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Etam: Energy Should not be Controversial; How did this Happen?

Commentary, Climate, Energy, Terry EtamFebruary 7, 2023

Are you familiar with Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto-whiz kid that started crypto-exchange FTX, the 30-year-old worth $30 billion, some were hailing as the new Warren Buffett?  His empire is now a pile of rubble, and against all legal advice he’s …

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Etam: Open letter to Californians: A high-utility-bill explanation, and a path to a smarter energy future

Commentary, Climate, Energy, Terry EtamFebruary 2, 2023

Dear Californians, I just love your state. It has everything.  It is home to Bugs Bunny, sourdough bread, Silicon Valley, Death Valley, the Valley, Redwood forests, deserts, ski resorts, endless beaches, the accidental Salton Sea, a vast movie industry, a vast porn …

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Etam: 2023 Energy Predictions?

Commentary, Climate, Energy, Terry EtamJanuary 10, 2023

Happy New Year all, though 2023 is well underway. Type A’s have buttoned down 2023’s goals and are doubtlessly already pursuing them with a vengeance. (Us) Type B’s are now wandering aimlessly around gyms, rationalizing abandoned resolutions, and annoying the …

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Etam: Wealthy Californians “Just Stop Oil” Campaign – Popular in Europe; has Anyone asked, say, Bangladesh?

Commentary, Climate, Energy, Terry EtamNovember 22, 2022

“Kindly let me help you or you will drown said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree.” – Alan Watts   That’s a quasi-parable about how ignorance can maim helpfulness, turning well-being into harm, through pure innocence. But…that …

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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …

Commentary, Aboriginal Futures, Energy, Public Finance & Fiscal Federalism, Terry EtamNovember 1, 2022

Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant …

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Etam: BRICS Starts Sidestepping the Tragedy of Western Energy Policy

Commentary, Climate, Energy, Terry EtamSeptember 6, 2022

As I spent a summer avoiding energy discussions wherever possible (harder than normal; funny how 15 years of energy policy calamity was uninteresting until record utility bills scorched J. Q. Public’s eyeballs), the lazy days in the sun brought some …

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Etam: A Good News Energy Story Amid the Carnage

Commentary, Climate, Energy, Terry EtamJuly 5, 2022

It’s not even Stampede yet – and it looks like it will be a good old-fashioned free-for-all – and I’ve already encountered a fascinating drunken goofball at the top of his game. Nothing unusual there, I suppose, except that this …

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Etam: People, Vote for Better Energy Policy, Fast

Commentary, Climate, Energy, Terry EtamJune 6, 2022

If there’s any point to energy writing, it is to perhaps try to pull together disparate bits of information that the average citizen is too busy to notice, the sort of random and arcane stats and events that only genuine …

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Etam: Last Winter’s Heating Bills were Unsustainable…

Commentary, Energy, Terry EtamMay 27, 2022

“Last winter’s heating bills were unsustainable” – buddy, do I have bad news for you Wow, what time is it? Is it May? There are a million funny things to talk about, a million laughs to be had, a lot of …

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