Investor interest in Alberta going ‘nuclear’ over Carney’s messaging

About this episode

Paul Colborne discusses the renewed optimism in Alberta's oil industry and the potential impact of Mark Carney's policies on investment.

After a brutal decade under Justin Trudeau’s draconian anti-development policies, there’s real optimism in the western oilpatch again. Paul Colborne, CEO of Calgary-based Surge Energy, tells Brian why he’s convinced Prime Minister Mark Carney is serious about boosting oil production, including with more pipelines, and why investors are clamouring to get in on it. He explains why he even sees benefit to the carbon-tax and emissions-sequestering conditions in Carney’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. And why he doesn’t believe B.C., First Nations or some anti-oil Liberal MPs will stand in the prime minister’s way of using resources to get us out of the disastrous, money-printing economic dead end the last prime minister left behind. (Recorded May 22, 2026) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Brian

Guest: Paul Colborne

Topics covered

• Alberta oil production
• investor interest
• carbon tax
• economic policy
• pipelines
• political commentary

Keywords

• Alberta
• oil production
• Mark Carney
• investors
• carbon tax
• Surge Energy
• Danielle Smith

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Surge Energy, Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney, Danielle Smith

Places: Alberta, B.C., Canada

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