Alberta won the energy lottery, yet it had to beg its neighbours if they could spare a megawatt?
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No Calling in Sick or Waiting for a Nice Day – The Grid has to Perform on the Worst of Them
Saturday night, the middle of the cold snap, was something to be endured
Nickson: On Climate Uncertainty and Risk by Judith Curry
Book Review: On Climate Uncertainty and Risk by Judith Curry
Boxing Day Special! Alberta Had Free Power for Several Hours, and That’s not a Good Thing
Imagine, if you will, a Boxing Day sale where everything was free for everyone across every store at the same time, for several hours. And imagine if in early morning hours of Dec. 26, Best Buy, Staples, Walmart, and indeed every single store in the entire economy got...
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Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Were the Canadian Fires Deliberately Set?
It wouldn't be the first time. A Google Earth satellite video is making the rounds on twitter. it shows the moment an arc of fires began in northern Quebec, the smoke rising. It looks like people calculated the prevailing winds so that the smoke would blow...
UN Climate Agency Distorts Science, Promotes Green Industry Lobby
The dubious ‘problem’ of purported global warming has become a key driver of public policy, bringing social coercion and huge capital allocations by governments and corporations across the world. Thus, very skeptical scrutiny should be brought to bear on...
Etam: The Beatings will Continue until Morale Improves
There’s positive energy out there, and there’s negative energy, and life is better wrapped in one rather than the other. I get it. I’ve absorbed the cliches and motivational posters; stay away from toxicity and life goes much easier. The energy world has for a...
Canadian Fires
If you are living in eastern Canada or the northeast of the United States, you are experiencing quite smoky/hazy skies, the result of fires in Canada. The fires have spread from northern Alberta eastward into other provinces, including Quebec, generating...
“Not Dark Yet, But It’s Getting There”
Is Net Zero compatible with mass prosperity?
This Is The Century Of Natural Gas
The headline above is not designed to make young heads explode, It’s really not. But it might. Before getting to why that might be, consider why the headline is a credible statement. The evidence is, in total, overwhelming. Here’s a 2023 headline from an...
Green Kills
A friend of mine is building four high-rise condo and rental towers in Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, where I live. It is a charming city, founded in the 1840s, its core an almost classic English village around which a modern city was slowly...
Etam: Net Zero 2050?
Serious goal-setting seems like a very good way to torment oneself, creating a new reason out of thin air. My New Year’s resolution is to avoid setting goals. Type A is not my type. But maybe it’s time to turn over a new leaf. I’ve decided I don’t want to be a...
Leaders on the Frontier: Understanding the Climate Debate with Dr. William Happer
Big Ideas, Big Topics