Six Degrees of Kevin Fagan

Life in the Empty Energy Warehouse

Energy minister Andrew Parsons poses for a picture in a warehouse with someone from Newfoundland and Labrador while promoting their junket to Scotland. Nice shoes, Moya. (Image: Andrew Parsons/Twitter)

Newfoundland and Labrador is an energy warehouse.

Oil. Hydro-electricity. Soon-to-be hydrogen gas.

We are so much a warehouse that last week, the provincial energy minister took a swan to Scotland for a run-of-the-mill oil and gas trade show and maybe for the chance to pick up some extra Tunnocks and a deep fried Mars Bar. Who knows? Maybe he wanted to visit the place where they created the well-known Scottish dish Tikka Masala.

Whatever Andrew Parsons did in Scotland at yet another offshore show, it had nothing to do with developing much beyond his frequent flyer portfolio.

Meanwhile, the OA - the Other Andrew - was farting around somewhere else doing something else undoubtedly transformative.

The back-up energy minister was also too busy backing up something else and the deputy minister of the department was on holidays or whatever.

So they sent an assistant deputy minister from the Super Energy Basin Youngest Oldest Coolest Giganticest Energy Warehousiest Thingy Place anywhere in the world to sit with energy ministers from across Canada to discuss the future of the industry in Canada.

No one with real clout sent from Newfoundland and Labrador to take notes on what the people with clout said and did.

This is every bit as arsed-up as it looks.