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Why We Should Be Skeptical Of The Hydrogen Economy
At first glance, using highly variable, intermittent, inexpensive renewable energy to produce hydrogen for energy supply stabilization seems logical. However, renewable energy is not always readily available. The concept of hydrogen as a ‘buffer,’ akin to a battery,...
Hydrogen Economy: An Impractical and Costly Undertaking, New Report Reveals
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Energy Notes From The Edge: Coal Trains vs. High Speed Rail
Guess which is faster (into service); Here’s how big oil can sleep at night.
Two wild train projects bookend the energy scene perfectly.
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
New Report Examines ESG Investing and Indigenous Equity Ownership
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How ‘Green’ Projects Are Looting the Treasury
The most egregious theft of collective wealth and well-being -- and it is flat-out theft -- is the churn on “alternative” forms of energy production. Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said last week in an interview with Steve Bannon that the U.S. has spent some $7...
Canada Wallows on LNG Sidelines, Paralyzed by Ottawa’s Onerous Regulatory System
When it comes to fossil fuels, the world wants what Canada’s got. The problem is, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t care. Fresh proof came with the recent visit of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the first Greek leader to come to Canada in more than 40 years. According to...
Canada’s Eco-Extremism Threat Is Flying Under The Radar
The dangerous rise in eco-extremism in Canada is fueled by identity politics and exaggerated climate anxieties
Etam: 444,000 Semi-loads of Food? Just Another Day on Planet Earth
A friend of mine, always with a keen eye on interesting things, passed on an interesting quote from the CERA Week energy conference the other week. The head of the International Energy Forum mentioned a surprising statistic, as quoted by Javier Blas on Twitter:...
Eco Extremism Under Reported in Canada and Manitoba
Ottawa and Canadian security agencies are ignoring a threat posed by eco-extremists motivated by self-righteous climate change alarmism. How many Manitobans remember that shortly after the federal government introduced emergency legislation against convoy protesters...
Etam: Energy Wise, How Do You Even Describe 2024
Huh. Look at that. It’s been ten years since I started writing about energy. Not that that particular trivia interests anyone, why would it, however it is interesting to look back at the impetus for writing and how that has changed. Ten years ago, as I worked in a...
The Solution to our Government-Induced Malaise
Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when they listened to Argentinian President Milei promoting free market capitalism, the Davosies’ applause was more than...
MB/SK/AB NeeStaNan Utilities Corridor: First Nations-Led Utility Corridor is a 21st-Century Nation-Building Initiative
“The trading of goods has been in our DNA as Indigenous People for centuries, but somewhere along the way this was lost. It’s time to regain our prosperity, for the betterment of our communities and for our country.” – NeeStaNan website