World Energy Congress Q & A Transcript and Audio

ForestEthics volunteer Jolan Bailey questions Royal Dutch Shell's CEO about plans to drill coalbed methane wells in the Sacred Headwaters at the World Energy Congress in Montreal.

Here's the transcript:

Jolan: [You want to drill coalbed methane] wells in the headwaters of three of BC's largest salmon ecosystems and salmon rivers and is opposed by 75% of local residents. I'd like to hear your thoughts on how that is safe and responsible.

Voser: Thanks for the question. As I said in my speech, it needs all the stakeholders to work together and I think Shell we are leading in that aspect to work with local communities, to work with the local issues when we actually start to develop our business there and I can now have a long list of examples where we have done this very successfully. So, as a policy we clearly we work with, in a responsible, in an environmentally efficient way and we do this normally together with our stakeholders and in the area you are mentioning, this should be no different there. I think that is actually take place at this stage as we are engaging.

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