Markham Hislop
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Journalist. Writes about the energy transition, tech, clean energy, politics/narrative, oil/gas. My job is to be accurate and to tell the truth. Full stop.
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Hands up, who else thinks that a woman's hair colour is her own damn business?
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Oh. My. Gawd.
Will you look at that. 100 years ago, Albertans willingly wore masks because of the Spanish Flu.
Someone alert Theo Fleury and Jamie Sale!!
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It's time to call out
@jkenney
for his irrational hatred of
@justintrudeau
.
The petty, mean-spirited, hyper-partisan, intensely personal venom the Premier reserves for the Prime Minister is not in Alberta's best interests.
Esp. since there is no evidence Trudeau deserves it.
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On the ferry back to the Island.
Wore my mask all week at the World Petroleum Congress. Me and maybe a half dozen people out of 5,000 delegates.
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From the "you can't make up this shit" file...BC's public health disaster (Bonnie Henry) hires Alberta's public health disaster (Deena Hinshaw).
It's like the Titanic and the Hindenburg teamed up.
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I'm ok with
@davidakin
's outburst at the
@PierrePoilievre
press conference.
Yeah, maybe it was unprofessional.
But can we finally admit that Poilievre and other populist Canadian politicians are using Trump's playbook and that pushback is required?
New game, new rules, folks.
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It's long. Took too long to write. But I had some things I wanted to say to Albertans:
The
@Alberta_UCP
talks a good energy game, but is an AWFUL energy govt.
I provided as much evidence as I could. There's more if you're interested.
#AlbertaElection2023
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Know what feels broken? Canadian politics.
Know who broke it?
A generation of alt-right politicians starting with the Reform Party in the 1990s, then the alt-right activists masquerading as journalists like Rebel Media, and now the authoritarian populism of the CPC, UCP, etc.
False Claim
#3
by
@PierrePoilievre
: addictions are a result of "woke Liberal and NDP policies"
Truth: addictions are caused by genetic factors, peer influence, concurrent mental health disorders, and trauma
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So, I'm going over the data for a column about oil/gas during the
@Alberta_UCP
's 4 years.
*1.5x as many jobs lost as
@albertaNDP
*Capex only 50% of 2014 peak
*No new pipelines or shipping capacity
*Higher O&G emissions
WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY DO IN GOVERNMENT?
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Asking for a friend: when do the angry vaccinated take to the streets?
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How are my Alberta peeps holding up?
Y'all properly self-medicated?
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"(insert your country here) is broken" is the cry of the fascist Trumpists in the US and the fascists in the UK.
Why am I not surprised that it is a common narrative of the CPC?
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@acoyne
First it was his hair.
Then "cosplaying" Indian garb.
Then his socks.
Now he's singing Bohemian Rhapsody.
Good gawd, the man has a personality - apparently a mortal sin in some circles.
Get back to us when you have something to say about his govt's policy.
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@RobSchneider
Thank you.
1. Less Rob Schneider will make Canada - already ranked the
#1
country to live in - an even better place.
2. Canadians think your tweet is hilarious. As if we care what a washed-up American comedian thinks.
Appreciate the chuckle. Keep up the good work!
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.
@JoAnnLawrence56
and I went to Nanaimo today for a little shopping, got out of Parksville for a few hours, and discovered that despite Justin Trudeau still being prime minister of Canada, we had lost none of our freedoms.
How about you folks? Lose any freedoms lately?
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Can confirm.
I'm 48 years old and I've never seen a bigger collection of idiots in this country than the
#Freedumbconvoy
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For the record, I first publicly opposed accreditation of Ezra Levant and Rebel Media by governments (or anyone, really) as legitimate journalists in 2016.
I was right then and I'm just as right today.
They are not journalists. Not then, not now.
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Rumour is that Ezra fired Keean Bexte from the Rebel.
If that turns out to be true, my bet is that Bexte violated the one ironclad law of grifters:
No side-grifting.
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Don't let the Convoy thugs rewrite history.
Saw this on FB and I agree. The rewriting of history annoys me. The "occupation" was not benign. It terrorized many of us who live in downtown Ottawa. Hospitals and schools were blockaded. Babies kept awake all night. Sick people had their care impaired. Many people were harmed.
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Who turns the tragedy of war into an infomercial? Who the hell does that!?!
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@ianhanomansing
As a journalist who's done 70 covid-19 interviews, let me reframe this "discussion" for you.
