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Someone who is undecided on if I'm too worried about the climate crisis... or not worried enough.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026
Every single word of this article seems custom designed to make me more furious than the last.
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Toronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News
An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier? My latest: sethdklein.substack.com/p/is-prime-m...
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Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier?
Unpacking “the new climate denialism”
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In a massive dataset of over 10,000 cities around the world, the strongest association with distance travelled by cycling was not climate, topography, or even infrastructure - it was *gasoline prices* doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Figure 3 from "Global health and climate benefits from walking and cycling infrastructure" by Adam Millard-Balla, Monisha Reginalda, Yasmina Yusufa, and Christopher Bian. The figure shows factors associated with distance travelled by cycling and walking, arranged in order of effect size. For cycling, the largest effects are gasoline prices, GDP per capita, rail service, steep terrain (negative effect), minimum temperature (negative effect), population density, and bicycle lanes. For walking, the largest effects are population density, gasoline prices, bicycle lanes, and maximum temp (negative effect).

Fig. 3 Caption: Factors influencing active travel. Each coefficient represents the impact of a one-SD change in each variable on the share of kilometers traveled by cycling (A) and walking (B). For each city-level variable such as density, the model estimates a separate coefficient for each country. The shaded area shows the distribution of country-level coefficients; for density, for example, the effect on walking ranges from about zero to ~0.11, excluding one outlier. For country-level variables such as gasoline prices, there is only a single coefficient. Variables are ordered by the size of their absolute effect in the median country—density and gasoline prices have the greatest impact on walking and gasoline prices and income (GDP per capita) on cycling. The minimum temperature variable shows the marginal effect of both the linear and squared terms.One might expect climate to have a major impact on active travel, and many studies highlight the impact of weather on daily and seasonal travel decisions (9, 25). However, in our model, there is a negligible association between precipitation and the mode shares of walking and cycling. Hotter temperatures decrease walking but have no effect on travel by bicycle. Colder temperatures only reduce walking and cycling in colder climates (SI Appendix for further Discussion). At the national level, gasoline price has the largest association with the share of travel by active modes. A one-SD increase in the price per liter (equivalent to US $0.40) is associated with a ~1.0 percentage point increase in walking and a ~0.5 percentage point increase in cycling—notable given that the mode share of cycling across the entire dataset is just ~0.9%. These findings echo a large volume of research that shows how vehicle travel declines in line with rising fuel prices (26). Gasoline prices also have an indirect effect in promoting denser, mixed-use development (27).
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who's going to invest in what I assume is a landlocked Port of Churchill? Is this supposed to be a map of Canada..? Does a Canadian run this account?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Jane Jacobs wrote in “Cities and the Wealth of Nations” that “Economic life develops by grace of innovating; it expands by grace of import-replacement.” With the challenge of the American trade war, It’s time for some serious import-replacement in every part of our lives. Buy local!
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Reading Jane Jacobs on import replacement in a time of tariffs
Her thesis has been ignored by economists, but her time has come.
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Maureen “FusionFellow” @fusionfellow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bill McKibben talks about where we are from a climate reality check today. It is good to know the facts, even when they are hard to deal with. #CLIMATEREALITY @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/reality-in...
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Reality intrudes
We can’t actually keep on like this
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The planet is on fire. We are facing mega-droughts, food shortages, record floods. But as the terrifying new El Nino begins to rumble the Canadian government have cut climate scientists and sidelined the Net Zero advisors. We are flying blind into the fire storm. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Flying Blind Into the Storm
Just a few weeks ago, the Trump regime was threatening us with a tariff war over the smoke billowing from the burning boreal forest.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Also the Globe & Mail: we should accommodate more bitumen!
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Globe editorial: The national interest in a new bitumen pipeline must be accommodated
The law itself is relatively clear, but the Liberals’ political rhetoric has muddied the waters
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Climate Denial Didn’t Disappear. It Moved From The Diagnosis To The Treatment" by @ingmar.wsocial.eu for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
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Climate Denial Didn’t Disappear. It Moved From The Diagnosis To The Treatment
Why do leaders retreat as climate disasters worsen? Research on illness and denial explains why governments accept the diagnosis but reject the treatment science demands.
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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 14/08/2026
incredible, the court basically did the dril drunk driving tweet
[75]       There is much that is wrong with this reasoning. It minimizes the purpose of the legislation, in effect trivializing it by characterizing it as saving some drivers a few minutes rather than reducing traffic congestion, which may in turn result in a wide range of positive effects. At the same time, it inflates the negative effects of removing the bicycle lanes, talking of injuries and deaths that will occur only if the bicyclists choose to ride on the roads that have no bicycle lanes – a situation that obtains on roads throughout the province. Having so characterized the purpose and effects of the legislation, the application judge rendered the outcome inevitable on a simple proportionality standard.drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,
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Adrienne Tanner @adriennetanner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Trying not to be mean-spirited, but the Liberals small climate adaptation announcement in the face of this year's horrific fires rang hollow. Seems like a pittance compared to the resources that will be sunk into a new pipeline and will make matters worse. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/12/o...
