The opening panel is introduced with the question "Where is Energy Policy?" I simply cannot fathom what that means, so we're off to a good start! And of course problems like gasoline line-ups (in the US! not Canada!) etc. are used as examples that we don't have an energy policy, when in fact they are the result of energy policy. The word "crisis" has already emerged.
Damn. Too bad I didn't think to set up an "Energy Policy Cliche" Bingo game.
The next cliche: Let's get people talking about these crucial issues.
Why does it matter that Saskatchewan is an energy exporter? My guess is that it matters to people in Ontario who think they have some sort of claim to Saskatchewan's energy.... shades of Canada's National Energy Programme in the 1970s.
Surprise, surprise: the provincial deputy minister of energy says it energy policy should be a provincial policy.
"Energy policy is too important to be left to economic ideology..." Says a CEO of a firm that depends on gubmnt contracts. Surprise!
I can't keep blogging this on such a detailed basis. More later.