People question your motives because you refuse to interview critics (medical professionals, scientists, etc) of Bonnie Henry, BCCDC, and Dix.
You LOOK biased and unprofessional.
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Last year
@CBC
paid me about $7,800 for energy topic interviews for syndicated radio and the occasional news story.
I interacted w/producers, hosts across the country.
All of them were ethical, unbiased, and professional.
Stop the Lugenpresse campaign,
@CPC_HQ
and
@UCPWarRoom
.
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This man is a dangerous quack.
Public school teachers aren't indoctrinating kids with any kind of ideology, at least according to my teacher daughter and my dozens of teacher friends.
But home-schooled, childless
@DavidJPba
knows better.
Send him packing.
#ABleg
#Alberta
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Justin Trudeau stopped to help lift a person's wheelchair down a flight of stairs.
Pierre Poilievre brought doughnuts and coffee to occupiers of our nation's capital.
Maybe women are just more perceptive.
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Lol. Half of the CPC caucus are recent bible school graduates.
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What is “dangerous to our democracy” is a prominent CPC MP’s bald-faced lies about the national broadcaster.
Yes,
@LeslynLewis
, you are a lying liar who lies.
Absolutely true, the CBC’s primary job now is to discredit
@PierrePoilievre
who will be our next Prime Minister. The CBC is absolutely distrustful and has zero journalistic integrity. They are
@JustinTrudeau
henchmen. Their bias reporting is dangerous for our democracy.
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It has been suggested that Alberta needs a "firewall" to protect itself from a Canada led by a Trudeau.
May I respectfully suggest that if Alberta continues along its present path, it may have to be quarantined to protect the rest of Canada from the Trumpism virus.
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I recall a cabinet minister in the Stelmach govt (c. 2010) telling me that ABGov studies showed it cost $100,000/yr for someone to be homeless and $24,000/yr if they were provided a home and support.
Conservatives have forgotten how to conservative.
“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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@Captaincoby00
@kimsopha2
@ctvottawa
@AnnieClaireBO
Journalist here.
Pat King is to journalism what Donald Trump is to honesty.
Not a fucking chance.
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When I'm talking to
@RachelNotley
supporters about energy policy, it's a respectful, evidence-based conversation, even if we disagree.
Talking to
@ABDanielleSmith
supporters, though, is like talking to cult members.
All I get is the AB oil/gas narrative.
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1/From 2015 to 2019
@RachelNotley
introduced some of the most forward-thinking energy and climate policies in North America.
She did it during a very difficult time of low oil and gas prices.
All the best in the next phase of your career, Ms Notley.
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I thought
@davidjpba
couldn't get any lower, but fat-shaming
@shoffmanAB
on X is despicable.
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Any of you read Trudeau's actions like this?
I didn't. He waited, as he should have, for the City of Ottawa to act, then the Ford govt, then the govts in Alberta and BC.
Finally, there was no one left to act but the federal govt. So, he acted.
Convince me I'm wrong.
It's quaint that some people think
@JustinTrudeau
passed over a deal with the trucker's convoy.
If you watched him carefully, he never wanted one. What he wanted was a fight with the truckers and so he picked one over and over again. Including the EA.
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@KashPrime
@jvipondmd
@TwitterSupport
Dr Joe has been leading the Alberta fight for masks, vaccines, and recognition of the airborne aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
Suspending his account is beyond the pale.
Re-instate it immediately.
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The unspoken message: Kenney's base will listen to Donald Trump.
Not scientists. Not doctors. Not public health officials (notably, not Dr Deena Hinshaw).
Trump.
Alberta is reduced to tweeting video of a pathological liar to promote vaccination.
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1. The junior and intermediate sectors of the Alberta oil patch have a hard time accessing capital.
2. Danielle Smith wants to create an Alberta pension plan with over $300 billion.
3. The UCP is strongly supported by small oil and gas companies.
We can all do the math
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This is how fascists talk.
They de-legitimze expertise, evidence, democratic institutions, etc. so they can replace them with their own authoritarianism.
In Parker's case, Christo-fascism.
The man shares a stage with Craig Chandler.
What else needs to be said?
The beauty of the new right is that we don't care about your credentials. We mock them. They are given to you by corrupt little propaganda machines. They mean nothing and we don't respect them. Your experts are just shills for the current thing.
