Mitch Anderson
@manderson98.bsky.social
Energy, politics, science, and philosophy. But mostly mirth.
Another LNG announcement from @mark-carney.bsky.social. Is this “building Canada strong”? The Global South is rapidly embracing cheaper renewables while Canada is subsidizing billions to build stranded assets. www.desmog.com/2025/11/12/w...
What Wartime Hubris Can Teach Us About the Global Energy Transition
Our changing climate will produce winners and losers. Canada should look to the Global South for a winning strategy.
www.desmog.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Another LNG announcement from @mark-carney.bsky.social. Is this “building Canada strong”? The Global South is rapidly embracing cheaper renewables while Canada is subsidizing billions to build stranded assets. www.desmog.com/2025/11/12/w...
www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/w... #abpoli #abed #UCP #albertandp #Alberta
Why does the richest province in Canada invest the least per student?
Why does the richest province in Canada invest the least per student?
What Is Alberta’s Oil Wealth Paying for? Not Better Education
Production is up. Jobs are down. And the province is dead last on per-student funding. That’s not what prosperity is supposed to look like.
www.desmog.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/w... #abpoli #abed #UCP #albertandp #Alberta
Why does the richest province in Canada invest the least per student?
Why does the richest province in Canada invest the least per student?
www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/w...
Premier Smith’s single-minded fixation on the oil and gas industry has left her province dangerously dependent on cyclical royalty revenue, soon to be clobbered by a global oil glut and waning demand. Alberta's students and teachers deserve better.
Premier Smith’s single-minded fixation on the oil and gas industry has left her province dangerously dependent on cyclical royalty revenue, soon to be clobbered by a global oil glut and waning demand. Alberta's students and teachers deserve better.
What Is Alberta’s Oil Wealth Paying for? Not Better Education
Production is up. Jobs are down. And the province is dead last on per-student funding. That’s not what prosperity is supposed to look like.
www.desmog.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/w...
Premier Smith’s single-minded fixation on the oil and gas industry has left her province dangerously dependent on cyclical royalty revenue, soon to be clobbered by a global oil glut and waning demand. Alberta's students and teachers deserve better.
Premier Smith’s single-minded fixation on the oil and gas industry has left her province dangerously dependent on cyclical royalty revenue, soon to be clobbered by a global oil glut and waning demand. Alberta's students and teachers deserve better.
www.desmog.com/2025/10/08/d...
Smith questions whether Canada is a real country. In this moment of ludicrous political theatre, it seems more illuminating to ask: is Alberta an actual province, or just a company town? The blurry line between oil patch and elected government is essentially gone.
Smith questions whether Canada is a real country. In this moment of ludicrous political theatre, it seems more illuminating to ask: is Alberta an actual province, or just a company town? The blurry line between oil patch and elected government is essentially gone.
Danielle Smith’s Pipeline Without a Proponent Is All Dollars and No Sense
Canada has a higher calling than wasting time and political capital indulging fossil fuel fever dreams.
www.desmog.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Smith questions whether Canada is a real country. In this moment of ludicrous political theatre, it seems more illuminating to ask: is Alberta an actual province, or just a company town? The blurry line between oil patch and elected government is essentially gone.
Smith questions whether Canada is a real country. In this moment of ludicrous political theatre, it seems more illuminating to ask: is Alberta an actual province, or just a company town? The blurry line between oil patch and elected government is essentially gone.
www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
Follow the money. Exactly zero companies are betting their own $ on a new bitumen pipeline, while global investments in renewables and battery storage are surging. Canada needs to skate to where the puck is going, not where it was last decade. @mark-carney.bsky.social
Follow the money. Exactly zero companies are betting their own $ on a new bitumen pipeline, while global investments in renewables and battery storage are surging. Canada needs to skate to where the puck is going, not where it was last decade. @mark-carney.bsky.social
Renewables Are a Global Economic Engine, Not a Culture War Threat
Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
www.desmog.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Follow the money. Exactly zero companies are betting their own $ on a new bitumen pipeline, while global investments in renewables and battery storage are surging. Canada needs to skate to where the puck is going, not where it was last decade. @mark-carney.bsky.social
Follow the money. Exactly zero companies are betting their own $ on a new bitumen pipeline, while global investments in renewables and battery storage are surging. Canada needs to skate to where the puck is going, not where it was last decade. @mark-carney.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/09/12/w...
Fossil fuels costs trillions in human health impacts each year. Chimney sweep testicle is thankfully a thing of the past due to belated regulation and cleaner fuels. Lets finish the job.
Fossil fuels costs trillions in human health impacts each year. Chimney sweep testicle is thankfully a thing of the past due to belated regulation and cleaner fuels. Lets finish the job.
What ‘Chimney Sweep Testicle’ Can Teach Us About Fossil Fuels’ Staggering Health Consequences
Coal, oil and gas have been killing people for centuries. We’re still paying for it.
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September 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Fossil fuels costs trillions in human health impacts each year. Chimney sweep testicle is thankfully a thing of the past due to belated regulation and cleaner fuels. Lets finish the job.
Fossil fuels costs trillions in human health impacts each year. Chimney sweep testicle is thankfully a thing of the past due to belated regulation and cleaner fuels. Lets finish the job.
www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/f...
