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Varcoe: 'Act urgently': A new recipe for getting big energy projects built quickly in Canada

'We just need to understand, what are the rules of the road,' said Alex Pourbaix, chair of Cenovus Energy and incoming chair of the Business Council of Alberta

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Alberta wants a new oil pipeline built to the British Columbia coast. Ottawa wants a major carbon capture network developed in this province.

Alex Pourbaix, chair of Cenovus Energy and a former executive at TransCanada Corp., finds himself at the heart of the action in this country.

And he’s hoping Canada can avoid a repeat of the pitfalls that led to major projects such as Energy East failing to progress last decade, as the country now looks to get more natural resources to hungry global markets through new developments.

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