It’s now been 6 months since I got an EV and I am still in love with how it drives. But I also thoroughly get a kick of being able to charge fully at home. Truly a shame that one piece of tech we have that can do a net-good, our corporate and political leaders want to bury it.

Many of those who complain about mining for batteries / solar / wind power have curiously never raised a squeak about the far greater extraction required for fossil energy. Funny how they become concerned about the planet only when fossil fuel interests are threatened.

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Wind, solar and battery projects in the UK almost doubled over the past year due to the acceleration of planning approvals – with the UK now having 45GW of approved capacity. www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/uk-rene...

Time to start shorting oil and pipeline stocks. 🛢️ www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

In the late 1970s when I worked as a deckhand on a BC salmon boat, we got over $100 for a 63 pound chinook salmon. We thought we were living large. Now in Tokyo, $3.2 million for a single bluefin tuna. The mind boggles. Okay the tuna was a bigger. But still. 🐟 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

This Globe Editorial is 100% wrong. Our security & prosperity does not rest on more #FossilFuel production. It rests upon freeing ourselves from the global politics of oil & gas and building a #RenewableEnergy economy. Investing in oil now is a sucker's bet. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #speckles&spots. Here we have speckles and spots on incipient brown-headed cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds (photo taken during research project with all appropriate permits). #Birds 🪶

Think small modular nuclear reactors will save the day? Give your head a shake. If they were economic, the private sector would build them. The history of nuclear is massive cost overruns. And FYI, this piece is from the Cato Institute not a bunch of granola munching greenies. #EnergyTransition

This is scalable, fuel-free energy that compounds year after year. That is centralized, brittle infrastructure tied to volatile fuel, geopolitics, and stranded risk. Electrification isn’t ideology or politics — it’s physics, economics, and momentum. This is the future. This, not that. ⚡🌬️ #Renewables

What if instead of killing people for oil we just put up some solar panels and some wind turbines. You know, the cheapest form of energy

I don’t believe any country has ever been invaded for its offshore wind turbines.

For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #GoldenHour - geese at sunset. #Birds 🪶

With unfettered access to Venezuela's oil, the heavy oil glut will overwhelm American refining capacity. The writing is on the wall for the Alberta tar sands. Spending another taxpayer dime on more fossil fuel subsidies is pure insanity. #EndFossilFuels www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

The #WinnipegJets odds of the 1st overall pick in the draft are now greater than the odds of making the playoffs. It's over. #FirstToWorst moneypuck.com/predictions....

Want to see what MAGA is thinking right now?

The Alberta petro-state is safe from forcible regime change at the moment since the current government is doing everything that it can to facilitate separation. But Venezuela oil flowing to the Gulf will surely back-out Alberta heavy oil & increase the price differential. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Accelerating climate heating means shrinking glaciers in the Rockies & reduced river flows eastward. For Mb Hydro, this is a #ClimateDisaster. Pro-fossil fuel governments, like those led by Smith, Moe, Kinew & Carney, make it worse. #EnergyTransition www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #CaughtinMotion. Red-winged blackbirds. #Birds 🪶

Please explain to me the difference between Trump and Putin. I'll wait. #25thAmendment www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

This excellent piece in the Globe covers a lot of ground, including our EV future: "There is no future for Canadian automakers and the jobs they provide if Canada tries to join the U.S. in sitting out the move to EVs." #EnergyTransition #Renewables www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

This actually good news for global consumers: China's #EV manufactures push each other to get better & better. American car companies choose to sit this out. Their strategy is to ignore the future - i.e., using a cup to try to prevent the tide from coming in. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/int...

For today's #BirdoftheDay theme of a bird capture in good lighting, #GoodLight, here's a Baltimore oriole. #Birds 🪶

This isn’t just the rise of a new energy source—it’s the inverse collapse of the old world order. Solar jumped from 252 GW (2022) to 760 GW (2025) added per year, smashing forecasts. That power feeds EVs, BESS, AI and industry. As energy turns cheap & fuel-free, demand shifts to electrons—not oil!!!

