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Max Fawcett

@maxfawcett.bsky.social

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Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer, winner of both a National Newspaper Award (2023) and National Magazine Award (2021) for column writing. Other: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 23h

In which I debunk some very common (and popular) myths about renewable energy and the energy transition.

Warning: It's long, pedantic, and full of charts.

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When "blindingly obvious" facts about the energy transition are anything but

Debunking Don Wright's well-meaning interventions on the subject

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Dan @danjoncon.bsky.social · 29m

LOL the first few seconds of this are pure chaotic joy and it's perfect.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 1m

A friendly word of advice to my friends at the CBC: if there was ever a time to include a perspective with either lived experience in BC or meaningful expertise on then legal/technical details of a west coast pipeline, it was this episode.

Swing and a miss, folks. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Dodging and diplomacy | West of Centre | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen

There are now two proposed pipelines without private proponents on the table. The first: Alberta's idea for a bitumen pipeline to northern British Columbia has become a political hot potato. The secon...

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 11h

Not even a Medbed can heal the hurt in Kid Rock's heart right now.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

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Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 11h

Mariners win

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 11h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 13h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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A Blog of Their Own @blogoftheirown.bsky.social · 13h

Baseball

Two consecutive BlueSky posts—first says “how good is this?” and second says “this is excruciating.”

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jacksonp42.bsky.social @jacksonp42.bsky.social · 12h

We've had one pandemic, yes. What about second pandemic?

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 13h

Canadians deserve better discourse around #energy. We need more discussions like this interview with @maxfawcett.bsky.social from @energimedia.bsky.social
Great discussion about energy transition. Thank you!

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Lazy Canadian Intellectuals Misread the Global Energy Transition

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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 17h

Lazy Canadian Intellectuals Misread the Global Energy Transition

@maxfawcett and I discuss a prominent economist's view that there is no energy transition.

The evidence and data say otherwise.
#ableg #canpoli #bcpoli
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Lazy Canadian Intellectuals Misread the Global Energy Transition

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 14h

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When "blindingly obvious" facts about the energy transition are anything but

Debunking Don Wright's well-meaning interventions on the subject

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 15h

And, in fairness, her point about petrochemical demand in China is….correct.

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Why Alberta’s Heavy Crude Is Outperforming in China’s Oil Market

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 15h

That is one hell of a logical leap.

But including Scope 3 emissions in TMX’s GHG impacts is silly.

Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 16h

She wants a fight with Ottawa, not a pipeline. And she’ll do almost anything — including damaging the prospects of a new pipeline — to make it happen.