Bruce Cameron has worked in the field of public policy for nearly 50 years. He started his career in probing public policy issues in 1974 when he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a journalist. During his 22-year career he worked as a reporter covering public policy issues, including energy, across Canada. During his time as a journalist, he took a two-year leave to acquire an MBA in Finance and Marketing at Dalhousie University in 1985.

He left journalism in 1996 to join Nova Scotia’s Department of Finance. In 2000 he served as a key member of the team tasked with developing Nova Scotia’s plans to secure the economic benefits from the province’s offshore resources. He helped write the Province’s 2001 Energy Strategy which set Nova Scotia on the road to decarbonization. In 2002 he became responsible for implementing the Strategy. In this role he gained deep experience and expertise in developing plans and strategies through integrating technical expertise with stakeholder engagement. He led missions to other jurisdictions to build knowledge and worked extensively with fishing and environmental organizations. He was Nova Scotia policy lead in the 10-year work to develop a comprehensive Offshore Occupational Health and Safety legislation. Through that work he gained deep understanding of Canada’s Offshore Accords are now guiding development of Offshore Wind. He served for 8 years on the ADM-Level national policy coordinating group for the Annual Canadian Energy Ministers Conference.

Through the late 2000s and mid 2010s, Bruce led a team of experts in technical and policy matters as a Director, Executive Director, and Acting Deputy Minister. His work included the writing, updating, and reaffirming the Province’s Energy Strategy (2019), developing, and writing a comprehensive Renewable Energy Plan (2010), developing, and implementing a Marine Renewable Energy Plan (2012) and building and writing a comprehensive Electricity Plan (2015), with associated legislation, and the establishment of PACE legislation in Nova Scotia. The 2010 Renewable Energy Plan established new benchmarks for decarbonization and a new Community Feed-in-Tariff (COMFIT). His leadership on the 2012 Marine Renewable Energy Plan, and the 2015 Marine Renewable-energy Act, set the stage for Nova Scotia’s actions on marine renewable energy. The 2015 Electricity Plan balanced objectives of minimizing ratepayer impacts, maximizing understanding of the emerging distributed energy technologies, and setting the stage for total decarbonization of the electricity sector. Throughout this work, the focus was to foster economic opportunities from energy sector transformation.

Following his retirement in 2016, Bruce established a public policy and economic development consulting practice (Envigour Policy Consulting Inc.) where he continues to explore policy innovation in regulatory systems, policy development in efficiency, electricity, and renewables, including recent work on energy strategies in Canada and the Caribbean, tidal licencing, hydrogen and offshore wind. Bruce also led in the founding of Nova Scotia’s Offshore Energy Research Association, and the Pan American Marine Energy Conference Association where he has served as President since 2018. He was also a founding partner of PACE Atlantic CIC which uses low- cost capital to provide integrated energy efficiency programs for municipalities in Canada. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the Smart Grid Innovation Network (SGIN).