Webinar | Humanity’s Top Priority in 2025: Energy Security
Security of energy supply is the linchpin of modern life. We depend on abundant and affordable energy, available at all times, to build our houses, grow our food, move around, stay warm (or cool), and, in short, to live our lives.
Billions of global citizens lacking energy security strive to achieve it every day. However, many people in high-income nations like Canada have had energy security their entire lives and sometimes take it for granted. They focus on other priorities without realizing they are endangering their energy security.
We’ll talk about achieving and maintaining energy security as the top priority for all of humanity. It has to be the top priority because we cannot achieve any other goals without it.
Learning objectives
- understand that energy security is humanity’s top priority
- realize that billions of global citizens live without energy security and strive every day to achieve it
- examine how failure to appreciate the importance of energy is endangering energy security in many high-income nations
- discuss revision of societal and political goals to ensure future energy security, supporting our ability to achieve other goals such as reducing environmental impacts
This session will be held through ON24.
For any questions about this event, please contact [email protected].
About the speaker 
Brad Hayes, P.Geol, PhD, FGC, is president of Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd., a geoscience and engineering consulting firm advising clients on oil and gas development, subsurface carbon storage, water resource management, helium and lithium brine exploration, and geothermal energy. He joined PRCL in 1996 after 15 years in oil and gas companies including Shell Canada and Canadian Hunter Exploration. He currently serves on the Board of Alpha Helium, a private helium exploration company based in Calgary.
Dr. Hayes earned a PhD in geology from the University of Alberta after completing a B.Sc. in geology at the University of Toronto. He is the outreach director for the Canadian Society for Evolving Energy (CSEE), and a past-president of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG). He completed two three-year terms as a councillor for APEGA from 2013 to 2019. Brad is also a member of the Energy Technical Advisory Committee for Geoscience BC.
Dr. Hayes is an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He has published and presented extensively on a variety of technical geoscience subjects at industry and regulatory conferences. Brad is also a prominent media commentator, writing for a variety of technical and business publications as well as engaging actively on social media, focused on energy systems of the future.
Brad was awarded the Stanley Slipper Gold Medal by the Canadian Energy Geoscience Association (CEGA) in 2022 and the Canadian Professional Geoscientist Award by Geoscientists Canada in 2024.