When Martha Hall Findlay heard Canada’s prime minister and Alberta’s premier speak with enthusiasm Thursday about the necessity of the Pathways carbon capture project to their long-promised “grand bargain,” she felt herself moved.

“The support wasn’t always there … to have those two in those roles talk about how absolutely critical the Pathways project will be to making all of this happen, I felt like I wanted to cry,” said the former Liberal MP and oilsands executive, who played a key role in the development of the Pathways Alliance.

She's currently the director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.

“For those of us who’ve been working on some of these things for a long time and feeling like sometimes it was just like banging our head against a wall, or a few wa

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