As a public service, I'm going to live tweet Danielle Smith's interview with Tammy Nemeth, the author of that very.....interesting.....report for the Allan Inquiry that we all paid nearly $30K for. Buckle up.

LOL, she just said that "she doesn't believe in echo chambers" and is pretending that she's open to all perspectives and ideas.

*and is doing a HECK of a job of playing the martyr right now. A good warm-up for her next guest.

Danielle thinks that demand is going to grow to 120 million barrels per day. Priceless!

Okay, here we go.

Dr. Tammy Nemeth has spent the last 20 years in Europe, so she's definitely qualified to write about what's happening in Alberta. Oh, and she gave a guest lecture in Germany once!

Oh, the students at that lecture were mean to her. Because they'd heard "propaganda" about Alberta.

Now she's telling us about a conference she was at in 2011. It was clear to her it wouldn't be approved then. Imagine that!

We're into a weird sidebar about fracking. Apparently the activists had figured out how to shut the industry down until fracking came along.

Okay, back to the actual subject. She says she had some "background experience" and said "I thought I should put something together".

It's not clear at all to me why the rise of fracking would point activists towards Canada, when the oil sands don't depend on it. Mining and SAGD aren't fracking.

Commercial break, and we're back.

Now we're into the meat of the weird stuff, and Dr. Nemeth says she doesn't understand why people are criticizing her. Maybe they're part of the movement, she suggests.

Oh, and if we knew what a net-zero life was really like, we'd hate it.

LOL, now she's trying to explain the intricacies of the Bretton Woods system. Good luck with that.

Ah, here we go -- Justin Trudeau gets name dropped. She mentions a speech he gave about trying to shift the course of the global economy, and the need for a new Bretton Woods.

Problem?

Dr. Nemeth doesn't seem to understand that there are new forms of energy that can replace oil.

Oil, she says, was in the middle of Bretton Woods. What will replace it, she asks?

Danielle Smith chuckles. "Can that even work?"

Okay, so they genuinely don't understand that electrification can and will replace fossil fuels. Fun.

Oh, there was an engineering study from someone in Holland that said just getting Holland to net-zero will require most of the rare-earth minerals in the market today.

Nemeth hints that the "transnational progressive movement" has some altruists, but some shadowy unnamed people that aren't.

Read Michael Shellenberger, she says! Danielle Smith agrees, saying he's been "red-pilled" about wind and solar.

Another commercial break.

Recap so far: people care about climate change and want to improve life and the environment, Alberta's energy sector isn't uniquely targeted by them, and wind and solar can't replace oil without using up the world's supply of rare earth minerals.

We're back. Danielle is sending people a text to help them find the Nemeth report, because she loves it so much.

Okay, we're into the funding stuff. @Garossino has dealt with this at length, of course.

Apparently the people proposing decarbonization are risking starvation because there's a history of "governments making the wrong decision."

"Surely they can see that wind and solar can't be the answer."

Nemeth: "that's a good question, and it requires further research".

Of course! Let's pay her for another paper.

We paid her nearly $30K and all she seems to have is questions, not answers.

Talking about the EU's Green New Deal. Seems to suggests that transforming the way we work/live/consume is a bad thing, although offering no evidence of that.

Oh, she's quoting a paper from Deutschebank that uses the phrase "eco-dictatorship"!

This is her actual thesis: net-zero really means a substantially reduced quality of life.

Abject nonsense, of course.

Danielle Smith says we could do this in 200 years. But by 2050? Too fast!

She refers to the Deutschebank author's work as "his little report".

Pretty funny.