Woah. This is why the fossil fuel industry, republicans, republican voters, and American carmakers are colluding so hard to spread renewable and EV FUD - and why China is going to enable the entire world to pass us by this decade through renewable and EV growth, and help heal the planet.

This is where the smart money is: clean, green, renewable energy (from the Globe & Mail year-end business quiz). #EnergyTransition

China is leading the way on the #EnergyTransition. Canada / Manitoba should be developing this technology but instead we are laser focused on burning and exporting more of the fossil fuels that are incinerating the planet. SMH. 🛢️🛢️🛢️ www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/30/c...

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections - I rather like the reflections of the ice in the background of this pic. #Birds 🪶

You can pay me now or you can pay me later. Mr. Kinew’s rate freeze means future Hydro increases are bigger and well above inflation. Like this one that kicks in in two days time. Happy New Year. #MbPoli www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Wonderful infographic on my paper showing that "flight" species of baleen whales generally call too deeply and quietly to be heard by hunting killer whales, unlike the "fight" club. By A Haddock & C.A. Gallagher, SMM Education Committee Paper here: doi.org/10.1111/mms....

My (satirical) piece from last Tuesday's Winnipeg Free Press on why Canada should build a recreational chemical (aka illegal drugs) industry as part of Carney's nation building projects. Any similarity to the arguments used to promote the export of fossil fuels is purely intentional. #EndFossilFuels

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BranchingOut (birds on branches), a Hooded Crow. #Birds 🪶

File this under the category of: what are you doing here? I just spotted a robin while walking the dogs at -22C. That bird should NOT be here. Obviously living on frozen berries / fruit. I didn't have a camera, so this pic is of different robins. #Birds 🪶

And Canada has taken its eye off the ball under Carney, rolling back nearly all of our #decarbonization efforts in less than a year only to double down on Oil & Gas production in the most cynical episode of bait & switch I've ever seen - e.g., phony policies like 'decarbonized' oil & carbon capture.

The #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdButts. Black Swan at Albert Park Lake in Melbourne. #Birds 🪶

Australia isn’t arguing — it’s installing. We lead the world in rooftop solar per capita, batteries rolling out faster than expected & #EVs are becoming home power stations via V2H. This isn’t activism or ideology. It’s economics and engineering. The future’s here, while some still argue about past.

The alternate #BirdoftheDay theme is #Red. Here's a red-winged blackbird male taking off just after feeding the kids. #Birds🪶

Deep, dirty, and oily pockets fund the disinformation campaign against clean #RenewableEnergy. Why? So that fossil fuel companies can scoop short-term profits while inflicting long-term damage from burning the planet.

"...the battered commercial nuclear industry is back with its most audacious pitch yet: SMR lobbying of governments worldwide for taxpayer money. Why? No private investor will touch nukes with a ten-foot uranium rod." #EnergyTransition www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-...

"I spent 50 years in the #nuclear industry, advancing to senior vice president and managing projects at 70 nuclear power plants. I once believed the dream. The nuclear industry’s latest pitch is an expensive distraction from real #climate solutions." www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-...

For today's #BirdOfTheDay the theme is #Outstretched, birds with their wings fully stretched out. #Birds 🪶

Make a Bond movie academic: Goldeneye: Barrow’s or Common? #Birds 🪶

For the #BirdoftheDay theme of #HolidayRobin - here's the whole family. When we weren't looking, they built a nest on our deck, which meant we couldn't use it for about a month. But I was able to set up a camera and snap a few pics.

Shame

The single most important scientific advancement for the future of our species and planet. #ClimateCrisis

@alan678.bsky.social has chosen #Contrast for the #BirdOfTheDay theme - here's a young raven. #Birds 🪶

The Carney Conservatives are the most anti-environment govt since ... the Harper Conservatives. And they'll soon cave on domestic plastics too. Why? Because #BigOil & Danielle Smith want it. The Carney govt is run for & by the #fossilfuel lobby. #PlasticBan www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

The Canadian Minister of the Environment, yes Environment not the Minister of Oil, just cancelled the federal ban on the export of single use #plastics - the latest backward step for the @mark-carney.bsky.social govt. Shameful @juliedabrusin.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...