Media and Public Engagement

Analysis and Opinion Pieces

An LNG future for Fermeuse? Proposal for massive liquefied natural gas hub exhumed on Newfoundland’s Southern Shore.

Devine, Eric, Grace Fitzpatrick, Seamus Mackenzie, and Angela Carter
2026, January 27
Energy Futures column: Why taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil won’t create more jobs.
Antle, A.
2026, January 20
Canada, Let’s Stop Doubling Down on Bad Bets.

Janzwood, Amy, Kathryn Harrison, and Angela Carter
2025, October 24
Energy Futures column:Close to Panic Level

Antle, A.
2025, September 26
Oil Blocks Our Fire Exit

Antle, Angela, and Angela Carter
2024, September 26
Energy Futures column: Who owns the Wind?

Antle, A.
2025, May 26
Energy Futures column: The Fossil Gerontocracy pops the ‘P’ out of CNLOPB

Antle. A.
2025, March 5
Energy Futures column: Hold onto your gigawatts: Churchill Falls 2.0

Antle. A.
2024, December 17
Energy Futures column: I smell cucumbers: World Energy Gh2 and Green Hydrogen

Antle. A.
2024, November 26
Energy Futures column: Can the cap address the gap? The growing chasm between climate rhetoric and reality.

Antle. A.
2024, November 6.
Energy Futures column: Brigitte Bardot: A tale of propaganda and confessions.

Antle. A.
2024, August 29
Energy Futures column: Can St. John’s learn a climate lesson from a city in Norway?

Antle. A.
2024, July 18
Energy Futures column: Portugal’s Energy Poverty Paradox

Antle. A.
2024, May 14

Podcasts

The GYRE podcast mixes together the voices of artists, activists, policy makers and politicians to emerge new ways of thinking about sustainability and energy futures in the broader North Atlantic region.

GYRE podcast 001 - Nonhumans
Dr. Danine Farquharson and writer Amy Donovan

GYRE podcast 002 – Thinking Through Seawater
Dr. Lindy Weilgart and Dr. Melody Jue

GYRE podcast 003 – Rigwrecks
Dr. Fiona Polack and Scottish artist Sue Jane Taylor

GYRE podcast 004 – Plastics and Gyres
Writer Holly Hogan and Dr. Sourayan

GYRE podcast 005 - Future Fables
Artist Lana Hansen and Dr. Laura Watts

Media Commentary

Local, Canadian, and international journalists and commentators request members of the research team to provide background research and expert commentary on issues relevant to the project. Recent samples of interviews include the following:

CBC Radio Panel discussion on LNG proposal for Fermeuse

Eric Devine, Grace Fitzpatrick, and Seamus MacKenzie hosted by Paula Gale of The Fisheries Broadcast.

2026, February 10 – CBC

Local Economies Pushed Aside as Newfoundland LNG MegaProject Presses Ahead

Beer, Mitchell

2026, February 6 – Energy Mix

Can Canada build new oil and gas projects and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, all at the same time?

White, Jen

2025, November 13 – CBC NL Morning Show

Impacts of climate change hitting harder in NL in recent years

Ridgeley, Sean

2025, October 31 – The Telegram

Climate change will hurt Canada’s GDP more than previously thought

Bulowski, Natasha

2025, October 29 – Canada’s National Observer

If PCs ignore climate science, residents are going to have to speak up, says researcher

Iftikar, Yumna

2025, October 16 – The Independent

Wakeham says no link between N.L. wildfires, oil industry in campaign where climate change largely absent

Roberts, Darrell

2025, October 10 – CBC

Dispelling beliefs our future depends on oil and gas

CBC Radio NL’s On the Go, with host Krissy Holmes

2025, September 16 – CBC

Carney touted Bay du Nord for its low-carbon oil. This researcher says there’s no such thing

Kennedy, Alex

2025, September 12 – CBC

Experts push for more renewable energy action in NL

Ridgeley, Sean

2025, September 1 – The Telegram

This year's wildfires may be a portend of things to come in NL(until 12:11)

CBC Radio NL’s The Broadcast, with host Todd O’Brien

2025, August 18 – CBC

Offshore Oil’s Future in NL
(at 34:10)

CBC Radio’s The Current, with host Matt Galloway

2025, June 9 – CBC

Liberals’ gamble on oil and gas Budget 2025 ‘worrisome’, says MUNL researcher

Iftikar, Yumna and Brake, Justin

2025, April 12 – The Independent

President Donald Trump says the U.S. is pulling out of the Paris Agreement. A MUN professor tells us what this means for the future of the agreement

CBC Radio’s Newfoundland Morning Show, with host Bernice Hillier

2025, January 23 – CBC

Business Brief: Wildfires put populist climate rhetoric to the test

Wilson-Smith, Chris

2025, January 14 – The Globe and Mail

Community Engagement

Learning from leading global examples of just transition.

Governments around the world are proactively managing a phase out of oil, gas, or coal
production to benefit workers and communities and to stabilize the economy. These posters provide policy insights of relevance to Newfoundland and Labrador from six cases: Denmark, the UK, Germany, Colombia, Québec, and Scotland. They were developed on the basis of case analysis conducted by Memorial University students in March 2026 as part of the "Equitable Energy Transitions" seminar taught by Angela Carter.

Esther Asamoah providing the land and labour acknowledgement

Sophie Angnatok and Ashley Dicker, Inuit artists, share drum-dancing and throat-singing

Jessica McCormick, President of the NL Federation of Labour, giving opening remarks

Lightning speakers, poster presenters, and host

Angela Antle, Seamus McKenzie, Eric Devine, Heather Asare Awuku, and Sarah Greene

Colombia

Denmark

Germany

Scotland

United Kingdom

Quebec

A century of politics and the next 100 years

Dompre, Emmanuel and Angela Carter – Panelists

2025, March 27