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Energy’s ‘face of the future’

In Green Oil, the Alberta journalist and consultant [Satya Das] argues that sustainable development of the oil sands can play a key role in providing resources for the transition from a high-carbon economy to a clean-energy future. An excerpt: With his slow smile, trademark black cowboy hat and soft-spoken manner, Evan Chrapko [CA] is very much a modern rural Albertan. He’s completely at home in the muck and mire of a farm, but equally at ease in a boardroom or at a black-tie-and-champagne reception. Evan and his brother, Shane, part of a family that grew up on an organic farm in eastern Alberta, are also a face of the Green Future. Evan left the farm to take a commerce degree at the University of Alberta, then a law degree from Columbia University in New York. Along the way he became a chartered accountant. Then brothers got into the first generation of the tech boom, and got out just in time. They sold their dot-come firm, DocSpace, for $568 million (U.S.) back in 1999, weeks before the first tech bubble burst…
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/722497--energy-s-face-of-the-future

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