Energi Talks

Markham interviews Dr. Paolo Bomben, senior manager, Clean Technology Development, in the Clean Resources division of Alberta Innovates, about the Carbon Grand Fibre Challenge.

Link to PowerPoint presentation:  https://www.cdhowe.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/Forecasting%20Oil%20and%20Gas%20GHG%20Emissions%20in%20Canada%20for%20Period%202019%20to%202030.pdf

Markham interviews economist Glen Hodgson, a fellow in-residence at CD Howe Institute, who coauthored with Charles St-Arnaud, chief economist at Alberta Central, the Dec. 19 intelligence memo: "The Oilpatch is Gushing Money. Where’s the Boom?"

PowerPoint presentation with data, graphs, etc - Canada’s Path to Paris Targets: Forecasting Transportation GHG Emissions in Canada for Period 2019 to 2030Link:  https://www.cdhowe.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/Forecasting%20Transportation%20GHG%20Emissions%20in%20Canada%20for%20Period%202019%20to%202030.pdf

You can read Tim Gray's blog post that was the basis for this interview: "What’s in store for 2023? Here are our 12 environmental predictions for the new year."

Markham interviews Kingsmill Bond, a senior principal in the Strategic Analysis & Engagement Group of the Rocky Mountain Institute, about his team's nascent theory explaining how and why fossil fuels consumption will decline much more rapidly than many think.

Markham interviews Mark Winfield, professor of environmental studies at York University, about the Simultaneous release of three reports last week about Ontario’s electricity system for the future: IESO’s Annual Planning Outlook, Conservation and Demand Management Framework Mid-Term Review, Pathways to Decarbonization.

Markham interviews development economist Aaron Cosbey with the International Institute for Sustainable Development about his team’s brief, “Why Canada Is Unlikely to Sell the Last Barrel of Oil.”

Markham interviews Kent Fellows, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, about his new CD Howe paper, "Last Barrel Standing? Confronting the Myth of “High-Cost” Canadian Oil Sands Production."

Markham interviews James Frith, principal, Volta Energy Technologies, and former head of BloombergNEF energy storage analysis.