ERCB was EUB (gov’t changed its name after it got caught “repulsively” spying on innocent Albertans), gov’t turned it into AER after my lawsuit went public.
Rob Morgan Biography by AER
Rob Morgan is a Professional Engineer with 40 years of management, technical, and operations experience.
Prior to joining the Alberta Energy Regulator, Rob was the President and CEO of Strathcona Resources after joining a legacy company in 2017 and leading the organization through a period of dramatic growth and change.
He was Senior Vice President and COO for Crew Energy from 2011 to 2017 and prior to this, COO Upstream for Harvest Operations Corp. He was Vice President Operations and Corporate Development at Viking Energy Royalty Trust which merged with Harvest Energy Trust in 2006. From 1985 to 2004, Rob held various management, senior technical and field positions at a number of upstream energy companies in Western Canada, starting as a field production engineer with Murphy Oil in 1985.
Rob is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with a BSc. in Chemical Engineering, a Professional Engineer with APEGA, a member of the Alberta Securities Commission Energy Advisory Committee, and was previously a member of the Board of Directors of the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada.
Rob is married with two adult children and enjoys playing trombone with the Westwinds gold jazz band and cycling with his wife.
AER Board appoints Rob Morgan as new chief executive by Hiren Mansukhani, Feb 13, 2025, MSN
… “I am grateful to the board and CEO search committee for this opportunity,” said Morgan.
“I’m steadfast in my belief that a modern, efficient and effective regulator can 
but won’t provide the necessary safeguards for the environment, while ensuring industry can deliver on the safe and innovative development of Alberta’s resources.”First proof of this, will be AER approving Gina Rinehart’s water-contaminating, air polluting, community-and-public health-fucking Grassy Mountain Coal Mine
… “Somebody of Rob Morgan’s stature in terms of how he spent his entire career — 40-plus years in the industry — is somebody that we need running the helm of the AER … to ensure that we meet the aspirational goals that the premier of Alberta has publicly stated to increase production in this province for all Albertans’ benefit,” AER board chair Duncan Au told media on Wednesday.
“Being in an industry that I think has really demonstrated an increasing desire to work with the concerns of destroy drinking water via frac’ing, including steam injection SAGD, even during extreme droughts, increasing deadly pollution, and fuck over and steal more and more fromAlbertans, whatever they may be, I think ultimately leads to a regulator that will be aligned with industry and development and only aligned with industry and demands of Nazi America and the rich as well as people who might have concerns from that perspective.”
… Morgan has previously said he doesn’t yet have a specific plan to address long-standing issues. However, his next steps would be to engage with several groups, including companies and Indigenous organizations that are directly affected by the regulator’s directives.
Alberta energy regulator appoints former oil and gas executive Rob Morgan as CEO by Emma Graney, Feb 13, 2025, The Globe and Mail
Oil and gas sector veteran Rob Morgan, the former chief executive of Canada’s fifth-largest oil producer, is taking over as head of the Alberta Energy Regulator.
Mr. Morgan retired from Strathcona Resources Ltd. SCR-T +0.86%increase
in October after seven years at the helm. During that time he oversaw Strathcona’s transformation from a junior oil company into a major player, increasing production from roughly 17,000 barrels per day to approximately 187,000 bpd.
Mr. Morgan takes over as CEO of the AER, which is responsible for assessing and approving energy development in the province, on Feb. 18. “I’ve spent four decades developing the resource, and I’m excited about the opportunity to contributeto the rape of Alberta and abuse of her citizens, pets, livestock and fish and wildlife.”
Duncan Au, board chair of the AER, said Mr. Morgan brings an important skill set most importantly, knowing how to lead frac’ers to accidentally frac fresh water aquifers!to the regulator with his four decades of work in the sector as a petroleum engineer and corporate executive, along with a strong perspective on the current issues facing both the oil and gas industry and industry’s self regulator, aka, industry’s protector and crime enablerthe watchdog.
