Tag: Clean Energy Technology
The political journey of Markham Hislop
Thanks to Markham Hislop’s work on the Energy Transition, he was in favour of the NDP and Liberal climate/energy policies before Rachel Notley or Justin Trudeau (that’s a joke, folks) When I began my journalism career 30 years ago, reporters were encouraged to keep their politics under their hat. We were supposed to be politically neutral, […]
Beware the clean energy technology ‘hype cyclers’
Hype cyclers pressure governments to enact expensive, ineffective policy to promote adoption of clean energy technologies like EVs If you spend any time on social media these days, you’re bound to come across a “hype cycler” – or herds of them, depending on your friends and followers – raving about the virtues of electric vehicles or […]
More ‘radical decarbonizing’ needed? Not in USA, other developed countries
Best candidates for radical decarbonizing are Asian nations planning hundreds of coal power plants, not United States, Canada or Europe The international Energy Transitions Commission is calling for more radical policies to decarbonize the global economy quicker. This both a bad and a good idea. Decarbonizing more quickly is a bad idea for Western economies like […]
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