Before editing The Carbon Rush, Étienne Gagnon has worked as an editor for more than a decade on projects including the feature length documentaries Chercher le courant, H2Oil, Roadsworth: Crossing the Line, ?!Révolucion!?, the Télé-Québec series Contact, and current affairs programs for the French network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. As an editor, he believes in the importance of working on documentaries that matter on a social, political and environmental level.