regarding growing global energy demand, the transition toward a lower-carbon future, and the role innovation and sustainable approaches can play at finding solutions to meet the economic, environmental and social priorities of all Canadians.

    Executive director, Indigenous Resource network, John Desjarlais believes in communication and respect for different perspectives

    Executive director, Indigenous Resource network, John Desjarlais believes in communication and respect for different perspectives

    John Desjarlais believes that the media, which tended to sensationalize Indigenous action, had misrepresented indigenous experience and point of view.  He says that there is room for many Indigenous voices. Speaking up and providing more context and points of view regarding resource development is crucial.

    • 21 min
    How the B.C. natural gas and oil supply chain benefits communities across the province

    How the B.C. natural gas and oil supply chain benefits communities across the province

    British Columbia’s natural gas and oil industry contributes significantly to the province’s economy, individual communities and also supports Indigenous reconciliation.   
    iTOTEM Analytics recently conducted a study, Our Communities Care, examining the specific economic impacts of the industry’s supply chain. Energy Examined chatted with Colleen Sweet, founder of iTOTEM Analytics, to learn more about the industry's impacts, how it's spread out across the province and how money makes its way back into the community. 

    • 18 min
    LNG, energy security and cleantech: Opportunities in Canada's Atlantic Offshore

    LNG, energy security and cleantech: Opportunities in Canada's Atlantic Offshore

    Canada has a bustling offshore oil and gas industry, based mainly out of Newfoundland and Labrador. However the case to grow the Atlantic Offshore industry is a compelling one, with the region well positioned to meet global energy demand, providing energy security to European nations looking to displace natural gas from Russia.
    Energy Examined chats with Michelle Robichaud, president of the Atlantica Centre for Energy. Robichaud discusses the region's prospects for kickstarting liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, as well as some of the grounbreaking work being done in cleantech to lower emissions associated with hydrocarbon development.

    • 21 min
    Why ownership changes everything: Indigenous communities take the lead in resource development

    Why ownership changes everything: Indigenous communities take the lead in resource development

    Bob Merasty is the executive director of the Indigenous Resource Network, an organization looking to build a sustainable future for Indigenous communities across Canada through responsible development of natural resources. "We're no longer passengers," says Merasty, highlighting the growing confidence of Indigenous groups to become owners and equal partners through equity deals on pipelines, Indigenous-led LNG projects, entrepreneurial supply-chain businesses and more.
    Merasty discusses with Energy Examined the impetus behind this trend, including benefits like jobs, economic growth and poverty reduction, steps needed to take things further, such as improved access to capital, and the vital role Indigenous businesses can play as land and natural resource stewards.  

    • 19 min
    Innovation hub aims for net-zero future via Canadian cleantech

    Innovation hub aims for net-zero future via Canadian cleantech

    Soheil Asgarpour is president and CEO of Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC), an innovation hub that leverages industry investments to produce cleantech: technologies that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate environmental impacts to land, water and air. Their key is building collaborative relationships among industry partners, investors, government, academia and cleantech entrepreuneurs, with a focus on solutions that address real market needs.
    Energy Examined chats with Asgarpour about the progress PTAC is making on hydrocarbon cleantech, including CCUS, and methane mitigation technologies that could result in close to 90 percent reduction in emissions. He also discusses the importance of finding cost-effective, marketable solutions to improving enviromental performance, and the "moon-shot" but attainable goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

    • 23 min
    Diversity and inclusion in Canada's oil and natural gas industry

    Diversity and inclusion in Canada's oil and natural gas industry

    Aimee Sheppard of Cenovus Energy and Kathy Hawkins of InclusionNL discuss the state of diversity and inclusion in Canada's oil and natural gas industry. Sheppard is the senior industrial benefits and diversity advisor with Cenovus Energy in St. John's, Newfoundland; Hawkins is executive director for InclusionNL. 
    Sheppard recently won an award from Energy NL for her work on inclusion and diversity with Cenovus. Together, she and Hawkins discuss with Energy Examined industry-led initiatives like STEM for Girls and the West White Rose Project Diversity Research Fund, as well as increasing opportunities for traditionally unrepresented groups in oil and natural gas.

    • 33 min

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