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Adam Scott

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Climate/energy expertise. Executive Director of Shift. Dad. Canadian. Electrified. Tkaronto/Mnidoo Gamii 340ppm.

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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 12h
Tired of misinformation spread & repeated by media about why there was a lost decade in Canadian #oil sector between 2015-2022. Everyone pretends it was due to federal environmental policy, but in reality it was global oversupply (driven by US shale) crashing prices. #abpoli #cdnpoli #oilsands 1/2
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Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is about to host public meetings and answer to Canadians. We imagined how they’re getting ready. youtube.com/shorts/U-2xJ...
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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Gets Ready to Answer Canadians’ Climate Questions
YouTube video by Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health
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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ahead of the government's caucus retreat & Parliament's return next week, we released new polling. The results? The federal government’s plans to subsidize a new pipeline plan & fast-track mega projects are hurting their popularity. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/09/16/n...
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 10/09/2026
Former and current staff at Ontario’s Ministry of Environment tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social that Bill 5, and the death of the Endangered Species Act, left them powerless in protecting at-risk species. “We were essentially silenced.”
thenarwhal.ca
Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is making a risky bet on gas to power the build-out of data centres for AI -- contradicting its own Climate Change Principles, crowding-out renewable energy, and locking-in carbon pollution for decades. #cdnpoli
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CPPIB Watch: A quarterly update on CPPIB-owned fossil fuel companies (September 2026) — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is making a risky bet on gas to power the build-out of data centres for artificial intelligence (AI). By supplying the insatiable demand for energy ass...
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Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New report from Shift: Indigenous Rights and Canadian Pension Funds. www.shiftaction.ca/indigenousri... ➡️
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Not the kind of climate change column I’ve normally written, or want to write, but I felt I had to. www.thestar.com/business/opi...
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I've covered climate policy for years. The haze over Toronto finally shattered my optimism
The wildfire smoke has choked my faith in Canada's climate future, writes Adam Radwanski. We used to at least be trying. Now we're betting against energy transition.
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Dogwood @dogwoodbc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How does Mark Carney's 6-step LNG grift funnel public money to Wall St billionaires? Watch our latest - youtube.com/shorts/lf3Zl...
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How Mark Carney’s LNG Grift Funnels Public Money to Wall Street Billionaires
YouTube video by Dogwood
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 15/07/2026
Just going to leave this here www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/a...
desmog.com
A Database of Canada’s Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Some lobby organizations that work for environmental organizations also work for the fossil fuel industry.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Got upset and made this so hopefully people will actually listen. What the fuck are we doing here folks?
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Ontario's IESO forecasts a record peak electricity demand early this evening of 27,285 MW - along with a potential all-time heat record for the city of Toronto. The #climatecrisis is here. *The last two competitive long-term procurements, LT1 and LT2, were won entirely by wind, solar and batteries.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“But this is only the UK.” Here are global figures.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas
Winners and Losers
The IEA overestimated gas growth in Asia and underestimated solar

