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Mitch Anderson

@manderson98.bsky.social

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Energy, politics, science, and philosophy. But mostly mirth.

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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 7d

www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
Follow the money. Exactly zero companies are betting their own $ on a new bitumen pipeline, while global investments in renewables and battery storage are surging. Canada needs to skate to where the puck is going, not where it was last decade. @mark-carney.bsky.social

Renewables Are a Global Economic Engine, Not a Culture War Threat

Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · 25d

www.desmog.com/2025/09/12/w...
Fossil fuels costs trillions in human health impacts each year. Chimney sweep testicle is thankfully a thing of the past due to belated regulation and cleaner fuels. Lets finish the job.

What ‘Chimney Sweep Testicle’ Can Teach Us About Fossil Fuels’ Staggering Health Consequences

Coal, oil and gas have been killing people for centuries. We’re still paying for it.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.desmog.com/2025/09/04/u...

Understanding Alberta’s Expensive, Ideological War on Renewable Energy

Premier Danielle Smith and U.S. President Donald Trump are weaponizing the powers of the state against wind and solar energy generation.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Sep 2

www.desmog.com/2025/09/02/m...

Mark Carney’s Climate Warning from 2015 and the Perils of Pragmatism

Canada’s PM once cautioned that most fossil fuel reserves will become unburnable. What happened?

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Aug 18

www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/t...

The Peak Numbers Canada’s Oil-Friendly Newspapers Keep Ignoring

Will fast-tracked oil sands infrastructure become stranded assets in four years? You won’t read about it in Canada’s mainstream outlets.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Jul 24

www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/o...

Oil Sands Expansion Hasn’t Brought Alberta the Prosperity Its Leaders Promised

Premier Danielle Smith has thrown around some vastly inflated figures. Global energy forecasters aren’t buying it.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Jul 15

www.desmog.com/2025/07/14/f...
How do we build infrastructure and energy systems that are resilient and secure in an increasingly destabilized world? The illegal war in Ukraine provides important lessons regarding worst-case military scenarios that reflect badly on pipeline projects.

Fast Tracking a Pipeline to BC’s Coast Will Undermine Canada’s Security

A revived Northern Gateway proposal tops the fossil fuel industry’s wish list. Carney should think twice before fulfilling that risky pipe dream.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Jun 20

The stark contrast in how Alberta treats the relatively puny reclamation risks from the renewable energy sector compared to the vast unfunded liabilities from the oil patch is so brazen it almost qualifies as political performance art.

www.desmog.com/2025/06/20/a...

Alberta Is Making It Even Harder to Develop Renewable Energy

The province released new burdensome reclamation requirements for wind and solar projects — the latest performance in an elaborate political troll.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Jun 18

The latest battle between Alberta and Ottawa is not over pipelines or policies, it's about data. If the oil patch is unwilling or unable to reduce their ballooning emissions, the Alberta government will misconstrue reported figures while working to prevent better measurements from being collected.

Alberta’s ‘Emissions Intensity’ Hasn’t Improved, Despite Government Claim

The 26 percent reduction the Alberta government recently bragged about happened almost entirely between 2012 and 2016.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Jun 9

www.desmog.com/2025/06/09/e...

Earth to Mark Carney: ‘Decarbonized Oil’ Is as Real as Vitamin Cigarettes

Canada's new PM parroted industry nonsense after a meeting with premiers last week.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · May 30

Pathways Alliance is trying to ride two horses with one ass. If they are serious about their $16 billion carbon capture project, why did they lobby to freeze the price for Alberta carbon credits? www.desmog.com/2025/05/29/p...

Pathways Alliance Lobbied for Policy That Hurts Its CCS Viability

Do oil sands companies actually want to capture carbon? Canada’s new energy minister, who served on MEG’s board, has received mixed messages.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · May 29

www.desmog.com/2025/05/29/p...