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Jesus Christ,
@DavidJPba
, do I have to explain to you how evil it is to lie about public figures like this?
You can't accuse Canada's Deputy PM of drug addiction without evidence.
"David Parker is a pedophile."
Probably not true, but who cares, right? RIGHT?
These new
@cafreeland
fidgeting videos only expose her crippling pharmaceutical addiction. She needs help.
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Evil? Communist?
The AHS was set up under the a conservative govt, for crying out loud.
This Joe McCarthy wannabe needs to be run out of Alberta on a rail and returned to his spiritual home in the USA.
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IMO, debating how the $343 billion federal deficit should be paid down is absolutely fair game, but criticizing the Canadian govt for running it up that high is not.
My family was supported during the COVID-19 pandemic by that deficit. Probably yours was as well.
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We're on Day 29 of our quarantine. I've been out of the house 5x (to get groceries, online order and pick up).
You'll forgive me if I have no patience for people who are camping this weekend or playing soccer with their buddies or whatever they're doing except self-isolation.
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Remember, a central tactic of authoritarian populism is to destroy legitimate news media, and replace it with easily controlled, sycophantic media like Rebel News and Western Standard.
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Ted Byfield died Thursday. Conservative politicians praised him lavishly. I never read the Alberta Report, so I tracked down his blog, which he published until 2019.
Christo-fascist bigotry, paranoia usually associated with Trumpian populism.
Praising this man is a huge tell.
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#TruckersConvoy2022
can go to hell.
Based on my interactions with convoy supporters, my guess is that plenty of them support a Canadian version of the American Jan. 6 insurrection.
No "accommodation" for these assholes.
None. Whatsoever.
The infamous
#TruckersConvoy2022
which is taking up far too much media attention, sound like a bunch of immature kids who want attention by blowing their own horns. But on
@ctv
last night, one of them said something to the effect that it would be great to have a Jan. 6th 1/2
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...there it is, folks, Take Back Alberta begins to morph into MAGA Alberta.
That should end well.
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I apologize in advance, but this is way too funny not to share.
David Parker really needs to insist the camera is zoomed in when doing interviews.
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What am I missing? Why is Alberta debating lockdown vs no lockdown?
Why isn't it debating how to MAKE irresponsible citizens take proper precautions like masking and distancing?
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The Alberta Premier lives in a fantasy world.
The rest of us live in a reality dominated by a global energy transition that will eventually reduce demand for oil and gas.
Why isn't Alberta planning for that world?
Ottawa seems intent on moving forward with their destructive and unconstitutional plans to reduce emissions on an unachievable timeline.
The Parliamentary Committee for the Environment and Sustainable Development invited members of my cabinet to testify, and as the Premier of…
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#Rstar
update: Is Premier
@ABDanielleSmith
corrupt? Yes, says political scientist
Interview w/Prof
@DuaneBratt
,
@mountroyal4u
political science.
#ABleg
#ABpoli
#cdnpoli
#yyc
#yeg
#OOTT
#Alberta
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"EVs catching fire" memes are regularly popping up on my feed, so I thought I'd share some data:
Fires per every 100,000 vehicles sold
EVs: 25.1
ICE: 1,529
ICE cars are 60x more likely to catch fire.
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30% of Canadians don't accept the connection between emissions and climate change...and those are the folks leading the Axe the Tax campaign.
First it was anti-vaxx. Then it was anti-mask.
Then they occupied the nation's capital.
Radicals looking for an excuse.
Pursuant to the debate about carbon pricing 22% of Canadians do not believe there is any connection between carbon emissions and climate change . Another 8% aren't sure. Almost all of the opposition comes from this group.
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Next time a denier claims that COVID-19 is just a flu, show him this graphic from the new Alberta respiratory illness dashboard.
Almost 23% of covid cases require hospital admissions.
Yikes!
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Next time an anti-vaxxer claims to know dozens or hundreds of people injured by COVID-19 vaccines, you can give them the real number: ~5.
Yup, 5.
Out of 32 million Canadians with at least one dose.
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BREAKING: Canada's
@nationalpost
has the least accurate climate change reporting on the face of the freakin' planet.
Canadians: What about the other Postmedia papers? I mean, have you read the
@TheTorontoSun
?
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Can anyone think of a worse time than a global pandemic to be spreading Rebel Media lies about the doctor leading Canada's COVID-19 response?
Kudos to Dr. Tam. She's been doing a helluva job and doesn't deserve this cheap driveby smear, from an MP of all people.
