Research Fellow

Maureen McCall

Research Fellow

Maureen McCall

About

Maureen McCall is a Research Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. She received a BA in political science and literature from York University, a broadcast diploma from Humber College, and an Energy Joint Venture analyst certificate from the Petroleum Joint Venture Association. She is an accomplished communicator, researcher, and writer. She has written as a contributor to energy publications, such as BOE report.com, EnergyNow.ca, Natural Gas World.com, and Frontier Centre for Public Policy, while developing robust social media content distribution. She has been interviewed in broadcast media about energy. 

Before her appointment at FCPP, Maureen worked for International and Canadian oil and gas companies operating in Canada, the U.S. and around the world, including ConocoPhillips Canada, Ovintiv, Devon Canada, Husky Energy Inc., Parkland Fuels, Interpipeline Ltd. Apache Canada and more. She has served for seven years on the Board of Directors of the Petroleum Joint Venture Association. Before her work in the energy industry, she held mainstream media roles as show producer and host- working with various national broadcast organizations and generating regular feature news magazine content.

POLICY FOCUS

Energy

Trade

Economy

RESOURCES

Research by Maureen McCall

Indigenous-led Projects Hold Key To Canada’s Energy Future

Indigenous-led Projects Hold Key To Canada’s Energy Future

A revived push for the Northern Gateway pipeline has sparked fresh debate over Indigenous-led energy development. Frontier Fellow Maureen McCall highlights how leaders like Calvin Helin and Dale Swampy argue that Canada’s energy future—and its global competitiveness—depends on Indigenous equity, regulatory reform, and responsible resource partnerships. With support growing among First Nations for LNG and pipeline projects, they are calling for the repeal of restrictive laws and the embrace of Indigenous leadership to advance both economic reconciliation and national energy security.

Federal Clean Power Plan Risks Blackouts And Higher Bills

Federal Clean Power Plan Risks Blackouts And Higher Bills

AI-fuelled data centres are pushing Canada’s grid to the brink, warns Maureen McCall. Provinces scramble to keep up while Ottawa’s Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) pile on risk and trigger constitutional fights. Hydropower’s tapped out, renewables can’t close the gap. McCall demands urgent action: scrap the CER, slash red tape on transmission projects, and supercharge investment in new power infrastructure. Without it, Canada faces soaring costs, blackouts and a blow to its global competitiveness.

Energy Policy in a Post-Trudeau Canada Paper

Energy Policy in a Post-Trudeau Canada Paper

  Interprovincial collaboration - Counteracting Eight years of opposition to oil and gas It's not easy to consider Canadian energy policy post-Trudeau after a little over eight years of a federal government that enacted policies that were punishing to the oil and...