I spent a full day at the Calgary Petroleum Club listening to presentations about the alliances between the energy sector and Alberta’s AI data centre strategy.

One of the presentations was from an insider working on the Wonder Valley project.

“It was this beautiful sky. And as we’re flying over, literally, there’s deer and moose and Travis is looking at me like, wow, everyone’s showing up today and you can see that they fell in love with this. We landed, they got off that helicopter. And then it was a call to Kevin. It was like, we found it. And from that it’s been full go.”

I’ve got the inside story in my latest post.

#ableg #cdnpoli #AIDatacentres #AI #fossilfuels

https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/wonder-valley-watch-inside-the-calgary

LOL:
"A clear majority of Albertans don’t want to live in a Christian ethnostate powered by hydrocarbons and hatred, and conceived by people we wouldn’t trust to sit the right way on a toilet. My greatest hope is that the separatists will feel as embarrassed and angered by their inevitable failure as I feel by their movement’s existence."

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/04/01/Among_Separatists/
#ableg #Alberta

I attended this webinar on Tuesday. The risk of continued investment in fossil fuels is astounding, yet governments continue to push it as a solution.
Here’s Tova Gaster’s report:

“...Canada’s stalled progress on climate finance disclosure standards makes it impossible for investors and the public to fully understand the scale of fossil fuel risk exposure.”

“Industry lobbyists and some forecasters have framed international oil price spikes as an opportunity for Canada to expand its domestic extraction and production capacity.”

“However, panelists emphasized that fossil fuel infrastructure is a long-term investment, ill-equipped to respond to short-term economic shocks—or to withstand a shift from fossil fuels to clean electricity that will likely be accelerated by the energy price shock.”

#cdnpoli #ableg #fossilfuels #climate

https://www.theenergymix.com/new-oil-and-gas-projects-heighten-financial-risk-for-canada-carbon-tracker-analysis-shows/