U.S. leader B.J. Perry shares how his son’s courage sparked a journey of community impact and giving back.

Age: 71, City: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Director Since: 2005

Located in West Virginia, Hardy Gas Storage can hold up to 20 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

With more than 30 storage locations in four states, Columbia Gas Transmission Storage has enough capacity to handle almost 630 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

On May 31, 1940, more than a year before the U.S. entered World War II, Manufacturers Light and Heat Company purchased nine acres of land along Connoquenessing Creek in Ellwood City, Pa., around 40 miles north of its Pittsburgh headquarters.  The plan was to build a 1,000-hp compressor station to support the expansion of two nearby natural gas pipelines. Market demand in the region was growing fast, and the company needed to keep up. As it turned out, the project couldn’t have come at a better time: By the end of 1945, the station’s horsepower had doubled, and a post-war economic boom was on the horizon.

Bruce Power, located on the shores of Lake Huron, between Kincardine and Port Elgin, Ont., is Canada’s first private nuclear generator, providing 30% of Ontario’s electricity and employing more than 4,000 full-time employees.