Coquitlam #SueBigOil supporters gathered at Coquitlam City Hall today to urge @cityofcoquitlam to explore recovering a fair share of the city’s costs from the world’s largest polluters instead of passing those costs on to taxpayers.

1/2 Well, #BillC-5 just passed in the #SenateofCanada without amendments, but with a government commitment to amend it in the fall to ensure the public registry includes info about how projects will contribute to clean growth and to meeting Canada's climate objectives.

New blog: BC and Multnomah County, Oregon are both taking global consultancy McKinsey & Co. to court, raising big questions about the legal accountability of consultants & PR firms that mislead the public and lie about dangerous products. West Coast Lawyer @singingwithin.bsky.social gets into it 👇

It's like the Leap Manifesto 2025, from 170 municipal leaders representing 10 million Canadians! We need powerlines, not pipelines. Big bold projects using Canadian resources to "create hundreds of thousands of good local jobs in cities, rural, and Indigenous communities." elbowsupforclimate.ca

Went to #ESS All Candidates Meeting last night. Green, NDP, Lib candidates all great, but CPC was a no show. They said prior commitment, but I think candidate Grant Cool didn't bother to come all the way from Uplands. #election2025 #CdnPoli #GreenParty #NDP #LPC #CPC

AND AS A REBATE PROGRAM, ITS EITHER REVENUE NEUTRAL OR A NET FINANCIAL BENEFIT FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF CANADIANS! (is this mic on?)

Was surprised and delighted to see a sea otter swimming of of Macaulay Point in Esquimalt this morning. Too far for any good pictures on my phone. Never seen one live before, and they haven't lived here in generations.

The life and death of the Canadian small town open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

I love that the lawyer who connected climate attribution to health risk science is one of @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s 10 people who shaped science in 2024. She led the lawsuit against the Swiss govt for violating the rights of older women by failing to take steps to prevent climate change.

Good.

Calling all communications folks. Interested in working on #climatechange with @wcelaw.bsky.social and @suebigoil.bsky.social? Come join us. #Greenjobs #Communications www.wcel.org/job-posting/....

Good news for the youth bringing similar #climatechange cases in Canada. #Cdnpoli

While most discussions of which sectors contribute to #climatechange and #GHGEmissions focus on end-users, this @worldresources.bsky.social series of graphs shows that 75.7% of global emissions are from fossil fuels & less than 1/4 from other sources. #SueBigOil www.wri.org/insights/4-c...

Love it when people use their own words and mediums to explain why their community needs to #SueBigOil. We can't afford the alternative. #BCPoli #StopMotion #Animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qm9...

Looking forward to watching it.

“The right to self-determination is a cornerstone of the international legal order,” Aguon told the 15 judges on the ICJ. “Yet climate change, and the conduct responsible for it, has already infringed the right to self-determination for the many peoples of Melanesia.” grist.org/indigenous/j...

"Contrary to the notion that it’s the public resisting the transition to clean energy, McKenna lays out clearly — from the vantage point of a person with a seat at the table — that the real resistance is coming from the fossil fuel industry." #cdnpoli #Canada 🇨🇦 #ableg www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

An excellent piece by a thoughtful woman who acknowledges when she was wrong.

Anyone have good suggestions for an explainer video (5-10 minutes in length) on the many ways that #climatechange is costing local governments and driving done of the increases in municipal taxes we've been seeing (and expect to see)? #cdnpoli #localgov

Major investigation of offsets projects ('carbon markets') shows only 16% of carbon credits issued constitute real emission reductions Yet countries agreed major new C markets at #COP29 with no obvious tightening of standards Vast majority of offsetting is a scam www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Redefining net zero will not stop global warming, new study shows www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-11...

I thought hard about how to express what needs to be said. The climate crisis is accelerating as is energy transition. 🇨🇦 is blessed with natural & human resources to build the future. But the oil sands are taking us for fools. Time to be on the right side of history. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Climate change is driving up insurance premiums. Would be good to have this data for Canada. @insurancebureau.bsky.social @climateinstitute.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Cdnpoli

Question for Cdn Environment Minister @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social: The law required Canada's 2035 target for reducing #GHG emissions to be set by Dec 1 (2 days ago). What is it? Where can I find it? #missing #climatechange #cdnpoli

"Companies put short-term profits over the health of our communities ... not because they are run by "bad" people; [but] because they are rewarded financially and avoid paying the costly climate impacts caused by their products." #SueBigOil #bcpoli www.squamishchief.com/opinion/squa...

Top UN court to begin hearings on landmark climate change case

Friends and neighbours in #yyj #Esquimalt you should take this survey about bike lanes (preferably to advocate for more bike lanes)

“True Godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavours to mend it.” William Penn

It has a larger population than the two Canadian provinces that are islands and is (I believe) the only former British colony in Canada to not become a unique province (because it had been amalgamated with mainland BC prior to Confederation).

Hot off the presses from @sobittersosweet.bsky.social at The Narwhal. @thenarwhal.ca #bcpoli #climatechange #flooding thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-ai...

Great news: #Vancouver councillors voted to keep ban on natural gas heating for new homes in city. Now that we decided that we will not go backwards, everyone can focus on what additional steps are needed to get on track to reduce emissions in Vancouver by 50% by 2030. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mitigation costs in perspective

Global News spoke with our Science & Policy Advisor, Jens Wieting, about BC’s delay in sharing annual climate pollution data: globalnews.ca/video/108860... BC has bold emission reduction targets for 2025 & 2030, How can we meet those targets if we don't know our emission trends over the last 2 yrs?

Great overview of how climate change and Big Oil are already making us poorer. #inflation #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Today almost 150 health professionals wrote to Mayor Sim and Vancouver City Council urging them to uphold the city’s bylaw requiring clean electric heating in new homes. We call on you to make the right choice for a #healthyfuture on November 26. Read: drive.google.com/file/d/19HFN...

Great Tiktok on wealth and social control. vm.tiktok.com/ZMhWxutTm/