As awful as 2020 has been, the year's unpredictability could be a harbinger of what's to come for the offshore, warns Carter. Several of her family members work in the oil industry, and she dedicated Fossilized to her father, who was a pipefitter in the offshore and helped build the Terra Nova platform. The initial boom's blush has certainly faded, but one thing has been a constant: Carter says offshore environmental initiatives to regulate the offshore were, and are, slim. "This is a really, really hard message for oil-producing places like Newfoundland and Labrador," Carter said, adding this message about extraction is circulating globally. (CBC)Take oil industry arguments that it's a job creator with a grain of salt, she said, as between 2014 and 2019, it shed a quarter of its jobs, Canada-wide.

Source: CBC News November 28, 2020 10:30 UTC