"...Canada will not be able to fill that (petroleum) demand if we continue to let ideologically driven governments and activists shut in our products." - Cory Morgan in Suits & Boots email
Uh, energy transition, dude.
It's technology, markets, capital - not ideology.
2/Watch today's interview with battery scientist @JamesTFrith of @BloombergNEF and tell me that change is driven by "ideology" and not market changes created by new, better technologies.
1/In this innocent tweet, Mr. Chomyn (a prominent Alberta UCP conservative) exposes for all to see what is wrong with the conservative energy worldview:
He misunderstands the fundamentals of the energy transition.
"Requests for extensions to the original schedules of public inquiries, regardless of the mandate, are not unusual," says Steve Allan.
The Commissioner makes it sound like a great deal of work has been done.
Highly unlikely.
3/The "foreign funding" is $40 million over roughly 10 years (2008 to 2018) from US charities to the Tar Sands Campaign, which had a shifting "membership" of 50 to 100+ Canadian ENGOs, First Nations, and communities.
1/I interviewed 18 sources for my 2019 debunking of Vivian, 15 of them ENGOs. I asked most of them if Vivian had followed up with them to verify information, especially how the Tar Sands Campaign funding they received was actually used.
2/ "Although in one email I found she asked [a] question about where the funding went, for the overwhelming majority, she would simply list a whole bunch of info she had collected, and then ask for us to reply and confirm it was correct."
3/Another quote:
"For the record, Tides Canada was never a member of the Tar Sands Campaign. In much of the Vivian Krause rhetoric, there is conflation between Tides Canada and Tides Foundation in the US. We believe this is intentional."
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."
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.
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.