Civil servant heads banking group, Former CSIS head Raymond Protti (Gerry Protti’s brother) was named as new president of the CBA by Bertand Marotte, March 23, 1996, The Vanvouver Sun
A little history on Raymond’s brother, Gerard (Gerry) Protti:
Chairman’s conflict
… Former chair Gerry Protti had his own ICORE email address and travelled abroad to promote the initiative, according to the provincial watchdogs. He also actively recruited prospective members for ICORE’s advisory board.AER board members are supposed to list any potential conflicts, but Protti never disclosed his involvement with ICORE.
The Alberta government suspended all ICORE-related activities after it learned of multiple investigations surrounding the organization. (International Centre of Regulatory Excellence)
The overwhelming support for ICORE by Ellis and Protti “deterred [other board members] from questioning ICORE further,” according to the Auditor General’s report.
- Gerry Protti was appointed Chair of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) April 1, 2013 by the Alberta govt – or did Protti order the govt to appoint him chair and remove “public interest” from the regulator’s mandate?
- Gerry Protti was VP of Encana when the company illegally frac’d Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers and when the RCMP invaded – warrantless – Ernst’s private property to harass and try to intimidate her after she served her lawsuit papers on Encana, EUB (now AER) and the Alberta gov’t:
Slide from Ernst Presentations
At the time, Gerry Protti’s appointment to monitor impacts to environment and water from the energy industry is rife with conflict of interest. He:
- served as Founding President and Chairman of CAPP since its inception in October 1992 to September 15, 2008, when the President of Shell Canada was appointed to take over;
- served as EnCana senior executive 1995 to 2009;
- was Executive Advisor to Cenovus Energy (split from EnCana in 2009), 2010 to current;
- was appointed by Order in Council to the Board of the Alberta Research Council (after the name was changed to Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures), 2010 to December 2013 which reviewed Alberta Environment investigations/wrote reports on frac-caused water contamination cases including Ernst’s, complete with edits and conclusions changed by Alberta Environment the Council was “independently” reviewing;
- was appointed by Order in Council on July 26, 2011 to Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures;
- was a Board member of Darian Resources Ltd.;
- was a Director of Petromanas Energy Inc.;
- was on the Board of Directors of Sub-One Technology, strategic partner with Flint InnerArmour and Quinn’s Oilfield Supply;
- was Chairman of Flint Transfield Services Inc.;
- was a Vice Chair of Energy Policy Institute of Canada (EPIC); and
- was a registered lobbyist for EPIC when he was appointed.
Mr. Protti’s keynote speech at the 2005 Public Policy Forum’s Second Annual Western Conference revealed that EnCana had “begun to set up innovative development strategies,” including:
– Targeting royalties
– Regulatory streamlining …
The Energy Policy Institute of Canada writes deregulation policy and lobbies government to implement regulatory reform.
More on Gerry Protti in The Science Is Deafening, Industry’s Gas Migration
And in Andrew Nikiforuk’s award-winning Slick Water.
And:
More than 75 Alberta environmental regulators now paid by energy industry
Over 30 Alberta groups demand oil industry fox Gerard Protti get out of Alberta’s henhouse
New Alberta Energy Regulator AER now Regulates Fresh Water with 100% Oil and Gas Industry Control
Isn’t appointing Gerard Protti to regulate the energy industry in Alberta, like appointing the Wolf to protect the Three Pigs? He can’t, even if he’d like to. He’s a ‘wolf’ with an appetite for large amounts of oil and gas revenue.
Energy lobbyist, Ex Encana VP Gerard Protti, appointed as Alberta’s new top energy regulator
Alberta’s New Super ERCB: Single Regulator or Franken-Child?
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FROM CANADA TO CIMOLAIS FOLLOWING GRANDPA’S TRACKS by Born in FVG, undated
Denis, Raymond and Gerry Protti, born and living in Canada, came to Friuli and Veneto to complete the mission begun by their father Luigi in 1936. It took more than 80 years of research, travels to Italy and consultations of various archives, after difficulties and disappointments, they finally made it. Their grandfather Giovanni Battista Protti from Cimolais is buried in the cemetery of Belluno. Laura Ruzzier, a Canadian professor of Istrian origins, accompanied them in this incredible adventure.
In April 1903, Maria gave birth to a son named Sebastiano. Giovanni had to leave Cimolais for America. Giovanni embarked alone for New York at Le Havre, France, on June 13, 1903. From there he traveled to Pennsylvania and then to Canada to a small village called Pocahontas, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in the Alberta Province. In September 1913, a decade after leaving Cimolais, John succeeded in bringing Maria and Sebastiano to Canada. The family was reunited again. Maria and John had three other sons at Pocahontas: Luigi, born in 1914, Vittoria, born in 1915 and Angelo, born in 1917.
When Italy went to war in 1915, again, Giovanni left his wife, this time in Canada, and arrived in Italy in late 1916. He gave them the money he had set aside during the years of hard work in North America, hoping it would be enough to keep the family up to his return. Unfortunately, things did not go as Giovanni hoped: after one year, on December 28, 1917, Maria died of pleurisy and was buried in a small cemetery, now abandoned, at Pocahontas. For a time, their four children, the youngest was just eight months, were hosted by another family who had emigrated from Friuli, the Del Boscos. When the war ended and they realized that their father could not be reached and would not return, the three younger children were sent to an orphanage about 200 kilometers from Pocahontas operated by Francophone sisters. Sebastiano, who then was only fifteen years old, went to work in the mine.
All the traces of Giovanni Protti had been lost. Disappeared. No one knew where he was or where and if he was dead. During their lifetime their children desperately sought information of their father and in 2015 the Protti nephews returned to Cimolais. On the last day in the village, the following document was found in the parish archives: “Giovanni Protti, son of the late Sebastiano, died at 11:30 am on January 8, 1918, aged 44, a worker resident in Cimolais and was buried in the cemetery of Belluno. Death took place in Via Loreto No. 14 ” (the then civilian hospital in Belluno). He passed away twelve days after his wife and, at the time of their death, they could not imagine their children could be orphans. Giovanni Protti was hospitalized on October 19, 1917, but nothing was known about his illness and burial place. In May of this year, it emerged from the Udine State Archives that Giovanni Protti had enlisted in the Italian army in April 1917 and was reformed in June 1917 due to tuberculosis, probably because of his hospitalization at the Belluno Hospital and his death. That is why John never returned to Canada.
“On Friday, September 15, from an old archive kept in the caretaker’s house in the Belluno cemetery, we discovered his burial place in the cemetery of Belluno – specifies Gerry wiping tears of emotion – and we finally could say thank you, we will go on grandma’s grave in Canada to tell her that we finally found him. “
The Protti brothers appealed to the village of Cimolais: “We would like our grandfather to be remembered by adding his name to the fallen warriors on Cimolais’s cemetery monument because, returning to Italy, Giovanni sacrificed his life in defense of a nation he loved “.
The sons and grandchildren of Maria and Giovanni Protti have reached important study and professional goals leaving a legacy of seven grandchildren who continue to contribute to Canada’s growth through their leadership in the academic, public and corporate sectors.
Refer also to:
Big Fracking Lies poster by Will Koop, BC Tap Water Alliance
That’s actually fairly common.
Ernst’s flammable water after Encana illegally frac’d the aquifers that supply her well. Photo in 2006 by Colin Smith
The historic record on Ernst’s well filed with Alberta Environment states Gas Present No.
Slides from Ernst presentations