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, has failed Canadians.
Dr. Tam must go! Canada must remain sovereign over decisions. The UN, the WHO, and Chinese Communist propaganda must never again have a say over Canada's public health!
#cdnpoli
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@PlaceHadyn
Dr. Vipond treats the consequences of Dr. Hinshaw's mistakes in his ER.
That's why we journalists have made him a prominent voice on COVID-19.
Oh, and the fact that he has been proven correct time and time again. Dr. Hinshaw, not so much.
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So, I'm writing a column about the "Buffalo Declaration," which means I had to read it.
Don't make the same mistake. It's wretched and intellectually dishonest.
It does have one virtue, though: Anyone who signs this tripe is outed. There's no hiding afterward.
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Scientists warring over how COVID-19 is transmitted: droplets/touch vs aerosols
I interview Dr. Jose-Luis Jimenez
@jljcolorado
of
@CUBoulder
Jose has interesting things to say about Drs Bonnie Henry and Deena Henshaw.
#BCpoli
#ABleg
#covid19bc
#Covid19ab
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Word on the street is that ABGov will impose security deposits on new wind and solar projects when the moratorium is lifted next year.
Question:
Will security be required for the oil sands' $50 billion CCUS infrastructure?
*CO2 pipeline
*Gathering equipment
*Sequestration hub
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Why is Keean Bexte even accredited for this press conference,
@cityofcalgary
and
@JyotiGondek
?
He's not a journalist.
This is why govts and businesses should restrict press conferences to accredited journalists.
To keep out the riff raff.
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Wow,
@WBrettWilson
says I'm "anti-Canada" and that I should leave the country.
My crime?
I mock him for his misinformation campaigns. For getting facts wrong all the time. His really dumb arguments.
And if I don't leave Canada, Brett, what then?
C'mon, tough guy, WHAT THEN?
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Here you have Trumpism at work: accuse your opponent of that which you are guilty.
Today he accuses Notley of being a wanna-be tyrant.
A few days ago, Parker praises Trump, the guy who actually was a wanna-be tyrant.
Parker isn't just deranged, he's dangerous.
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Re. 15-minute cities...
We lived in an "urban village" (McKenzie Towne) in SE Calgary where we could walk to the high street that was home to a grocery store, restaurants, dentists and doctors, gym, etc.
Loved that community. Haters don't know what they're missing.
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Guilbeault is correct.
I asked Steven Guilbeault why the Liberals' carbon tax hasn't stopped the wildfires, flooding and hurricanes he says all warrant climate action from the Conservatives.
In response, he accused me of "total ignorance" about climate change.
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A top priority for authoritarian populist politicians like
@PierrePoilievre
is to delegitimize the free press.
Like cutting funding for the CBC.
Like granting interviews to activist alt-right "media" while refusing questions from legitimate journalists.
#FundTheCBC
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WORST. OPTICS. EVER.
Premier
@jkenney
lectures the NE Calgary Southeast Asian community about COVID-19 but ignores the Freedom Parade open breaking his own pandemic rules.
Meanwhile, the Parade featured these fine gentleman *sarcasm* and various other racist placards.
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Rebel Media, True North, Epoch Times, etc. have created a generation of young, uber-right, political activists and rage farmers like Wee Harrison here.
These kids might age, but they'll never grow up.
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Cancel your Rebel Media subscription. Take the money and donate it to a food bank.
Cancel your Sportsnet subscription. Take the money and buy a Legion membership.
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Then why were the BC Liberals actually conservatives?
Why are the Ontario Progressive Conservatives not progressive at all?
Am I wrong thinking that someone who wants to be Prime Minister should be smarter than this?
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@sunlorrie
Dude. You're a national columnist for Canada's largest newspaper chain. That's the very definition of "elite."
Btw, how much free govt money has Postmedia received?
Money that helps pay your salary.
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My goodness, Premier Kenney, the Prime Minister bought you a pipeline company for $4.5B and will likely spend another $9B building TMX. A tad ungrateful, are we?
Albertans have been rightfully frustrated by the unfair deal we are getting in the Federation going as far as to even express support for separation
I don’t want to let
@JustinTrudeau
push us out of our country
I’d rather focus on separating him from the Prime Minister’s office
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I spent the past week reading IEA, BNEF, other reports for a big thread on global renewables. Some things I learned:
*Wind/solar are winning b/c they're cheap and getting cheaper
*Re-engineering powers grids is really complex
*Listen to experts, not gibbering populist nutbars
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Um, because O'Toole praised Kenney's pandemic management?
