Canadian Centre for Energy Information
The Canadian Centre for Energy Information (CCEI) is a Canadian federal government website and portal that was announced on May 23, 2019.[1]
The Canadian Energy Information Portal was launched by Statistics Canada, in partnership with Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and the—now defunct—National Energy Board. The regularly updated and expanded online interactive site provides a "single point" for accessing information Canadian energy sector including energy production, consumption, international trade, transportation, prices with monthly federal and provincial statistics.[1]
According to their website, the portal "supports Statistics Canada's shift toward a more collaborative model to ensure Canadians have access to a broad range of statistics."[1] Funds were allocated in the 2019 Canadian federal budget for "increased access to comparable, consolidated energy data through the creation of a virtual data centre combining information from across federal, provincial and territorial organizations."[1] The federal government's Canadian Centre for Energy Information will be developed using content from the Canadian Energy Information Portal.[1]
Historical CCEI
The name—Canadian Centre for Energy Information (CCEI)—was previously used by a now-defunct Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)'s in-house information centre, that was established in 2002. The Calgary-based Petroleum Communication Foundation (PCF), which was in existence from 1975 until December 31, 2002, fulfilled a similar mandate to that of the CCEI of creating "awareness and understanding of how the Canadian petroleum industry operated."[2][3] When CAPP's CCEI was established in 2002, PCF was merged into the new organization.[2] CAPP no longer used the CCEI after 2013.[4] Over the years, the PCF and the CCEI published seven editions of Robert Bott's Our petroleum challenge: into the 21st century under various titles.[5][6][7][8][9][Notes 1]
See also
- Canadian Energy Centre also known as Canadian Energy Centre Limited (CECL), a $30 million dollar pro-industry Calgary, Alberta-based corporation, established on December 11, 2019, by the Alberta government to improve Alberta's oil and gas reputation and to rebut and rebuke criticism of the fossil fuel industry.
Notes
- The first and third editions were entitled Our Petroleum challenge. The fourth edition was entitled Our petroleum challenge in the 1990s. The title of the fifth edition was Our petroleum challenge into the 21st century.
References
- Canada, Natural Resources (May 23, 2019). "Canadian Centre for Energy Information". Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- "Petroleum Communication Foundation fonds: Alberta On Record". Glenbow Museum. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- Tait, Carrie (August 20, 2010). "Saving the oil sands". National Post. Calgary. ISSN 1486-8008. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- "How the launch of the Canadian Energy Information Centre could fill major gaps in energy data | National Observer". Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- Bott, Robert (1993). Our Petroleum Challenge: Sustainability into the 21st Century. Petroleum Communication Foundation. p. 63. OCLC 630077209. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- Bott, Robert (1999). Our petroleum challenge: exploring Canada's oil and gas industry. Calgary: Petroleum Communication Foundation. p. 101. ISBN 1894348001. OCLC 237090031. Retrieved December 30, 2019.The Calgary-based Petroleum Communication Foundation or Foundation published books from c.1992 to c.2001.
- Bott, Robert (2004). Our Petroleum Challenge: Sustainability into the 21st Century. Canadian Centre for Energy Information. p. 131.
- Bott, Robert (2009). Our Petroleum Challenge: Sustainability into the 21st Century (7 ed.). Canadian Centre for Energy Information. ISBN 189434815X. The seventh edition was co-authored with David M. Carson and Jan W. Henderson.
- McMillan, Tim (2017). "The growing world will require more energy, in all forms (PDF) (Report). p. 12. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
Renewables and new alternative sources will increasingly supply a larger part of that energy mix. but the world is also going to need oil and natural gas for a long time."