

Energi Talks
Markham Hislop
Journalist Markham Hislop interviews leading energy experts from around the world about the energy transition and climate change.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Mar 14, 2023 • 47min
Book interview: 'Anger and Angst: Jason Kenney’s Legacy and Alberta’s Right.
Collection of 22 essays edited by Trevor Harrison, professor at the University of Lethbridge, and Ricardo Acuna, executive director of Parkland Institute. Available from Black Rose Press www.blackrosebooks.com

Mar 13, 2023 • 44min
Alberta Energy Regulator is captured by oil and gas. Now what?
Markham interviews Jason MacLean, assistant professor of law at the University of New Brunswick and an expert on environmental law.

Mar 10, 2023 • 36min
Has community solar's time arrived?
Markham interviews Kacie Peters and Peter Protopappas with US solar provider Pivot Energy about why community solar should be a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle.

Mar 8, 2023 • 26min
Big Oil's big lobby on Parliament Hill
Markham interviews Xavier Richer Vis with the Investigative Journalism Foundation and Cloe Logan of the National Observer, co-authors of “Big Oil lobbyists outgun environmentalists with access to most powerful federal ministries.”

Mar 7, 2023 • 24min
Budget reveals BC short on clean energy industrial strategy, policy
Markham interviews Mark Zacharias, executive director of Clean Energy Canada.

Mar 7, 2023 • 21min
Radical 'Take Back Alberta' group dominates UCP
Markham interviews Duane Bratt, professor of political science, Mount Royal University, about "Take Back Alberta wields 'disproportionate' power in provincial politics."

Mar 6, 2023 • 37min
Texas plans a hydrogen hub
Markham interviews Paul Doucette, University of Houston Energy’s Hydrogen Program Officer.

Mar 5, 2023 • 44min
Corrupt system leads to oil sands tailings ponds leaks, spills
Markham interviews Mandy Olsgard, independent toxicologist and risk assessor about the 2022 release of industrial wastewater and the Feb. 4 spill of 5.3 million litres of wastewater from a storage pond at Imperial Oil's Kearl oil sands plant.

Mar 2, 2023 • 40min
Finally, a technology to clean up toxic oil sands tailings ponds?
Markham interviews Dr. Vikramaditya Yadav, associate professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of British Columbia and CEO and co-founder of Vancouver-based Tersa, a startup specializing in carbon-neutral solutions for remediating mining waste and recovering metals

Mar 1, 2023 • 36min
Canadian fleet managers eying zero-emission big trucks
Markham interviews Darren Plested, partner in Deloitte’s Future of Transportation and Mobility, new report, “Electrified fleets pave the way to emissions reduction.”