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Innovators leading Alberta oil patch’s energy transition 

April 5, 2023 Markham Hislop

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]

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Smith’s panel on Alberta’s energy future is a bad joke

February 16, 2023 Markham Hislop

“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]

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Notley should lead discussion about Alberta oil/gas emissions and job losses, not sabotage it

January 18, 2023 Markham Hislop

“[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]

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Danielle Smith has an oil and gas marketing plan, not a climate plan

January 15, 2023 Markham Hislop

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]

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To PM Trudeau: No more federal money for Alberta CCUS until oil sands project changed

January 11, 2023 Markham Hislop

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]

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Danielle Smith “rage farms” about federal Just Transition

January 7, 2023 Markham Hislop

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]

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Fall statement exposes flaw of Liberal economic policy: weak industrial policy

November 3, 2022 Markham Hislop

“…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]

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Is “muscular industrial policy” coming soon to Alberta? Freeland Doctrine suggests it might

October 21, 2022 Markham Hislop

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]

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Slow-walking the energy transition a mistake by Alberta oil patch

June 13, 2022 Markham Hislop

Are oil and gas CEOs devious or oblivious? “What happened over the last several years was I think there was a lot of ambition that we could really move the (energy) transition along very fast…And [Read more]

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Alberta NDP falls way behind on energy and climate policy

April 17, 2022 Markham Hislop

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]

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Hey, Joe, convince Jason there are better ways to ship oil than pipelines

April 13, 2022 Markham Hislop

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]

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Alberta’s elite has a huge blind spot about oil’s biggest competitor: electricity

April 10, 2022 Markham Hislop

“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]

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Why the Liberals approved Bay du Nord

April 9, 2022 Markham Hislop

“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]

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Suncor’s energy transition plan leaves rest of oil/gas industry in the dust

April 7, 2022 Markham Hislop

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]

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Trudeau calls oil patch’s bluff

April 4, 2022 Markham Hislop

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]

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Rachel Notley has no energy game

March 29, 2022 Markham Hislop

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]

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Where is the ‘leadership blueprint’ for a 21st century Canadian oil/gas sector?

March 21, 2022 Markham Hislop

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]

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Social media speeding up EV adoption

March 12, 2022 Markham Hislop

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]

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As war rages, Canada talks a good energy transition game, but Europe delivers

March 11, 2022 Markham Hislop

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]

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Economic despair in under 50s behind rise of Canadian authoritarian populism

March 6, 2022 Markham Hislop

“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]

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