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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦
@blakeshaffer.bsky.social
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Associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary. Former energy trader. blakeshaffer.ca
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7m
“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h
The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 22h
Every time you say this I make a mental note to start doing it, next time.
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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 23h
NextEra SVP Petter Skantze says battery storage is now “the cheapest form of new capacity” in the US w/ “order of magnitude” faster deployment than gas w/ more modularity & flexible siting to enable higher system utilization & large load integration — #GridFWD in Monterey, CA 🔌💡
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 22h
As a reminder, whether it be $95 or $110 per tonne, the “policy price” for industrial emissions is largely moot right now.

Emitters can pay for compliance using emissions offsets and performance credits, which are currently trading bilaterally for under $29 per tonne.
TIER emission performance credit settlement prices from NGX/ICE.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 1d
I’m booking the 3D printer at the library. This is gold, Jerry!
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 1d
Says the guy who smells absolutely delicious!
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 1d
Just don’t get them mixed up
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday when his wife suddenly started shouting. He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, she had regained cell service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. “You just won the Nobel Prize!” she yelled.
Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation
Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 1d
China and the US going in opposite directions now when it comes to energy.

And it looks like China is poised to win…

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance
China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.
www.bloomberg.com
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 2d
👏 well done, Justin!

At the risk of self-promotion, I thought you might like this piece I and some colleagues wrote on the economic argument for getting vaccinated:

[gift link]

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...
If you got an AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, you made the right decision, according to economics
Even as the individual risk-reward scales have tipped away from AstraZeneca vaccines, Canadians must not forget the other benefit that comes with getting the jab as quickly as possible: protecting eac...
www.theglobeandmail.com
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 2d
An excellently written long piece on the return of measles, and how Alberta became the epicentre.

Well worth the read!
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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 2d
My cover story in the next issue of The Walrus.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 2d
A generation ago, measles was declared eradicated from Canada. Today, Alberta reports more confirmed cases than the entire United States. How did it become the epicentre of Canada’s outbreak? Physician and journalist @monicakidd.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-beca...
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Alberta Medical Association @albertadoctors.bsky.social · 2d
More than ever before, there’s a feeling that someone on the internet knows better and the distrust seems to be getting worse. If we’re serious about reducing preventable suffering among kids, we need to relearn how to talk across our differences.
thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-...
How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak | The Walrus
A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn
thewalrus.ca
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 2d
Twirling, twirling, twirling towards… civil war.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d
Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.
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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 3d
The AB teachers rally in Calgary today, at McDougall Centre

I tried to get pics up close but it was way too packed to get a good spot. Biggest rally at McDougall I've ever seen.

#Alberta #abpoli #AlbertaTeachers
A lot of people standing outside of McDougall Centre, a provincial government office and meeting space. They're holding signs and most people are dressed in red.
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Bob Barnetson @bobbarnetson.bsky.social · 3d
Big pro-teacher protest at #ableg in #yeg the day before a province-wide strike shuts down schooling.
Protest crowd in front of the Alberta legislature. Protest crowd in front of the Alberta legislature. Protest crowd in front of the Alberta legislature. Protest crowd in front of the Alberta legislature.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 3d
Horrific.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 6d
Great article on why AC adoption is accelerating.

“Our research provides a cautionary tale for the growing number of climate change predictions based on temperature and income alone. Our findings serve as a reminder that prices and technological change matter too.”

voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Why did air conditioning catch on so quickly in Mexico?
Air conditioning adoption in Mexico has grown much faster than earlier forecasts, with nearly one million more units installed than predicted, largely due to falling electricity prices and rising ener...
voxdev.org
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 6d
Every day is an impossible choice between muting America or bearing witness.
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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d
My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
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Dave Daniels @davedaniels.bsky.social · 7d
REV 6 on its way. This'll make Revelstoke the largest gen station in the fleet. www.revelstokereview.com/local-news/b...
BC Hydro to unleash 500 megawatts at Revelstoke Dam with new generating unit
Electric utility hosts open house Oct. 1, virtual event Oct. 6 to discuss seven-year project to add capacity to power the equivalent of 200,000 more homes
www.revelstokereview.com
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 8d
Not regularly, no. But I’ll look for that one, thanks!
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 8d
Looking forward to delivering this talk to my provincial utility commission this week on flexible electricity demand!

Lots of @tnorris.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social @jigarshahdc.bsky.social inspiration and references throughout!
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