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Sep 23, 2026
Alberta Data Centres: Opportunity and Opposition
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Peter TertzakianHOST
That is being argued or debated that actually data centers can actually reduce your power bill.
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25:03Marcus RocqueGUEST
Now, what the critics would say is, okay, but there are these other pieces of your bill.
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25:07Marcus RocqueGUEST
There's the energy piece, which is essentially, you know, we have a free market for power that you discussed.
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25:12Marcus RocqueGUEST
And the generators and consumers respond to price signals and then the market increases.
16 MINS LATER

Jackie ForrestHOST
But is that sustainable in the context of all the other water uses that are already there? And is there someone looking at this holistically? That's a question that stakeholders have.
Is the Strait of Hormuz Closure Accelerating Clean Energy?
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8:45Marcus RocqueGUEST
Wanted to, to take a bit of a look at, at some of the bigger picture impacts.
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8:48Marcus RocqueGUEST
A lot of the focus in the last several weeks has rightfully been on, on the Iran conflict and the impacts on kind of the petroleum market, you know, oil and gas.
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8:56Marcus RocqueGUEST
But wanted to look at what impacts there's been on, on sort of the energy transition and other, other systems and how countries around the world are really thinking about their energy mix going forward.
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9:06Marcus RocqueGUEST
But before diving into the changes, I think it's helpful to look at what was going on kind of right before the conflict, and fortunately, you guys had, uh, the February 3rd podcast, where we kind of talked about the energy transition and sort of a reminder of, of some of the facts that, that came out of that, just to set the tone.
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9:21Marcus RocqueGUEST
In 2025, energy transition spending was at a record $2.3 trillion, so still increasing year over year, very significant amounts of spending.
14 MINS LATER
Trump, Tariffs, and Trade: Impacts on Canadian Oil and Gas
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Jackie ForrestHOST
Marcus, you kind of mentioned a little bit, but just quickly, how much crude oil do we send them and how much do they produce?
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16:20Marcus RocqueGUEST
So that's a little over 1 million barrel of light oil and NGLs, and then over 3 million barrels of heavy oil, which is largely coming from our oil sands.

Jackie ForrestHOST
And even on the heavy oil refineries, you know, if Canadian oil is suddenly, you know, in the range of $15 of additional cost, could they start to substitute some domestic light crude into those heavy oil refineries?