I was delighted to be one of the more than 200 people who participated in last night's excellent #Next30 warm-up session. As a few of you know, I've been lending some support to this group as they've developed the idea of a Possibility Panel.
As a proud centrist (I know, I know) I think it's important to create spaces where people from both sides of the ideological spectrum can come together and talk about solutions. We spend a lot of time in Alberta talking about problems, and I'm part of that conversation. But....
....now it's time to focus on the possibilities. I know lots of people who won't stick around past 2023 if we don't get this right. They have families and businesses and lives that won't abide the approach to thinking about our shared future that's been manifest since 2019.
They need something else. And I'm hopeful that the Possibility Panel can give that to them. If you're interested, visit thenext30.ca. And if you want to participate, I'd encourage you to check out the next warm-up session on December 8th.
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An important point about Michael Moore's terrible film (from a friend of mine who's been involved in the space for a very long time): it's irrelevant. Talk-radio hosts and fossil fuel enthusiasts may glom onto it, but it won't change the decisions that utilities make. 1/4
Why? Because the numbers speak for themselves. That's why wind and solar capacity are surging in places like Texas. Business > bluster. 2/4
And as Donald Trump's term in office has shown, even the biggest bully with the largest pulpit can't do anything to reverse this trend. He promised to save coal -- and has had the largest retirement of coal-powered capacity in history happen under his watch. 3/4