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Mitch Anderson

@manderson98.bsky.social
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Energy, politics, science, and philosophy. But mostly mirth.

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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Could Danielle Smith's Alberta data centre bonanza get any worse? Yes. www.desmog.com/2026/09/25/p...
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Proposed Alberta Data Centre Backed by U.S.-based MAGA Donor
Black & Veatch, the company behind Goldfinch Technology Park, donates to Republican politicians through its political action committee.
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Mary Stuart (she/her) @marylouisestuart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A proposed Alberta data centre is being backed by an American company that donates to key Trump-supporting republicans through its PAC. Read the latest from @manderson98.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/09/25/p...
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Proposed Alberta Data Centre Backed by U.S.-based MAGA Donor
Black & Veatch, the company behind Goldfinch Technology Park, donates to Republican politicians through its political action committee.
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Mary Stuart (she/her) @marylouisestuart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of talk about securing digital sovereignty through data centres in Canada... our analysis finds that less than 1/3 of planned projects in AB could be data sovereign. Read @manderson98.bsky.social 's latest. www.desmog.com/2026/09/14/m...
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Majority of Planned Alberta Data Centre Projects Could be Under Foreign Control
DeSmog analysis finds less than one third of planned projects could have full Canadian control over data.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 14/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: DeSmog looked at the companies behind 33 planned data centres in Alberta and found that less than one third could be data sovereign. buff.ly/SvjCnOH
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Majority of Planned Alberta Data Centre Projects Could be Under Foreign Control
DeSmog analysis finds less than one third of planned projects could have full Canadian control over data.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Very proud to be part of the @desmog writing team. Check out our latest on obscene industry windfalls from a tragic and stupid war.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
An excellent read! ✊ "That is the contradiction Carney needs to confront. The whole point of an east-west electricity grid is to increase competition and interconnection. His MOU with Alberta is fuelling an AI gas build-out whose beneficiaries have a strong incentive to resist this laudable effort"
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 14/08/2026
NEW: Mark Carney's government recently announced a national electricity strategy, but it is undermined by Carney's support for gas-burning data centres. Read Mitchell Anderson's analysis: buff.ly/4RQ0FYb
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Mark Carney’s AI Strategy Will Block Renewables From Canada’s Grid
Backing massive gas-burning data centres is no way to build a cleaner, more connected electricity system.
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From Saudi to Canada, the main point of the AI industry is to keep the oil industry alive: "Nearly a hundred data-centre projects are in the works across Canada...The AI build-out is essentially a machine for manufacturing new long-term demand for natural gas."
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
By fuelling a gas-fired data centre boom in Alberta, is Carney undermining his own national electricity strategy? www.desmog.com/2026/08/13/m...
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Mark Carney’s AI Strategy Will Block Renewables From Canada’s Grid
Backing massive gas-burning data centres is no way to build a cleaner, more connected electricity system.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Excellent work by @zoeyunker.bsky.social for The Tyee. This complements previous analysis by Thomas Gunton at SFU on inadequate pipeline tolls. Why should taxpayers shell out for a new pipeline when highly profitable companies don't want to help cover the cost for the last one?
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Charles Montgomery @charlesincities.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Despite Elon Musk's declaration that empathy is our weakness, it is actually our species' super power. A juicy read from Net Mirth HQ @manderson98.bsky.social mitchellanderson.substack.com/p/exploratio...
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Explorations in Empathy (Part 1)
Is Being Nice Evolutionary Emergent?
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When will “elbows up” apply to the army of oil industry lobbyists so successfully extracting money and concessions from our elected leaders? www.desmog.com/2026/08/03/a...
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As Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels
The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 27/07/2026
Under normal circumstances, you'd think an American developer tied to a failed bitcoin venture would be a colossal red flag for any Canadian govt But not in Danielle Smith's #Alberta Latest from friend & colleague @manderson98.bsky.social #cdnpoli #abpoli www.desmog.com/2026/07/27/u...
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U.S. Developer Tied to Failed Bitcoin Venture Is Proposing Major Alberta Data Centre
Little-known company Teton Digital is pushing an AI project that could release one million tonnes of annual emissions.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Burning fossil fuels to power an AI arms race accomplishes the impressive alchemy of making the two leading threats to civilization worse at the same time. www.desmog.com/2026/07/20/a...
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Alberta Utility Bills Are Set To Spike And Data Centres Are To Blame
Albertans pay the highest electricity rates in the country and new gas plants for AI data centres could drive costs up further.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Are gas-fired data centres an expensive, polluting lifeboat for the fossil fuel industry? www.desmog.com/2026/07/02/c...
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Canadian Gas CEOs Are Hyping AI Data Centres to Investors as a Lifeline for Their Industry
Investor call transcripts show that gas companies see the data centre build-out as their next growth sector, even as the energy transition accelerates.
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Mary Stuart (she/her) @marylouisestuart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
DeSmog dug into transcripts from Canadian gas companies' investor calls.... They're hyping AI data centres as the next growth opportunity for their polluting product. Read more from @manderson98.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/07/02/c...
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Canadian Gas CEOs Are Hyping AI Data Centres to Investors as a Lifeline for Their Industry
Investor call transcripts show that gas companies see the data centre build-out as their next growth sector, even as the energy transition accelerates.
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Mary Stuart (she/her) @marylouisestuart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Why Carney's "Canada Strong" fund will never be Norway's sovereign wealth fund from @manderson98.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/06/16/w...
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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Like a Real Sovereign Wealth Fund
Carney’s “Canada Strong” fund exposes the nation’s resource kryptonite: leaving critical decisions to local governments captured by industry interests.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
www.desmog.com/2026/05/20/t...