If you endorse the Premier of the province with the worst (by far) covid-19 infection rate and a collapsing hospital system, doesn't that call your judgement into question?
If those wrong choices by provincial premiers were not Trudeau’s fault as PM, why would they be O’Toole’s?
Should wrong choices by federal leaders — on global public health intelligence, on borders, on masks, on vaccines — also count, or only those made by other levels of govt?
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Dear
@RicMcIver
Ah, no.
The moratorium proves your govt can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
AB has no problem drafting and implementing oil and gas policy without a moratorium.
Please explain why renewables are different.
Our province is a national leader in renewable energy development, and pausing new approvals ensures we continue to balance growth with responsible land use practices and keeping electricity affordable for Albertans.
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It's not Alberta bashing, it's Jason Kenney being held to account for his mistakes.
This truly is one of the worst governments in Canadian history.
Any historians or political scientists care to correct me?
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$30 billion for TMX.
$7.1 billion of investment tax credits for oil sands-specific CCUS. No other Canadian industry enjoyed targeted support.
Meanwhile, if memory serves, ABGov put up $365 million over 5 years to support CCUS.
May we please cut the BS on this issue?
“Suffice to say it would be hard to find an equivalent announcement by the federal government in the West, even though there are initiatives that are ready to move forward, such as the proposed carbon capture and storage project (CCS) by the Pathways Alliance, which has been…
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Dear
@PierrePoilievre
I'm in the middle of a deep dive into the Alberta energy regulatory system. Watch for the video story in late April.
It's a horror movie.
Alberta's oil is NOT the most ethical and environmentally sound.
You're either lying or profoundly uninformed.
The world believes Canada’s oil is the most ethical and environmentally sound. Unfortunately, Trudeau opposes our home-grown energy to the benefit of foreign oil.
Repeal C-69. Build pipelines. Replace dollars for dictators with paycheques for our people.
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@SarahFischer__
@PierrePoilievre
Please provide examples of left wing political pundit doing what you claim.
If you can't provide examples, then you should apologize for trying to mislead Canadians and delete this tweet.
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.
@RachelNotley
may have been the unluckiest premier in Alberta history.
This is 10 years of Western Canada Select oil prices.
During much of her govt's tenure, prices were in the toilet.
Markets, not policies, created hard times from 2015 to 2019.
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Alberta is becoming a laughingstock, thanks to Danielle Smith
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I know why: to undermine the legitimacy of a free press.
Premier Smith is happy to be interviewed by Rebel Media and Western Standard, but rejected my request to appear on the Energi Talks podcast.
Facing tough questions is not her forte.
Attacking journalists for having the temerity to ask questions is a feature for today’s conservatives, not a bug.
We’d all do well to think about why.
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@wdiazberthiaume
@davidakin
LOL. Rebel News is not journalism. Never has been, never will be.
#RevokeRebelAccreditationNow
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After the 4th wave disaster, I don't trust Dr. Hinshaw to manage a lemonade stand.
Ditto for Dr. Henry.
I am also working with
@AHS_media
on a proactive plan to manage any future travel-related and Omicron cases here in Alberta. To be clear, there are no confirmed cases in our province. (4/7)
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Dr. Deena Hinshaw has bungled Alberta's COVID-19 response and must resign
I interview Prof.
@UbakaOgbogu
about
@CMOH_Alberta
's disastrous handling of the pandemic that has led to the 4th catastrophe.
#covid19ab
#ABleg
#abpoli
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Well done, Minister
@sonyasavage
. Your "drill, baby, drill" narrative is now international news.
Do you still wonder why HSBC won't finance oil sands pipelines, Zurich Group won't insure them, and Norway's sovereign wealth fund is divesting from four CDN oil companies?
"Alberta minister says it’s a ‘great time’ to build a pipeline because COVID-19 restrictions limit protests against them."
Well, at least we are seeing some honesty for once... Unfortunately this how large parts of the world are run.
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Jesus-boi
@DavidJPba
demonstrating two truths:
1) the moral poverty of modern evangelical Christians
2) the triumph of Ayn Rand's evil nonsense that there is no society, only a collection of sovereign individuals
In Alberta, the libertarians won, which makes me sad.
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