Tara McCool

The new Minister of Energy & Natural Resources presented this morning to the Calgary energy community. His comments were encouraging, rationale, and pragmatic: "Canada will no longer be defined by delay, we will be defined by delivery" "every barrel of responsibly produced Canadian oil can displace riskier energy elsewhere in the world and break dependence on authoritarian regimes and reduce emissions" "conventional and clean energy superpower" "get more barrels to market while cutting emissions" "we need infrastructure that gets our product to tidewater...diversifying beyond the US" "we need energy security for all of Canada - Eastern Canada needs better security" "energy is Canada's superpower" "this relationship matters and I'm committed to a clean slate" "the Canadian energy industry is the best in the world, we will treat it that way, let's keep it that way" "my door is open, I want you to bring your ideas, bring your ambitions, and together we will build" Reading between the lines: pipelines to the West, big emphasis on Pathways, and surprising to me...Energy East or some version thereof.