Markham on Energy

We are witnessing the “dawn of a new industrial age – the age of clean energy technology manufacturing.” – the IEA, 2023 It’s a truism that during disruptive change, industry incumbents resist change while nimble [Read more]

“A new advisory panel will develop a long-term vision for Alberta’s energy future and recommend steps the province should take to ensure the industry [emphasis added] continues to thrive for decades to come.” Premier Danielle [Read more]

“[W]e are in that crisis position because of the incompetence and chaos and conflict that is constantly being generated by the UCP government.” – Notley Rachel Notley is mad as hell at Justin Trudeau and [Read more]

Premier boasting about emissions record all about greenwashing Alberta gas, LNG, oil Danielle Smith, in a Jan. 12 letter to PM Justin Trudeau: “Alberta, both through government and industry, is leading the way on reducing [Read more]

Develop industrial strategy, policy tied to Pathways Alliance CCUS, terminate pipeline in Industrial Heartland near Fort Saskatchewan To win the May election, Danielle Smith needs to spend the next five months fighting with Justin Trudeau. [Read more]

Deeply unpopular premier tries to deflect attention from her own government by blaming Ottawa The past year gave us the incendiary phrase “rage farming.” It means to stoke anger for crass political purposes. The Big [Read more]

“…what Canadian workers need is a government with a real, robust industrial policy…” – Chrystia Freeland fall statement remarks “The global green transition calls for an industrial transformation comparable in scale only to the Industrial [Read more]

Freeland Doctrine + AFL report + Alberta NDP government could shake Alberta to its core Chrystia Freeland delivered a series of speeches lately that sketch a new economic alignment – dubbed the “Freeland Doctrine” – [Read more]

How can it be 2022 and Notley’s party doesn’t have a plan for emissions, electric transportation, and many other urgent climate and energy transition issues? From 2015 to 2019, the Alberta NDP was the party [Read more]

For someone who continually touts Alberta innovation, Kenney can’t seem to think outside the pipe(line) Senator Joe Manchin was in Alberta this week, hobnobbing with Premier Jason Kenney. Both politicians predictably pimped for higher oil [Read more]

“Global demand for oil and gas will be strong in the coming decades.”  – Alberta Premier Jason Kenney If an anti-EV screed shows up on my social media accounts, chances are it was posted by [Read more]

“Beyond projects already committed as of 2021, there are no new oil and gas fields approved for development in our pathway…” – IEA’s net-zero by 2050 scenario The IEA was kidding, right? Otherwise, why would [Read more]

Other Canadian oil companies are riding Suncor’s coattails Two years ago, Suncor CEO Mark Little wrote that the oil sands could finance Canada’s transition to clean energy. His company is following through on that promise, [Read more]

CEOs blithely assumed they could rope-a-dope Ottawa with promises of new technologies and vague commitments to start lowering absolute emissions sometime next decade Hands up, who didn’t see it coming? That lonely hand in the [Read more]

Kenney can’t tie his own shoelaces when it comes to energy and climate policy, but he is fluent in the Alberta energy narrative, unlike Notley Back when she was Alberta premier, Rachel Notley was Justin [Read more]

There is a 3rd way: By 2050, transition from hydrocarbons for combustion to feedstock for materials manufacturing, low-carbon fuels The Public Policy Forum is hugely influential in Canadian policy circles (membership and board of directors), [Read more]

Access to information is key to pace of adopting a new technology like electric cars and trucks In a previous column, I argued that the 2020s would be the “disruptive decade” (when the new technology [Read more]

Politicians, utilities failing to modernize Canada’s electricity sector fast enough Canada won’t be boosting oil and gas exports in response to the global energy crisis, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Nor should it. The energy [Read more]

“Disruptive decade” (2020s) of energy transition contributes to economic anxiety For the past five Saturday mornings, about the time we walk our dog, a convoy of big rigs, pickup trucks, and ragtag cars blitzes the [Read more]