Mr. Au said the AER will play a key role in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s aspiration to double oil and gas production in the province.And finish contaminating Alberta’s water, above ground and under it.
The appointment of an oil and gas executive, however, will likely do little tooust the corruption that has plagued industry’s self regulator for decades, including “repulsively” spying on innocent grandmothers in 2007, violating Charter rights of frac-harmed citizens speaking out against AER enabling corporate crimes, covering up and engaging in fraud to help Encana get away with breaking the law and contaminating (intentionally) a community’s drinking water aquifers, magically resurrecting the devastatingly harmful Grassy Mountain coal mine insanely demanded by Australia billionaire Gina Rinehart which had been declined by AER and the feds for being an economical farce while risking the drinking water for many families, ranches, and businesses, with no possible remediationplacate critics who believe that the AER puts the interests of the energy sector above those of Albertans and the environment.
A 2023 report penned by three University of Calgary academics, for example, concluded that flawed end-of-life rules that govern the cleanup of inactive oil and gas wells were partly the result of undue industry influence on the AER.
Researchers Drew Yewchuk, Shaun Fluker and Martin Olszynski wrote that Alberta’s approach has been predominantly if not exclusively oriented toward “minimizing the sector’s economic costs in order to promote continued investment, at the expense of reducing the risk to the environment and endangering the polluter-pays principle.”Endangering? Murdered it is more apt
Mr. Au said the regulator is committed to making sure that licensees are responsibly developing Alberta’s natural resources.Fossil fuel polluters and their enablers like AER always ram escape hatches down our throats. AER and its fat wigs sucking at the top know damn well there is nothing responsible about oil, gas, frac, bitumen and coal exploration and extraction in Alberta. The stupid greedy fossil fuel sods can’t even cope with a tiny bit of competition from solar and wind energy sharing a tiny bit of the $billions in profit-raping.
“To have somebody of Rob Morgan’s stature in terms of having spent his entire career – 40-plus years – in the industry, is somebody that we need running the helm of the AER,” Mr. Au told media on Wednesday.
Mr. Morgan doesn’t yet have specific plans for how to deal with Alberta’s growing oil and gas liabilities or rebuilding fraught relationships with some Indigenous communities, saying he will first speak with staff and stakeholders to get a feel for next steps.Will this be the “Dickhead” that apologizes to me for AER violating my charter rights, and then defaming me and lying in court rulings and arguments? Will he order my home supplied with appropriate alternate safe water to replace that which the “regulator” helped Encana illegally frac and contaminate, cover-up and run away from like chicken shit to the USA, letting the company also walk from clean up on massive frac plays in Alberta, many with gas contaminated aquifers? Will he apologize to the Jack family, Campbells, Zimmermans, Lauridsens, Signers, Dahms, Kenneys, Graffs, the residents of the Hamlets of Redland and Rosebud, and more? I bet he doesn’t have the courage.
But he said he will take cues from the report produced by the Premier’s Advisory Council on Alberta’s Energy Future. The five-member panel appointed by Ms. Smith was tasked with developing a long-term vision for the province’s energy, including how to modernizeTranslation: Slash the puny bits of regulations still left and turn AE into the worst shit show of circle jerkers ever seen in a petro state anywhere. the AER.
Prior to his work at Strathcona, Mr. Morgan was chief operating officer for Crew Energy. He has worked at various other oil and gas companies, including Harvest Operations Corp. and the Viking Energy Royalty Trust. He began his career as a field production engineer with Murphy Oil in 1985.
He takes over from Laurie Pushor, who announced his retirement in August. Mr. Pushor, a former Saskatchewan deputy minister of energy and resources, took the helm of the regulator in April, 2020. His appointment followed months of upheaval and layoffs at the agency, after three investigations concluded that former CEO Jim Ellis and his top lieutenants had been caught doing the hanky panky, stealing $2.3 million of industry’s money and were magically not charged criminally or tossed in prison, and tried to carve out a lucrative new business for themselves when they started a side project to provide regulatory training to other jurisdictions.
