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2010-2023

Sustainable Workforce, Oil & Gas

August 14, 2025

More oil and gas production, fewer workers

A focus on cost-cutting and rewarding shareholders over the last decade have led to a steep decline in the number of jobs per barrel produced in Canada’s oil and gas sector

Portrait of Janetta McKenzie

Portrait of Megan Gordon

The cover of the report, featuring a worker using a wrench while wearing high-vis clothing and a hard hat, outdoors with the sun setting in the background

Sustainable Workforce, Oil & Gas

August 14, 2025

Drilling Down

Oil and gas jobs in transition

Portrait of Janetta McKenzie

Portrait of Megan Gordon

Close-up of a pile of coal

August 12, 2025

Saskatchewan is going in the wrong direction on coal

A focus on coal-fired power will only delay the province from doing what is necessary to build a modern, efficient, low-cost electricity grid

Portrait of Megan Gordon

Electrician installing a heat pump in a garden on a sunny day

August 11, 2025

Meeting this moment means getting retrofits right

Let’s seize this generational opportunity to design retrofit initiatives to support homeowners and contractors

Portrait of Raidin Blue

Portrait of Sarah Snowdon

An orphan well in a field with fall colours, in Athabasca Country, AB

That old well in your community? It might be leaking gas into the air and groundwater

Oil and gas companies should pay to properly address the long-term environmental risks of Canada’s 500,000+ non-producing wells

Portrait of Amanda Bryant

A low angle shot of high voltage transmission line Ontario, Canada

Remote Communities

There is no “nation-building” without Indigenous leadership

Indigenous participation is the key enabler – not obstacle – of a resilient economy

Portrait of Emily He

Cover of Locating Charging Stations: Identifying zones for early deployment in the GTHA using real-world truck data report

Locating Charging Stations

Identifying zones for early deployment in the GTHA using real-world truck data

Chandan Bhardwaj

Electricity transmission lines in Alberta

Does pipeline fever mean missed opportunity elsewhere?

Alberta should not put all our nation-building eggs in one basket

Portrait of Chris Severson-Baker

Black electric car at charging station with the power cable supply plugged in

Let’s not let foreign automakers press us into changing the EV mandate

Standard protects economic sovereignty and helps build a competitive auto sector

Portrait of Chris Severson-Baker

Calgary downtown buildings

The nation-building initiative of retrofitting Canada's buildings

Simply speeding up approvals for a few infrastructure projects does not build us a new Canada.

Portrait of Chris Severson-Baker

Portrait of Monica Curtis

Patchy, but Promising

Patchy, but Promising

Compliance systems available to Canadian carbon dioxide removal initiatives

various old Pembina Institute logos

A close up of a technician holding a hard hat

Sustainable Workforce

We need workers to “build, baby, build”

Nation-building projects require a forward-looking workforce policy

Portrait of Megan Gordon

A well site in Alberta, in a rural setting with fields in the background

In 2025, what is an energy superpower?

Canadian decision-makers must look at global trends and make a call

Portrait of Janetta McKenzie

Bill C-5 Policy Brief

Buildings, Electricity, Sustainable Workforce, Oil & Gas, Remote Communities, Transportation

Set the bar high: in time of crisis, we need excellence

Bill C-5 Policy Brief

Portrait of Chris Severson-Baker

Electricity, Sustainable Workforce, Oil & Gas

Canada should fast-track clean energy projects via an amended Bill C-5

Bill must be improved to better uphold Indigenous rights, reduce risks, achieve clean growth potential

Portrait of Chris Severson-Baker

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