Author's Biography

Earle Gray was editor of Oilweek magazine in Calgary for nearly 20 years. He is a former publisher, editorial consultant and speech writer, and has received numerous business writing awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Petroleum History Society.

He is the author of seven books about the energy industry: The Great Canadian Oil Patch, The Impact of Oil, The Great Uranium Cartel, Wildcatters, Super Pipe, Forty Years in the Public Interest: A History of the National Energy Board, and The Great Canadian Oil Patch: The Petroleum Era from Birth to Peak.

Gray is a native of Medicine Hat, Alberta but grew up on the West Coast and lived in Alberta and British Columbia for 41 years before moving to Ontario in 1972. His work as a journalist and author has taken him to every province and territory of Canada, from St. John’s to Tofino, from the 49th parallel to the northern tip of the Arctic Islands.