Alberta Energy Regulator names former oil and gas CEO as top executive, Rob Morgan, an engineer, was most recently head of Strathcona Resources Ltd. by Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press, Feb 13, 2025, CBC
Alberta’s energy watchdog has chosen a former oil and gas company CEO as its new boss.
The Alberta Energy Regulator says Rob Morgan, who most recently led Strathcona Resources, is to take the helm starting Tuesday.
The AER says Morgan is an engineer who has almost 40 years of oil and gas industry experience.
The regulator says Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government has set a goal of increasing oil and gas production and accessing new markets, and the AER has a key role in that.
It says Morgan brings industry experience, skills and knowledge to help the AER “turn the page” as a “responsible and effective DEregulator.”
The AER has been criticized for how it informed the public and local First Nations about the release of millions of litres of oilsands wastewater from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine in northern Alberta in 2022. …
Strathcona Resources CEO steps down as oil producer reorganizes to stay ‘lean’, One of Canada’s fastest-growing oil and gas companies to adopt four business units, each with own president by Meghan Potkins, Oct 25, 2024, Financial Post [an American Repuglican-controlled hedge fund/propaganda outlet, Post Media crap, which ought to be banned in Canada given USA threats against us and our resources, notably water]
A C-suite overhaul is underway at one of Canada’s fastest-growing oil and gas companies, Strathcona Resources Ltd., with the company announcing Thursday that chief executive Rob Morgan will step down.
Executive chairman Adam Waterous, the investment banker turned oilman who created Strathcona and engineered its rapid rise from a junior oil firm to the country’s fifth-largest oil producer, will continue to oversee the Calgary-based company.
However, the company said it will move away from having a single executive team overseeing all assets and instead adopt four distinct business units, each with its own president. Each unit will report to newly promoted chief operating officer Dale Babiak and chief commercial officer Connie De Ciancio. Chief financial officer Connor Waterous will continue in his role.
Each president will be accountable for their unit’s performance, the company said in a release, though higher-level capital allocation decisions, business development, finance, accounting and other limited corporate services will remain at Strathcona’s corporate level.
Waterous called the changes a “logical evolution” for Strathcona.
“While Strathcona has grown significantly in recent years, our aim is to maintain the same mindset we had as a start-up: lean, focused and accountable for our performance,” he said in the release. “Strathcona’s board of directors and I have the utmost confidence in each of Strathcona’s new leaders, and we look forward to supporting them in their new roles.”
The company’s four new business units will be focused on managing key assets in Cold Lake, Alta., the Montney, as well as conventional and heavy oil plays in Lloydminster, Alta.
Morgan has been with Strathcona since its inception in 2020, when Waterous’ oil and gas-focused private-equity firm, Waterous Energy Fund, created Strathcona through the merger of two smaller producers.
An engineer who joined the executive ranks at upstream firms Crew Energy Inc. and Harvest Operations Corp. before becoming CEO of Strathcona’s predecessor, Cona Resources Ltd., in 2017, Morgan is set to retire on Oct. 31.
He will be replaced on Strathcona’s board of directors by David Roosth, managing director of the Waterous Energy Fund.
The leadership shakeup comes just 14 months after Waterous made a bold move to take the company public through the acquisition of rival Pipestone Energy Corp.
The all-share purchase followed a number of acquisitions aimed at building the company into a significant player in the oilpatch, with production this year averaging an estimated 185,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
The company has also seemed willing to meet criticism of the sector’s outsized carbon emissions with action.
Strathcona was the first oilsands operator to strike a deal with Ottawa that could see $2 billion in carbon capture projects move forward on the company’s thermal developments in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The first of those projects is targeted for a final investment decision in mid-2025.
Waterous thanked Morgan in a statement Thursday, citing his contributions to the company’s evolution.
