Arctic/northern/Indigenous/rural/resources. Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment @MLInstitute and Special Adviser, @BizCouncilofCan
Dec 30, 2025 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Record oil, natural gas, uranium and wheat production. Highest gold sales ever. New canola yield records. Major regulatory reform.
2025 was a very good year for Canadian commodities, here are my top stories 🎉/1
1. LNG Canada Phase 1 comes online, finally putting Canada in the global ranks of LNG exporters, with first cargo June 30.
Phase 2 is already undergoing front-end-engineering & design and an FID is expected in 2026, lngcanada.ca/news/first-car…
Dec 19, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The federal government released their EV mandate today. Of all the Soviet-style, top-down, market-defying policies they have implemented this year, this may be the most egregious. It restricts, then prohibits, the sale of non-ZEVs by 2035 /1 canada.ca/en/environment…
Some of the obvious problems with this scheme:
It privileges a certain technology (EVs) over lowering emissions, so that for example a Ford F-150 lightning is allowable but a Honda Civic is not. This disregards life cycle emissions and other environmental considerations /2