Oil’s Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming – in Alberta, and in Ottawa, by Kevin Taft, Lorimer, 2017

Oil’s Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming – in Alberta, and in Ottawa, by Kevin Taft, Lorimer, 2017

Full disclosure, Kevin is my former MLA and a personal friend. I was given a preliminary manuscript to read. I offered a few comments and suggestions, and told Kevin it was an important book that needed to be published. I was in government through much of the time Kevin described and saw some of these machinations first hand. Kevin is a strong advocate for energy policies that will slow the rate of climate change, and makes no apologies for that. My work remains focussed on oil and gas management and regulation, but I am also a strong supporter of climate change policies.