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Potentially unpopular take:
It's an energy transition plan, not a climate plan.
As it should be, @JustinTrudeau.
It's an energy transition plan, not a climate plan.
As it should be, @JustinTrudeau.
2/Allow me a few "I told you so" moments that Premier @jkenney ignored:
"That squishing sound you hear? That’s Jason Kenney and the Alberta junior oil and gas sector being sucked under the Liberal climate plan steamroller." https://energi.media/markham-on-energy/theres-a-lot-more-going-on-with-trudeaus-2-5-billion-oil-and-gas-announcement-than-you-think/
"That squishing sound you hear? That’s Jason Kenney and the Alberta junior oil and gas sector being sucked under the Liberal climate plan steamroller." https://energi.media/markham-on-energy/theres-a-lot-more-going-on-with-trudeaus-2-5-billion-oil-and-gas-announcement-than-you-think/
3/I wrote this column only a few days after the 2019 federal election.
"Justin Trudeau is committed to net-zero emissions by 2050 and only Alberta stands between the Liberals and their climate goals." https://energi.media/markham-on-energy/with-election-of-liberal-minority-govt-canada-officially-has-an-alberta-problem-with-only-one-solution/
"Justin Trudeau is committed to net-zero emissions by 2050 and only Alberta stands between the Liberals and their climate goals." https://energi.media/markham-on-energy/with-election-of-liberal-minority-govt-canada-officially-has-an-alberta-problem-with-only-one-solution/
4/Enough rubbing Kenney's nose in his political and policy failures.
If you want to understand Trudeau's plan, listen/read my Energi Thinks podcast with Tony Seba: https://energi.media/energy-climate-student-resources/tony-seba-electric-revolution-by-2030/
If you want to understand Trudeau's plan, listen/read my Energi Thinks podcast with Tony Seba: https://energi.media/energy-climate-student-resources/tony-seba-electric-revolution-by-2030/
5/Seba's thesis summarized:
Cheap, abundant, clean electricity + batteries will transform our economies and societies during the 2020s much the same way cheap petroleum and the internal combustion engine did during the 1920s.
Canada must electrify its economy. ASAP.
Cheap, abundant, clean electricity + batteries will transform our economies and societies during the 2020s much the same way cheap petroleum and the internal combustion engine did during the 1920s.
Canada must electrify its economy. ASAP.
6/Read Ottawa's "A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy" backgrounder:
*energy efficiency
*electrify transportation, vehicles + public transit
*zero-emission power grid
*electrify industry
*hydrogen for what can't be electrified
*cleantech
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2020/12/a-healthy-environment-and-a-healthy-economy.html
*energy efficiency
*electrify transportation, vehicles + public transit
*zero-emission power grid
*electrify industry
*hydrogen for what can't be electrified
*cleantech
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2020/12/a-healthy-environment-and-a-healthy-economy.html
7/PM @JustinTrudeau, I have written an optimistic and moderate vision for Canada's energy future. It is the narrative for your plan.
Combatting climate change will NOT sell your plan as well as the idea of electrifying the Canadian economy. https://energi.media/the-energi-declaration/
Combatting climate change will NOT sell your plan as well as the idea of electrifying the Canadian economy. https://energi.media/the-energi-declaration/
8/PMJT, if you're wondering what to do with Alberta, I have something for that, too. https://energi.media/markham-on-energy/the-energi-vision-for-canadian-oil-and-gas-preparing-for-a-post-combustion-future/
9/Yesterday's announcement is potentially a turning point for Canada.
We can embrace the electric future, invest in a 21st-century economy, or we can continue to have a 20th-century discussion about fossil fuels.
Which will it be, Canada?
We can embrace the electric future, invest in a 21st-century economy, or we can continue to have a 20th-century discussion about fossil fuels.
Which will it be, Canada?
