Energy sector tries to show next generation it's more than pumpjacks
CBC
There are a lot of conversations happening in Alberta these days about climate change and the future of energy. Some of them are happening around the kitchen table.
Dagmar Knutsen was taken aback when her Grade 9 son came home from school and declared Alberta was the worst in the world.
"What?" she asked.
"Our oilsands, they are the worst in the world," he responded.
"I know our emissions always haven't been the greatest but do you know that they've come down?" she asked.
He hadn't heard that, nor had he heard of how the sector aims to use carbon capture to further reduce emissions.
"But our teachers say that our textbooks are at least five years out of date," he told his mom, who works as an accountant for an oilpatch equipment company in Red Deer.