Synergy Alberta provides guidance to groups to assist them in retaining consistency in principles and scope of purpose and offers them:

• guidelines for successful group operations
• opportunities to share relevant information with each other
• opportunities to learn from each others’ successes and challenges
• access to credible information resources
• linkages to relevant organizations and agencies
• connections to skilled professionals for managing processes and providing information

Synergy Alberta also supports synergy groups and initiatives by helping to inform other stakeholders and community leaders in the province of the value of synergistic principles and approaches and accessing existing groups as a means to balancing the environmental, economic and social needs of communities.

Where appropriate, Synergy Alberta also directly supports the development of new groups to help address resource development issues.

Synergy Alberta is a non-profit provincial umbrella organization that provides support for synergy groups in Alberta.

Synergy groups include active participation from landowners, community residents, industry and the regulator, and often include additional participation by local municipal representatives, chambers of commerce, community groups, youth members and other government agencies. This diversity provides excellent ongoing opportunities for leveraging local knowledge to identify emerging issues, potential cumulative effects, and opportunities for effective partnerships.

Synergy groups are community-based, multi-stakeholder groups that work collaboratively in addressing the pressures of resource development in ways that support social, environmental and economic well-being for their communities and the province.

Synergy groups provide forums for people to come together to share information, discuss local issues, gain understanding, build relationships, and extend credible, relevant information into their broader communities. This creates the opportunity for communities to have more meaningful, ongoing participation in decisions that directly affect them and helps to support responsible and sustainable energy development and minimize conflicts.