Journalist Markham Hislop interviews leading energy experts from around the world about the energy transition and climate change.
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Is the US economy Trump-proof? Or is the worst on its way?
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26:58Journalist Markham Hislop interviews economist Ed Hirs, of the University of Houston and a frequent media commentator on American economic issues.By Markham Hislop
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Smith following Trump playbook with Bill 54's un-democratic voting changes
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26:58Journalist Markham Hislop interviews political science Professor Jared Wesley about his provocative Substack column titled, “Danielle Smith’s Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook.”By Markham Hislop
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Global energy system rapidly changing. Will Canada keep up?
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27:32Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Lucy Craig, Director of Growth, Innovation and Digitalization, Energy Systems at Norwegian firm DNV, which provides risk assessment services to energy companies around the world. They discussed DNV's new report, SHORT-TERM VOLATILITY, LONG-TERM OPTIMISM: Energy Industry Insights 2025.…
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Solid state batteries about to change everything
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22:54Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Greg Hitz, founder of ION Storage Systems, which has developed a unique solid state battery.By Markham Hislop
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Global South's rapid electrification is bad news for oil industry
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28:23Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Siyi Mi, a Senior Associate at BloombergNEF specializing in electric vehicle markets and clean transport technologies.By Markham Hislop
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Journalist Markham Hislop interviews veteran American journalist Llewellyn King about his column, “Political Fear Stalks Law, Education, Journalism, Migration." While King says US President Donald Trump hasn't adopted the mantle of fascism, he governs like a fascist. Markham argues that that makes him a fascist whether he describes himself as one o…
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Danielle Smith, Ben Shapiro and selling the Alberta myth in the good ole USA
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18:21Energy journalist Markham Hislop explains the context for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's upcoming interview Thursday with US MAGA podcaster Ben Shapiro in Florida. Hint: Alberta thinks the energy future will look just like the energy past and it wants Trump and the Canadian government to get out of its way. The problem is that the future will lik…
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Trump’s Stupid Trade War and Green Party leader Elizabeth May’s response
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43:40Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Elizabeth May, Green Party co-leader along with Jonathan Pedneault, about her party's proposal to stop exporting raw natural resources. The Greens also propose create a natural resources "Strategic Reserves" to protect Canadian workers.By Markham Hislop
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Should we ignore Western Canada alienation?
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1:11:13Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Professor Christopher Ragan, an associate professor and the founding Director of McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, as well as the author of a recent op-ed titled, “Western alienation is real and cannot be dismissed.” Markham took the position that many of Alberta's issues with Canadian energy…
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Markham interviews Professor Bentley Allan, professor at Johns Hopkins University and a Transition Pathway Principal with Calgary-based Transition Accelerator. Bentley is also an expert on industrial strategy and policy.By Markham Hislop
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Journalist Markham Hislop revisits some of his columns from 2018 to 2022 about former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's oil and gas policy approach. After several years out of the public spotlight, Kenney is again active on social media, positioning himself as a political moderate. Will he run for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership if the pos…
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How to fix Canada’s economy so Trump can’t destroy it
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28:54Journalist Markham Hislop explains Canada 2050's 3-part strategy for adding value to natural resources, electrifying extraction and processing, and building necessary infrastructure. He excerpts from his interview with one of Canada’s leading industrial policy experts, Dr. Bentley Allan of Johns Hopkins University, to explain how Canada 2050's coul…
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Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Janetta McKenzie, director of the oil and gas program for the Pembina Institute, about the report, "Turning Tides: The economic risks of B.C.’s LNG expansion in a changing energy market."By Markham Hislop
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Trump unleashes chaos on the American economy
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18:27Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Ed Hirs, a University of Houston economist and frequent media commentator on the US economy. They talk tariffs and trade, market volatility, and oil prices.By Markham Hislop
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Energy as a technology and the fourth industrial revolution
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31:56Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Professor Dimitry Anastakis, LR Wilson/RJ Currie Chair in Canadian Business History, University of Toronto. Don't let the title fool you. Canada is already behind in the transition to the new technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, including the development and adoption of clean energy technologies like s…
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First Nations taking lead on renewable energy in Canada
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35:20Journalist Markham Hislop Adam Regier, one of the co-authors of “Stretch and transform for energy justice: Indigenous advocacy for institutional transformative change of electricity in British Columbia, Canada,” published in the July, 2025 issue of the journal, Energy PolicyBy Markham Hislop
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Canada Election 2025: The electricity system Canada desperately needs
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25:59Journalist Markham Hislop interviews Bruce Lourie, president of the Ivey Foundation and chair of the Transition Accelerator, about his March 20 Globe and Mail op-ed, “Letting electrons free as part of a new Canadian economy.”By Markham Hislop
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Manning, Smith hold Big Oil’s gun to Canada’s head
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23:19Journalist Markham Hislop explains what's behind threats from right-wing activist Preston Manning and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to start a "national unity crisis" that will lead to Western Canada separating from Canada. Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne points out that there is no popular support for independence.…
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Mark Carney’s energy plan: is it any good?
