Friday, March 28, 2014

Preston Manning gives Enbridge advice on 'winning' a big oil campaign

Northern Gateway VP Janet Holder: "I'm not running for election."

 

Janet Holder and Preston Manning at GLOBE 2014 - Kim Bellavance Photography
Northern Gateway executive vice-president Janet Holder and Preston Manning at GLOBE 2014 in Vancouver Thursday. Kim Bellavance Photography. 
 
 
Reform Party founder and conservative icon Preston Manning stepped into B.C. oil politics Thursday, when he appeared to give Enbridge’s vice-president Janet Holder advice on using the lessons of politics in building more support for the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline.

Manning was seated next to Holder at a “GLOBE 2014” conference panel in Vancouver that addressed the challenges of transporting oil.  He told the panel, which included pipeline engineering and railway executives, that large companies need to communicate their projects as if they were trying to “win an election.”  

“Imagine that the project name is on a ballot,” said Manning.  “Imagine that the alternatives are on the ballot… and for any of those options to prevail in our current climate in which we live, it needs to win.”
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