Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Amanda Hall, CEO of Summit Nanotech, a Canadian cleantech startup that has developed membrane nanotech technology to economically remove lithium from briny water. After founding the company [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Todd Hirsch, chief economist of the Alberta Treasury Branch and an influential voice in the Alberta energy conversation. The topic of discussion was an Oct. 21 column [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dale Marshall of Environmental Defence about a new study showing methane emissions from oil and gas production could be double current estimates. If the study’s results apply [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Prof. Steven Holdcroft of Simon Fraser University about his team’s research work developing ion exchange membranes that help in the conversion of captured CO2 emissions into green [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Joanna Kyriazis of Clean Energy Canada about Quebec’s decision to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035. They also discuss other jurisdictions like California and the [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews economist Jay Dixon of Statistics Canada about a series of studies “The Employment Consequences of Robots: Firm-level Evidence” and “The Effect of Robots on Firm Performance and [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Joanna Kyriazis, senior policy advisor, about Clean Energy Canada’s new report, “Taking the Wheel,” which argues that Canada isn’t moving fast enough to develop its electric vehicle [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Nathan Lemphers about his working paper, which examines transportation electrification narratives in Alberta oil/gas (negative), Ontario automotive manufacturing (uncertain), and Quebec (positive). Related links: The Stories [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews researcher Henry Penn, University of Calgary and The Arctic Institute of North America’s Kluane Lake Research Station, about an exciting new greenhouse research project in SW Yukon [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews economist Werner Antweiler from the Sauder School of Business about how cheap renewables (solar and wind) are poised to begin displacing fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), [Read more]
Rating: Advanced high school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews energy economist Ken Fellows, School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, about the new study, “Energy & Environmental Policy Trends: Is the Site C [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Sarah Buchanan, Program Manager, Clean Economy for Environmental Defence, about her organization’s December, 2020 study, Yours to Recover: A Progress Report on Ontario’s Climate Change Actions. The [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Mark Kirby, CEO of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, about the Dec. 16, 2020 announcement of a Canadian hydrogen strategy from the federal government. Related [Read more]
Rating: Advanced high school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Kevin Birn, an economist with IHS MarkIt, about how oil sands producers have driven down costs to around $30 WTI per barrel. Falling supply from Latin [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Gunther Bachmann, a former director of the German Council for Sustainable Development, about the challenges posed by his country’s energy transition plan, the Energiewende. Related stories: [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Bloomberg energy and climate journalist Dr. Akshat Rathi joins Markham to discuss China’s Sept. 23 announcement it will reach peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews John Kemp, a highly respected energy analyst, about the relative decline of the US and Western Europe as China becomes an economic and geopolitical powerhouse. The energy [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Sam Abuelsamid, EV analyst for Guidehouse Research, about Amazon’s Oct. 8, 2020 announcement that it will buy 10,000 custom-designed Rivian electric delivery vans, with deployment starting in [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Ben Kujala, director of power planning for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council based in Portland, Oregon. They discussed the extent to which natural gas should be [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Thomas Rowlands-Rees of BloombergNEF about US greenhouse gas emissions falling. The primary cause of lower emissions is the switch away from coal (mostly to natural gas) [Read more]
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