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A utopian vision for a climate-friendly world

Another Earth Day has come and gone. Delegates are in Ottawa this week to hammer out a global plastics treaty. These events happened against a...

26.04.2024 30

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Game-changing revolution going on in the EV battery world

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been focusing on electric vehicles (EVs) and popular fallacies from doubters or skeptics who don’t believe we...

10.04.2024 9

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Electric vehicles expose the myth of ethical oil

For the past few weeks, I’ve been focusing on electric vehicles (EVs) , examining fallacies being embraced by those who don’t believe we can...

04.04.2024 30

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EV battery industry runs circles around the rest

For the past few weeks, I’ve been focusing on electric vehicles (EVs) , examining fallacies being embraced by those who don’t believe we can...

27.03.2024 8

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The weighty debate about electric vehicles

For the past few weeks, I’ve been focusing on electric vehicles (EVs) , examining fallacies being embraced by those who don’t believe we can...

14.03.2024 10

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Reactionary rhetoric stokes EV range anxiety

Over the next few weeks, I’m going focus on electric vehicles (EVs) and examine some of the most popular fallacies being embraced by those who...

22.02.2024 9

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EV naysayers and a highway of lies

Over the next few weeks, I’m going focus on electric vehicles (EVs) and examine some of the most popular fallacies being embraced by those who...

13.02.2024 10

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Danielle Smith stands up for Calgary garbage

The City of Calgary is going to repeal its short-lived single-use items bylaw. Policy designed to reduce waste has triggered a public outcry, probably...

09.02.2024 10

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EVs have overcome barriers to rapid adoption

In Geoffrey Moore’s book Crossing the Chasm , he describes the life cycle of new technologies based on the progress of public adoption. Electric...

31.01.2024 7

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Technology will shape our future

Technology alone won’t save humanity from the climate, ecological and social crises we’re struggling to resolve. A critical mass of people must...

24.01.2024 10

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The deceptive politics of winter in Alberta

A pale sunrise emerged above the tree line along the banks of the Bow River in Calgary last Sunday, illuminating the dense mist swirling above the...

17.01.2024 10

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Danielle Smith ramps up Alberta’s war on clean energy

It’s been a rough year for the many Albertans who care about the impact of global warming on their children’s future. Despite opinion polls...

10.01.2024 20

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Reclaiming orphan wells with clean energy

The Orphan Well Association (OWA) in Alberta has a lengthy process for reclaiming wells left behind by oil and gas companies. For many years, large...

28.12.2023 9

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The solution with the best chance

Imagine a demonic puppet has chained you in a swimming pool that is half full of water and rapidly filling. In order to survive, you are tasked with...

15.12.2023 6

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How to kill clean energy transition

In 2015, Postmedia News took Alberta Premier Rachael Notley to task for spending $700,000 on a media campaign to promote the NDP’s climate action...

06.11.2023 10

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Is affordability versus climate really a tradeoff?

There’s no doubt that it’s been a rough couple of years in terms of affordability. Inflation has finally crept out of hiding, the central bank...

26.10.2023 8

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Sun and wind are key to a bright energy future

Renewable energy is a tremendous economic opportunity for any community with the foresight to embrace it. The capital cost of building wind and solar...

17.10.2023 3

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Alberta must modernize its electricity system

As the McMahon Stadium crowd waited for the kickoff of the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League tradition, Calgary was shrouded in a thick...

03.10.2023 9

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Guide us to honour the Earth

While walking through the park near my home, I saw a group of children sitting in a tight circle around their teacher next to an old tree. The ancient...

29.09.2023 5

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