Peter Pilarski

Peter Pilarski's family immigrated to Canada in search of a better life and found it here in Alberta.

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Sharon Martin

After living in Saskatchewan for most of her life, Sharon Martin seized the opportunity to come to Alberta almost two years ago.

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Warren Heisler

Growing up on a farm in central Alberta, Warren Heisler remembers challenging the conventional way of doing things, even from a young age.

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Vince Corkery

"With the focus on dwindling water resources and the pressure on industry to lead the way in terms of reclaiming water, plants like EPCOR's Gold Bar Plant, working together with industry, play a large role in ensuring sustainable water supply for all Albertans."

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Greg Powell

Looking ahead, Powell would like to see continued collaboration between the energy industry and non-profit charitable organizations like STARS, in order to establish an economy that fosters the realization of a healthy and safe community for our families.

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Ryan Miller

"Just look at the training facilities we have at SAIT. Post secondary institutions in Alberta receive a lot of donations and support for both programs and students. Albertan students forget what great opportunities we have in this province."

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Wendy Vaughan

"Many energy companies support the 4-H clubs of the community in which they operate, as well as provide assistance with building projects and sporting events. This kind of support gives the community a boost and has a positive impact on the quality of community life."

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Gale Katchur

Gale Katchur knows the ins and outs of the oil and gas industry. She is, after all, mayor of Fort Saskatchewan, a city that plays host to more than 21 heavy and light industry plants.

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Tom Spoletini

Spoletini says a strong energy sector keeps food on the table all over the province. "It touches us all, absolutely. I think that, in all walks of life, the oil industry touches us all in some way."

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Anil Walji

Condo developer Anil Walji first fell in love with Rocky Mountain House in 1993 when he was doing his master's thesis in Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, while studying the resource industry in the area.

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Marco Abdi

"When you really care, people can feel it. They know that we serve them the very best and they appreciate it. That's what I love about being in Calgary. There are very good people here," says Marco Abdi.

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Gary Moe

"If you're not in the used car business, you're not in the car business," says Gary Moe, who has learned a thing or two over the years about selling cars in Alberta's economy.

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Sydney Sveinson

Sydney Sveinson's clients at Energy Works Integrative Wellness range from academics to executives, seniors to teenagers and everyone in between. A couple of years ago, she was on the brink of a significant expansion, talking with oil and gas companies about offering her services to their employees.

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Cathy Corbett-Schock

Cathy Corbett-Schock captures memories for a living. The home-based photographer in Brooks records the joy of life's milestones, big and small: graduations, engagements and weddings, children and smiling families.

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Patrick Danis

Patrick Danis spends a lot of time thinking about the oil and gas industry. An investment advisor with Edward Jones in Rocky Mountain House, Danis not only follows and invests in many energy stocks for his clients, but many of those same clients work in the oil patch in west central Alberta.

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John Dampf

When John Dampf was a teenager working on the rigs and wolfing down three squares a day, he had no idea that 30 years later he'd be on the other side of the stove, responsible for serving about a million meals a month to people working in the field, and living in camps.

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Pak Wong

Pak Wong's journey from Hong Kong to running a motel in central Alberta started in 1968, when his family sent him to care for ailing relatives in Winnipeg.

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Ken McCagherty

Ken McCagherty has been working around the world in the energy sector for 30 years. About half of that time, he's spent right here in Alberta.

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Karyn Decore

Every year, millions of people from all over Canada and the world come to Alberta to experience the powerful beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Plenty of them stay in Jasper and Banff hotels that are run by Karyn Decore's family business.

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Geoff Grimsdick

When 30-year-old Geoffrey Grimsdick started his MBA, his plan was to work in the US or China; but by the time he graduated from the University of Washington in 2009, the global recession had wiped out many of those opportunities.

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Manu and Al Jogia

Al Jogia quite literally keeps time with the energy industry. The watchmaker and jeweler runs Alberta Time Services in downtown Calgary's Energy Plaza, one of the dozens of gleaming office towers that headquarter Alberta's energy industry.

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Tyrone Brass

As a young man just starting out in Alberta's energy industry, 50-year old Tyrone Brass remembers seeing a native business showing off its success in a parade near his home reserve.

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Mireille Farkouh

Mireille Farkouh knows her bitumen. Not only can she tell you why a bitumen molecule is one of the most complex found in nature, but she can tell you the story of the Cree man who brought the first sample of bitumen to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1719.

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