Energi Talks

Markham interviews Dr. Patricia Roberts-Miller, retired professor of rhetoric and writing and former director of the University Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the excellent essay, " Authoritarian Libertarianism and the Freedom to do what I say .” Her related books: Deliberating War (forthcoming) Demagoguery and Democracy (general audience) Rhetoric and De...

Markham interviews Dr. Madeleine McPherson, assistant professor of engineering at the University of Victoria and an experienced energy economics modeller.

Markham interviews a public interest lawyer he has interviewed many times about dysfunction in the AER.

Markham interviews Alberta dministrative law expert Mark Dorin.

Markham interviews Professor Jared Wesley, University of Alberta, about his The Tyee article, " Why the UCP Is a Threat to Democracy ."

Markham interviews economics Professor James Sallee with the University of California at Berkeley and a Faculty Affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas.  On Tariffs and the EV Transition

Markham interviews Omar Osorio, Hitachi Power Grid, about renewable energy projects in northern Alberta Indigenous communities Fort Chipewyan and Old Crow First.

Markham interviews Hongyu Xiao of Pembina Institute about Fuelling the Transition: Low-carbon fuel choices for road freight.

Markham interviews Kevin Birn, VP, Canadian Oil Markets Chief Analyst and Head of Center for Emissions Excellence for S&P Global. His team recently released its annual 10-year Production Outlook for the Canadian Oil Sands.

Markham interviews Renew Home CEO Ben Brown about the launch of North America’s largest residential virtual power plant.

Markham interviews Professor Kristen van de Bizenbos of the California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, an expert on North American energy law and, until recently, a former faculty member at the University of Calgary. 

Markham interviews Pablo La Roche, global head of sustainable building design for Arcadis and the author of "Carbon-Neutral Architectural Design."

Markham discusses TMX, which is now transporting crude oil from Alberta to the West Coast, with award-winning columnist Max Fawcett. They discuss Markham's May 1 column, My TMX mea culpa . 

Markham interviews Canadian economist Dr. Chris Bataille, who was in the room when US Climate Envoy John Podesta gave his momentous April 16 speech at the Columbia Global Energy Summit.

Kingsmill Bond of the Rocky Mountain Institute joins Markham and Energy Circle members to talk about his recent report, " The Race to the Top: Cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States .

Markham interviews Julia Selker, Executive Director of the WATT Coalition, about the US Department of Energy's “Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Innovative Grid Deployment” report, which found that Grid Enhancing Technologies – dynamic line ratings, advanced power flow control and topology optimization – increase transmission capacity by making existing infrastructure more efficient.

Markham interviews MC Bouchard, the Pembina Institute’s oil and gas program director.

Markham interviews senior research fellow Dr. Kong Chyong of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies about his new paper, “Burning the Bridge to Ostpolitik? Stress-Testing Europe’s Shift from Russian Gas to Renewables Using a Global Energy Model.”

Markham interviews John Redfern, CEO of Calgary-based Eavor Technologies.

Markham interviews Megan Gordon of Pembina Institute.

Markham interviews Heather Exner-Pirot, Senior Fellow and Director of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a national public policy think tank based in Ottawa.

Markham interviews Dan Forman of Copper Labs , an expert in energy usage and efficiency, as well as commercial and residential demand response.

Markham interviews Ryan Hledik, a principal with the Brattle Group, about a recent report on the potential for Virtual Power Plants in California. 

Markham interviews Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.

Markham interviews Jennifer Saldana, director of ESG performance and reporting for ENMAX, and Professor David Sauchyn, director of the Prairie Adaptation and Research Collaborative and professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Regina.