One would never guess, looking at Carney government's tabled budget, that an area of Canada larger than New Brunswick went up in flames in 2025, as environmental lawyer Anna Johnston commented. 1/ #cdnpoli @ndp.ca @blocquebecois.bsky.social @canadiangreens.bsky.social www.wcel.org/media-releas...

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The liquefied natural gas market is bracing for a surge in supply next year, largely from top exporter the United States, but what is less certain is just how low spot prices will have to drop to clear the additional volumes. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Australia has more than $4 trillion in retirement savings but little of this finds its way to clean energy. Strategist Jeremy Cooper has an idea to fix this. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

#AbLeg Relevant

Brilliant. Must-read! rimanajjar.medium.com/the-interrog...

One would never guess, looking at Carney government's tabled budget, that an area of Canada larger than New Brunswick went up in flames in 2025, as environmental lawyer Anna Johnston commented. 1/ #cdnpoli @ndp.ca @blocquebecois.bsky.social @canadiangreens.bsky.social www.wcel.org/media-releas...

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds - Fossil fuel emissions to hit a record high in 2025 - Analyses also show worrying weakening of the planet’s natural carbon sinks #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by Oliver Milman & me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"There is an entirely feasible path to mobilising $1.3 trillion by 2035 for climate action in developing countries" - Report by Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance #COP30 www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

A dark day for Alberta this Monday! Danielle Smith’s UCP isn’t “protecting parents.” It’s steamrolling rights. If you need the notwithstanding clause to bully queer kids, your policies are the problem. #cdnpoli #ableg #UCP #LGBTQ2S #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/colenotc...

We are all swimming in a sea of misinformation and outright lies in a media environment increasingly controlled by right-wing billionaires whose business interests are tied to fossil fuels. This extends across many areas, but is crystal clear when it comes to the climate crisis.

In light of the decision by administrators at @ualberta.bsky.social to permit the Edmonton Police Service to "train" on the UofA campus on November 14th, I am re-posting this: artssquared.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/g... @naheednenshi.bsky.social @andrewknack.bsky.social @michaeljanz.bsky.social

Exactly. "[A] world in which Canada successfully exports LNG at high prices is . . . a world that has failed to change course and avert climate disaster . . . To bet on that future, as Carney is doing, is to boost the odds of it coming to pass." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/14/a...

CAT Global Update 2025 🚨 Ten years after the #ParisAgreement we see little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive year. The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...

Our Banks vs The Amazon scorecard is making the headlines 👀📰 Join us in keeping up the pressure on big banks to stop financing the destruction of the Amazon and fueling the climate crisis and #ExitAmazonOilAndGas. Check out our full report here 👉 https://banksvstheamazon.org/

Just re-posting this really useful analysis of Alberta's TIER system, which--if you've been following--has always been about greenwashing rather than GHG emission reductions. www.enviroeconomics.org/single-post/...

Note how prominently the word "plan" features in this account of how to become the world leader in a particular technology . . . Meanwhile, Canadian governments flap around with tax credits and wishes. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

These are the planet-destroying billionaires taking over from the fossil fuel corporations, while our govts compete for their investment in AI centres . . . www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

Climate change disproportionately impacts the world’s poor. Even in developed countries, over 80% of people living in poverty face climate-related hazards such as extreme heat and air pollution.

The Liberals and Conservatives keep reducing the numbers of immigrants and refugees they will admit to Canada while at the same time cutting foreign aid and promoting oil and gas exports that are fuelling the global climate crisis. 1/

Here is a cautionary tale for Albertans. www.somo.nl/shells-reckl...

This is interesting: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/01...

"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"

Et voila, en fin, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood nails it. Well done, @followinghadrian.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o... #cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency

These @policyalternatives.ca authors offer a very strong review of the Liberal climate policy framework -- on which the Carney government is indeed doubling down. It needs to be emphasized that the pillars of the Liberal's framework have failed dreadfully.1/ www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Neoliberals: The tax credit approach has failed for more than 40 years, so let's keep doing it . . . Meanwhile, Earth is now locked in to 2 C of warming (already passed that in Canada) and on its way to at least 3 by the end of the century. www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/06/o...

"Even if fully achieved [and we are far from it], Canada’s 2030 target itself is not ambitious enough to be 1.5°C compatible." climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...

"technology-based CDR accounts for only about one-millionth of the CO2 emitted from fossil fuels" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Despite Cop28’s global stocktake calling on all nations to contribute to “transitioning away from fossil fuels”, collectively there are still plans to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with ... 1.5C." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The @mark-carney.bsky.social budget allocates $20 million/yr for a Youth Climate Corps and $800 million/yr in tax credits for the Pathways Alliance CCS pipeline. The first is 2% of the amt needed to seriously tackle youth unemployment. The latter locks Canada in to expanding oil & gas extraction.

The relationship between Alberta Conservative politicians, state agencies under their control, and the oil/gas/coal corporations may be described as fusional. This has been the case since the 1950s. The AER is run by oil/gas industry men --always has been. 1/ www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.

"Millions of tons of stamp sands containing toxins like arsenic, lead, and mercury have eroded the coastline [of Lake Superior], overwhelmed fish spawning habitats, and poisoned the benthic animals that feed lake trout and whitefish." thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...

"For essentially the last 25 years every single resources minister, bar one, has left Parliament and gone to work for the resources industry." - Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025 @larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol

Still basking in the relief and hopefulness of Mamdani's win in New York, I permit myself a little homage a la Leonard Cohen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC... @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

We are headed toward 3 degrees of global warming by the end of this century, and very possibly more, given the refusal of governments to alter the status quo of fossil capitalism. 1/ www.unep.org/resources/em...

This Green Budget, produced by Canadian ENGOs, contains excellent proposals. 1/ greenbudget.ca/wp-content/u...

Carney has seriously misjudged the moment, producing a budget that merely continues the failed approaches of the past. He has, in fact, lurched to the right. Let us hope, for the sake of our descendants, that the NDP, Greens, and BQ do not follow his lead.

"In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light." May it be so. www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...

This is indeed an "ugly history," and the Atlas-affiliated "think tanks" in Canada have been part of it: Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Montreal Economic Institute, Fraser Institute, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and Second Street. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New guest post! Turning Climate Action into Economic Threat: The Far Right’s Moral Storytelling by @tillhilmar.bsky.social environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/...

#Fossilfuel burning has made BC's Peace region "warmer and drier... But rather than heed the warnings, one B.C. government after another twisted itself into knots arguing that using more “clean” hydro to power more methane gas production amounted to a climate solution." #bcpoli #climatecrisis

It is pathetic but predictable that a fellow of the institute created to lobby for the extractive industries would try to discredit environmentalists as tools of "Communist China." How original. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/a...

Jeff Jones continuing to do yeoman’s work bringing the O&G closure liability fiasco to #ableg and #cdnpoli. Willful ignorance at the top — among the c-suite, auditors and investors — will keep pushing this bill down onto taxpayers’ lap. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

“Any introduction of bitumen into this already fragile ecosystem is a major threat and is short term thinking.” 💯 All power to you, Gaagwiis and the Haida Nation. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/a...

"It is difficult to imagine a more impoverished federal role in [environmental and social] impact assessment than we currently have." --Canadian Environmental Law Association et al., October 2025 archive.celafoundation.ca/wp-content/u...