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Business Strategies for Sustainable Development in the Canadian Energy Sector

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RELEASED 1996

 		 This paper was written as a discussion paper for a workshop that was held in Montreal in October 1996 to consider the ways Canada generally, and Canadian businesses in particular, are exploiting the capacity of the private sector in realizing sustainable development. To help contain the discussions, the workshop focused on the Canadian energy sector.We do not have detailed blueprints for what the energy part of a sustainable society would look like, and there will not be a single solution that works for every society. It is possible, however, to put forward what we might call "design guides" for sustainable energy development, based on the principles of sustainable development and the nature of the technological energy