Gas
• Forecast 547 TWh
• Actual 17 TWh

Solar
• Forecast 465 TWh
• Actual 1,333 TWh

Note: Shows expected growth in Asian power generation between 2018 and 2025, based on actual 2018 generation, actual 2025 generation, and the 2018 World Energy Outlook's Current Policies Scenario estimates for 2025. Actual 2025 generation figures are from Ember.
Source: International Energy Agency, Ember, Bloomberg Opinion calculations
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
One of the most persistent myths in energy is that high-renewables grids require months or even years of backup to survive “dunkelflaute” — those rare periods of low wind and solar output. That claim is often far more ideology than analysis. www.energyintel.com/00000194-848...
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Can Nuclear Help Europe’s ‘Dunkelflaute’ Renewables Challenge?
Low wind and sun in the North Sea increase electricity price volatility in Northern Europe, fueling debate over nuclear energy's role in stabilizing renewables.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/03/2026
People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Democracy dies of heatstroke. What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
climatecoloredgoggles.com
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 21/01/2026
LNG Canada has known there was an issue with its flaring equipment for over a year. While locals raised concerns about noise, smoke and emissions, until now, they didn’t have answers. The Narwhal reviewed more than 2,000 pages of documents for this story: thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-f... #bcpoli
thenarwhal.ca
Equipment issue led to excessive LNG Canada flaring, docs reveal | The Narwhal
LNG Canada delayed reporting ‘integrity issue’ to regulators and never fully informed the public, while locals raised concerns about noise, smoke and emissions
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My periodic cold weather reminder: Modern air-to-air cold-climate #heatpumps are amazing. Our little house in Toronto, Canada stays nice and comfy with zero back-up heat source in these conditions. The house is more comfortable, cutting our gas line saves us money, and our carbon footprint is tiny.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Somebody this stupid shouldn’t be president. Maybe some of those scientists that he fired or defunded can explain Arctic amplification to him.
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Research Links Extreme Cold Weather in the United States to Arctic Warming - Climate Program Office
The study provides insights that could potentially extend the warning lead time of cold extremes in the United States, Canada, and Asia.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/10/2024
REALLY wild graphic buried in the back of this paper examining why CCS is so slow The light bars are what was planned for CCS, and the dark bars are **what actually became operational** Close to a 100% failure rate, for most applications (!!!!!!) subscriber.politicopro.com/eenews/f/een...
ccs failure rates
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
An thoughtful piece in @macleans.bsky.social by Rav Singh, a young Ontario farmer on why she's suing Canada Pension Plan over its failure to protect Canadians’ retirement savings from future financial losses from #climatechange #CPPIB macleans.ca/the-year-ahe...
macleans.ca
The Fight For My Farming Future - Macleans.ca
I’m suing the country’s largest pension manager to protect my retirement fund
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Investors for Paris Compliance @investors4paris.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Canadian LNG boosters take note.
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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
BREAKING: Young litigants, @cape-acme.bsky.social, and @greenpeaceca.bsky.social slam the #Ford government over last-minute, short-sighted climate law repeal ahead of the upcoming landmark #Mathur court hearing. Learn more >> bit.ly/481HRLA #onpoli #canpoli #genclimateaction
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
There is no bargain in a north coast oil pipeline, only snake oil @wcelaw.bsky.social @hilltimes.com #cdnpoli www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
hilltimes.com
There is no bargain in a north coast oil pipeline, only snake oil
Sacrificing B.C.’s coastal economy, ecosystems, and communities, and First Nations territories is not nation-building.
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@mark-carney.bsky.social is edging closer to what would amounts to a 'Stupid Bargain' of historical proportions with #alberta and #oilsands companies. A mega 🧵 @theglobeandmail.com #cop30 #oil #expansion #Indigenousrights #cdnpoli #c5 #ICJ www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #StupidBargain 1/
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Ottawa, Alberta close to deal that includes oil pipeline to B.C. coast, sources say
Privy Council Clerk Sabia playing key role in brokering accord that would involve tanker ban exemption
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Europe's electricity system is changing rapidly and often in places that don't make the headlines. Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation. Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I can confirm that Canada's backsliding on #climate policy is being noticed here at #cop30 'Carney wants to boost resource development. Canada's climate legacy hangs in the balance' @inayatsingh.com www.cbc.ca/news/science...
cbc.ca
As Carney pushes resource development, Canada's international climate reputation slips | CBC News
At the same time that Prime Minister Mark Carney was announcing a new tranche of major projects his government wants to fast-track, including a new gas export terminal, Canada’s representatives were t...
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Statement: Facing climate litigation, CPPIB made at least $7.1 billion in new fossil fuel investments in the last year @shiftaction.bsky.social www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/11... #climaterisk #COP30 #climatecrisis
shiftaction.ca
Statement: Facing climate litigation, CPPIB made at least $7.1 billion in new fossil fuel investments in the last year — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet
Facing landmark climate litigation, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments, or CPPIB) has committed at least $7.1 billion to new oil, gas, coal and pipeline assets in the last year....
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/10/2025
notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense
A new way to look at the problem

Three tough truths about climate
What I want everyone at COP30 to know.

