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Michael Ganley is the editor of Alberta Venture. BizBeat takes a big-picture view of the provincial, national and international news affecting Alberta's business community. He can be reached at mganley@albertaventure.com and @MikeatVenture
‘Honey, I don’t know why you are so suspicious’
By Paul Marck
“Hi Honey, I’m home.
“How was my day? Let me tell you about the crowd I’m running around with. There are 25 women, all rich, powerful and influential. I just need to see them more often, you know.
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Michael McCullough, the editor of Alberta Venture magazine, shares his insights on the coal industry as he narrates a slideshow of the largest coal mine in Alberta.
In 2001, Heather Douglas and a small team of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited officials made the rounds to several large oil companies in hopes of selling nuclear energy to fuel Alberta’s oilsands projects. The pitch, however, was not well received. “They felt that nuclear was visceral,” says Douglas, who at the time was AECL’s vice-president of public affairs and government relations and is now president and CEO of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. “Their reaction was that there’s huge public opposition to nuclear as a philosophy and that Albertans were in that camp of being anti-nuke.” >
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