Author name: Mitch Anderson

Canada’s new energy minister Tim Hodgson is getting mixed messages from Pathways Alliance, the lobby group representing six of the largest oil sands producers. On one hand, the members claim to be moving forward with a massive carbon capture and storage (CCS) proposal that will only become economically viable through billions in public subsidies and […]

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Is our country more important than another oil pipeline? Apparently not, according to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. On the very day that Prime Minister Mark Carney was flying to Washington for a high stakes meeting with President Trump, Smith delivered a speech demanding pre-approved oil corridors to the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic coasts under the barely veiled threat […]

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Key hydrogen projects are collapsing, but that isn’t stopping developers from begging for more taxpayer money and support from the Alberta government. And it seems like the industry’s lobbying is paying off. The province is now pursuing an ill-conceived idea to allow hydrogen to be mixed with natural gas for home heating. Hyping the increasinglydebunked “hydrogen revolution” […]

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A recent headline in the Wall Street Journal neatly summed up the current state of Canada’s federal election: “How Canada’s Trump-Style Candidate Blew a 20-Point Polling Lead.” Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre clearly has a Donald Trump problem. With only days left in the campaign, many Canadian voters can’t help seeing the obvious similarities in style […]

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