As Steven Guilbeault resigns, Catherine McKenna, Jonathan Wilkinson and 'Katy Perry's boyfriend' in one room www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A cry from the heart for Mark Carney to do the clever and popular things that Mark Carney said he would do (rather than entrench the oligarchs the way actual, existing Mark Carney is doing).

Avi Lewis: "Canada is now living a new chapter of the shock doctrine story. It's also known as the political strategy of flooding the zone. The Carney government right now is pursuing an agenda of shocking scale and speed."

Both of our former environment & climate ministers are speaking up strongly and critically regarding the direction of the current federal government on climate—even though it is their party. That to me shows integrity and leadership. Thank u @cathmckenna.bsky.social & @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social

Calling @doctorow.pluralistic.net

PM Carney and Min Hodgson responded to Guilbeault's resignation and Ksi Lisims' LNG contract saying "the world has changed." Yes Donald Trump has disrupted global markets and threatened Canada's economy. Know what else has changed? The global climate.Temps just hit 46C in India. And it's only May.

HEY EVERYONE - I've got a new report out today! It's with @greenpeaceap.bsky.social and it just an absolutely huge and lovely exploration of - False claims of renewable energy use - Growing links bw tech and gas - Our call for a moratorium (!!) Read it here! www.greenpeace.org.au/greenpeace-r...

The realities of war, attacks on activism, waste from fast fashion, environmental resistance, and the accelerating impact of the climate crisis cannot be ignored. Take a look at Greenpeace most read stories of 2026 so far ⤵️ www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil” arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

Facebook reminds me: 11 years ago enviros, labour, Indigenous & social justice activists spent a week talking about the world we wanted + how to get there together It became the Leap Manifesto. Then everyone got mad at @avilewis.ca & @naomiaklein.bsky.social leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-...

Good thread

Why enforce the actually-exisitng law when there is oil money to be made?

Renewables are unstoppable. BNEF's New Energy Outlook for this year says solar is set to be the biggest source of electricity in 2032 and wind will be second biggest in 2034. Both coal and gas displaced from those thrones. This is the business-as-usual scenario. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I highly recommend reading this piece. "Will this fossil fuel fascism, that billionaire-backed campaign to crush a green transition by any means necessary, hold back the tide of clean energy autonomy? It cannot be ruled out."

“As a country, it's time to stop rewarding bad behaviour. It cannot be the case that the projects that get prioritized in Canada are those where a Premier threatens to leave the country." BC Premier David Eby not pulling punches on the pipeline deal between Alberta and the Feds.

Read Sara's whole thread on todays AB-fed MOU, but she is the first I've seen to pick up on the double-counting-of-credits aspect. I wrote a whole boring-ass report on the last time Alberta allowed double-counting of emissions credits. TLDR: It's not good for climate

This grand bargain of an oil pipeline in exchange for climate policy may be good political math, but is bad actual math. This compromise will increase emissions and have Canada double-down on fossil fuels at a time that the world is moving towards clean energy. (1/3) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Alright, lets do another live skeet react to the actual text in the Canada Alberta agreement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

"The only thing happening faster than the federal rollback of climate policies is the global renewable energy revolution that will turn all of these concessions to Big Oil into a massive lost opportunity to build a better, safer Canada." www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...

The federal government is indeed intending to "adjust" the Clean Electricity Regulation to allow more fossil gas: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

Pundits: no one wants electric vehicles. StatsCan: There were 21,574 new zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) sold in March, an increase of 74.7% from one year earlier. New ZEVs comprised 12.2% of total new motor vehicles sold, compared with 6.5% in March 2025. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

Hadrian is right about what to look for in Carney's electricity strategy announcement today. Right now, looks like he's backing a gas-plants-for-AI strategy: Doubling your electricity bill so they can take away your job (AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss they can)

Union of BC Indian Chiefs is looking for a Climate Policy Analyst Click here to find out about this posting: www.ubcic.bc.ca/climate_poli...

I don’t know if the oil sands giants were ever really serious about carbon capture, but they’re certainly not now, and anyone claiming otherwise is ignoring near-daily reminders.

According to this NP article, the 'effective' price is morphing into a headline price + stringency benchmarks which is... not promising nationalpost.com/news/politic...

The only thing moving faster than Mark Carney's roll-back of Canadian climate policy is the global renewable energy revolution

Verily, verily, I say unto thee: whomsoever does not build a pipeline in their term of office, shall not enter the kingdom of ExxonMobil when their term is done: www.desmog.com/2026/05/13/o...

