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I’m pleased to welcome Irina Slav to the podcast to discuss the global energy transition and future energy trends. Irina lives in Bulgaria and is a journalist and writer for oilprice.com, she has an excellent substack called appropriately Irina Slav on Energy, and she also joins a weekly Energy Transition podcast with Brazilian engineer Armando Cavanha, American public policy analyst and senior contributor to Forbes magazine, David Blackmon, along with myself!

Most Canadians don’t know or understand very much about the energy situation in Quebec. If asked, many would probably remark on Quebec’s incredible hydro electric power. Some know that Quebec exports a great deal of electricity to nearby provinces and the United States. Indeed, the Government of Quebec’s green economy plan states it will continue and maybe even increase those exports to become the “battery” of northeastern America. Some, however, have started to question whether that is possible. Recently, David Boudeweel wrote a piece asking the question, “Could Quebec Run Out of Energy?” Today, I’m pleased to welcome Public Affairs Consultant David Boudeweel to the podcast to discuss Quebec’s energy situation.

https://www.boudeweel.com/

“Could Quebec Run Out of Energy?” : https://www.boudeweel.com/post/could-quebec-run-out-of-energy

On Quebec’s energy situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eV2KBMQt3M

Season 2 Episode 11 – Power House Saskatchewan—Conversation with Brian Zinchuk February 2023

The hydrocarbon and resource industries in Canada – notably in Alberta and Saskatchewan—have undergone tremendous changes over the past 15 years. There’s been environmental activism pushing governments to block pipelines and other infrastructure; there’s been the boom and bust of prices; there’s been the starving of investment; there’s also been the creeping jurisdictional overreach of Ottawa. Brian Zinchuk has covered it all – AND—he’s reported how it’s affected the people working in this strategic industry.

Brian joined Pipeline News, Saskatchewan’s monthly petroleum newspaper in 2008, serving as journalist and editor until Covid brought it to an end. In 2021, he began his own online publishing venture – Pipeline Online – covering all energy related news of Saskatchewan. Brian is here today to chat with me about the ongoing challenges facing the energy industry in Saskatchewan and Canada.

Pipeline Online can be found here: https://pipelineonline.ca

on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pipeline_Online

on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pipelineonlineca

You can find Brian Zinchuk on

LinkedIn:  https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brian-zinchuk-329872132?trk=public_post_feed-actor-name

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianZinchuk

For more information on some of the topics we discussed today please see:

Petroleum Technology Research Centre

https://ptrc.ca/projects/co2-eor-and-storage/aquistore

CCUS Knowledge Centre at the University of Regina

https://ccsknowledge.com/

https://pipelineonline.ca/boundary-dam-hits-5-million-tonnes-co2-captured-aquistore-hits-500000-tonnes-stored/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0

Season 2, Episode 10 – Understanding the UK Energy System and Crisis – Conversation with Kathryn Porter

Welcome to The Nemeth Report Podcast, I'm Dr. Tammy Nemeth, and I'll be your host. Today, I'd like to welcome Kathryn Porter, independent energy consultant and founder of Watt Logic. Kathryn has many years of experience in the UK finance and energy utility sector and founded an independent consulting service that also offers online training courses. Her blog offers insightful commentary and analysis of the UK energy system and is well worth a look. Kathryn also writes for Energy Live News as one of their Energy Experts. You can also find Kathryn on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Recorded on 14 December 2022

Season 2, Episode 8 – Conversation with Dennis McConaghy

Carbon Change: Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization

Joining me to discuss his new book Carbon Change: Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization is Dennis McConaghy. Dennis has had an extensive career in the petroleum industry, as an engineer and executive with TransCanada Pipelines (Now TC Energy) directly involved in several energy projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline, Coastal GasLink, Energy East and others. In addition to Carbon Change: Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization Dennis is the author of two other books in the past five years – Dysfunction: Canada after Keystone XL, and Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future.

Season 2, Episode 7 – Conversation with Francis Menton

Net-Zero and Renewable Realities

Joining me to discuss the western world’s net-zero frenzy and the hard realities of renewable energy is Francis Menton. Francis received a math degree from Yale, and a J.D. law degree from Harvard. He is a retired lawyer and was a partner at a New York law firm for more than 30 years. On his popular blog Manhattan Contrarian, he writes about elite political ideologies on climate change, the purpose of government, New York state news, and the basic principles of economics. He is also an attorney for the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council (CHECC) in their challenge to the EPA on its endangerment findings for CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

Welcome to a Nemeth Report special. Canada is about to sign onto new emissions reporting standards that are designed to kill the fossil fuel industry. The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRS) has developed a new global baseline sustainability and climate related financial disclosure Standard, and Canada has committed to supporting this new Standard.  I’ve written a new report about this extremely important issue that will have profound implications for every business in Canada, but which, as currently written, demonizes greenhouse gas emissions through the accounting standards’ metrics. I explain in this report how pernicious this Standard is, and how it will compromise the finances and operations of hydrocarbon companies, and any industry that utilizes hydrocarbons. 

In this Special Report, I share with you the Executive Summary from my report, Counting Carbon Molecules, which is available on the podcast website, The Nemeth Report.com. Another summary of the report is in my recent op-ed in the Financial Post, "Net-Zero? New Standard Aims for Absolute-Zero Emissions."

I hope you will enjoy this short episode.

If you have any comments, please reach out at: [email protected]

Season 2 Episode 6 – Conversation with Ron Wallace

Energy Security

Joining me to discuss the forgotten issue of Energy Security is Dr. Ron Wallace.

Dr. Wallace is a former CEO and has served on federal, provincial and territorial energy and environmental regulators, including the National Energy Board. Dr. Wallace is a Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and a Board member of the Canada West Foundation. He worked with the World Bank (Washington), the Asian Development Bank (Manila) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (London) on international resource management projects including the World Bank’s emergency assessment and containment of the Kharyaga Pipeline oil spill near Usinsk, Russia. In 2019 he was appointed as the GNWT representative to both the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board (Yellowknife) and the Environmental Impact Screening Committee (Inuvik). He recently chaired the Alberta Coal Policy Committee. He is the author of a number of commentaries and reports including the recent, "THE GLOBAL ENERGY TRANSITION CONFRONTS EAST VS WEST REALPOLITIK: WHY ENERGY SECURITY MATTERS."

Dr. Wallace has also contributed opinion editorials to the Financial Post such as, “Biden and Trudeau are Putin and Xi’s Useful Energy Idiots,”and the recent “An Unexpected Energy Revolution Arrives.”

This episode was recorded on May 13, 2022.