Mr. Clean Energy: Robin Junger

The provincial government has created a new deputy minister-level position in the premier's office with responsibility for energy and clean technology. Robin Junger, the head of British Columbia's environmental assessment office, has been named to that position and charged with meeting the Campbell administration's throne speech commitment to turn the province into a green energy powerhouse. This, according to an email distributed by the premier's deputy minister Allan Seckel less than a hour ago.

The following is a complete copy of that email, in which Mr. Seckel announces the president and chief executive officer of the BC Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games secretariat Phil Steenkamp is now the top bureaucrat at the ministry of advanced education and labour market development. Ms. Steenkamp takes over from Robin Ciceri, who left government last year to become the principle lobbyist for British Columbia's research universities.