Pathways Alliance Lobbied for Policy That Hurts Its CCS Viability

Do oil sands companies actually want to capture carbon? Canada’s new energy minister, who served on MEG’s board, has received mixed messages.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · May 23

www.desmog.com/2025/05/23/t...
Approving (and potentially paying for) additional oil pipelines out of western Canada has become a kind of loyalty test for federal politicians. If oil pipelines are somehow now a sovereignty deal-breaker, it's worth asking: are they actually needed?

Nope.

Top Free-Market Think Tank Unsure That Canada Needs More Pipelines

While Alberta premier Danielle Smith demands new oil corridors, the Macdonald Laurier Institute notes that pipeline capacity is currently ‘sufficient.’

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · May 16

www.desmog.com/2025/05/15/a...

Engineer Explains Why Alberta’s Hydrogen Strategy Is Money-Losing Climate Failure

Desperation, bad advice and lobbying likely underpinning the province’s plan to blend hydrogen with natural gas for home heating.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Apr 24

www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/a...

A Rundown of Trump Allies That Have Endorsed Pierre Poilievre

Concerned Canadians should take note of all the Conservative leader’s MAGA endorsements and vote accordingly.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Apr 16

www.desmog.com/2025/04/16/n...

No, Canada's So-called ‘No Pipelines Bill’ Didn’t Block These 16 Energy Projects

Fact checking Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s revisionist narrative of how the Liberals ruined everything.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Apr 11

www.desmog.com/2025/04/09/c...

Conservatives Will Lift BC Tanker Ban, Pierre Poilievre Tells Oil CEOs at Rally

Poilievre turned a letter from 14 energy executives into a prop-sized checklist at a recent campaign event in Newfoundland.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Apr 9

www.desmog.com/2025/04/08/c...

Climate Expert Who Studied WW2 Shares How Canada Can Win Trump’s Trade War

‘When we need to urgently build big things we have to do it ourselves,’ Vancouver-based author Seth Klein tells DeSmog.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Mar 5

Shout out to @markhamhislop.bsky.social
for breaking the important story on how US refiners plan to turf Alberta crude suppliers after Trump tariffs.
www.desmog.com/2025/03/05/t...

Tariffs Likely to Crater Canadian Crude Exports to the US, Marathon Tells Investors

The American refiner pitched a pivot away from Alberta suppliers ahead of President Trump’s trade war salvo.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Mar 5

An apropos oldie from my good buddy Rusty Ford.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVuI...

Psychopathic Politician Blues

YouTube video by Rusty Ford

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Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Feb 21

www.desmog.com/2025/02/21/t...

Trump and the Energy East Pipeline Revival: Why Canada Shouldn't Waste Billions

A smarter investment? Put that money towards a massive build-out of the nation’s electrical grid to reach projected energy demand instead.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Feb 20

www.desmog.com/2025/02/19/t...

The Wheels Are Falling off Alberta’s Gas-Powered AI Data Centre Proposal

Thanks to shifting markets, political scandal, and the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation citing ‘zero consultation’ in its cease and desist letter.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Feb 13

www.desmog.com/2025/02/11/t...

Trump Dissed Poilievre, Revealing Key Weakness for Conservatives

Poilievre has clearly not earned enough respect from the Trump administration to credibly defend Canada’s interests.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Dec 21

www.desmog.com/2024/12/20/w...

Why Is Alberta Falling for Kevin O’Leary’s AI Data Centre Stunt?

The celebrity investor pitched ‘Wonder Valley’ with no committed investors, no Indigenous partnership, and about 27 megatonnes of projected annual emissions.

Mitch Anderson @manderson98.bsky.social · Dec 6

www.desmog.com/2024/12/06/a...

Anti-Renewable Influencers Parrot Takes from Fictional Series ‘Landman’

Right wing YouTuber Tim Pool is the latest to own ‘climate people’ with fake facts spouted by a grizzled TV oilman.