How do we build infrastructure and energy systems that are resilient and secure in an increasingly destabilized world? The illegal war in Ukraine provides important lessons regarding worst-case military scenarios that reflect badly on pipeline projects.
How do we build infrastructure and energy systems that are resilient and secure in an increasingly destabilized world? The illegal war in Ukraine provides important lessons regarding worst-case military scenarios that reflect badly on pipeline projects.
Fast Tracking a Pipeline to BC’s Coast Will Undermine Canada’s Security
A revived Northern Gateway proposal tops the fossil fuel industry’s wish list. Carney should think twice before fulfilling that risky pipe dream.
www.desmog.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/f...
How do we build infrastructure and energy systems that are resilient and secure in an increasingly destabilized world? The illegal war in Ukraine provides important lessons regarding worst-case military scenarios that reflect badly on pipeline projects.
How do we build infrastructure and energy systems that are resilient and secure in an increasingly destabilized world? The illegal war in Ukraine provides important lessons regarding worst-case military scenarios that reflect badly on pipeline projects.
The stark contrast in how Alberta treats the relatively puny reclamation risks from the renewable energy sector compared to the vast unfunded liabilities from the oil patch is so brazen it almost qualifies as political performance art.
www.desmog.com/2025/06/20/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/06/20/a...
Alberta Is Making It Even Harder to Develop Renewable Energy
The province released new burdensome reclamation requirements for wind and solar projects — the latest performance in an elaborate political troll.
www.desmog.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The stark contrast in how Alberta treats the relatively puny reclamation risks from the renewable energy sector compared to the vast unfunded liabilities from the oil patch is so brazen it almost qualifies as political performance art.
www.desmog.com/2025/06/20/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/06/20/a...
The latest battle between Alberta and Ottawa is not over pipelines or policies, it's about data. If the oil patch is unwilling or unable to reduce their ballooning emissions, the Alberta government will misconstrue reported figures while working to prevent better measurements from being collected.
Alberta’s ‘Emissions Intensity’ Hasn’t Improved, Despite Government Claim
The 26 percent reduction the Alberta government recently bragged about happened almost entirely between 2012 and 2016.
www.desmog.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The latest battle between Alberta and Ottawa is not over pipelines or policies, it's about data. If the oil patch is unwilling or unable to reduce their ballooning emissions, the Alberta government will misconstrue reported figures while working to prevent better measurements from being collected.
Pathways Alliance is trying to ride two horses with one ass. If they are serious about their $16 billion carbon capture project, why did they lobby to freeze the price for Alberta carbon credits? www.desmog.com/2025/05/29/p...
Pathways Alliance Lobbied for Policy That Hurts Its CCS Viability
Do oil sands companies actually want to capture carbon? Canada’s new energy minister, who served on MEG’s board, has received mixed messages.
www.desmog.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Pathways Alliance is trying to ride two horses with one ass. If they are serious about their $16 billion carbon capture project, why did they lobby to freeze the price for Alberta carbon credits? www.desmog.com/2025/05/29/p...
www.desmog.com/2025/05/23/t...
Approving (and potentially paying for) additional oil pipelines out of western Canada has become a kind of loyalty test for federal politicians. If oil pipelines are somehow now a sovereignty deal-breaker, it's worth asking: are they actually needed?
Nope.
Approving (and potentially paying for) additional oil pipelines out of western Canada has become a kind of loyalty test for federal politicians. If oil pipelines are somehow now a sovereignty deal-breaker, it's worth asking: are they actually needed?
Nope.
Top Free-Market Think Tank Unsure That Canada Needs More Pipelines
While Alberta premier Danielle Smith demands new oil corridors, the Macdonald Laurier Institute notes that pipeline capacity is currently ‘sufficient.’
www.desmog.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
www.desmog.com/2025/05/23/t...
Approving (and potentially paying for) additional oil pipelines out of western Canada has become a kind of loyalty test for federal politicians. If oil pipelines are somehow now a sovereignty deal-breaker, it's worth asking: are they actually needed?
Nope.
Approving (and potentially paying for) additional oil pipelines out of western Canada has become a kind of loyalty test for federal politicians. If oil pipelines are somehow now a sovereignty deal-breaker, it's worth asking: are they actually needed?
Nope.
Shout out to @markhamhislop.bsky.social
for breaking the important story on how US refiners plan to turf Alberta crude suppliers after Trump tariffs.
www.desmog.com/2025/03/05/t...
for breaking the important story on how US refiners plan to turf Alberta crude suppliers after Trump tariffs.
www.desmog.com/2025/03/05/t...
Tariffs Likely to Crater Canadian Crude Exports to the US, Marathon Tells Investors
The American refiner pitched a pivot away from Alberta suppliers ahead of President Trump’s trade war salvo.
www.desmog.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Shout out to @markhamhislop.bsky.social
for breaking the important story on how US refiners plan to turf Alberta crude suppliers after Trump tariffs.
www.desmog.com/2025/03/05/t...
for breaking the important story on how US refiners plan to turf Alberta crude suppliers after Trump tariffs.
www.desmog.com/2025/03/05/t...
