Young & sleepless
In volunteering to help Calgary host the WPC 2013 Youth Forum, Cody Parrish gets more than he bargains for
When Robin Greschner, the chair of the Youth Committee of the Canadian Association of the World Petroleum Council (WPC), asked Cody Parrish to help out with the 2013 WPC Youth Forum held in Calgary, the 28-year-old business analyst with Encana Corporation said, "Yeah, I've done conferences in the past with Husky and others. I suppose I can do that. What's the time commitment?"
Rising Stars, Class of 2013
Ahmed Taha, Vice-president, Oil Sands Operations, Tervita Corporation
In the last year of university, while taking course overloads to finish early, Ahmed Taha was also working part-time at an Edmonton landfill and weighing in some of his own vehicles from a rubbish-hauling business he’d started to pay his way through university after blowing out his knee in the first four months of a hockey scholarship.
Good news, bad news
The woes of gas producers are well-known. What is uncertain is who will be around when the rebirth comes.
"If it bleeds, it leads."
That's the mantra used often to describe the news media's penchant for giving violent crime, disasters and other bad news preference over good news.
Drying out
Water has become a central focus of fracking opponents, but perfecting a water-free frac has become a target for unconventional thinkers
A former executive with Calgary-based GasFrac Energy Services Inc. says oil and gas producers and the service sector must develop technologies that deal with the environmental impacts of fracking or risk losing their social licence to operate.
