Derek Power didn't come to the Alberta Climate Summit expecting to get into a shouting match with the premier of the province. But when he found himself in that situation, he decided to roll with it.At left, Premier Danielle Smith speaking directly to Derek Power, who is off camera in the audience, at the Pembina Institute Alberta Climate Summit in Calgary on Thursday. At right, a photo Derek Power.
The two went back and forth for about 30 seconds, talking over each other at points, Smith with a microphone in hand and Power, unamplified, doing his best to be heard.Danielle Smith had a tough time convincing attendees of the 2023 Climate Summit in Calgary that moving to net-zero grid by 2035 would be an impossible task.
He believed the premier was being too dismissive of renewable and energy-storage technologies that he has worked with for over a decade, while talking up other, more novel technologies such as small modular nuclear reactors and direct-air carbon capture.