@markhamhislop.bsky.social
Professional: energy transition journalist, expert. Publisher at Energi Media. Personal: husband, father, grandfather. Dog daddy. Hockey and baseball fan. E-bike rider. Western Canadian (who loves the rest of the country, too).
I did. He was speaking at what he called podcast speed.
Carney’s Early Iran Misstep — Time to Reset
Stick with this interview. It's long, complex, and not always easy to understand, but at the end of it I felt like I understood the dilemma facing @MarkJCarney and Canada over Iran and Trump.
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China’s Electricity System Is the Real Story Behind the World's First Electrostate
What makes China unique is the scale, structure of its power system. China's utilities control more generating capacity than the entire United States.
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How the Iran War Will Kill Oil and Gas
O&G now have a competitor: electricity.
High prices + volatility encourage consumers to buy check out the competition. Especially in the Global South.
Buckle up, Canada.
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If someone has a better suggestion than filthy lucre, I’d like to hear it.
In the current context, $10 billion seems like a bargain to save lives and avert a global economic crisis.
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Charlie Angus: Poilievre Unfit to be Prime Minister
@CharlieAngusNDP lays it all out re @PierrePoilievre.
CPC leader's European tour suggests he might be right.
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Understanding the Demented King's Thinking About Canada
"Thinking" may be too generous for Trump.
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Canadian Oil Companies Should Get Their Hands Out Of Our Pockets
My pockets. Your pockets.
No more shifting risk from the private sector to the public sector.
The myth of the carbon tax that stalled CNRL's Jackpine mine oil sands project.
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Tru dat.
Great chart. Nicely illustrates why so many oil and LNG-importing nations are electrifying as fast as they can.
Import renewables and electrotech once, rather than importing volatile and expensive hydrocarbons every day forever.
That's the choice.
Oh. My. Gawd. He has merch? Surely the sign of a degenerate grifter! And he sells tickets to his events!
Excuse me while I swoon from the vapours over here on the chaise lounge.
The authoritarian libertarians are burning the planet to the ground and you're harping on one of their critics? Nice.
Exactly. Why this horse race journalism all the time?
Well, because they're overworked and under-resourced. Some are just lazy.
And, gawd help us, it sells.
Oh, bullshit. Charlie's not out slagging immigrants or selling supplements to replace child vaccines.
He's promoting democratic ideals and asking Canadians to join him in supporting those ideals.
If you think Charlie is grifting, then you can fuck right off my thread and block me.
Why the ad hominem? Are you incapable of making a rational argument?
If you don't like what he does or says, then tell us why. If you can't do that, shut yer trap.
Are they? Where's your evidence for this claim?
Frankly, I don't care. If people want to support his work, that's their business.
"Charlie's tours are profitable for...Charlie" is about the weakest - and laziest - argument you could make.
Charlie doesn't claim to be the head of the resistance to Trump. He says he heads The Resistance, which is also the name of his Substack. It's his political campaign.
So, not an either/or issue.
Whatever the reason, it has nothing to do with TIER or the methane emissions regs.
CNRL’s Carbon Tax, Methane Regs Claim Doesn’t Hold Up
Yesterday's headline: "Canadian Natural defers $8.25B oilsands mine expansion, citing regulatory uncertainty."
All bullcrap.
Oil sands companies pay 50 cents/b ctax.
50 cents!! That's it.
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Trump's Insane "Energy Dominance" Doctrine Flops in Iran
Seb Kennedy, @EnergyFluxNews, discusses what a colossal disaster the US-Israel attack on Iran has been.
#IranIsraelWar #IranIsraelConflict
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Forever Canadian Launches New Partnership, Campaign to Promote Canada Unity
Good on Thomas @LukaszukAB and the Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta.
This is the kind of statesmanship Peter Lougheed championed.
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Canada Should Lead Iran War Peace Negotiations
Uphold Canadian values. Defend the UN. Propose peace talks between Iran, US, and Israel.
Very good interview w/Prof Kawser Ahmed, @uwinnipeg.
#cdnpoli #IranWar
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Charlie to Carney: Canadians Want Nothing To Do With Trump's Iran Atrocities
@charlieangus104.bsky.social discusses his Substack essay, "World At War: Canada Must Speak Up."
Work with allies, through the UN, but work for Canadian values.
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Why is Pierre Poilievre Giving Speeches in Europe?
Stewart Prest of @UBC discusses @CPC_HQ leader
Pierre Poilievre's European junket, including his sometimes out-there, authoritarian libertarian speeches.
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Andrew Coyne: Canadians, What Can You Do For Your Country?
Is this a JFK moment? "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
@coyne thinks it is.
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China’s Electricity System Is the Real Story Behind the World's First Electrostate
Great discussion w/Anders Hove of @OxfordEnergy about China's power sector and its role in the rapid electrification of the economy.
China isn't buying Canada's oil, LNG.
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Interesting. Let me see if I can find a couple of technical experts to interview. Good topic for discussion.
Canada’s Critical Minerals Strategy Is Taking Shape
Plenty of interesting stuff in latest announcement:
*Regional mining hubs
*Electrification = higher competitiveness
*Indigenous partnerships
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Easier to be cynical than craft an argument. ROFL all you like.
Canada’s Critical Minerals Strategy Is Taking Shape
How will Canada respond to aggressive American critical mineral initiatives?
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Here Comes Canada's National Power Grid...Finally!
Tim Weis, @pembina.org on today's announcement about provincial agreement re. a national electricity grid corridor.
Is this a nation-building project?
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