Rob Miller
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About Rob Miller
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, but any opinions expressed in his work are his own.
Sun and wind are key to a bright energy future
A green energy transition won’t eliminate electricity generation from large utilities, but will transfer a significant amount of revenue and profit from companies reliant on fossil fuels to individuals and growing Canadian businesses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.