Former Alberta Premier Alison Redford will head a team of consultants in a review of oil giant Exxon Mobil's proposed Payara oil well in the South American country of Guyana, the country's natural resources ministry announced in a statement on Saturday.
Redford's new role arrives as the country of Guyana continues to juggle its newly-discovered transformative wealth and the political reverberations of a disputed election that saw the country's former president accused of election fraud. The small nation of Guyana, formerly an impoverished British sugar colony with a population of only , people, has seen its fortunes significantly altered in recent years after multiple discoveries of significant oil finds off the country's coast.
Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil increased its estimated recoverable resource base in the country to more than eight billion oil-equivalent barrels. But in the midst of Guyana being named the fastest growing economy in the world by the International Monetary Fund, it found itself embroiled in a complex political controversy. With huge sums of funds flowing into the Guyana economy, the two competing political groups — the APNU—AFC alliance, led by the incumbent David Granger, and the opposition People's Progressive Party PPP , led by Irfaan Ali — had grown suspicious of the other that the election would be an opportunity to control the new wealth.
Further exacerbating the strain were the ethnic tensions within the country. Granger remained in power, which led to condemnation from the international community. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a press conference. Signing up enhances your TCE experience with the ability to save items to your personal reading list, and access the interactive map.
In her childhood, Alison Redford lived in Nova Scotia , Borneo and Malaysia before her parents chose to settle in Calgary when she was in her early teens.
In , while still in high school, she was elected president of the Progressive Conservative Youth of Alberta. She completed a law degree at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law in Redford was active in provincial and federal politics from the s.
While with the federal government , she organized a series of national consultations aimed at gathering public input on federal white papers concerning foreign affairs and defence policy. Throughout the s, Redford worked as a technical advisor on constitutional and legal reform issues in various parts of Africa for the European Union, the Commonwealth Secretariat see Commonwealth , the Canadian Government and the Government of Australia, specifically focused on human rights litigation, developing education programs and policy reform issues.
In , she was employed as the communications officer on the Committee for Justice Reform for the Government of Alberta see Provincial Government. In , Redford resigned from the Alberta Cabinet to devote herself to her campaign to succeed Premier Ed Stelmach as leader of the governing Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta.
Redford was elected leader of the party on the second ballot on 2 October In , Redford called a provincial election see Canadian Elections. Celebrities Born in Canada.
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