THERE'S A UNIQUE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE INTERSECTION ON THE PROVINCE'S FUTURE PATHWAY... It's the crossroads at which the #energy industry meets the #agrifood sector beyond which the two navigate forward collaboratively to define a next-generation Alberta Advantage. A key trans-sectoral focus? Awareness through advocacy and education. While in many ways the energy-agrifood interface is as old as the province itself, it has been largely transactional and in the shadows. Ask ten Albertans who is among the largest consumers of natural gas is and nine will be hard pressed to answer: the fertilizer sector. Yes, Virginia, methane is a key input into our food system as an input into the products farmers use to keep our plates full. We need to "know better" as Albertans if these realities are to translate into a better economy and better environment. But thanks to the work we're doing at Agriculture for Life, the sectors are pivoting from the transactional to the strategic. In the process, we're creating a foundation for a future that focuses on the twin pillars of energy and food security and stability of supply -- while enabling a highly resolved focus on climate and environment imperatives. Tomorrow night, at the Agriculture for Life annual Harvest Gala at Heritage Park Historical Village, we're pulling the covers off a unique strategic advisory body comprised of 30 leaders from both sectors. Their role is to guide our board of directors toward initiatives and efforts geared toward education, literacy, and critical thinking. The concept will be brought to life through questions I will put to Glenn Logan of Wheatcrest Farms and Scott Van Vliet, of the Sheppard Creek Cattle Company. Glenn's a fellow board director and both he and Scott sits on the advisory committee -- and both live and work simultaneously in both sectors. That conversation will be reinforced by subsequent perspectives offered at the Gala by key post-secondary leaders like fellow director Stuart Cullum of Red Deer Polytechnic and Brad Donaldson EdD of Lethbridge Polytechnic We're also pleased to welcome a great contingent of energy folks who are members of the Canadian Energy Executive Association, an organization that shares Agriculture for Life's advocacy and education values. Lisa Mueller Mark O. Brian Hamm Jason Sharpe Tim McMillan Luree Williamson Hon. Ted Menzies, P.C. David Hood RJ Sigurdson Rajan Sawhney Brian Jean Rebecca Schulz Rose Lecky Megan Croft John Cassidy John Hartnett Doug M. David Hughes Nick Betts Liam Whitelaw, PMP Scott Bolton Selene Munro Nate Glubish Nathan Neudorf
Lisa Mueller
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Very excited to attend this event!
Ian Nieboer
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Great to see these important and symbiotic sectors actively and publicly working together.
Partner, Wheatcrest Ag Partnership. President & Board Chair of Canadian Seed Growers Association CSGA, Ag for Life Board Director.
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