Category: Power Struggle Podcast
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Why Energy Transition Is Actually Energy Addition: A French Historian Challenges Climate Assumptions
The language we use to discuss energy and climate change shapes our understanding of what’s possible. But what if one of our most fundamental assumptions—the “transition” from fossil fuels to renewables—is historically and practically flawed? French historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, author of “More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy,” joined Power Struggle host […]
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Power Struggle: How clean is your energy?
Jason Switzer, a longtime leader and innovator in Canada’s energy transition, joins Power Struggle host Stewart Muir for a look at Equitable Origin (EO), a non-profit that certifies natural gas produced to higher social and environmental standards. About 15% of US and Canadian natural gas is certified under the EO100™ Standard system. Canadian gas production […]
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Foreign Money Canadian Power
Journalist and author Terry Glavin joined Power Struggle host Stewart Muir for a look at Canadian and world issues, and the directions Canada could and should take after the federal election. Here are some of the things they discussed: ENERGY SOVEREIGNTY Glavin says that if there is one conversation that we should have been having […]
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Resources are still the Canadian golden goose
Leading Canadian economist Jack Mintz joins our Stewart Muir in this election-special Power Struggle podcast. Mintz is President’s Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy and is, as Stewart notes, “one of the most distinguished economists on the scene.” Here are some of the things they discussed: RESOURCE TRADE […]
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Canada at a crossroads
Monica Gattinger, founding chair of the Positive Energy Program at the University of Ottawa. Joins Stewart Muir in this election-special Power Struggle podcast. She says Canada’s energy policies need a “durable balance” of economic and environmental aspirations. That balance must encompass sustainability, affordability, competitiveness, economic issues, and the security and reliability of energy supply. We […]
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The Energy Future of Canada
Christy Clark, former BC premier, joins our Stewart Muir in this election-special Power Struggle podcast. She says Canada needs to create “new wealth,” and she looks at ways to make that happen, especially through natural resources. NEW WEALTH Clark says our next prime minister must, after 10 years of stalled growth, have clear goals that […]
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Energy, Recovery and Canadian Resilience
Jason Kenney, former Alberta premier (and former federal cabinet minister), joins our Stewart Muir in this election-special Power Struggle podcast. Among other points, he notes that Canada was once equivalent to Montana, the 15th wealthiest state. “We are now the equivalent of the 50th, i.e. the poorest US state, Alabama.” ADDICTION POLITICS Before getting into […]
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Canada as a world energy power
Can Canada and the US together become the dominant global energy power? Brian Lee Crowley, managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, thinks so. He explores the idea, and much more, with our Stewart Muir on our Power Struggle podcast. CANADA’S RESOURCES Crowley sees Canada as “almost unique in the world” when it comes to its […]
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Election Special: Resources. A national election issue
John Ivison, Ottawa-based political columnist for the National Post, joins our Stewart Muir on Power Struggle and explores federal election issues. Ivison says natural-resource development now is a national issue for Canada, and so is US President Donald Trump. THE TRUMP IMPACT The US is now “an adversary” under Donald Trump with a presidential wish-list […]
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Indigenous Rights and Reconciliation: Who Really Owns Canadian Resources?
Malcolm Macpherson asks two tough questions in a discussion with Stewart Muir on Power Struggle: “Why are Canada’s Indigenous people dying, in some cases decades earlier than the average Canadian? Why is the drinking water issue still an issue in First World Canada?”The lawyer and Resource Works board member looks at how Indigenous Peoples want […]