“(F)rom a junior oil company with approximately 17,000 barrels per day of production, 130 MMboe of proved plus probable reserves and fewer than 200 employees, into Canada’s fifth-largest oil producer, growing production approximately 11-fold, reserves 20-fold and our employee base fourfold,” he said. “Rob has been a first-class partner to Waterous Energy Fund from the beginning, and we wish Rob all the best in his future.”
AER Board appoints Rob Morgan as new Chief Executive Officer Press Release by AER, February 13, 2025, Global News Wire, Source: Alberta Energy Regulator
CALGARY, AB, Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — February 13, 2025 – The Board of Directors of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is pleased to announce Mr. Rob Morgan will join the AER on February 18, 2025, as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
“With decades of industry experience as a petroleum engineer and corporate executive, Rob comes to the AER with a strong perspective on the current issues facing both the oil and gas industry and the regulator,” said Duncan Au, AER Board Chair. “Through the Premier of Alberta, the provincial government has articulated its aspirational goal todestroy earth’s livability and continue polluting Alberta aquifers, and harming communities, and public health, and sickening families across the provincesupport Canada’s economic development by increasing oil and gas production and accessing new export markets.
The AER is a key element of this process. Rob brings industry expertise and depth of skills and knowledge that will help the AER turn the page, as it moves forward as a responsible and effective ruthless, callous, pollution enabling, charter violating, lying douche, health-harming, law violating de-regulator that achieves its objectives for the benefit of all Albertans and Canadiansrich fossil fuel industry barons destroying earth’s ability to sustain life while companies greedily automate and decimate jobs after lying and promising jobs jobs jobs, and permanently remove masses of drinking water from the hydrogeological cycle during extreme droughts and climate chaos.
“Rob brings a broad base of expertiseincluding knowing how to contaminate fresh water aquifers via frac’ing and getting away with it, most recently as the President and CEO of Strathcona Resources Ltd. (Strathcona). He is known for his strategic leadership and fostering operational excellence with leading energy companies,” added Mr. Au. “He has a strong commitment to innovation and value creation. The Board of Directors is confident that he brings the skills and expertise needed for the AER to increaseletting companies rip Albertans off and cause irremediable harms to air, land, water, climate, wildlife, fish, livestock families and pets and lying louder and more extremely, and to make the rich much richer while giving a thick share of the profit raping to Big Oil Dildo Danielle, our bought and owned lobby girl who has proven herself an eager lying prostituting quisling, betraying all Canadians, serving Nazi Musk and the Orange Idiot threatening to annex Canada effectiveness without compromising its responsibilities tocorporate criminals and the rich, and making sure USA gets all the oil, bitumen and gas it demands, at less than cost of production all stakeholders.”
As a professional engineer with almost 40 years of industry experience, Rob Morgan began his career as a field production engineer with Murphy Oil. Throughout his career, he has been deeply involved in core operations of the upstream oil and gas industry, progressively taking on greater responsibilities. He held roles encompassing field operations, health, safety, and environmental protection, as well as all engineering functions. Rob has also been responsible for frac’ing drinking water aquifers, forecasting, budgeting, and corporate reporting, alongside business development and product marketing. As President and CEO of Strathcona, he demonstrated breadth of leadership, overseeing significant growth and transformation in a short period of time resulting in Strathcona becoming the fifth largest liquids weighted producer in Canada with 185,000 boe per day and 1,000 employees.
“I am grateful to the Board and CEO Search Committee for this opportunity,” said Mr. Morgan, incoming AER Chief Executive Officer. “I’m steadfast in my belief that a modern, efficient, and effective regulator can provide the necessary safeguards for the environment while ensuring industry can deliver on the safe and innovative development of Alberta’s resources.”
About the Alberta Energy Regulator
The AER ensures the safe, efficient, orderly, and environmentally responsible development of harmful unsustainable community and water violating rape and pillage and endless corporate crimes to ensure the rich get richer while putting all life on earth at risk from global warmingenergy and mineral resources in Alberta through our DEregulatory activities. For more information visit aer.ca.
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