Executive Leadership Roundtables

As CCUS infrastructure expands across Canada, Indigenous nations are moving from consultation toward co-ownership, but that shift has been uneven across the industry. This roundtable brings developers, funders, and Indigenous leadership together to define what genuine, front-loaded engagement looks like in practice.

Why now: The July Pathways MOU has renewed public debate over consultation timelines, with several First Nations along the route saying their concerns have not been meaningfully addressed.

Discussion Questions: 

1. How can equity and ownership structures demonstrate genuine partnership rather than being perceived as compensation for gaps in consultation?
2. What would a project development model look like if Indigenous partners helped shape routing, design, monitoring, and community benefits from the earliest planning stages?
3. What long-term monitoring, governance, and emergency-response frameworks are needed to build durable community confidence in projects operating on or near Indigenous territories?

Who's in the room: Indigenous rights holders and development corporations, project sponsors, lenders, and government relations leads.

Canada has no shortage of proposed CCUS projects. The bottleneck is converting proposals into positive final investment decisions. This session brings together the capital providers, developers, and policymakers who control the levers that determine whether a project reaches FID or stalls indefinitely.

Why now: Persistent financing gaps, cost inflation, and unresolved stakeholder concerns are keeping several major hub and point-source projects in prolonged pre-FID limbo.

Discussion Questions: 

1. Which combinations of investment tax credits, contracts for difference, blended public-private capital, and other financing mechanisms are proving most effective at moving projects from proposal to sanction?
2. How should cost escalation, construction risk, and long-term commercial exposure be allocated among developers, financiers, industrial partners, and government to keep projects investable?
3. What early stakeholder, regulatory, and commercial commitments need to be secured before capital providers are prepared to support a positive FID?

Who's in the room: CCUS developers, institutional and infrastructure investors, federal/provincial finance officials, and industrial off-takers.

Large-scale CCUS projects are now under construction or operating in Norway, the U.S. Gulf Coast, and the Netherlands, offering hard-won lessons on delivery, cost control, and technology partnerships. This roundtable brings international operators together with Canadian developers racing toward FID.

Why now: With Pathways and other Canadian hub projects entering construction planning, there's a narrow window to apply international lessons before Canadian designs are locked in.

Discussion Questions: 

1. Which technology choices and delivery models from international projects translate to Canadian conditions, and which don't?
2. What construction and commissioning lessons from operating international projects should inform Canadian design decisions now, before they're locked in?
3. Where do technology partnerships and licensing arrangements with international players make sense versus building domestic capability?

Who's in the room: International CCUS operators and technical leads, Canadian developers and EPC firms, and technology licensors.