Change Over 50 Years in Canadian Energy
October 16 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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This series of presentations has been occurring for more than 20 years and is now being also advertised to the IEEE Northern Canada Section (NCS) Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG) through vTools and other IEEE LMAG’s and IEEE members depending upon the topic. At the same time the Canadian Society of Senior Engineers (CSSE) is using their national organization to provide information, the subject and speaker to members across <a href="http://Canada.
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The next meeting will be held on Thursday, October 16, 2025. The meeting will open at 12:30 pm MDT (2:30pm Eastern), with the presentation starting at 12:45 (2:45 pm EDT). The meeting will be held via the Zoom platform with the actual invitations sent the afternoon of Wednesday, October 15. If you plan to attend and be included on the Zoom invite for this meeting please respond to Tom Madsen, tcmadsen@telus.net, before noon on Wednesday, October 15.
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Title: Change Over 50 Years in Canadian Energy
Presenter: Dennis McConaghy, BSc and MSc Chemical Engineering
Summary:
Dennis will discuss the evolution of the Canadian hydrocarbon production industry over the last fifty years, from the mid 70s through to today, essentially the period of his career in that industry.
He will provide special emphasis on how world class production industries evolved from valued elements of the Canadian economy to being beset with political and legal obstruction, putting in doubt its capacity to even sustain its existing scale let alone grow. How did this happen? How could this have happened in Canada? Dennis will offer his analysis from the vantage point of a career that was very much at the center of that change and <a href="http://conflict.
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•Native Albertan, graduated from the University of Alberta in the mid 70s in Chemical Engineering, MSc 75
•Joined the Alberta Research Council in 1975, supporting Alberta industrial development and energy policy
•Joined Alberta Gas Trunkline in 1980, and then onto NOVA Chemicals, leading feedstock procurement function into the mid 1990s
•Participated in concept and execution of the major Canadian merger of NOVA and TransCanada Pipelines in the late 1990s
•Led business and corporate development functions at TransCanada through to 2014, including project development of the Keystone pipeline system, Energy East, LNG Canada, Mackenzie Valley Pipelines <a href="http://project.
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•After retirement, authored 3 books related to the issues and failure in Canadian climate and energy <a href="http://policy.
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•Father of four children, married to the same wife for 45 <a href="http://years.
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