What Working in Alberta’s Oil Boom Taught Me about Power

What Working in Alberta’s Oil Boom Taught Me about Power

In 1967, John Howard Pew, the eighty-five-year-old chair of Sun Oil, and Ernest Manning, premier of Alberta, attended the opening of the bitumen upgrading plant near Fort McMurray. It was part of the Great Canadian Oil Sands development, a subsidiary of Sun Oil. Both men were evangelical Christians. In 1930, Manning began preaching on a radio program, Back to the Bible Hour, and continued to preach as premier, encouraging Christians to live in t…