Donald Tusk Quotes

The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects.

India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.

Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

Small business owners are fighting every day to create and innovate, but continue to face government barriers to job creation.

The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.

I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

Last year we nationalized hydrocarbons. This year it will be mining.

New industries are as a rule more profitable than old ones.

While Arctic warming is a fait accompli, it should not be taken as a license to recklessly plunder a sensitive environment …. Like it or not, the Arctic is open for business and governments and investors have every reason to get in on the ground floor.

People want the Keystone pipeline built all across the country.

I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

Governments need to be seriously sceptical about whether new coal provides a good deal for their citizens.