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“Even during COVID, the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline has been running at full capacity to meet customer demand.” The CER forecast shows production growing through 2040. This is another straw man argument as I used Canadian oil production forecasts made before the pandemic. “Oil demand is expected to continue rising over the next two decades.” The Alberta Energy Regulator’s forecast, published in June 2020 and which did not assume demand reduction from COVID-19, was also used for comparison. This is a straw man argument as my report did not assume any demand reduction from COVID-19 and was based on oil production forecasts made before the COVID-19 pandemic from the Canada Energy Regulator, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the International Energy Agency. “Global oil demand has already nearly recovered to rates prior to the COVID-19 lockdowns.” Jaremko who pays her salary at the war room to promote narratives of environmental groups conspiring against Alberta’s energy industry. Neither Stand (which provided some financial support for my research) nor the CCPA had any direction whatsoever in the research.
Ninety-five per cent of my time on the project was unpaid volunteer effort. The CCPA paid me nothing to write the report. The article is a classic propaganda exercise in erecting straw men and spreading disinformation:
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The hit piece was written by Deborah Jaremko, a journalist hired by the war room in January… whose experience consists of working for a series of energy publications, including Oilsands Review and JWN Energy. Premier Jason Kenney’s “war room”) took exception to my report and wrote a hit piece designed to discredit it, “ A Matter of Fact: CCPA report against Trans Mountain misleading, incorrect.”Īs background, I am a scientist with degrees in geology who has spent more than four decades in the energy industry in Calgary, including 32 years with the Geological Survey of Canada. 29, my report “ Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project” was published by the Parkland Institute and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
He crafted a rebuttal, which we publish here.] When the war room published a 1,000-word claim that his findings were “misleading and incorrect,” Hughes was having none of it. Olsen compounded the stumbling by explaining, “We are not about attacking we are about disproving true facts.”īut definitely attacked was David Hughes, the energy analyst and noted earth scientist who recently wrote a report dismantling the business case for the TMX pipeline expansion. Olsen’s comms shop, officially named the Canadian Energy Centre, went on to plagiarize a company logo, apologize to the New York Times, term its spinners “reporters” and be scolded for non-competitive contracts. Hired to run it was Tom Olsen, a veteran right-wing politico and losing candidate for Kenney’s United Conservatives. [Editor’s note: Last year Alberta Premier Jason Kenney established a $30-million-per-year, publicly funded “war room” to promote the oil and gas industry and slam those who don’t.
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