Calgary-based energy company Suncor is not sending money to its Syrian natural gas operation, which provides electricity to homes in the strife-torn country, said company CEO Rick George. "We're actually not connected to the Assad regime in any way," George said in an interview with CBC Radio's The Current...George said the safety of the Syrian employees as well as Canadian workers at the facilities is a priority, and the company has a human rights policy as well as an ethics charter signed with its government partner[General Petroleum Corporation].