Kalli Herlein
@enviroecon.bsky.social
Canadian climate economist. Interested in all things policy, energy, and industrial decarbonization. #GOilers
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Let's be clear about what happened today.
Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,
denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,
and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.
Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,
denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,
and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.
The UCP government has invoked time allocation and on a bill removing Albertans' Charter rights.
And they're using the notwithstanding clause to do it.
Here's why that is a dangerous precedent. And why real conservatives need to stand up against it.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
And they're using the notwithstanding clause to do it.
Here's why that is a dangerous precedent. And why real conservatives need to stand up against it.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Alberta Strong and Free, Notwithstanding
The UCP's Bill 2 skirts the legislature and the courts, leaving it up to the public to push back swiftly
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Let's be clear about what happened today.
Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,
denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,
and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.
Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,
denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,
and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.
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ca. 1912 • Edmonton
A grainy but scintillating photo captured during Edmonton's first boom. The burgeoning city was in the midst of explosive growth in area & population. This ebullient scene full of activity is looking west along Jasper Avenue near 99th street.
📷 Provincial Archives (B4884)
A grainy but scintillating photo captured during Edmonton's first boom. The burgeoning city was in the midst of explosive growth in area & population. This ebullient scene full of activity is looking west along Jasper Avenue near 99th street.
📷 Provincial Archives (B4884)
May 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ca. 1912 • Edmonton
A grainy but scintillating photo captured during Edmonton's first boom. The burgeoning city was in the midst of explosive growth in area & population. This ebullient scene full of activity is looking west along Jasper Avenue near 99th street.
📷 Provincial Archives (B4884)
A grainy but scintillating photo captured during Edmonton's first boom. The burgeoning city was in the midst of explosive growth in area & population. This ebullient scene full of activity is looking west along Jasper Avenue near 99th street.
📷 Provincial Archives (B4884)
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Here's an #upshift since we really need one right now: Sublime just signed a deal with Microsoft to sell up to 622,500 tons of electrochemically produced cement over a period of 6 - 9 years. Sublime says "for scale, that's enough to build roughly 31 NFL stadiums."
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www.linkedin.com/posts/sublim...
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www.linkedin.com/posts/sublim...
Why Microsoft Just Signed a Deal for Green Cement
The software giant is teaming up with a low-carbon cement startup to help address emissions from the construction of data centers.
www.bloomberg.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Here's an #upshift since we really need one right now: Sublime just signed a deal with Microsoft to sell up to 622,500 tons of electrochemically produced cement over a period of 6 - 9 years. Sublime says "for scale, that's enough to build roughly 31 NFL stadiums."
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www.linkedin.com/posts/sublim...
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www.linkedin.com/posts/sublim...
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Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is brought to you by the smoking crater formerly known as Air Products' hydrogen strategy. CEO fired, $2.3bn write-off, $5bn underperforming projects, no green hydrogen from NEOM until at least 2030, 25% staff to be laid off. Brutal. www.gasworld.com/story/back-t...
‘Back to basics’ Air Products posts $1.7bn Q2 loss after projects exit
Recently installed Air Products CEO Eduardo Menezes put a brave face on the company’s financial performance today, saying several times in a lengthy earnings call that it was going “back to basics” af...
www.gasworld.com
May 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is brought to you by the smoking crater formerly known as Air Products' hydrogen strategy. CEO fired, $2.3bn write-off, $5bn underperforming projects, no green hydrogen from NEOM until at least 2030, 25% staff to be laid off. Brutal. www.gasworld.com/story/back-t...
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Spring, South of Longview
Illingworth Kerr
1981
Illingworth Kerr
1981
April 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Spring, South of Longview
Illingworth Kerr
1981
Illingworth Kerr
1981
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Per source, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Blue Jays are in agreement on a $500 million, 14 year contract extension pending physical.
April 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Per source, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Blue Jays are in agreement on a $500 million, 14 year contract extension pending physical.
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WTI crude less than a buck and a half off the $50s.
Down more than $10/bbl over 48 hours.
Hear that?
That's the sound of the US shale patch grinding to a halt.
Down more than $10/bbl over 48 hours.
Hear that?
That's the sound of the US shale patch grinding to a halt.
April 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
WTI crude less than a buck and a half off the $50s.
Down more than $10/bbl over 48 hours.
Hear that?
That's the sound of the US shale patch grinding to a halt.
Down more than $10/bbl over 48 hours.
Hear that?
That's the sound of the US shale patch grinding to a halt.
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This is fabulous news for Rich Sutton, Edmonton’s quiet computer genius, and the father of reinforcement learning for AI. And it’s great news for the University of Alberta, too. #ualberta #TuringPrize #Edmonton #yeg #AI
Computing science professor wins ‘Nobel Prize in computing’
Richard Sutton, a University of Alberta computing science professor and one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, has been honoured as co-recipient of the 2024 Association fo...
www.ualberta.ca
March 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is fabulous news for Rich Sutton, Edmonton’s quiet computer genius, and the father of reinforcement learning for AI. And it’s great news for the University of Alberta, too. #ualberta #TuringPrize #Edmonton #yeg #AI
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SCOOP: AB Health Minister Adriana LaGrange stripped Alberta Health Services of power to negotiate after its then-CEO allegedly refused to sign pricey deals
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg
Alberta Minister stripped health agency of power to negotiate private surgical contracts, document shows
Letter alleges government eroded ex-CEO’s authority to negotiate deals
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
SCOOP: AB Health Minister Adriana LaGrange stripped Alberta Health Services of power to negotiate after its then-CEO allegedly refused to sign pricey deals
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg
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Useful chart from Bloomberg. Trump says bilateral deficit with Canada means we're subsidizing them. But more than all the imbalance is energy. This means they send us oil & gas, we send them IOUs. This is a subsidy?
January 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Useful chart from Bloomberg. Trump says bilateral deficit with Canada means we're subsidizing them. But more than all the imbalance is energy. This means they send us oil & gas, we send them IOUs. This is a subsidy?
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Wolverine: listed as Special Concern in Canada by SARA, 'may be at risk' and 'data deficient' in Alberta. Lifting trapping quotas is clearly a new threat to a species that appears to be in decline. I agree with Jason - also about never forgetting the 1st sighting theconversation.com/albertas-lif...
Alberta’s lifting of restrictions on wolverine trapping could spell disaster for a declining population
Alberta’s move to lift restrictions on trapping activities is scientifically unsound and will hasten population decline across the province.
theconversation.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Wolverine: listed as Special Concern in Canada by SARA, 'may be at risk' and 'data deficient' in Alberta. Lifting trapping quotas is clearly a new threat to a species that appears to be in decline. I agree with Jason - also about never forgetting the 1st sighting theconversation.com/albertas-lif...
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Key figure in the US DoE #LNG study: Coal-to-gas transition is a small part of how US LNG will be used globally, and much of it simply adds new gas generation. Impact on global emissions with & without unconstrained US LNG is ~0 (but slightly positive).
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
December 17, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Key figure in the US DoE #LNG study: Coal-to-gas transition is a small part of how US LNG will be used globally, and much of it simply adds new gas generation. Impact on global emissions with & without unconstrained US LNG is ~0 (but slightly positive).
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
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Quebec passes bill than bans gas-powered vehicle sales by 2035.
montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-passe... #polqc
montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-passe... #polqc
Quebec passes bill than bans gas-powered vehicle sales by 2035
The Quebec government announced the adoption of a bill Monday that will prohibit the sale of certain gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
montreal.ctvnews.ca
December 16, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Quebec passes bill than bans gas-powered vehicle sales by 2035.
montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-passe... #polqc
montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-passe... #polqc