The Globe and Mail · Calgary Herald
Mac Van Wielingen
Publishing · On our record since 2021
Where this writer stands
Climate1 piece
Faster fossil phase-downSlower phase-down, production first
“Treating emission reductions as an absolutist, be-all-end-all priority and subordinating other essential societal priorities was a serious failure in strategic thinking.” Read the piece
Energy1 piece
Restrict new oil and gasExpand production and export
“The clearest evidence that the climate-action retreat is substantive, not merely rhetorical, is the re-anchoring of energy policy in its long-standing fundamentals of security, reliability, affordability, competitiveness, and productivity.” Read the piece
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Recent work
- Opinion: Alberta's anger is not a rejection of CanadaOpinion · Calgary Herald · Oct 13, 2026
- The climate energy transition was a broken promiseOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Oct 1, 2026
- Opinion: If we are not careful, the Great Reset could become the Great RegretOpinion · Calgary Herald · Dec 31, 2021