Robert Tremblay 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

Co-Chair of the Calgary Climate Hub & Board Member at Sunalta CA & Electrical Engineer. Positions are my own.

[Robert Tremblay 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @RobTPublic]

"In fighting against the push for clean electricity by 2035, our provincial government is signing us up to live in a world substantially more unhealthy, expensive, and dangerous than the one we grew up in. We deserve better."

#ableg #abpoli

https://t.co/9A5EaAGTYF

[Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas @JeromyYYC]

Rick, I offered you an interview on separatism. You passed. Instead, you’re out here cosplaying as Alberta’s bravest keyboard warrior while carrying water for one of the dumbest ideas in modern Alberta politics. The old Rick would’ve had the guts to ask the questions himself.

[Edward Row 𓃡 @edwardrow]

who could have predicted this

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good question!

Coal produced 54.6% of China's electricity in 2025.

Record-high wind & solar deployments raise rapidly the clean electricity share.

And an EV running on 100% coal electricity would be cleaner than an oil-burner with 25 mpg fuel efficiency.

EV is efficient!

[Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation @ACFN_KaiTaile]

ACFN Calls on Alberta Government to Respect the Courts, Treaty Rights, and the Rule of Law

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

If you put that ethanol into the combustion engine of a car (that throws ~75% away as heat) and compare it with an electric vehicle, the end result becomes ~500:1 in favor of solar.
And solar can go on roofs or be combined with other agricultural appliations.

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

The allegation of misuse of Alberta voters lists by separatists would be concerning at any time but it's doubly concerning at this time and on this issue.

Political parties are entrusted with a great deal of information. And each piece - each voter contact - on its own, seems almost inconsequential. An address, a phone number - you can still find that in the white pages for most people.

But as anyone over a certain age knows, not everyone is listed in the white pages, not everyone’s address is presented. The voter lists also include email addresses, and your presence on it or not strongly indicates citizenship status and other protected information.

In 2026, the sheer volume of records is also a risk. That information, particularly in an environment where signatures are collected and then validated AGAINST the list, presents new opportunities to falsify signature collection.

We do not know that has happened, to be clear. But Albertans now worry - if there’s reason to believe the data privacy rules were violated, what other rules are broken or bent?

The citizen initiative signature acquisition process relies on trust - and for many, trust is now completely shattered.

Albertans reasonably want assurances their data is protected.

Albertans reasonably want assurances that the signatures captured are legitimate.

At a minimum, Elections Alberta and the Alberta Legislature needs to be thinking about how these signatures are audited going forward.

They should also consider how Albertans can assure themselves that their name has not been falsely added.

This will add cost and complexity to the validation process. Maybe that cost and complexity is not worth it when the question is about daylight saving. But given the stakes of the separatists’ proposed referendum, that is a necessary cost.

I also hope and expect, as an Albertan, that the authorities are on top of this. It is important that violations of our election laws, if any, are addressed - and that any loopholes that exist are closed, and trust is built back into the citizen initiative system.

[Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix]

"EV ownership at ‘tipping point’ in many parts of the world, experts say"

"EVs are dominating new car sales in some countries, while others are slower to transition"
#alwaysbecharging
⚡️⚡️⚡️

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

To be clear, I want all three lines to go up.

Factually speaking, solar is going to grow a lot faster.

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

I am sorry you ordered your tanker wrap before the government paused the gas excise tax.

But these are serious times and I am begging you to get serious.

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

Pierre, please draw me a map of how you got from "Trump disrupting free trade is a rupture and we must react" to "let's end free trade."

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

Conservatives 🔵: you guys aren’t doing anything!

Liberals 🔴: here’s the twenty new trade and security deals we’ve signed.

🔵: just paper, where are the results?

🔴: the share of exports heading to non-U.S. markets has increased by about 40%.

🔵: means nothing if it doesn’t help people.

🔴: agree, and in the past year wages have grown faster than inflation every month.

🔵: not everyone is seeing that wage growth.

🔴: it's true - which is why we’ve introduced targeted support such as the groceries and essentials benefit while the growth spreads more broadly.

🔵: we can’t afford those programs.

🔴: they’re temporary, and the IMF just said Canada has the best fiscal position in the G7.

🔴: there's lots more work to do, no-one is spiking the ball, and not everything is going or will go perfectly - but we're going to keep building a strong Canada for all.

🔵: [slinks off to cherry-pick data and complain about the last PM]

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

Three more things Peter Lougheed said about using the notwithstanding clause:

1⃣ "A simple majority does not appear adequate."

2⃣ "In my mind, [pre-empting judicial review] is undemocratic."

3⃣ “I would hope that the notwithstanding clause would be used very, very rarely.”

Unfortunately, the Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause four times in the last year, each time pre-emptively, and each time with a simple majority, rather than the higher 60% threshold Lougheed preferred.

Nobody is suggesting removing the notwithstanding clause. There are complicated constitutional issues at play but it is inaccurate and misleading to imply Peter Lougheed would support its use in a way he explicitly said he opposed.

The courts are the appropriate place for these arguments.

[Robert Tremblay 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @RobTPublic]

@SpaceElevator7 @BjornLomborg Except that is a problem 10x worse for oil used to fuel ICEs

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

There are only two certainties in life: death and Lomborg spinning anything into anti renewables propaganda.

But the EIA has a track record of ridiculously underestimating EVs (which Lomborg knows and which is why he retweets them and not others). Let me quickly demonstrate.

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

Southeast Asia is rapidly electrifying.

Oil dependency makes you weak. Electric vehicles can run on domestic energy sources.

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Critical support to killing every highway expansion project if it means getting one good highspeed rail line

[Bryan Breguet @Prominent_Bryan]

"if it's such a great project why isn't the private sector financing it?"

Why is this question valid for a train but never ever used for a road or a bridge?

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

Good luck with “Axe the Rail”, I guess.

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

Remember when the problem with EVs was the cost of the battery?

Yeah. Not a problem anymore.