His engagement: The thing that motivates him is his hometown of Calgary, Alberta. He does not want to see the community get left behind by the transition just because of a lack of foresight, vision or the courage to recognize that a change is coming to an otherwise pretty comfy level of existence. According to him, although it's a roller coaster economy that is married very tightly to oil and gas in Alberta, there are also enormous opportunities specifically in this province

By Donald MacCallum We’ve recently reached a remarkable inflection point in Alberta’s electricity generation industry. There are only three coal power plants still in operation — Genesee 1, 2 and 3 — all of which are currently being repurposed to natural gas by Edmonton-based Capital Power. Coal was the backbone of Alberta’s electricity generation for the majority of its history, accounting for 81 per cent of generation in 2001. That is down to roughly 20 per cent today and s

by Robert Miller As the heat bubble scorched British Columbia this summer, the record setting temperatures extended far south into the United States where the Hoover Dam reservoir hit its lowest recorded depth since construction was completed in 1936. As the Hoover Dam forewarned, it would not take long for the heat problem to become a water problem. By August, Alberta and Saskatchewan were experiencing severe to extreme drought conditions and ranchers were selling their live

by Steve Bentley The whole world shifted for Alberta in 2014 and it never stopped shifting. The oil and gas rollercoaster economy that was all we’d ever known kept taking unprecedented hits from a dizzying array of sources, all of them global in scope and that would ultimately prove insurmountable for business as usual. Heading into 2022, Covid had forced the world to stop and consider just what it was we’d all been doing and reconsider what’s really important. At the same ti

By Maheep Sandhu, Community Climate Hubs Manager at the Climate Reality Project Canada In November 2021, I had the privilege to attend the global climate negotiations occurring in Glasgow, Scotland on behalf of the Climate Reality Project Canada. While at COP26, I did live correspondence for community-based partners like the Calgary Climate Hub and The Climate Dialogues, interviewed young people from Kahnawá:ke, observed negotiations for the Climate Action Network-Canada, and