Category Archives: Renewable Energy

Yet another carbon bubble paper that misses the mark

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Blair

One of the interesting features of the climate change debate is that many of the highest profile academics in the field are European and many of the papers have what, to outsiders such as myself, might appear to be unconscious … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Politics, Pipelines, Renewable Energy, Trans Mountain, Uncategorized | 9 Comments

On questionable science about fugitive emissions in the BC natural gas industry

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Blair

I was mostly off-line earlier in the year when two publications came out on fugitive emissions in the British Columbia natural gas industry. These two publications were: Mobile measurement of methane emissions from natural gas developments in northeastern British Columbia, Canada … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Politics, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized | 13 Comments

On renewable natural gas and mindless anti-everything environmentalism

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Blair

This morning one of my regular foils on Twitter posted a surprising tweet: (source https://twitter.com/edwiebe/status/832624138103640068) Mr. Wiebe is an outspoken environmentalist with expertise in the field of climate change and climate modelling so I was a bit surprised by this … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Politics, Climate Change, Climate Change Politics, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Electrifying BC’s transportation system, debunking the myths: Part II night charging of vehicles

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Blair

In my last post I started the process of debunking some of the fallacies being put forward by the electric vehicle (EV) community as part of their program to encourage people to convert to EVs while simultaneously maintaining their NIMBY … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Politics, Fossil Fuel Free Future, General Politics, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized | 14 Comments

Electrifying BC’s transportation system, debunking the myths: Part I that BC Hydro Load Estimate

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Blair

A couple weeks ago I was on the receiving end of a surprising amount of vitriol over an old post (Starting a Dialogue – Can we really get to a “fossil fuel-free BC”?) that I subsequently turned into a Huffington … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Politics, Fossil Fuel Free Future, Renewable Energy, Site C, Uncategorized | 19 Comments

How reliant are we on fossil fuels in British Columbia?

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Blair

A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog post that included a thought experiment of a world where fossil fuels had magically disappeared. As many of you know, I write a blog for the Huffington Post Canada and I decided to … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Politics, Fossil Fuel Free Future, Pipelines, Uncategorized | 24 Comments

Debunking the Leap Manifesto’s 100% Wind, Water and Sunlight Annual Energy, Health, and Climate Cost Savings

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Blair

As regular readers of this blog know, I have spent a lot of time debunking components of the still-draft paper prepared by Dr. Jacobson 100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Politics, Fossil Fuel Free Future, Leap Manifesto, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Debunking the Leap Manifesto’s 100% Wind, Water and Sunlight Health Cost Savings for Canada

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Blair

As anyone interested in the topic of renewable energy knows Premier Brad Wall made the news the other night. He did so by giving a speech where he discussed a number of the figures provided in the “100% clean economy by 2050” … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Politics, Fossil Fuel Free Future, Leap Manifesto, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Debunking the Leap Manifesto 100% Renewables by 2050 demand

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Blair

My vocal challenges to the viability of “The Leap Manifesto” have earned me some negative feedback and as such I figure it is necessary to back up my opinions with a few numbers. In doing this I will differentiate myself … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Politics, Environmentalism and Ecomodernism, Fossil Fuel Free Future, Leap Manifesto, Uncategorized | 52 Comments

A Jacobsonian 100% Wind Water and Sunlight gallop at UCLA

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Blair

Tuesday evening I spent a couple hours online listening to a moderated debate hosted by the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. The debate was titled POWERING EARTH 2050: Is California’s 100% Renewable Strategy Globally Viable? The reason for … Continue reading →

Posted in Fossil Fuel Free Future, Uncategorized | 11 Comments