Polluters avoid paying 50 cents a barrel ($130/tonne) until 2040? Recall: current law says $170/tonne by 2030. After surrendering on O&G emissions cap, EV mandate, Clean Electricity Reg, Fossil fuel subsidies... feds will now neuter industrial carbon price? www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Iran war energy shock: 5 reasons renewables are ready to protect people from fossil fuel price spikes www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

In its economic update, the Canadian govt expanded its Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage investment tax credit to include "enhanced oil recovery": pumping carbon dioxide in the ground to increase oil extraction. This is deeply cynical for two reasons... (1/3)

An occasion for a rare (for me) use of emojis: 👀

History exam in 2156: While the transition from the Pax Americana Petro-Materialist Era to the Green Revolutionary Interregnum is synonymous with Trump, what made him an ironic figure to usher in this revolution?

"The old bargain was simple: restrain supply today because the unsold barrel should be valuable tomorrow. Electrification weakens that bargain by making the deferred barrel look less like stored value & more like future risk." cleantechnica.com/2026/04/29/t...

If @juliedabrusin.bsky.social doesn't resign over this, then she will earn the title of worst Environment Minister in Canada's history www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

How does giving advance approval possibly fit with any honest commitment to UNDRIP / Free, Prior and Informed Consent?

This Prime Minister might want to check in with Stephen Harper about how trying to gut the Fisheries Act launched Idle No More.... @davidthurton.bsky.social & @kmk43.bsky.social report Carney government planning changes to speed approvals for pipelines, resource projects www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This Prime Minister might want to check in with Stephen Harper about how trying to gut the Fisheries Act launched Idle No More.... @davidthurton.bsky.social & @kmk43.bsky.social report Carney government planning changes to speed approvals for pipelines, resource projects www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

Fed/Prov discussions on carbon pricing seem to be unfolding like a textbook example of climate delay - which is functionally equivalent to climate denial.

“... Canadians who voted for an ‘elbows up’ agenda would be surprised to learn that our Natural Resources Min. went to Houston to tell Americans that he wants to help the Trump administration achieve energy dominance, which is code for expanding fossil fuels at any cost” - @climatekeith.bsky.social

Jeff Ballingall and Mobilize Media Group created Canada Proud and Ontario Proud, two of the most influential right-wing social media accounts in the country. A new website from the firm, The Future of Public Influence, explains that accounts like Canada Proud are product offerings for clients.

What will the global fossil fuel market look like once the closure of the Hormuz ends? In short, volatile and risky but oversupplied - terrible for fossil fuel investors, less so for clean energy investors. The UAE's decision to leave OPEC reinforced this.

Oilsands companies have dropped the facade - they're not interested in the Pathways CCS project They're backing out of their end of the MOU/pipeline deal Will Carney finally acknowledge the MOU isn't worth the paper it was written on now that it's clear Canada is getting nothing out of the deal?

Canada's oil lobby just lobbed a bomb at AB-fed pipeline MOU, as former Suncor VP & Pathways Alliance founder Martha Hall Findlay disowns everything she was once the spokesperson for in Globe editorial attacking Carney's carbon capture requirement www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

The article includes a few of the common discourses of climate delay (and actually specifically calls it delay) including: - whataboutisim/our emissions are too small - emphasize the downsides/cant afford -technological optimism - fossil fuel solutionism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There has been a determined and organised campaign to imprison climate activists, defund and sue climate organisations, promote climate deniers, sack climate scientists, fund climate denying media and back in the opponent of any political leader who makes it too much a priority.

Does anyone know why the summary data for individual companies on @nrcanada.bsky.social ESTMA site seems to bear no resemblance to the companies' consolidated reports it links to? natural-resources.canada.ca/minerals-min...

Love Gord, who taught me so much. The intelligent debate quotient at City Hall is about to drop precipitously www.cp24.com/local/toront...

1. Starting a thread on what UAE's departure from OPEC might tell us about energy transition, stranded assets, climate change and Canada's doubling down on oil sands expansion. Buckle up, because it's a wild ride...

BP has just more than DOUBLED its quarterly profits to USD 3.2 billion off the back of the US–Israel war on Iran and the oil price spike it created, while families worldwide are hit with higher fuel, food and energy bills. This is WAR PROFITEERING, pure and simple.