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Gold/Mining/Energy : TLM.TSE Talisman Energy -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tomas who wrote (1676)	2/6/2004 10:09:52 PM
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In tune with society Upstream, January 31 - February 06 issue By Dann Rogers Corporate social responsibility expert Donna Kennedy-Glans believes in making relationships work, even in the most difficult environments. Part of the rite of passage for a top energy executive will inevitably include negotiating their company's access to prolific, low-cost, oilfields in a conflict zone in a developing nation ripped apart by civil strife. ... Given her Calgary address and CSR work, she accepts as inevitable that the conversation will eventually turn to one of her best-known clients -- Talisman Energy. "The debate with Talisman and its oil interests in Sudan got really black and white early on, mainly because religious groups in the US were the drivers of the criticism, and that polarised the debate so it quickly became a matter of 'you are with us or you are not'." In her volunteer work with non-profit religious groups she tries to point out that both they and companies have a tendency to be close-minded when dealing with each other. "In terms of stakeholders relations, one of the widest chasms opens with religious groups because of ideology. Companies and religious groups still have trouble communicating. "There are other stakeholder groups that have a better capacity for having that sort of talks about a company's role in society." She thinks Talisman did the right thing in Sudan in that it built and staffed hospitals and schools and tried -- albeit unsuccessfully -- to prevent the military from launching air strikes from its air-strip. "Talisman executives worked tirelessly behind the scenes on relationship building in Sudan, but they didn't do a good job describing those intangibles because that is a difficult thing for any company to do." ...