Bill profile picture
By Bill Gates published 1 day ago
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Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
💥 BREAKING: 4 young Canadians just launched a legal challenge to protect the Canada Pension Plan. They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli
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Legal Challenge to Protect CPP from Climate Risk — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The fact that it’s still blaming the EV mandate (among other things), after Carney obligingly suspended it only for the companies to start moving production to the U.S. anyway, is almost self parody.
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Not a snowball's chance in hell we would ever let this happen. #abpoli #onpoli Danielle Smith says she's "trying to figure out if we could get #oil to Thunder Bay & use #GreatLakes maximum tankers to get to a port in Quebec and loaded for overseas" #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
From the East and West, Alberta’s pipeline ambitions face pushback
Premiers in two provinces have denounced Danielle Smith’s ideas for new oil pipelines
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I'm genuinely flummoxed as to how anyone is talking about a "grand bargain" while the Alberta government and the oil industry is actively opposed to the federal carbon price on industrial emissions. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | Is Mark Carney going to get tied up in pipeline politics? | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's preferred framing for the issue of a new pipline creates a challenge and a potential trap for Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Meanwhile, Enbridge’s CEO just called again (during a speech in Toronto) for industrial pricing to end, which is another reminder that the oil and gas industry is not serious about carbon capture, and Carney will need to play hardball if he is.
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"As rights & title holders, we must inform Premier Smith once again that there is no support from Coastal First Nations for a pipeline & oil tankers project in our coastal waters" Marilyn Slett, president, Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli #abpoli #c5
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First Nations on B.C.'s North Coast won't support Alberta's pipeline proposal 'now or ever,' says chief | CBC News
The president of an organization representing First Nations along British Columbia's North Coast says it won't support a new bitumen pipeline proposal from Alberta's premier "now or ever."
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Just another gentle reminder that the best interests of Canadians are often not aligned with the best interests of corporations. This majority Exxon-owned company lobbies aggressively for gutting Canada's environmental protections #c5 #cdnpoli #abpoli #pathwaysallliance www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Imperial Oil to cut 900 jobs, will mostly leave Calgary | CBC News
In a release Monday afternoon, the company announces workforce cuts to come by the end of 2027.
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
@mark-carney.bsky.social Brexit-era approach to climate finance needs an upgrade @iisd.org www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #cdnpoli #tragedyofthehorizon #sustainablefinance #climatecrisis
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Opinion: Carney’s Brexit-era approach to climate finance needs an upgrade
As Prime Minister, Mr. Carney at last has an opportunity to deliver on calls to action he outlined in 2015
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm baffled as to why @cnn.com 's Kevin Liptak parsed & edited Trump's incoherent ramblings to make them seem like an intentional speech. Trump delivered an incomprehensible off the cuff word salad. The content was nonsense. The context: utter incompetence. #unga edition.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p...
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jessyewaxman.bsky.social @jessyewaxman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🚨 BIG NEWS: Sierra Club has released new guidance for financial institutions on what constitutes credible investments in #climate solutions. To protect savings, investments must cut emissions, support workers, protect nature & build resilient communities. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
sierraclub.org
Sierra Club Publishes New Guidance for Financial Institutions on Credible Investments in Climate Solutions
Principles urge major investors like public pensions to direct capital toward real-world decarbonization, community resilience, and green jobs
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I think the US just witnessed that moment where suddenly the water comes up over the gunwales. Major networks pulling shows that are critical of the administration is a point that's hard to recover from in dictatorships.
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a boat is floating on top of a body of water with the words make gifs at gifsoup.com on the bottom
ALT: a boat is floating on top of a body of water with the words make gifs at gifsoup.com on the bottom
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The new projects announced by @mark-carney.bsky.social show that Canada is foolishly doubling down on its petrostate status. THREAD
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 08/09/2025
NEW – Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated | @gidden.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/QY7LyJ8
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Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated - Carbon Brief
Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is widely expected to play a key role in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Yes. LNG Canada 2 already had federal approval. The project only lacks a final investment decision (FID) from the consortium because lenders/ investors are rightly wary project economics. Is @mark-carney.bsky.social about to give private companies billions in new, public #fossilfuel subsidies?
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
@mark-carney.bsky.social failing absolutely on the #EV file. They are pausing/reviewing the EV mandate, in spite of strong evidence EV sales are highly supply-constrained (dealerships in most provinces don't want to sell EVs to Canadians). #cdnpoli 1/5 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Federal government delaying electric-vehicle mandate as part of new measures to aid tariff-hit sectors
Prime Minister Carney also announced a new fund with $5-billion to assist affected companies, expand existing loan programs
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Adam Scott @adamscott.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Feds must consider oil and gas conflicts for Canada Pension Plan appointees @shiftaction.bsky.social op-ed in the @hilltimes.com www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
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Feds must consider oil and gas conflicts for Canada Pension Plan appointees
It’s imperative the two spots fill a troubling gap in the current board: a complete lack of identified climate expertise, and an overabundance of oil and gas entanglements.
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We won 🚲 www.cycleto.ca/cycle_toront...
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Another day, another pitch to cover a report about how to provide energy for AI data centers with zero mention of carbon. The whole energy/tech/media complex has completely thrown climate under the bus without a second thought in order to chase the shiny object of AI. 🤮
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 07/07/2025
SCOOP: One of Canada’s biggest oil and gas companies needed to decommission thousands of pipelines. It failed to deliver, and the BC Energy Regulator didn’t levy any financial penalties, docs show. VIA @writermjs.bsky.social & @zakvescera.bsky.social with @theijf.org thenarwhal.ca/bc-energy-re...
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CNRL broke deal to deactivate B.C. pipelines | The Narwhal
Documents reveal that oil and gas giant Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL) failed to follow its own plan to deactivate thousands of B.C. pipelines
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