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Progressive Pirate. Sailor. Green Buccaneer. Preferred pronouns Captain/Skipper. 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇿🇦 ⛵. Viva!
Alberta's oil and gas magnates are being outflanked by China
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/27/o...
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Alberta's oil and gas magnates are being outflanked by China
Alberta's oil and gas industry advocates continue to treat China as an economic opportunity, one that justifies new pipelines to the west coast. They ought to start seeing it as a threat to their enti...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/27/opinion/alberta-oil-gas-china-electrification
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
5 days ago
For all the popularity of the Carney government, they sure are doing a lot of really stupid shit.
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Jump ship to the Greens and Carney will have no choice but to swing back to strong climate and environmental policies. Viva!
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14 Liberal MPs pen letter to Carney raising concerns over environmental backslide | CBC News
More than a dozen Liberal MPs sent a letter to the prime minister at the end of April, before he signed the latest agreement with the Alberta government, to offer some recommendations — but also to ex...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-mp-react-alberta-deal-carney-9.7208157
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Chris Nelder
9 days ago
Part 2 of our miniseries on South Africa, based on my travels there last year. Grid geeks gonna love this one!
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Michael Nabert
14 days ago
Mark Carney's surrender on carbon pricing to Alberta separatists guarantees that meeting even Canada's current wildly inadequate climate targets is impossible. So we're going to be using an incredibly weak climate tool, but not for another fifteen years. 35/
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Statement: Carbon Pricing Rollback Undermines Climate Goals - Environmental Defence
Statement: PM Carney’s Carbon Pricing Capitulation Deals a Massive Blow to Canada’s Climate Ambition Statement by Aly Hyder Ali, Senior Program Manager,
https://environmentaldefence.ca/2026/05/13/statement-carbon-pricing-rollback-undermines-climate-goals/
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Michael Nabert
6 months ago
The biggest insult to citizen intelligence happens when a prime minister starts talking about “decarbonized oil,” which is very much not a thing. It’s like peddling “healthy poison” or “ethical genocide.” 25/
www.desmog.com/2025/06/09/e...
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Earth to Mark Carney: ‘Decarbonized Oil’ Is as Real as Vitamin Cigarettes
Canada's new PM parroted industry nonsense after a meeting with premiers last week.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/06/09/earth-to-mark-carney-decarbonized-oil-is-as-real-as-vitamin-cigarettes/
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Michael Nabert
6 months ago
Carney’s first budget couldn't be more climate hostile. No new spending to reduce emissions, but $3 billion in climate program cuts. Transit funding? Cut. Greener homes funding? Cut. None. Renewable energy investment? Zero. 17/
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election - CCPA
With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/post-election-budget-could-plunge-canada-into-another-federal-election/
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Trapdinawrpool
14 days ago
Former Liberal environment minister
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Liberals’ proposed changes to pipeline reviews ‘take us back decades’: Guilbeault
The federal government is hoping to fast-track the approval of major projects including pipelines and energy projects. They've proposed legislative changes aimed at completing review processes within ...
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7195727
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Trapdinawrpool
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Carney’s new energy approach favours jobs of the past not the future
rabble.ca/politics/can...
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Carney’s new energy approach favours jobs of the past not the future
Mark Carney is making so many energy-related announcements at once it is hard to keep track.
https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/carneys-new-energy-approach-favours-jobs-of-the-past-not-the-future/
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Rugby sevens star Kevin Wekesa: ‘I am not blaming Europeans but I must highlight climate injustices’
The Kenyan player has been recognised for his advocacy and grassroots work to tackle sport’s carbon footprint
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/12/rugby-sevens-star-kevin-wekesa-i-am-not-blaming-europeans-but-i-must-highlight-climate-injustices?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Biggie
17 days ago
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James R Benn
about 1 month ago
The Ninth Circle, Billy Boyle no. 21, releases on September 1, 2026.
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.
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Climate Change Concern Near Its High Point in U.S.
The 44% of U.S. adults who currently worry "a great deal" about climate change or global warming is near its 46% high point from 2020.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/708050/climate-change-concern-near-high-point.aspx?_bhlid=77e6b9b751ae9937bba9eab3db5b2d125c39b488
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Zack Polanski
about 1 month ago
When Labour next tell you there is no money left and that's why they can't help people to heat their homes, show them this.
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🤣. Vivahahahaha!
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My Chrystal Ball tells me we're going to regret giving Carney and the Libs a majority. Same as it ever was. Viva!
about 2 months ago
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Trapdinawrpool
about 2 months ago
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Gap between richest and poorest Canadians kept widening in 2025, StatsCan says | CBC News
Statistics Canada says the income gap — measuring the difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40 per cent and those in the bottom 40 per cent — reached 46.7 percenta...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-wealth-gap-grew-2025-9.7162167
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Rebekah Jones
about 2 months ago
A Category 5 storm just formed more than a month before the Pacific hurricane season even starts. Most Americans didn’t hear about it. Here’s why that matters—and what it tells us about where storms are headed next:
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The Storms We Don’t Talk About Are Getting Stronger
Super Typhoon Sinlaku moving toward Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
https://www.mesoscalenews.com/p/the-storms-we-dont-talk-about-are
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Profits over people. When will our new majority government step-in? I have my doubts. Viva!
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CBC investigation finds grocers Loblaw, Sobeys overcharging for underweight meat — again | CBC News
A CBC News secret shopping investigation has — once again — uncovered how several Loblaw-owned and Sobeys-affiliated stores are overcharging for underweight meat, despite claims last year that the gro...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/loblaw-sobeys-meat-weight-9.7158279
about 2 months ago
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CatWoman
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David Roberts
about 2 months ago
EVs are winning. They're obviously going to win. The US is punching itself in the dick by clinging to ICE vehicles.