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Carney can’t buy climate cover with pocket change
These sprinklings of cash will no doubt be welcome, but they seem a laughable pittance when you consider the government’s top priority: fast-tracking construction of another pipeline from the Alberta ...
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Daniel Reynolds @akareynolds.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 10/08/2026
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Okanagan fires offer a glimpse of a worsening wildfire crisis
Experts say Canadian wildfires are part of a much larger problem connected to the burning of fossil fuels
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Oops! Hey, @MarkJCarney, where's that clean grid you keep talking about? 2020 = 84% clean 2026 = 77% clean Just wait until BC builds more LNG, Alberta powers data centres with gas, and Ontario ramps up gas instead of building renewables. How low can we go?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/08/2026
As Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels www.desmog.com/2026/08/03/a...
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As Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels
The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Important new study out at Nature Climate Action showing that individual climate actions do not stop people from participating in collective climate action. Instead, they were associated with greater collective engagement and somewhat stronger policy support. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence
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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/07/2026
Apple's greatest accomplishment isn't technological, it's *psychological*. Apple managed to convince millions of people that buying products from a multi-trillion dollar corporation with close ties to both Trump and Xi makes them members of an oppressed religious minority. 42/
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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It is 2006. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2016. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2026. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...
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Carbon capture promises by politicians span almost 20 years | The Narwhal
It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Quite the quote: “I honestly think that it is the Alberta way, to ignore any problems,” Stephen Carter, a political strategist leading one pro-Canada group, told me one morning... “As long as we’ve got money coming into our pockets — the dollar dollar bills — we don’t seem to give a s—t.”
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's a fun little coincidence I noticed: Every Republican Congressmember loudly blaming Canada's forest management policies for this year's unprecedented wildfires (and ignoring climate change) is a massive recipient of fossil fuel funding. Receipts👇
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Well expect now to see people reverse-engineer themselves into climate denial as a result of their support for our PM. It's the only way for them to reconcile what he's doing & still support his actions. His pro-pipeline messaging during the wildfires serves as a way to desensitize his supporters.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
god damn 34% of y'all are EXTREMELY susceptible to propaganda
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 20/07/2026
NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
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The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity
How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Same experience today, but now because of the smoke. Apologies for mentioning this, though, since worrying about climate change is a Trudeau-era fad that we’re supposed to have moved on from.
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I’m always reluctant to directly attribute any one weather event to climate change. But Canada’s current fossil-fuel boosterism does hit a bit harder while considering whether we have to keep our 6-year-old home from the baseball camp he’s been excited about, because of potential record heat.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 14/07/2026
Dr. Samantha Green, a Toronto family physician who researches heat, says mandated air conditioning in daycares is "urgently" needed. “We know extremely hot days are expected to triple in Toronto in the coming decades. We need to protect our most vulnerable. That includes children.” #onpoli
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She works in an air conditioned office while her kids struggle with the heat. Why aren’t we doing more to cool Toronto daycares?
As temperatures soar, children in daycares across the city are enduring temperatures far above what physicians say is healthy.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In 2008, skeptics claimed more than 20% variable renewables on a large grid was not possible. In 2017, they backtracked to 80%. And then to 90%. Then 95%. Once it became obvious that 100% renewables is possible, now they say, "not everywhere is like California" and "what about nighttime?"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2026
NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 22/06/2026
❗️NEW❗️ A quarter of the board that manages Canada's largest pension fund has direct ties to the fossil fuel sector.
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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s Concerning Growth in Fossil Fuel Ties
The addition of the Canadian Natural Resources Limited director expands fossil fuel representation on the board overseeing nearly $800 billion in retirement savings, as CPPIB faces scrutiny over its…
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TheTrillium.ca @thetrillium.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Metrolinx writes off more than $500M in upgrades, cuts GO expansion spending
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Metrolinx writes off more than $500M in upgrades, cuts GO expansion spending
Plan to massively increase GO train service facing ‘uncertainty’: annual report
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Why Canada's Energy Superpower Dream Is Fading - With Max Fawcett Must watch interview. Max joins me for a wide-ranging discussion of global energy trends, their implications for Canada, and energy policy and politics. #bcpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli #onpoli youtu.be/czycTkAYPZ0
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Why Canada's Energy Superpower Dream Is Fading - With Max Fawcett
YouTube video by Energi Media
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Functionally, this doesn't sound like the most different thing from a carbon tax.
