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About Ross Belot

Ross Belot is a retired senior manager with one of Canada’s largest energy companies. In over 30 years in the energy sector he has gained an in-depth understanding of global and Canadian crude oil, refining and petroleum products strategies, economics and logistics. As well as writing on energy and climate change policy he is a Hamilton Ontario based poet, photographer and film maker.

10 Articles

Canada’s carbon hypocrisy

When we say net-zero, we should truly mean net-zero, writes Ross Belot.
Opinion | March 2nd 2022

Make provinces pay for their emissions

Close to 50 per cent of our national emissions are produced by Alberta and Saskatchewan, writes Ross Belot, who refers to this composite region as Albertawan.
Opinion | October 28th 2021

What carbon activists can learn from the campaign to end asbestos production in Canada

One of the difficulties of trying to stop fossil fuel production in Canada is many groups soft-pedal the real problem — the end use of the product, writes Ross Belot.
Opinion | August 5th 2021

Trudeau's ambitious new climate target is unreachable

"We aren’t the U.S., and implementing their solutions doesn’t get us as far," writes energy-worker-turned-environmental-poet Ross Belot.
Opinion | April 26th 2021

Sorry, Canada. The world doesn’t need Keystone XL

There is more than enough oil to go around without the TC Energy Corp. pipeline project, writes former oil industry executive Ross Belot.
Opinion, Business, Energy, Politics | January 25th 2021

Letter to the Editor: Stop peddling the pipeline fantasy

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Opinion | November 26th 2019

The myth of the anti-Alberta Liberal

Oh, Canada. We may not have a national mythology built on a phrase like the American 'Life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,' but we do have a myth based on the refrain that 'Ottawa Liberals hate Alberta.'
Opinion, Energy, Politics | May 17th 2019

Belot: Albertans have been fooled by a myth about pipelines and the oilsands

The oilsands golden years lasted about a decade, and they will never come back. Blaming that on a lack of pipelines just perpetuates a myth. Columnist Ross Belot examines what stopped the boom and investment trends since then.
Opinion, Energy | April 23rd 2019

Sloughing off the costs of environmental damage

In Alberta and other fossil fuel production jurisdictions there is a whole lot of externalizing going on. Ross Belot examines the corporate practice of pushing environmental liabilities off onto government and society.
Opinion, Energy, Politics | April 3rd 2019
Justin Trudeau, Kinder Morgan, Ottawa

How Trudeau's climate promise fizzled

Some voters had a lot of hope for the federal Liberals back in 2015. First of all, Justin Trudeau was not Stephen Harper. He also had a pile of platform promises that appealed to many Canadians. Confronting climate change was one of the big ones.
Opinion, Energy, Politics | February 14th 2019

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