• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Hon. Seamus O’Regan

Natural Resources Canada

Minister of Natural Resources

The Honourable Seamus O’Regan was first elected as the Member of Parliament for St. John’s South—Mount Pearl in 2015. Previously known to Canadians for his 10 years as co-host of CTV’s Canada AM, he was named one of Maclean’s Magazine’s “100 Young Canadians to Watch” in 1999, and was twice nominated for a Gemini Award. In 2007, he became the first journalist to be named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40. In 2012, he was named Bell Let’s Talk Ambassador, alongside Clara Hughes, with the aim of removing the stigma of mental illness through greater communication and understanding. Minister O’Regan has traveled to Liberia as a Spread the Net Ambassador in support of the fight against malaria, and to Antarctica with Students on Ice to report on the effects of climate change on our polar regions. While working for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Minister O’Regan worked as an executive assistant for the Minister of Justice and as a senior policy advisor to the Premier. For 10 years, Minister O’Regan sat on the board of The Rooms, home of Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial art gallery, museum, and archives. He is a founding board member of both the Smiling Land Foundation and The Company Theatre, and served on the boards of World Wildlife Fund-Canada, The Walrus, Katimavik, and Canada World Youth. Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Minister O’Regan was raised in Goose Bay, Labrador. He studied politics at St. Francis Xavier University and University College Dublin, and marketing strategies at the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires, near Paris. He received a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in England.

Sessions With Hon. Seamus O’Regan

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 02:10pm - 02:55pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Ministerial Dialogue: Natural Gas, Economic Development & Reducing Emissions

    Strong production and record numbers of FIDs in 2019 create an outlook for sustained low natural gas prices. Demand trends, especially in Asia, will be key to shaping the international market for gas. Depending on the part of world, gas has been seen as either a lower carbon fuel relative to coal and critical to reducing emissions, or as yet another fossil fuel. How do major producers and consumers of natural gas shape policy to optimize their national interests? How do producing states boost their international competitiveness? How will natural gas play into the fuel mix of the future—and into the race to reduce emissions?