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Corporate social responsibility, a catch phrase or something meaningful?

June 25, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

For the most part people in the oil industry are well aware of what corporate social responsibility means.  And that meaning is a little different depending on who you work for. What is becoming clear with mounting opposition against fossil fuels is a companies interaction with the community is perhaps more important than ever. The […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Event Coverage, International, News Tagged With: Alberta, Breitling Energy, Corporate social responsibility, energy, Fred Hutchings, Maxxam Analytics, social licence, Thomas Miller

Comment: Oil and gas industry faces a trust deficit that threatens to undermine the fracturing boom

July 30, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

From the top of Houston’s downtown skyscrapers on a clear day, you can see straight out to the refineries that surround the Houston Ship Channel. On a not-so-clear day, you can see the brown haze of pollution that hangs over our city. Houstonians know well the jobs, energy and wealth that come from our oil […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: asthma rates, Denton, fracturing boom, Houston, hydraulic fracturing, polluted water, pollution, refineries, social licence, Texas, trust deficit, trustworthy

Comment: Climate plans amount to ‘wishful thinking’

July 22, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Alberta’s strategy to address climate change has proven to be little more than “wishful thinking.” When the Alberta government introduced its Climate Change Strategy in 2008, the document was branded with the words “Responsibility, Leadership and Action” but eight years later – with greenhouse gas emissions nowhere close to meeting the provincial target – there’s […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, Canadians, Climate Change, Environment, GHG, greenhouse gas, Harper Government, Keystone XL pipeline, oil companies, oil sands, pipeline, social licence

Convincing public oil industry is safe can be a tough sell

July 3, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Ensuring they have social licence to operate is a cornerstone of oil companies operations in North America these days. But it can be a hard sell when accidents occur. In one instance, a 75-hundred gallon (178 barrels) storage tank filled with crude oil emptied into Cache La Poudre River. It’s Colorado State’s only designated National […]

Filed Under: International Tagged With: barrels, Cache La Poudre River, Colorado State, compensation, crude oil, gallons, Greenland, NIRAS, North America, oil companies, oil tanker truck, Polaroil, social licence, spill

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