Sonya Savage is Senior Counsel at Borden Lander Gervais (BLG).  Prior to returning to the legal profession, she served as a Senior Minister in the Alberta Government, as Minister of Energy, Minister of Environment and Protected Areas and Minister of Justice and Solicitor General.

Before being elected, Savage was a leading advocate in the energy industry, working for 13 years at Enbridge and the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association.  She earned a Master of Laws in Environment and Energy in 2015 with a published thesis on the evolving role of the National Energy Board. 

As Minister of Energy, she led the Ministry during the global pandemic and price collapse, representing the province at OPEC meetings and across North America and Europe.  She implemented a liability management framework to help accelerate reclamation of oil and gas wells, overhauled the Alberta Energy Regulator, and modernized Alberta’s legal, policy and fiscal frameworks in new and emerging growth areas, including critical minerals, hydrogen, geothermal, energy storage, and Small Modular Reactors.  In 2022 she developed the province’s framework to advance Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) through CCUS hubs, allocating pore space to 25 projects across the province in 2022.

As Minister of Environment and Protected Areas she developed Alberta’s net-zero climate strategy – the Emissions Reduction and Energy Development Plan in 2023. 

She retired from politics in 2023, returned to private legal practice where she provides strategic advice on energy and energy transition opportunities. She also sits on a number of corporate boards and provides strategic advise with Navigator, Canada’s leading communications  and government relations firm.