This article from Energy Media, an oil industry source, explains or at least confirms what I have been saying - oil is facing a slow demise and the industry needs to focus on change rather than trying to ram growth down the peoples throat using misinformation and outright lies.
The CPC, UPC and PC must also abandon their platform of lies as they are doing their base, the country and the world an injustice.
How many more birthdays for Canada if Trumpian populism continues to infect our politics?
Canada is a high-carbon economy rapidly heading toward a low-carbon future. Will our response be slowed by populist politicians circling the wagons instead of confronting the challenge?
Happy Canada Day! This seems like a good time to ruminate about the direction in which our country is headed. More specifically, our national political discourse, which is in grave danger of being hijacked by the Trumpism populism that has crept across the border into Ontario and Alberta, while infecting the Conservative Party along the way.
This isn’t the Prairie populism of the United Farmers movement and socialist CCF under Tommy Douglas. It’s more a mutant strain of the Reform Party that blossomed in Alberta under the leadership of Preston Manning and the Calgary School of conservative scholarship that was then invaded by the nasty populism that accompanied Donald Trump’s political ascendancy.
Since we’re an energy news organization, let me put an energy spin on the current variety of Canadian populism.
Populism is often a response to profound economic and social change. Structural change, that is, not the cyclical kind, which is precisely what’s happening with the global energy system that is already a couple of decades into a transition from fossil fuels to electricity generated by low-carbon technologies like wind and solar.
What does that have to do with Canadian politics?
A clue arrived in my inbox this morning from the Oxford Energy Institute. The 15-page commentary is titled, “The Energy Transition and Oil Companies’ Hard Choices.”
The basic argument is that the effects of the energy transition will be felt by oil companies long before humans stop using oil. As the Institute puts it, “there is a difference between the timescale within which the transition is completed and the timescale within which the manifestation of its effects on energy markets are felt.”
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