Mitch Anderson
@manderson98.bsky.social
Energy, politics, science, and philosophy. But mostly mirth.
Could Danielle Smith's Alberta data centre bonanza get any worse? Yes. www.desmog.com/2026/09/25/p...
Proposed Alberta Data Centre Backed by U.S.-based MAGA Donor
Black & Veatch, the company behind Goldfinch Technology Park, donates to Republican politicians through its political action committee.
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A proposed Alberta data centre is being backed by an American company that donates to key Trump-supporting republicans through its PAC. Read the latest from @manderson98.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/09/25/p...
Proposed Alberta Data Centre Backed by U.S.-based MAGA Donor
Black & Veatch, the company behind Goldfinch Technology Park, donates to Republican politicians through its political action committee.
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Lots of talk about securing digital sovereignty through data centres in Canada... our analysis finds that less than 1/3 of planned projects in AB could be data sovereign. Read @manderson98.bsky.social 's latest. www.desmog.com/2026/09/14/m...
Majority of Planned Alberta Data Centre Projects Could be Under Foreign Control
DeSmog analysis finds less than one third of planned projects could have full Canadian control over data.
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NEW ANALYSIS: DeSmog looked at the companies behind 33 planned data centres in Alberta and found that less than one third could be data sovereign. buff.ly/SvjCnOH
Majority of Planned Alberta Data Centre Projects Could be Under Foreign Control
DeSmog analysis finds less than one third of planned projects could have full Canadian control over data.
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Very proud to be part of the @desmog writing team. Check out our latest on obscene industry windfalls from a tragic and stupid war.
Geoff Dembicki@geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 2mo agoStunning new financial analysis from @desmog.com. During a year when gas prices skyrocketed for regular Canadians, oil executives personally raked in over $1 billion worth of stock holdings increases. "Angry yet?" writes @manderson98.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/08/27/c...
An excellent read! ✊ "That is the contradiction Carney needs to confront. The whole point of an east-west electricity grid is to increase competition and interconnection. His MOU with Alberta is fuelling an AI gas build-out whose beneficiaries have a strong incentive to resist this laudable effort"
DeSmog@desmog.com · 2mo agoNEW: Mark Carney's government recently announced a national electricity strategy, but it is undermined by Carney's support for gas-burning data centres. Read Mitchell Anderson's analysis: buff.ly/4RQ0FYb
NEW: Mark Carney's government recently announced a national electricity strategy, but it is undermined by Carney's support for gas-burning data centres. Read Mitchell Anderson's analysis: buff.ly/4RQ0FYb
Mark Carney’s AI Strategy Will Block Renewables From Canada’s Grid
Backing massive gas-burning data centres is no way to build a cleaner, more connected electricity system.
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From Saudi to Canada, the main point of the AI industry is to keep the oil industry alive: "Nearly a hundred data-centre projects are in the works across Canada...The AI build-out is essentially a machine for manufacturing new long-term demand for natural gas."
DeSmog@desmog.com · 2mo agoNEW: Mark Carney's government recently announced a national electricity strategy, but it is undermined by Carney's support for gas-burning data centres. Read Mitchell Anderson's analysis: buff.ly/4RQ0FYb
By fuelling a gas-fired data centre boom in Alberta, is Carney undermining his own national electricity strategy? www.desmog.com/2026/08/13/m...
Mark Carney’s AI Strategy Will Block Renewables From Canada’s Grid
Backing massive gas-burning data centres is no way to build a cleaner, more connected electricity system.
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Excellent work by @zoeyunker.bsky.social for The Tyee. This complements previous analysis by Thomas Gunton at SFU on inadequate pipeline tolls. Why should taxpayers shell out for a new pipeline when highly profitable companies don't want to help cover the cost for the last one?
Zoë Yunker@zoeyunker.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs Canada plans another publicly-owned oil pipeline to BC's coast, it has quietly reached a settlement with oil companies to lower their fees on Trans Mountain. Those fees already didn't pay for the cost of building the line. 🛢️ My latest for @thetyee.ca
Despite Elon Musk's declaration that empathy is our weakness, it is actually our species' super power. A juicy read from Net Mirth HQ @manderson98.bsky.social mitchellanderson.substack.com/p/exploratio...
Explorations in Empathy (Part 1)
Is Being Nice Evolutionary Emergent?
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When will “elbows up” apply to the army of oil industry lobbyists so successfully extracting money and concessions from our elected leaders? www.desmog.com/2026/08/03/a...
As Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels
The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.
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Under normal circumstances, you'd think an American developer tied to a failed bitcoin venture would be a colossal red flag for any Canadian govt But not in Danielle Smith's #Alberta Latest from friend & colleague @manderson98.bsky.social #cdnpoli #abpoli www.desmog.com/2026/07/27/u...
U.S. Developer Tied to Failed Bitcoin Venture Is Proposing Major Alberta Data Centre
Little-known company Teton Digital is pushing an AI project that could release one million tonnes of annual emissions.
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Burning fossil fuels to power an AI arms race accomplishes the impressive alchemy of making the two leading threats to civilization worse at the same time. www.desmog.com/2026/07/20/a...
Alberta Utility Bills Are Set To Spike And Data Centres Are To Blame
Albertans pay the highest electricity rates in the country and new gas plants for AI data centres could drive costs up further.
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Are gas-fired data centres an expensive, polluting lifeboat for the fossil fuel industry? www.desmog.com/2026/07/02/c...
Canadian Gas CEOs Are Hyping AI Data Centres to Investors as a Lifeline for Their Industry
Investor call transcripts show that gas companies see the data centre build-out as their next growth sector, even as the energy transition accelerates.
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DeSmog dug into transcripts from Canadian gas companies' investor calls.... They're hyping AI data centres as the next growth opportunity for their polluting product. Read more from @manderson98.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/07/02/c...
Canadian Gas CEOs Are Hyping AI Data Centres to Investors as a Lifeline for Their Industry
Investor call transcripts show that gas companies see the data centre build-out as their next growth sector, even as the energy transition accelerates.
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Why Carney's "Canada Strong" fund will never be Norway's sovereign wealth fund from @manderson98.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/06/16/w...
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Like a Real Sovereign Wealth Fund
Carney’s “Canada Strong” fund exposes the nation’s resource kryptonite: leaving critical decisions to local governments captured by industry interests.
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Is Big Oil now pivoting away from a marquee carbon capture project it never intended to build? www.desmog.com/2026/05/06/f...
Former BC Premier Gordon Campbell: Carbon Capture ‘Doesn’t Work’
Is the mask finally coming off the long-delayed Pathways Alliance CCS Project?
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www.desmog.com/2026/04/28/d... Is Premier Danielle Smith betraying her base? Her United Conservative Party (UCP) swept almost every riding outside of Calgary and Edmonton in the last election but the love does not seem to be mutual.
Danielle Smith Is Betraying Rural Alberta To Build Gas-Powered Data Centres
The premier is tossing aside the constituents who voted for her to grant favours to tech and fossil fuel executives.
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Burning fossil fuels to power a dangerous artificial intelligence arms race accomplishes the impressive alchemy of making two of the leading threats to civilization worse at the same time
Carney Government Wants To ‘Provide’ the Fossil Fuels for Trump’s AI Strategy
The Liberals once talked tough about distancing Canada from the U.S. Now they seem eager to profit from the president’s agenda.
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www.desmog.com/2026/04/01/m... Does a state-controlled oil company from Norway, a country with a $2.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund, really need handouts from the Canadian taxpayer?
Mark Carney Pledges $1B in Taxpayer Money for a “Carbon Bomb” Project
It’s a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.
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While fossil fuel producers might rake in short-term profits from war-related price instability, consumers instead are demanding a more ethical, sustainable and secure supply of energy. www.desmog.com/2026/03/19/c...
Canada's Oil Industry Is Trying to Cash in on Iran War
Canadian politicians and pundits are leveraging Trump’s war with Iran to expand fossil fuel infrastructure.
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Mark Carney has been playing up protecting Canada’s energy sovereignty by expanding fossil fuel extraction. But who owns the oil patch? US capital controls the majority of oil and gas companies operating in Canada and American ownership of Canadian oil is increasing. www.desmog.com/2025/12/16/m...
Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuel Expansion Is ‘Canada Strong,’ but U.S. Investors Get the Profits
New data show American capital now controls most of Canada’s oil and gas sector while jobs vanish, royalties lag, and billions flow south.
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If this is all political theatre to placate Alberta, the price of admission makes a Taylor Swift concert look like a bargain. Where did climate Carney go? www.desmog.com/2025/12/02/u...
‘Utterly Abusive’: First Nations United Against Mark Carney’s Alberta Pipeline Plans
By tying the project’s fate to Indigenous “equity,” Carney saddles groups with the blame, and potentially the bill, if they move to stop a pipeline they oppose.
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