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The Pathways Alliance Carbon Capture Project Was Always a Boondoggle
Instead of delivering on its promised CCS project, the Oil Sands Alliance is turning up the heat on Ottawa to rollback environmental regulations, and government is capitulating.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Is Big Oil now pivoting away from a marquee carbon capture project it never intended to build? www.desmog.com/2026/05/06/f...
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Former BC Premier Gordon Campbell: Carbon Capture ‘Doesn’t Work’
Is the mask finally coming off the long-delayed Pathways Alliance CCS Project?
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
www.desmog.com/2026/04/28/d... Is Premier Danielle Smith betraying her base? Her United Conservative Party (UCP) swept almost every riding outside of Calgary and Edmonton in the last election but the love does not seem to be mutual.
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Danielle Smith Is Betraying Rural Alberta To Build Gas-Powered Data Centres
The premier is tossing aside the constituents who voted for her to grant favours to tech and fossil fuel executives.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Burning fossil fuels to power a dangerous artificial intelligence arms race accomplishes the impressive alchemy of making two of the leading threats to civilization worse at the same time
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Carney Government Wants To ‘Provide’ the Fossil Fuels for Trump’s AI Strategy
The Liberals once talked tough about distancing Canada from the U.S. Now they seem eager to profit from the president’s agenda.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
www.desmog.com/2026/04/01/m... Does a state-controlled oil company from Norway, a country with a $2.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund, really need handouts from the Canadian taxpayer?
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Mark Carney Pledges $1B in Taxpayer Money for a “Carbon Bomb” Project
It’s a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
While fossil fuel producers might rake in short-term profits from war-related price instability, consumers instead are demanding a more ethical, sustainable and secure supply of energy. www.desmog.com/2026/03/19/c...
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Canada's Oil Industry Is Trying to Cash in on Iran War
Canadian politicians and pundits are leveraging Trump’s war with Iran to expand fossil fuel infrastructure.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
www.desmog.com/2026/03/05/m...
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Mark Carney’s Pipeline MOU With Danielle Smith Has Been A Disaster
First Nations are furious, environmentalists feel betrayed, oil companies are demanding more, and the clock is ticking.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
www.desmog.com/2026/02/19/a...
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Alberta Separatism Has Always Been About Joining Trump’s America
Leaders of the Alberta separatist movement are insisting they do not want to become the U.S.’s 51st state, but their actions (and own words) say otherwise.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
On sale for $2
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.desmog.com/2026/01/22/a...
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Alberta Separatism Would be Terrible for Indigenous Rights
For some separatists, ignoring Indigenous rights is not only a side effect of an independent Alberta, but an explicit goal.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Mark Carney has been playing up protecting Canada’s energy sovereignty by expanding fossil fuel extraction. But who owns the oil patch? US capital controls the majority of oil and gas companies operating in Canada and American ownership of Canadian oil is increasing. www.desmog.com/2025/12/16/m...
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Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuel Expansion Is ‘Canada Strong,’ but U.S. Investors Get the Profits
New data show American capital now controls most of Canada’s oil and gas sector while jobs vanish, royalties lag, and billions flow south.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If this is all political theatre to placate Alberta, the price of admission makes a Taylor Swift concert look like a bargain. Where did climate Carney go? www.desmog.com/2025/12/02/u...
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‘Utterly Abusive’: First Nations United Against Mark Carney’s Alberta Pipeline Plans
By tying the project’s fate to Indigenous “equity,” Carney saddles groups with the blame, and potentially the bill, if they move to stop a pipeline they oppose.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/11/24/a...
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As Mark Carney Fast-tracks Canadian LNG Projects, First Nations Face Hidden Financial Traps
Critics say new LNG ventures in British Columbia saddle Indigenous communities with debt, opaque ownership structures, and financial risk that could leave them owing billions.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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...
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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.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/w... #abpoli #abed #UCP #albertandp #Alberta Why does the richest province in Canada invest the least per student?
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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.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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.
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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.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/10/23/w...
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Why Is Canada Fast-Tracking LNG? Not for Economy, Climate or Reconciliation
Some questions Prime Minister Mark Carney should ask before pushing ahead with natural gas projects.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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.
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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.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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
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Renewables Are a Global Economic Engine, Not a Culture War Threat
Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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.
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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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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/09/04/u...
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Understanding Alberta’s Expensive, Ideological War on Renewable Energy
Premier Danielle Smith and U.S. President Donald Trump are weaponizing the powers of the state against wind and solar energy generation.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/09/02/m...
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Mark Carney’s Climate Warning from 2015 and the Perils of Pragmatism
Canada’s PM once cautioned that most fossil fuel reserves will become unburnable. What happened?
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/t...
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The Peak Numbers Canada’s Oil-Friendly Newspapers Keep Ignoring
Will fast-tracked oil sands infrastructure become stranded assets in four years? You won’t read about it in Canada’s mainstream outlets.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Oil Sands Expansion Hasn’t Brought Alberta the Prosperity Its Leaders Promised
Premier Danielle Smith has thrown around some vastly inflated figures. Global energy forecasters aren’t buying it.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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.
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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.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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...
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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.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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.
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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.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Earth to Mark Carney: ‘Decarbonized Oil’ Is as Real as Vitamin Cigarettes
Canada's new PM parroted industry nonsense after a meeting with premiers last week.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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...
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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.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/05/29/p...
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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.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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.
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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.’
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/05/15/a...
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Engineer Explains Why Alberta’s Hydrogen Strategy Is Money-Losing Climate Failure
Desperation, bad advice and lobbying likely underpinning the province’s plan to blend hydrogen with natural gas for home heating.
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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/a...
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A Rundown of Trump Allies That Have Endorsed Pierre Poilievre
Concerned Canadians should take note of all the Conservative leader’s MAGA endorsements and vote accordingly.
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