Changes to Alberta’s Electricity Market
Susan Wright, is a lawyer with 26 years of experience in petrochemicals, pipelines, oil and natural gas
There will be significant changes to Alberta’s electricity market over the next decade. Susan Wright will discuss how the Alberta government’s decision to terminate the Power Purchase Arrangements, shut down coal plants and move to a capacity market will impact Albertans in the years to come.
Speaker: Susan Wright obtained her LLB from the University of Calgary in 1984 and was called to the Bar in 1985. She worked as a litigator at a downtown law firm before moving in-house with a major energy company. She spent 26 years in the petrochemicals, pipelines, oil and natural gas industry, practicing in Canada and the US. She was the VP Legal, General Counsel at Alliance Pipelines before she retired to run in the 2014 provincial by-election.
Susan writes a political blog Susan on the Soapbox which won a Clawbie in 2013 for the best legal blog for a non-legal audience. Posts have been reprinted in Huffington Post, Rabble and Alberta Views. Susan is a regular panelist on CTV’s Alberta Primetime and has appeared on CBC Radio and Danielle Smith’s Newstalk 770. She received the PIA Public Interest Award for Southern Alberta in 2016.
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Rosedale Community Hall, 901 - 11 Avenue NW
