Energi Talks

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.

Markham interviews Scott MacDougall, a senior advisor with the Pembina Institute focused on carbon pricing, about the improvements to Alberta's TIER industrial emitter carbon tax announced recently.

Markham interviews Janetta McKenzie, Senior Analyst at the Pembina Institute and author of "The future of oil in the energy transition."

Markham interviews Samantha Gross, director of Brookings Institute’s Energy Security and Climate Initiative.

Markham interviews Ryan Brown, CEO of Halifax-based zinc-ion battery developer Salient Energy.

Markham Hislop interviews Dr. Denis Gilbert, a climate scientist who has been active on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but recently retired from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and hung out his own shingle, Denis Gilbert Scientifik.

Markham interviews Martin Olszynski, University of Calgary law professor about Premier Danielle Smith's "Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act."

Markham interviews Connor Hund, chief operating officer at NanoGraf, an advanced battery material company located in Chicago, Illinois.

Markham interviews Ralph Torrie, research director at Corporate Knights magazine, about the magazine's Climate and Economic Renewal Plan.

Markham interviews Flavio Volpe, president of the Canadian Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association about The Arrow, the first Canadian build concept EV and many other topics in this wide-ranging conversation.

Markham interviews Dr. Joe Vipond, an outspoken Calgary ER physician, who explains what parents can do to protect their children the flu, COVID-19, and RSV.

Markham interviews freelance investigative journalist Justin Ling, author of the substack "Bug-eyed and Shameless," about his latest missive, "The Disinformation Nations: The world information wars are ramping up, and we're not ready to fight."

Markham interviews Dr. Cristina Peñasco, lecturer Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and an author of "10 Principles for policymaking in the energy transition: Lessons from experience," which was undertaken by the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition project at Exeter University.

Markham interviews Mark Cameron, Vice-President, External Relations, Oil Sands Net-Zero by 2050 Pathways Alliance. He was recently in Egypt at COP27.

Markham interviews David Doherty, head of oil and renewable fuels, BloombergNEF, and head of the team that produced the report titled "Global Oil Outlook: Peak, decline and plateau."

Markham interviews Shannon K. O’Neill, deputy director of studies for the Council on Foreign Relations, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies. She is the author of “The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter.”

Markham interviews Gerard Kreeft, author of “The 10 Commandments of the Energy Transition.”

Markham interviews Justin Rangooni, executive director for Energy Storage Canada, about the organization's new report, "Energy Storage: A Key Pathway to Net Zero in Canada."

Markham interviews Karthik Subramanian, a research associate with Lux Research and a co-author of “Can we make it to 1.5 °C? A breakdown of IPCC's climate mitigation plan.” He joined us from Amsterdam.

Markham interviews Mel Bergsneider of Allume Energy, an Australian company with operations in the USA, about micro-grids for multi-family dwellings and how utilities are coping with technology, market, consumer, and regulatory change.