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29:48Journalist Markham Hislop walks viewers through the Liberal Party of Canada's energy platform, announced April 9 in Calgary, Alberta. The conclusion? Some very good ideas, some that were not as good, and still plenty of questions left to be answered.By Markham Hislop
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Mark Carney’s tinkering with big project approvals will win no fans in Alberta
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33:04Journalist Markham Hislop interviews law professor Shaun Fluker, University of Calgary, about Liberal Leader Mark Carney's proposals to speed up big project approvals. Like pipelines or transmission lines.By Markham Hislop
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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.By Markham Hislop
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Powering the electrification of the Canadian, American economies
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36:31Journalist 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.By Markham Hislop
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Digging into the deets of Trump's tariffs
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32:37Journalist 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.By Markham Hislop
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Canada vs USA, clean energy, innovation with Josh Dorfman
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47:20Markham 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.By Markham Hislop
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PBO brutally muffs the math of oil/gas emissions cap impacts
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40:48Energy 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.…
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Over-generate with wind, solar to keep gas in the Alberta grid
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39:02Markham 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.”By Markham Hislop
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Electrification will increasingly drive US economy, but where will the power come from?
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24:35Markham 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 renewa…
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AER's outrageous oil sands spill reporting errors subject of new paper
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1:00:43Markham 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.…
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Demand is skyrocketing...where will US get the electricity it needs?
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38:14Markham interviews Rob Gramlich of Washington-based Grid Strategies LLC.By Markham Hislop
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Arrogance, complacency behind legacy automakers' failure in China
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44:09Markham interviews Bill Russo, formerly Chrysler’s top executive in China and now an EV consultant with his firm Automobility.By Markham Hislop
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Is solar's best opportunity at utility-scale or rooftops?
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26:43Markham interviews Prasanna Krishnan of Surya Energy Consulting and Andy Hira, professor of political science at Simon Fraser University about their new paper, “The macro view of solar policy: The case for supporting utility-scale power.”By Markham Hislop
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E-fuels, biofuels have plenty of promise and hurdles
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25:09Markham interviews Chingis Idrissov, Senior Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, author of the new report, "Sustainable Biofuels & E-Fuels Market 2025-2035: Technologies, Players, Forecasts."By Markham Hislop
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Rystad's long-term oil forecast: after 2030, it's all downhill
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32:49Markham interviews Jarand Rystad, founder and CEO of highly respected consulting firm Rystad Energy, which recently released a new report, Long-term Oil Macro Scenarios.By Markham Hislop
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Canada doubles down on clean electricity generation
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27:04Markham interviews Fernando Melo, federal director for the Canadian Renewable Energy Association.By Markham Hislop
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Ex-ENMAX CEO's new solar business model takes flight in New Zealand
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47:19Markham interviews former ENMAX CEO Gary Holden about Lodestone Energy.By Markham Hislop
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Combustion of oil and gas giving way to high efficiency of electricity
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37:19Markham interviews Nick Eyre, professor Energy and Climate Policy at the Environmental Change Institute in the UK.By Markham Hislop
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Global auto industry disrupted by China's soaring EV-makers
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19:56Markham interviews Colin McKerracher, BloombergNEF’s head of clean transport.By Markham Hislop
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Markham interviews Dr. Werner Antweiler, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia, about his recent CD Howe Institute policy brief titled, Scaling Up: The Promise and Perils of Canada’s Biofuels Strategy.By Markham Hislop
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New Alberta power sector rules still deeply flawed
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50:39Markham interviews energy economist Dave Gray.By Markham Hislop
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Is economic direct air carbon capture possible?
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38:21Markham interviews Samir Adams, Managing Director of Technology for Carbon Capture and Commercialization.By Markham Hislop
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'A Pragmatist's Guide to Energizing the USA' with author Rick Wrenn
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49:54Markham interviews Rick Wrenn, author of, "A Pragmatist's Guide to Energizing the USA." You can buy it here and here.By Markham Hislop
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US solar set to grow 7x by 2050. Now lowest cost electricity
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33:55Markham interviews Marija Vujacic, Global Product Manager for Energy Storage at Hitachi, “The Solar Power System: Building a sustainable grid for a brighter energy future.”By Markham Hislop
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Seed capital for UCalgary energy startups feeds innovation ecosystem
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29:19Markham interviews Pete Santosham, executive director of UCeed.By Markham Hislop
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US and Canada's integrated oil and gas system under Trump
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46:59Markham interviews Joe Calnan about his co-authored paper, with Rory Johnston, “The Co-Evolution of the Canada-U.S. Oil Industry and Possible Implications of Donald Trump’s Re-election." Calnan is an Energy Security Analyst and Energy Security Forum Manager at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.By Markham Hislop
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Markham interviews economist Kevin Birn, Canadian Oil Markets Chief Analyst and Head of Center for Emissions Excellence, S&P Global Commodity InsightsBy Markham Hislop
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Climate finance for less developed countries boosted by Canada
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24:18Markham interviews Soomin Han, Climate Finance Policy Analyst for the Climate Action Network, about GAIA, a new finance platform that mobilizes climate-focused investments in vulnerable regions launched by Canada at COP29.By Markham Hislop
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Electric vehicle to grid integration coming soon to your neighbourhood
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31:24Markham interviews Shazan Siddiqi, Senior Technology Analyst at UK-based IDTechEx and author of a new report, “Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles and Fleets 2025-2035: Markets, Technologies, and Forecasts”.By Markham Hislop
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Re-powering wind turbines boosts output, reliability
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29:59Markham interviews Exus CEO Jim Spencer.By Markham Hislop
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The argument to keep Alberta electricity de-regulated
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46:10Markham interviews Darren Chu, managing director of Alberta-based UTILITYNet.By Markham Hislop
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