Crude Crises: The OPEC Embargo and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry

Crude Crises: The OPEC Embargo and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry

This is the ninth post in a series on the fiftieth anniversary of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, edited by Mark Stoller. Alfred Rabisca viewed his job at Imperial Oil with some detachment. Testifying before the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry in August, 1975, he explained that he’d taken the position because he needed work. Working for Imperial, he said, didn’t mean he was “pulling for the oil companies or the pipeline.”1 Like many mem…