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March 2026 to 'change everything': 'Tipping point' for global EV adoption
Accelerated collapse of ICE cars seen, as oil crisis drives 'replacement under pressure'
https://gulfnews.com/business/energy/march-2026-to-change-everything-tipping-point-for-global-ev-adoption-1.500484007
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The Devil
about 2 months ago
So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.
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Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs
UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.
https://capitalandmain.com/despite-apocalyptic-warnings-california-fast-food-wage-hike-didnt-kill-jobs
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Zack Polanski
about 2 months ago
"Zack Polanski’s Green Party scored another shock win beating Nigel Farage’s party in Kent."
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/zack-polanski-green-win-kent-nigel-farage-reform-may-elections-b1278273.html
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So hard not to notice how this Iranian debacle has pushed the Epstein files to the sidelines. Viva!
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Sadly, this is the story that will probably drive renewable energy going forward - not forethought and grandiose ideas of saving humanity - just the day to day economic reality of war. Viva!
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
about 2 months ago
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
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No one gets an MBA because they want to help the poor. Viva!
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about 2 months ago
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Zack Polanski
about 2 months ago
🚨 First time in British history that a party to the left of Labour have topped a national poll. 💚 Hope is here. It's all of us. ✊🏼 Reject hateful, divisive politics - and let's make hope normal again.
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Antonia 🦋 🩵 💙🦋 Democratic Election Judge, Autism Awareness
2 months ago
www.nerdwallet.com/finance/lear...
Food prices — which are up 34.6% since 2019 — remain high because of the combined impact of rising input costs, supply chain disruptions and corporate profits. Higher tariffs currently in effect on some imported food could further fuel inflation.
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Why Is Food So Expensive? - NerdWallet
Food inflation continues at well above the 2% annual rate targeted by the Federal Reserve.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/finance/learn/price-of-food
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IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT OIL! AND IT ALWAYS ENDS BADLY FOR HUMANITY. Viva!
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How Trump and the oil markets move in sync: a tango in five charts
Oil markets have been sensitive to Donald Trump's comments on the war. But are traders growing less responsive?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgk8zk9epgo
2 months ago
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Oilfield Witness
2 months ago
The oil and gas industry “loves crises from an economic standpoint, but also to force policy changes,” said Justin Mikulka, an energy industry analyst and communications director at the environmental watchdog group, Oilfield Witness.
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As War on Iran Continues, a European Climate Law Could Be at Risk
Industry groups warn of “supply shocks” as energy shortages grow, but critics say targeting the EU’s methane rule would lock in polluting U.S. fossil fuel infrastructure at a dire cost to local and gl...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/03/25/as-war-on-iran-continues-a-european-climate-law-could-be-at-risk/
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Thx Yanks. Viva!
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US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/us-climate-damage-research?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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2 months ago
No one ever invaded another country to take control of their solar or wind power.
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This is the way. Viva! Iran war energy shock: Britain introduces new rules for all new homes
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Britain responds to Iran war energy shock by requiring solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes
The move comes as part of Britain's response to the Iran war, with the conflict triggering the largest supply disruption in the history of the oil market.
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Et tu Carney? Viva!
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UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms
The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203rdxkezwo
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Joni Askola
2 months ago
American tech oligarchs are universally despised, and rightly so. By constantly demonstrating that they will burn down society just to add another zero to their net worth, they have become the single best advertisement against unregulated capitalism
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Doug Ford, you dipshit, are you paying attention? Viva!
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Work from home and drive more slowly to save energy, global body urges
People should change how they travel, work and cook to tackle the energy price crisis, the International Energy Agency says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4540d0g4o
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸
2 months ago
Solar panels aren’t being held up in the Strait of Hormuz. A point worth making
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Correct. Viva!
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James Hughes
2 months ago
"Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society." -Joni Askola
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Justin Mikulka
2 months ago
"But [oil] companies that are winding down, companies that don't exist anymore and companies in bankruptcy processes will not have the capacity to pay." Exactly as planned. The oil industry has no intention to ever pay the public what it is owed. They will just walk away.
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$250M in unpaid oil and gas property taxes likely unrecoverable: Alberta government | CBC News
Alberta's government — along with the Rural Municipalities of Alberta, and the province’s energy regulator — say they want to crack down on oil and gas companies that don’t pay their property taxes.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/250m-in-unpaid-oil-and-gas-property-taxes-likely-unrecoverable-alberta-government-9.7131039
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Justin Mikulka
2 months ago
Here are the IEA updated forecasts for global oil demand growth this year. Jan 930,000 barrels per day Feb 880,000 barrels per day Mar 660,000 barrels per day When that number gets to zero, the industry will need constant war to keep oil profitable. Or we could switch to renewables and EVs.
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Jim Russell 🏴.
2 months ago
Turns out that Israel and the US were too chicken to send warships through the Strait of Hormuz so they begged Europe, expecting our warships to be bombed instead of theirs. They wanted our sailors to die on their behalf in the war they fucking started.
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Irish Unity
2 months ago
Wars over Oil: 12 Wars over Renewable Energy: 0
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Climate News
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George Monbiot
3 months ago
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot
The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/uk-energy-prices-soaring-war-iran-fossil-fuel-north-sea
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Lisa the Leftist
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Of course they are. Viva! Utilities are raising concerns about plug-in solar panels : NPR
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Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.
https://share.google/Ly8G6qO9pu565UyFP
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Center for Climate Integrity
3 months ago
Now feels like a good time to remember that Big Oil is the reason why we're still hooked on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels. The industry's lies have essentially stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition to cleaner, safer energy sources. It’s time for accountability.
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Jon Burke🌍
3 months ago
Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.
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