
Energi Talks
Journalist Markham Hislop interviews leading energy experts from around the world about the energy transition and climate change.
Latest episodes

Apr 5, 2025 • 29min
Canadian rage at Trump's threats
Energi Media CEO Markham Hislop appeared the weekend of April 5 and 6, 2025 on the US PBS program, White House Chronicle, hosted by Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III.Note: the audio is sometimes not synched with the video.

Apr 4, 2025 • 37min
Powering the electrification of the Canadian, American economies
Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Tim King, president of Nexans North America, a global cable products company, about the electrification of the North American economy and how Canadian and American power grids are responding to growing power demand. Hint: not well in the US, better in Canada.

Apr 3, 2025 • 33min
Digging into the deets of Trump's tariffs
Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Angella MacEwen, is a senior economist with the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the author of the very interesting Substack, Social Economics.

Mar 17, 2025 • 47min
Canada vs USA, clean energy, innovation with Josh Dorfman
Markham interviews Josh Dorfman, climate entrepreneur, author, and media personality. As CEO and host of Supercool, Josh hosts the company’s weekly podcast spotlighting real-world climate solutions that cut carbon, boost the bottom line, and improve modern life.

Mar 13, 2025 • 41min
PBO brutally muffs the math of oil/gas emissions cap impacts
Energy journalist Markham Hislop interviews economist Dave Sawyer of Enviro Economics about the Parliamentary Budget Officer's math mistakes in its economic impact study of the Government of Canada's proposed oil and gas emissions cap. The cap is extremely contentious, especially in Alberta, the epicentre of Canada's oil and gas industry.

Jan 15, 2025 • 39min
Over-generate with wind, solar to keep gas in the Alberta grid
Markham interviews Kristina Pearson about her paper, co-authored with Sara Hastings-Simon of the University of Calgary, titled “The mid-transition in the electricity sector: impacts of growing wind and solar electricity on generation costs and natural gas generation in Alberta.”

Jan 13, 2025 • 25min
Electrification will increasingly drive US economy, but where will the power come from?
Markham interviews Eddie Soleymani and Shidan Gouran, founders of Bluesphere Ventures, a venture capital firm that funds and nurtures startups addressing America’s escalating energy demands. It brings together industry-leading entrepreneurs and experts to develop solutions across energy storage, clean energy marketplaces, carbon capture, and renewable energy credit systems.

Jan 6, 2025 • 1h 1min
AER's outrageous oil sands spill reporting errors subject of new paper
Markham interviews Dr. Kevin Timoney, who has spent most of his career studying the ecological impact of the oil sands, about his recently published paper, “Regulatory failure to monitor and manage the impacts of tailings spills, Alberta, Canada," in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

Jan 2, 2025 • 38min
Demand is skyrocketing...where will US get the electricity it needs?
Markham interviews Rob Gramlich of Washington-based Grid Strategies LLC.

Dec 26, 2024 • 44min
Arrogance, complacency behind legacy automakers' failure in China
Markham interviews Bill Russo, formerly Chrysler’s top executive in China and now an EV consultant with his firm Automobility.
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