News release

N.S. Energy Forum to be Broadcast Live on Internet

Petroleum Directorate

PETROLEUM DIRECTORATE--N.S. Energy Forum to be Broadcast Live on Internet

The Nova Scotia Energy Forum, including the keynote address by the American ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci, will be broadcast live on the Internet, beginning at 1 p.m. ADT Thursday, June 14.

Ambassador Cellucci, a former governor of Massachusetts, is expected to speak about the U.S. energy policy as it relates to Canada and Nova Scotia.

The energy forum is designed to assist the province in devising a long-term energy strategy.

Invited guests include people knowledgeable in the fields of oil and gas production; transportation and marketing; coal; renewable energy; conservation; sustainable development;
electricity production and markets; fishing; environmental protection; regulation; energy services; and supplies.

For more information on the Web broadcast, please visit:
www.gov.ns.ca/petro/energystrategy/news/index.asp

Approximately 175 people have been invited to attend the forum at Saint Mary’s University on Thursday, June 14.

The entire forum, including the ambassador’s keynote address, the afternoon discussion and wrap-up news conference at 5:30 p.m. will be Webcast on CNW at: www1.newswire.ca/webcast/pages/Opento20010614/ .

Open to the World -- Nova Scotia Energy Forum will focus on opportunities and challenges facing Nova Scotia on a number of energy-related issues.

"Nova Scotia is at the crossroads of opportunity from new energy sources and new international energy markets" said Premier John Hamm. "The energy forum provides an opportunity for the discussion and sharing of ideas and experiences on how others have dealt with energy-related issues, and the lessons they have learned."

Premier Hamm will host the event. Co-chairs will be former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed and Nova Scotia’s Sir Graham Day, former chair of PowerGen plc in the United Kingdom and currently chair of Hydro One, which owns Ontario Hydro.

Nova Scotia is forecast to quadruple natural gas production to two billion cubic feet a day by 2015. New opportunities in electrical generation from traditional fuels, gas and renewable sources such as wind and solar are expected in the years to come. There is a rapidly growing export market for natural gas.

Also emerging is expanded protection for the environment in the land, sea and air. The province is currently revising its energy strategy to take these changes into account.

Among those who have already accepted invitations to attend are:

  • senior executives from many of the oil and gas companies active offshore Nova Scotia, including ExxonMobil, Shell Canada, Pan Canadian Petroluem, Marathon, and Kerr-McGee;

  • Hans Konow, president of the Canadian Electrical Association;

  • Brian Isbister chief executive of the Shetland Fish Producers’ Organization;

  • Dr. Stuart Smith, chair of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy;

  • Catherine Hughes, president of Schlumberger Canada;

  • Colin Dodds, president of Saint Mary’s University (host location);

  • James Henley, president of the Nova Scotia Building Construction Trades Council.

The province’s energy-strategy process is hearing from groups and individuals through a series of provincewide workshops, meetings, and written public submissions.

More information on the energy strategy development process is available at www.gov.ns.ca/EnergyStrategy .

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