Rob Miller is a retired systems engineer, formerly with General Dynamics Canada, who now volunteers with the Calgary Climate Hub and writes on behalf of Eco-Elders for Climate Action. As a climate activist, he works to stop old-growth logging in B.C., to reject coal mining on Alberta’s eastern slopes, to facilitate community involvement in urban afforestation, and to advocate for renewable energy. Miller uses a “systems-thinking” approach to learn, understand, and defend the ecosystems that are under threat by climate change and unrestrained resource development. He lives in Calgary.
Will Alberta’s electricity grid become unreliable as more renewable generating capacity is added? Denmark has already answered this question with an electricity system that uses wind and solar energy to supply 60 per cent of the country’s electricity consumption.
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation provides an opportunity to contemplate how Indigenous ways of knowing can help make that future a reality.
Some wondered whether a recent town hall meeting to plan the next moves to fight Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's renewables freeze would be a success. The answer was a resounding yes.
On the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, energy transition is clearly ramping up, but political polarization in Canada is creating conditions that threaten to impede progress.
Alberta’s six-month moratorium on approvals for renewable energy projects is an example of foolish thinking rooted in political ideology and stoked by misinformation campaigns and political lobbyists sponsored by Big Oil.
Albertans need practical foresight about the promise of renewables that isn’t influenced by the misguided belief that the good times in the oilpatch will roll well beyond 2050, writes retired systems engineer Rob Miller.
Even as wildfires burned in the province, the Alberta election showed there is widespread support for political parties that choose to ignore the problem of climate change.
Given the fossil fuel industry’s track record, there is good reason to mistrust the motives behind the oilsands consortium’s sudden commitment to joining the fight against climate change.
