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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.

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Alberta must modernize its electricity system

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.
Opinion | October 3rd 2023

Guide us to honour the Earth

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation provides an opportunity to contemplate how Indigenous ways of knowing can help make that future a reality.
Opinion | September 29th 2023

Plotting an overthrow of Alberta’s renewables freeze

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.
Opinion | August 30th 2023

Alberta must adapt for the future

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.
Opinion | August 16th 2023

Despite Alberta’s support, a day of reckoning will come for fossil fuels

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.
Opinion | August 10th 2023

The outlook isn’t great for clean electricity in Alberta

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.
Opinion | July 21st 2023

We might not be smart enough to solve the climate crisis

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.
Opinion | June 2nd 2023

Lighting a fire under Alberta’s election discourse

The provincial campaign is being fought over many issues, but climate change is the elephant in the room.
Opinion | May 27th 2023

Beware the fact-maker machinery

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.
Opinion | May 17th 2023

Supporting a transformation to a clean and climate-resilient economy

This isn’t the time to believe Alberta has little to offer the world beyond oil and gas. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Opinion | April 27th 2023
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