This week our guest is Jana Mosley, President of ENMAX Power. Headquartered in Calgary with operations across Alberta and Maine, ENMAX Corporation is a leading provider of electricity services, products and solutions. Jana is responsible for ENMAX’s regulated transmission and distribution business in Calgary. She also directs ENMAX’s power infrastructure, engineering and maintenance services.  Here are some of the questions Jackie and Peter asked Jana: Why did ENMAX purchase the business in Maine? What is ENMAX doing to help customers with affordability and adoption of clean energy? Is ne ..read more

This week our guest is Stewart Muir, founder and CEO of Resource Works,.  Resource Works is a public-interest advocacy and communications not-for-profit based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their mission is to reignite the promise of Canada's economic future by leading respectful, inclusive and fact-based dialogue on natural resource development.   Here are some of the questions that Peter and Jackie asked Stewart:  How have politics in B.C. changed with the new Premier, David Eby? How is LNG viewed in B.C. now? Is LNG considered as green energy and a way to reduce the use of c ..read more

This week Peter and Jackie catch up on the latest news and topics of interest including:  Russia to cut oil production by 500,000 B/d in March  BP scales back their target to reduce their oil production by 2030   The collapse in North American and International natural gas prices  Waiting for the Canadian Federal Government’s spring budget to learn about clean energy incentives policy  The concern with articles that overpromise when it comes to clean energy technologies, including commentary on the article “Scientists Successfully Split Seawater to Produce Green Hydro ..read more

This week on the podcast our guest is John Graham, President and CEO of Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investments. The mandate of CPP Investments is to invest the assets of the CPP Fund with a view to achieving a maximum rate of return without undue risk of loss.  Here are some of the questions Peter and Jackie asked John Graham: What is the history of why Canada created the CPP and CPP Investments? What are your thoughts on 2023 with respect to geopolitics, threat of recession, inflation and volatility in general? Are you dampening your return expectations as a result of the weaker macro out ..read more

In September 2022, Enbridge and 23 First Nations and Metis communities announced that the Indigenous groups would buy an 11.57% non-operating interest in Enbridge operated pipelines in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta for $1.12 Billion – it has been called the first of its kind and an historic announcement.  This week, Justin Bourque, President of Athabasca Indigenous Investments and Colin Gruending, Enbridge’s Executive Vice President and President of Liquids Pipelines join the podcast to tell us more about the agreement.    Here are some of the questions Peter and Jac ..read more

This week on the podcast our guest is Blake Shaffer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.    We cover a range of topics about Alberta and Canada’s electricity markets.  Including revisiting the tight power market that Alberta experienced during the  December 2022 cold spell, the issues and opportunities that come from the ramp-up of Electric Vehicles (EV), and finally the prospects for achieving net-zero electricity by 2035 in Canada.   Here are some of the questions Peter and Jackie asked Blake: D ..read more

Carbon credits are coming under increasing scrutiny. The Guardian ran an article last week that alleged that 90% of rainforest carbon credits issued by Verra, manager of the world’s leading voluntary carbon markets program, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, did not represent genuine offsets.  And, comedian John Oliver made the entertaining case that carbon offsets do not deliver the emissions benefit that they claim.   This week, our guest Dirk Forrister, President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) helps us understand the current state of the ..read more

This week on the podcast our guest is John Graham, President and CEO of Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investments. The mandate of CPP Investments is to invest the assets of the CPP Fund with a view to achieving a maximum rate of return without undue risk of loss.  Here are some of the questions Peter and Jackie asked John Graham: What is the history of why Canada created the CPP and CPP Investments? What are your thoughts on 2023 with respect to geopolitics, threat of recession, inflation and volatility in general? Are you dampening your return expectations as a result of the weaker macro out ..read more

This week Peter and Jackie catch up on the latest news and topics of interest including:  Russia to cut oil production by 500,000 B/d in March  BP scales back their target to reduce their oil production by 2030   The collapse in North American and International natural gas prices  Waiting for the Canadian Federal Government’s spring budget to learn about clean energy incentives policy  The danger of articles that overpromise when it comes to clean energy technologies, including commentary on the article “Scientists Successfully Split Seawater to Produce Green Hydrogen ..read more

This week on the podcast our guest is John Graham, President and CEO of Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) Investments. The mandate of CPP Investments is to invest the assets of the CPP Fund with a view to achieving a maximum rate of return without undue risk of loss.  Here are some of the questions Peter and Jackie asked John Graham: What is the history of why Canada created the CPP and CPP Investments? What are your thoughts on 2023 with respect to geopolitics, threat of recession, inflation and volatility in general? Are you dampening your return expectations as a result of the weaker macro o ..read more