Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow
Dr. Fournier is an accomplished executive and senior scientist, with a 15-year track record in the oil sands, power generation, environmental science and agricultural industries, both in Canada and in United States.
His career has afforded him an exposure to a diverse range of exciting technology development projects, where he enjoyed fulfilling leadership roles with numerous capital projects, each more than $100 million.
Dr. Fournier`s formal graduate training was in chemical physics, with a focus on solid state electrochemistry specific to hydrogen fuel cells and battery technologies and his undergraduate training was in physics and environmental chemistry.
Currently, Dr. Fournier lives 100 km east of Calgary near the village of Rockford, where he and his family own and operate a ranch along Service Berry Creek. Dr. Fournier`s professional engagements include free-lance journalism and has written over 70 articles over the past 2 years on a range of topics in the space of energy, environment and climate science.
In the global rush to decarbonize, agriculture faces a contradictory narrative: livestock emissions are condemned as climate threats, while the same crops turned into biofuels are praised as green solutions argues senior fellow Dr. Joseph Fournier. This double standard ignores the natural carbon cycle and the fossil-fuel foundations of modern farming, penalizing food producers while rewarding biofuel makers through skewed carbon accounting and misguided policy incentives.
