Markham Hislop
markhamhislop.bsky.social
Markham Hislop
@markhamhislop.bsky.social
Professional: energy transition journalist, expert. Publisher at Energi Media.

Personal: husband, father, grandfather. Dog daddy. Hockey and baseball fan. E-bike rider. Western Canadian (who loves the rest of the country, too).
Carney, Smith Vision of Oil's Future Deeply Flawed

@mark-carney.bsky.social, Danielle Smith think Alberta can sell its bitumen in Asia for decades.

I think they'll be lucky to sell a fraction of that oil in a rapidly electrifying Asia.
#ableg #cdnpoli #bcpoli
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Carney, Smith Vision of Oil's Future Deeply Flawed
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November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
June 2, 2025, I predicted that @MarkJCarney would give @abdaniellesmith a pipeline.

Carney supporters said, "Oh no, he's playing 4D chess with Alberta. You just watch."

Uh huh. Sure that's what he was doing.
#ableg #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Buckle up, Canada, Carney has promised new pipelines to Alberta
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November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The Pipeline MOU is a Tragic Failure of Vision

At best, Mark Carney capitulated to Danielle Smith's backward view of the future. At worst, the Prime Minister shares that view
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The Pipeline MOU is a Tragic Failure of Vision
At best, Mark Carney capitulated to Danielle Smith's backward view of the future. At worst, the Prime Minister shares that view
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November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Calgary ridings are the ones to watch, but all recall petitions will tell us something about how people on the ground are feeling about this govt today.
#ableg #abpoli
14 UCP MLAs Subject of Recall Petition and Probably More Coming

Who's got an office pool on the final number? I want 33.

@Mitchell_AB explains how the recall process works and the political implications.

Subscibe to her Substack @WomenOfABPoli.
#abpoli
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14 UCP MLAs Subject of Recall Petition and Probably More Coming
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November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Say What? Mark Carney Invoking John Horgan Over the Alberta to BC Pipeline?

Horgan challenged TMX, invoking "cooperative federalism," the same principle @mark-carney.bsky.social said drives the Canada/Alberta pipeline MOU.

This story is getting weird.
#ableg #bcpoli
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Say What? Mark Carney Invoking John Horgan Over the Alberta to BC Pipeline?
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November 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
14 UCP MLAs Subject of Recall Petition and Probably More Coming

Who's got an office pool on the final number? I want 33.

@Mitchell_AB explains how the recall process works and the political implications.

Subscibe to her Substack @WomenOfABPoli.
#abpoli
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14 UCP MLAs Subject of Recall Petition and Probably More Coming
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November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
10 Facts: China's Auto Industry Coming For Western Automakers

6. The Global South receives 75% of new Chinese manufacturing projects.

Wait, isn't that where we expect to sell Alberta oil and BC LNG?

Oops?
#abpoli #cdnpoli
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10 Facts: China's Auto Industry Coming For Western Automakers
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November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
David Eby: LNG for Me, But No Pipeline for Thee

Meanwhile, there is no business case for LNG or oil exports to Asia

What a mess. Blames @mark-carney.bsky.social, @ABDanielleSmith, and @Dave_Eby.
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #abpoli
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David Eby: LNG for Me, But No Pipeline for Thee
Meanwhile, there is no business case for LNG or oil exports to Asia
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November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Weak Global LNG Forecast Undercuts Canadian Expansion Plans

Sorry, BC, your LNG business case just doesn't cut it.
@Dave Eby @adrian dix @mark-carney.bsky.social Carney @timhodgsonmt @ABDanielleSmith @BrianJeanAB #bcpoli #abpoli
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Weak Global LNG Forecast Undercuts Canadian Expansion Plans
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November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
BC Premier @dave_Eby, BC Energy Minister @adriandix declined invitations to be interviewed about the lack of a business case for an AB to BC pipeline.

Do you find that odd? I find that odd.

Exploding the Business Case for an Alberta to BC pipeline
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Exploding the Business Case for an Alberta to BC pipeline
Also no need for a huge political fight between Premiers Eby and Smith
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November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
New Pipeline? Oil Sands Companies Should Worry About Surviving Past 2030

Rich Collett-White discusses his team's @CarbonBubble oil demand modelling.

If @IEA APS scenario is the future (which I htink is most likely), Alberta is in deep, deep trouble.
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New Pipeline? Oil Sands Companies Should Worry About Surviving Past 2030
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November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Exploding the Business Case for an Alberta to BC pipeline

No need for a huge political fight between Premiers @Dave_Eby and @ABDanielleSmith.

