Potentially unpopular take:

It's an energy transition plan, not a climate plan.

As it should be, @JustinTrudeau.
2/Allow me a few "I told you so" moments that Premier @jkenney ignored:

"That squishing sound you hear? That’s Jason Kenney and the Alberta junior oil and gas sector being sucked under the Liberal climate plan steamroller."

energi.media/markham-on-ene…
3/I wrote this column only a few days after the 2019 federal election.

"Justin Trudeau is committed to net-zero emissions by 2050 and only Alberta stands between the Liberals and their climate goals."

energi.media/markham-on-ene…
4/Enough rubbing Kenney's nose in his political and policy failures.

If you want to understand Trudeau's plan, listen/read my Energi Thinks podcast with Tony Seba:

energi.media/energy-climate…
5/Seba's thesis summarized:

Cheap, abundant, clean electricity + batteries will transform our economies and societies during the 2020s much the same way cheap petroleum and the internal combustion engine did during the 1920s.

Canada must electrify its economy. ASAP.
6/Read Ottawa's "A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy" backgrounder:

*energy efficiency
*electrify transportation, vehicles + public transit
*zero-emission power grid
*electrify industry
*hydrogen for what can't be electrified
*cleantech
canada.ca/en/environment…
7/PM @JustinTrudeau, I have written an optimistic and moderate vision for Canada's energy future. It is the narrative for your plan.

Combatting climate change will NOT sell your plan as well as the idea of electrifying the Canadian economy.
energi.media/the-energi-dec…
8/PMJT, if you're wondering what to do with Alberta, I have something for that, too.
energi.media/markham-on-ene…
9/Yesterday's announcement is potentially a turning point for Canada.

We can embrace the electric future, invest in a 21st-century economy, or we can continue to have a 20th-century discussion about fossil fuels.

Which will it be, Canada?

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More from @politicalham

19 Nov
Recent video interviews, podcasts proving the "electric future" is already here:

1. @bcshaffer - renewables cheaper than gas


2. @tonyseba - cheap renewables will restructure global economy by 2030
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cont...
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3. Heymi Bahar, @IEA - Wind, solar adoption will soar during 2020s
share.transistor.fm/s/d5f29b56

4. Dr. Kai-Philipp Kaires - Tesla "battery day" science explained
share.transistor.fm/s/0c6a0d38

5. Amazing Canadian "water rotor" power generation innovation
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6. The "Great Reset" has already begun, just not the one feared by conspiracy theorists


7. @samabuelsamid - Behold the 1,000 hp electric Hummer!


#energytwitter #EVs #climatechange #energytransition #Canada
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18 Oct
The electrification of transportation is an existential threat to Alberta's oil industry but the energy war room @CDNEnergyCentre spends $30 million/year on vapid nonsense like this.

"Tyranny" ain't the problem, folks.
#DieEthicalOil
canadianenergycentre.ca/the-tyranny-in…
2/Here's the war room's exec dir of research Mark Milke making yet another dimwitted argument on the taxpayer's dime.

While the world prepares for peak oil demand, Milke is shaking his fist at clouds.

And we wonder why AB energy policy is so bad.

canadianenergycentre.ca/commentary-tyr…
3/The next installment of our Sunday morning gibberish series from Milke.

I actually interviewed Norges, the Council on Ethics that advises Norges on this issue, and the Norwegian climate institute CICERO that prepared the report for the Council.

canadianenergycentre.ca/norges-bank-in…
Read 5 tweets
2 Oct
Time for a chat, AB

1/Suncor lays off 15% of workers

"...has been transforming itself in recent years to rely more on data/tech to improve its efficiency, such as using autonomous trucks...had anticipated these changes would lead to a smaller workforce."
calgaryherald.com/business/local…
2/@jkenney's corporate tax reductions were supposed to create jobs. Instead, Suncor appears to have used the tax savings to invest in digital tech that will destroy jobs, about 4,500 of them.

All the big oil and gas producers are doing the same.
3/This slide from Suncor's July 22, 2020 investor presentations shows that the drive for more efficiency and lower operating costs that lead to a smaller workforce is a deliberate management strategy.
Read 8 tweets
23 Sep
1. Climate risk is front and centre for international investors.

2. Oil sands bitumen has a very high ghg emissions-intensity.

3. Why doesn't Alberta use a federal "green recovery" to help fund lowering that emissions-intensity instead of acting like the sky is falling? Image
2/Suncor CEO Mark Little has already proposed federal funding for an independent public agency to invest in commercializing the manufacture of materials (like carbon fibre) from bitumen.

Why not use "green recovery" $$ to fund that agency?

Materials, not combustion, eh? Image
3/Electrification of industry - like oil and gas production - is a key strategy for combatting the climate crisis and lower ghg emissions.

Why not use "green recovery" funding to electrify oil sands production? Are wind and solar feasible? What about small modular nukes?
Read 5 tweets
16 Sep
The Allan inquiry is a farce.

As was predicted by me and may others.

So, I'll ask again: What energy policy and issues management haven't @jkenney screwed up?

The inquiry and the energy war room are symbols of a deeply incompetent govt.
#CDNpoli

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
2/Background reading on foreign-funding activism and the Allan Inquiry:

1) energi.media/deep-dives/deb…
Read 5 tweets
15 Sep
1/Respectfully disagree with much of the argument in op-ed by @S_HastingsSimon, @EdWhittingham, @DKeithClimate.

Key objection: the oil sands are more competitive than they suggest. Producers' own modelling, opex data, shows this.
#ABleg #OOT

theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
2/The graphs below are from CERI's 2020 Oil Sands Production and Emissions Outlook. Many of the projects are low-cost operations. In 2019, when prices were modest, oil sands producers generated considerable free cash flow and net earnings were high. Image
3/"All of this adds up to a not-too-distant future when Alberta producers will chase a diminishing market with declining prices," the authors argue.

But there is a good argument to be made that the oil sands can compete in a shrinking heavy crude market.
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