For many Canadians it can come as a surprise to learn the earliest roots of North America’s oil industry doesn’t lead back to Alberta or Texas. The story actually begins in southwestern Ontario’s Lambton county where innovation and ambition helped usher in a new era of energy that remains dominant in today’s energy mix. Photographer Dave Chidley, whose long career included two-and-a-half years working in Petrolia, recently returned to the region where the ties to its rich oil industry history remain proud and strong today.

Canadian Energy Centre Executive Director of Research Mark Milke joined Business Insider host Mario Toneguzzi to discuss the reliance of European Union nations on imported oil from countries with poor civil rights records like Russia and Saudi Arabia.

The Fact Sheet revealed that in the past 15 years, the EU has imported 61.5 billion barrels of foreign crude oil, an average of over 4 billion barrels a year, with more than two-thirds of it coming from countries considered “Not Free” by Washington DC-based think tank Freedom House, which has measured and ranked countries and territories by their degree of freedom since 1973

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Canadian Energy Centre Executive Director of Research Mark Milke joined Business Insider host Mario Toneguzzi to discuss North American energy security and the massive economic impact of the U.S. oil and gas sector.

The Fact Sheet examines the significant role the U.S. oil and gas industry plays in the broad U.S. economy in terms of employment, employee compensation, value-added/GDP, and output, and how a strong American oil and gas industry is a critical element of economic prosperity and the North American energy security network linking Canada, the United States and Mexico.

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Canadian Energy Centre Executive Director of Research Mark Milke joined Business Insider host Mario Toneguzzi to discuss updated estimates of the gross revenue contribution that Canada’s energy sector made to federal, provincial, and municipal governments between 2000 and 2019.

According to the Research Brief, the most recent data shows the energy sector’s cumulative fiscal contribution to government revenue was nearly $701.2 billion over the 20-year period, an average of nearly $35.1 billion per year. Revenue generated by the oil and gas sector alone over the same period was $504.9 billion, an average of $25.2 billion per year

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Canadian Energy Centre Executive Director of Research Mark Milke joined Business Insider host Mario Toneguzzi to discuss the findings of new research on Canada’s record reducing greenhouse gas emissions intensity.

According to the Research Brief, data show that Canada’s oil and gas sector has successfully lowered its GHG emissions intensity and is improving its standing in a comparison with other energy-producing and energy-consuming countries.

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Canadian Energy Centre Executive Director of Research Mark Milke joined Business Insider host Mario Toneguzzi to discuss the findings of new research on new Canadians working in the oil and gas extraction sector.

According to the Fact Sheet, newcomers have seen their participation in Canada’s oil and gas extraction sector generally increase since 2006, and those working in the industry enjoyed significantly higher wages and wage increases than the average seen in other Canadian industries.

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Stephen Buffalo, president and CEO of the Indian Resource Council appeared on Sauga 960 Radio’s Media Nation show in the Greater Toronto Area to discuss Jane Fonda and how First Nations communities benefit from oil and gas development.

The Indigenous leader has asked the celebrity activist, who was in Minnesota last week to oppose the Line 3 pipeline replacement project, to join him on a video call to help dispel some of her misconceptions about Canada’s world class oil industry.

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Canadian Energy Centre CEO Tom Olsen was on the Mike Smyth show as part of a panel to discuss the Netflix children’s film Bigfoot Family.

The animated movie, which was number one in Canada and the U.S. when it debuted on the streaming service earlier this year, unfairly and inaccurately portrays the oil and gas industry before young and impressionable viewers. Thousands of Canadians have sent letters to Netflix Canada asking them to be more responsible in producing content aimed at children.

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Canadian Energy Centre director of research Mark Milke was on the Danielle Smith show to discuss the findings of a new Fact Sheet examining the value of Canada’s oil and gas imports over a three-decade span.

Research from Milke and co-author Lennie Kaplan found that oil and gas exports as a proportion of all of Canada’s energy exports have grown over the decades and are becoming more important, not less, generating some $1.9 trillion in cumulative value between 1988 and 2019.

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Canadian Energy Centre Executive Director of Research Mark Milke joined It’s Your Business host Mario Toneguzzi to discuss the findings of new research on the value of Canada’s oil and gas imports over three decades.

According to the Fact Sheet, Canadian oil and gas exports generated a cumulative value of $1.9 trillion between 1988 and 2019, accounting for the vast majority of the more than $2.47 trillion accrued by all Canadian energy exports over that period.

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