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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Exclusive: my interview with Guilbeault - he thinks Carney believes the markets will largely take care of climate, that this govt has a "negative bias" towards regulations, and that Canada will likely be sued for violating the net-zero law if it doesn't ditch it first thenarwhal.ca/guilbeault-e...
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Guilbeault on Carney’s faith in a market fix for climate change | The Narwhal
Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault says he was ‘becoming a tool to justify some of the things the government is doing,’ as he leaves the Liberals
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2026
New in PN: Trump's losing fight against the green energy revolution "He can’t bring back coal, which will wind up as a niche energy source. He can’t make EVs illegal or stop people from buying them as the cars get more appealing, & pretending batteries don't exist won't stop the explosion of solar"
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Trump is fighting the green energy revolution. He'll lose.
Market forces are stronger than MAGA.
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Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada @canadiangreens.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
These ads are designed to make fossil fuels look harmless. They’re not.
A street-level billboard from Canada Action reads: “As long as the world needs oil & natural gas. It should be Canadian.” The ad includes the website YesToProsperity.ca. A dark green banner at the bottom says, “This is what propaganda looks like.”Two green Canada Action ads on outdoor billboards promote fossil fuels. One says, “Global Oil & Natural Gas Demand Is Growing.” The other says, “Canadian LNG Exports Will Reduce Global Emissions.” A dark green banner at the bottom says, “This is what propaganda looks like.”A collage of two fossil fuel-related ads. The top billboard from Cenovus says, “Without a strong oil and gas industry, we’d all get less for our dollar,” beside an image of groceries. The bottom image shows a Waste Management truck with the slogan, “Think Green, Think Clean. We run on clean burning natural gas.” A dark green banner at the bottom says, “This is what propaganda looks like.”A Green Party graphic with the headline, “The message changes. Their goal doesn’t.” Text on a torn-paper graphic says, “Delay climate action to protect fossil fuel profits.” A halftone illustration shows one hand passing money to another. The Green Party logo appears at the bottom.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
@avilewis.ca @davidebybc.bsky.social @naheednenshi.bsky.social @carlabecksk.bsky.social @maritstilesndp.bsky.social
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Remarkable: The amount of land burned in 2023 in Canada was two times higher than the old record. Smoke from that year’s Canadian fires killed 82,100 people globally — 33,000 in the U.S. — because of PM 2.5 particle pollution.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/06/2026
there is going to be a day when we have to explain fossil-fuelled vehicles to kids and they are just going to burst out laughing at the entire concept www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/05/2026
If only it were this easy.
Screenshot of a news headline: 5 years after Calgary declared a climate emergency, city council calls it off.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 28/05/2026
Canadian oil and gas companies are profiting off the Trump regime’s war on Iran, which has impacted thousands of Iranians, Lebanese and others throughout the region. 🧵 🗣️ @ketanjoshi.co
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Sound advice from @doctorvive.bsky.social "To think of #climate change as something that we are doing, instead of something we are being prevented from undoing, perpetuates the very ideology of the fossil-fuel economy we’re trying to transform"
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People Love to Say “We” Are Causing Climate Change. But Who Is We?
Everyone is not equally complicit here.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/05/2026
Worth noting that most of the people who say Bluesky is dead or useless are journalists, not organizers. Bluesky has been OUTSTANDING for me as an organizer. I've raised THOUSANDS of dollars here, gotten HUNDREDS of people to actual events, gotten LOADS of people to DO POLITICAL THINGS.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Danielle Smith's latest bullshit scheme - to present herself as the voice of Jesus saying how much the Lord loves pipeline expansion. As the planet burns. www.desmog.com/2026/05/13/o...
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Oil Pipelines Align With Jesus, Danielle Smith Tells Christian Leaders
Building a new oil pipeline to the west coast of Canada is consistent with the teachings of Jesus, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told a gathering of Christian leaders and organizations from across th...
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The government could start by enforcing the rules they have already made: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/rep...
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Report details equipment problems, flaring violations at LNG Canada
An emissions report LNG Canada filed to the B.C. Energy Regulator details operational issues at the plant in March as it continued to surpass the amount of gas it is
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Carney has an eloquence with words that I greatly appreciate. I do look forward to new institutions that pursue new ideas in new ways... but his government is writing bills that harmonize with Donald Trump on environmental deregulation, in service to fossil fuels corporations. Same old story.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Article summarizes oil demand destruction very well. Hold on to your butts, Big Oil will not go quietly into the night.
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 09/05/2026
“It’s worse than what Harper did, I agree,” said Steven Guilbeault, the Liberal MP and former environment minister. “This goes beyond what Harper proposed when he was in power, yes, that’s true.” www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
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Althia Raj: Mark Carney runs roughshod over the environment: ‘It’s worse than what Harper did’
The prime minister plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species and pollute waterways in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects, Althia Raj writes.
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