Just don't build the pipeline. Do something smarter, like make carbon fibre with bitumen.
#ableg #cdnpoli
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Exploding the Business Case for an Alberta to BC pipeline
Also no need for a huge political fight between Premiers Eby and Smith
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November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Alberta Report Identifies Plenty of Room for Economic Growth

Alison Cretney, discusses @LabEnergy's new report: Alberta’s Future Competitiveness and the Next Wave of Growth: Building the Industries of Tomorrow.

Episode 2.
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Alberta’s Future Competitiveness and the Next Wave of Growth | Energy Futures Lab
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November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Higher Electricity Prices Coming? Nukes, Gas, Lead Ontario Grid Expansion

ON has mostly nukes, wants to add more gas.

AB has mostly gas, wants to add more nukes.

What's wrong with this picture?
@Pembina #ableg
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Higher Electricity Prices Coming? Nukes, Gas, Lead Ontario Grid Expansion
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November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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📺 Ember’s @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social spoke with @markhamhislop.bsky.social for Energi Media about accelerating solar and wind growth in the first 3 quarters of 2025.

Watch it here ⬇️

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November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Danielle Smith's stenographer speaks!

If you want a more data and evidence-based view of Alberta's pipeline fever dreams, Energi Media is providing it at:

1. www.youtube.com/channel/UCHZ...

2. markhamhislop.substack.com/publish/home

Repeat after me: there is no business case for the pipeline.
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you think the Watergate burglars were dumb, you haven't met Rob Anderson, Vitor Marciano, and Brian Jean, and the rest of the inept political bunglers running Alberta's oil and gas strategy.

Do not discount the influence of stupidity.

Ideology, not expertise, rules in ABGov.
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
How Your Kitchen Scraps Are Turned Into Energy

Huh. Didn't know that rotten veggies are treated, then processed in an anaerobic digester and turned into biogas.

Vertogen Technologies of BC leads innovation in the field.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
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How Your Kitchen Scraps Are Turned Into Energy
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November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
China's Robo-Taxi Tech Exported Around the World

With John Li, technology analyst, @IDTechX.
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China's Robo-Taxi Tech Exported Around the World
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November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Alberta–Ottawa Pipeline MoU: Big Politics, Weak Business Case?

Last Week, This Morning...LIVE for the first time!
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli
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Alberta–Ottawa Pipeline MoU: Big Politics, Weak Business Case?
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November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Canada’s Energy Third Way: Not Carney, Not Poilievre

Optimize, add value, electrify, build.

Above all else, be smart and strategic, not overly optimistic or captured by incumbents.
#ableg
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Canada’s Energy Third Way: Not Carney, Not Poilievre
Optimize, add value, electrify, build. Above all else, be smart and strategic, not overly optimistic or captured by incumbents
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November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
How Should Policy Respond as Oil Patch Workers Face Structural Decline?

Interview with Trey Cowan of @ieefa_institute about falling long-term employment in the US oil patch.

Same trend as Canada for the same reasons.
#ableg #abpoli
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How Should Policy Respond as Oil Patch Workers Face Structural Decline?
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November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Evangelical Christianity a Big Driver of Alberta's Authoritarian Libertarianism?

Yup, IMO.

~25% of Alberta identify as evangelical Christians.

Explains a lot, doesn't it?
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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Evangelical Christianity a Big Driver of Alberta's Authoritarian Libertarianism?
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November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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If they wanted to be an energy superpower in nuclear they could actually do that. But right now they are not on track to leveraging their $100B in nuclear investments to accomplish that.
Mark Carney Is Wrong: Canada Cannot Become an Energy Superpower

Canada can produce a lot more oil, LNG, and electricity.

That won't make us an energy superpower.

Ever.
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Mark Carney Is Wrong: Canada Cannot Become an Energy Superpower
Canada can produce more oil, more LNG, and more electricity—but production alone will never make us an energy superpower
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November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Danielle is a fascist and she’s bending our institutions accordingly.
Markham is right: she might dress things up so we can pretend that it’s just business as usual.
But the longer she’s in power, the more ordinary Albertans will have to pay.
My first published story was in The Western Producer in 1985.

It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:

"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
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Alberta's Attack on the Idea of Canada
Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup
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November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM