Magical golden hour on Hornby Island with soundtrack of humpbacks breathing and deep vocalizing. So cool!

@amyjanzwood.bsky.social brings 🔥 "Canadians are being asked to accept a multibillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded pipeline on faith that long-term oil demand will materialize because politicians say so. But vibes do not build a pipeline." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/10/o...

I am so tired of straight white men who get called out for their heinous behaviour blaming “the system,” as if they’d ever have made it so far without systemic privilege.

In Canada we call fossil fuel subsidies "catalysing investments."

2025 will prob show an even steeper slope as importers react to global oil price spike. This is why I'm skeptical a pipeline coming onstream in 2034 is a good public investment. Yes I've heard the arguments that importers want democratic oil, but for how long when domestic renewables are cheaper?

This ad playing during the World Cup feels positively Orwellian as the government of Canada advocates LNG expansion and commits tens of billions of tax dollars to a million barrel per day heavy oil pipeline. Fossil fuels= world class energy? Black = white?

News In Photo:

Canadian boys are doing us all proud. Playing like the girls! 🇨🇦⚽️❤️

“Democratic oil” and LNG won’t fix this.

The Alberta government's submission to the major projects office includes this map, and confirms it's proposed to end at Roberts Bank in the lower mainland. open.alberta.ca/dataset/a529...

Thinking the federal govt had to agree to put money on the table - now called "investment" rather than fossil fuel subsidies/finance - to get Alberta to accept a southern route. That AB and fed ownership shares aren't yet decided smacks of a last-minute deal.

CBC News is referencing many federal "gifts to BC" in today's MOU but other than $3B for the Massey Tunnel replacement no $ amounts are specified for the rest: environmental liability fund, revised BC deal for TMX expansion, $ for BC new pipeline, $ for Red Chris, LNG, park in NW, NCTL, childcare.

I'm fascinated that this is the big takeaway. And embarrassed how much I overestimated public knowledge on climate! Folks: Canada was not on track to meet our 2030 and 2035 targets even before the government weakened a bunch of climate policies. How was that NOT going to result in higher emissions?

Thoughts - The PM is good at this. P Poilievre should be nervous. - PM Carney truly believes electrification is the future and that's good for Canada's economy, affordability, climate. - Argues for LNG + pipeline on grounds oil/gas will still be used and we're a trusted source post-Iran war. But...

Paris funeral homes overwhelmed after record heatwave

On the 5th anniversary of the BC heat dome that killed 619 people and burned Lytton to the ground. Good news: Canada is renewing homeowner grants for heat/cooling pumps that save lives and reduce GHGs. Bad news: We're adding fuel to the fire with new LNG and oil exports. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Apparently the rules are different in the World Cup. If it happens in the box, it’s not a penalty. 🇨🇦⚽️🇨🇦

CBC What on Earth’s Laura Lynch retired today. Congratulations to her, but she’ll be missed!

UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

The PM has declared a new era of Cooperative Federalism but post fed-AB MOU it's also nakedly transactional federalism. AB got X; what about us? Fed-prov deals are not new but were they ever this explicit? Private investors could be the biggest winners. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

A friend's grandma died this week in France's #heatdome. As did 619 British Columbians in 2021. Heat pumps offer cooling + reduce GHGs to limit further warming. Yet BC has failed to implement building elements of its CleanBC plan. Vancouver is repealing bylaws. Politicians: lives are in your hands!

Strawberries, cherries, raspberries, watermelon. In summer, I am a fruitarian! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzQN...

Canada is betting big on LNG — but the odds are getting worse. Our latest research finds: 📉 Demand uncertainty 📦 Looming oversupply ⚡ Renewables outcompeting gas New LNG projects face serious financial and climate risks that the Canadian taxpayer shouldn’t take on. 👉 buff.ly/GPqN725

I am often surprised by how quietly many people in a meeting continue to speak even after others indicate that they're having trouble hearing. Curious if folks overestimate how loud they are or is it embarrassment that they will be perceived as "too loud." Any advice on solutions?

The 2025 progress report is the moment Canada returned to faking it on climate. Sharing a couple posts I made when that report came out in 🧵 below. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/16/n...

⚡ NEW REPORT⚡ Clean power can give Canada a competitive edge in the global race for investment in major industrial projects—but only if the country transforms how it plans and builds its electricity systems. ⬇️🧵 climateinstitute.ca/reports/powe...

The lawsuit anticipated by Guilbeault was launched today. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

For a guy who loves oil and gas, Donald Trump has sure done a huge favour to renewables. And by disrupting global oil/gas markets just as solar, wind, batteries and EVs became cheaper, the denier-in-chief has given an unintended boost to climate action. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/b...

Exciting for sure. Great game, Team Canada! But @tsnofficial.bsky.social, it's Canada's first point in men's FIFA World Cup history.

On the latest Power Lines (yep, that's the new name for my YouTube show): a deep dive on climate politics with @profkharrison.bsky.social. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsxi...

"A good day is when there is only sexist abuse. A bad day is when there are death threats, wishes of sexual violence" + threats to family. This is women politicians' experience, but women can't fix this. MEN need to call out misogyny, at home, work, gym, politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have in my head a list of climate real ones: the people who've stuck solidly with the fundamental imperative of protecting living things from the harm of an overheating atmosphere. Danny is a real one. This is a strongly principled stance and such a shocking black mark against the GHG protocol.

Yes building design can also protect from heat and ac powered by fossils worsens climate. But the piece misses the mark b/c it ignores huge challenges: temps are still rising, some temps just aren't survivable, no shortage of sun/wind for energy-eff heatpumps. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Huge thanks to @climateinstit for this analysis, esp since ECCC acknowledges it hadn't "crunched the numbers" before the Implementation Agreement was signed. CCI concludes that the fed-AB deal at best reduces Canada's emissions by a few tonnes, and plausibly could increase them by more. Brief 🧵

Heartbreaking. It's hard to imagine someone so full of life and joy just ...gone. But what an impact Raul had in his too-short life! Let's honour his example by trying to be a little more generous to those more vulnerable, and more willing to contribute to the well-being of our shared communities.

About to go on CBC Radio's Just Asking, but first -- a shout out to #publiclibraries and librarians everywhere. When I was asked to do the show this weekend I already had a camping reservation at Porpoise Bay. The Sechelt Public Library has kindly provided me with a quiet space to call in.

tune into CBC's Just Asking this afternoon to hear me and @profkharrison.bsky.social talk about @mark-carney.bsky.social's alarming anti-climate policies.

#Ebikes reduce GHGs and other air pollution, offer health benefits, and save money. But there's still a tendency to think of cyclists as gutsy souls making sacrifices. But here's the thing: cycling to/from work makes this 67 yr old, not-super-fit person happy. I'll share why in this occasional 🧵.

Canada's bitumen is disadvantaged in a carbon-constrained world because it's costly and carbon-intensive to extract. US attacks on Iran render cheaper OPEC crudes less appealing though. But with increasingly low-cost renewables, how high a democracy premium will the world pay - and for how long?

This moment in Canadian climate policy rests on two forms of gaslighting. Neither is new, but both are making a comeback in light of rising economic, affordability, and sovereignty concerns. #cdnpoli

Guilbeault speaking now in House of Commons www.cpac.ca/en

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.

Is there a better end of work week activity than cycling through sun-dappled bike routes onto the people’s yacht (aka Seabus) for a meeting to talk climate policy?

Another day, another bad take on oil and gas from the Globe and Mail -- this time from Tony Keller. Let's dig in. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Ultimately this is on the BC govt, which did not follow through on its promis to mandate the Zero Carbon Step Code for new bldgs by 2030. BC's Energy/Climate Minister complained BC was undercut by feds weakening industrial C pricing, but BC did the same to city leaders. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"the MOU slightly improves industrial carbon pricing relative to its current status in Alberta – but goodness, that’s a low bar. The losses offset the gains, because the MOU cements a low level of stringency around industrial carbon pricing across Canada for the foreseeable future.

I spoke today about the fed-AB agreement with several CBC stations, including Vancouver's Early Edition. Tldr - federal backtracking on requiring a private proponent? - huge concessions on industrial carbon pricing - BC's reaction curiously silent wrt southern route. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Canada’s MOU agreement with Alberta puts the country’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 firmly out of reach. Read our full statement from @rjcsmith.bsky.social ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-wit...

Mayor Ken Sim tries to kill Vancouver's popular gas ban. Again! Vancouver friends, Mayor Sim has to go. The man simply cannot take 'no' for an answer, and he is bound & determine to do the bidding of FortisBC. 🧵 ... www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/15/n...