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Lucia Iannantuono

@lucia-ianna.bsky.social
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Engineering by day, climate activist & nature lover the rest of the time 🌎 Volunteer with Hamilton 350, Environment Hamilton, and Green Party of Ontario

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 29/09/2026
“I have never seen this many open records requests in such a short time,” "People working on climate-related issues are “unwelcome in the U.S.,” he said." Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers via @politico.com at www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/09/2026
hearing mark carney talk about how privatizing airports will free up money to invest in regional airports, transport links, broadband infrastructure makes me think of how nationalizing the pipeline was supposed to deliver revenues to pay for climate measures
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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The current scene at the protest against Carney’s financial summit. Heavy police presence and barricade. @nationalobserver.com
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 04/09/2026
This story is a big deal. Please give it a read, even if you need to sign up for a one-dollar subscription. This tactic — manipulating chatbots as a backdoor to human beings — is only going to get worse, and Alberta separatism appears to be just a testing ground for these people.
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Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A landmark scientific assessment shows 🇨🇦 must prepare for a future that is up to 5°C hotter and cut emissions to avoid the worst impacts. Ultimately, the report describes physics, not fate–what happens next depends on us. See our 🧵⬇️ on the findings. Statement: climateinstitute.ca/news/canada-...
climateinstitute.ca
Canada must prepare for a 5°C hotter future and act now to avoid worst impacts: new federal report
Latest scientific assessment shows rapidly cutting global emissions could contain the damage and avoid devastating weather...
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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 25/08/2026
CAHN is releasing the first public full-length report on the Dominion Society of Canada, a white nationalist non-profit that uses propaganda and political campaigning to promote mass deportations on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion. 🧵
antihate.ca
Dominion Society of Canada: The White Nationalist Non-Profit with a Mass Deportations Agenda
The Dominion Society of Canada (DSC) is a white nationalist organization that uses propaganda and political campaigning to promote mass deportations on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion.
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The Incline @theincline.email · 06/08/2026
Today on The Incline → A little more than two weeks to go for nominations in the 2026 #HamOnt municipal election. Looking at the impact of the Hamilton East-Stoney Creek by-election, the mayor's absence from the race, and how few trustee candidates are running. theincline.email/p/up-in-the-...
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Up in the air
Around 80 days out from Election Day, the pile of "knowns" and "unknowns" grows
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Reminder that the opaque & unaccountable Metrolinx initially denied responsibility for this fuel spill, insisting that its systems were working perfectly www.barrietoday.com/local-news/m... #onpoli
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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 31/07/2026
"Metrolinx pleads guilty to dumping diesel fuel in Lake Simcoe" Perfectly normal for Metrolinx. Not a single one of the over 100 Metrolinx Vice-Presidents will lose any performance bonuses for this latest stupidity. www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/artic...
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Metrolinx pleads guilty to dumping diesel fuel in Lake Simcoe
Metrolinx has been fined by the Provincial Court in Barrie for illegally discharging fuel in Lake Simcoe.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/07/2026
Here's another graphic demonstrating that the planet has already passed 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, this time using monthly averages, with a prediction to pass 2.0°C by late 2036.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/07/2026
You guys aren't going to believe this, but ... it turns out the oil & gas industry knew that they were poisoning people (in this case, with methane) for years, and they hid it & did nothing to mitigate the harm. No, really, it's true! Incredible investigative work here from @rebleber.bsky.social:
nytimes.com
Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest
The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/07/2026
We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
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What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke
We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/07/2026
Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.
nowtoronto.com
Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto
A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.
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Matt Jelly @mattjelly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
[Emerges from the smoke, coughing] I don't want my tax dollars paying for a pipeline
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.
Carney:

"The wildfire situation has escalated significantly over the last three weeks across the country, and particularly in Northwestern Ontario. 

Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their communities, not knowing if their homes will survive.  
 
On behalf of Canadians, I want to thank the brave firefighters, first responders, Indigenous and local leaders who are working tirelessly to keep people safe.
 
Our government is in close contact with provincial, municipal, and Indigenous partners and stands ready to provide any additional support as needed."
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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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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
There’s a perception that TV meteorologists don’t talk about climate change. I’ve been doing it for years… at least weekly. There are many others that communicate CC as well. Today I’m talking about how warming spikes rate rainfall events. Follow me for consistent coverage,
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Lucia Iannantuono @lucia-ianna.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The men in suits announcing new pipelines across Canada think they will not feel the consequences of their actions. They’re ok with sentencing people who live far away or future generations to death. It brings me no comfort that they will in fact live to see famines, fires & floods along with us.
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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...
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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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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/07/2026
Lest this estimate sound unreasonably high to you, remember that heat is often not recorded as the cause of death on most certificates. Excess mortality statistics have to be derived after the fact: and for the 2003 EU heatwave, they totalled 70,000. So this number may even be conservative. Source:
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 03/07/2026
Carney confirms he was delayed by the (climate linked) "biblical weather" in Ottawa on his way to announce a new oil pipeline
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 02/06/2026
In the longest summer break in years, Premier Doug Ford’s government has adjourned the legislature until Oct. 27, the day after municipal elections across Ontario. New from @robertbenzie.bsky.social and @moirawelsh.bsky.social
thestar.com
Doug Ford sends MPPs on a five-month summer recess
In the longest summer break in years, Ford's government has adjourned the legislature until Oct. 27, the day after municipal elections across Ontario.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned.  The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 01/05/2026
For @thestar.com, I lean in to being a crotchety old curmudgeon to complain a perennial nuisance: how incredibly f'in annoying loud motorbikes and cars are. Cities are about balance. But one loud bike on a highway can disturb thousands, even tens of thousands of people. That's absurd.
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Navneet Alang: Spring is here, and Toronto drivers are out to prove empty vessels make the most sound
We have to accept that the city is not the country. Noise is part of the bustle of urban life — but we should at least be reasonable about it.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This is just blocks away from where I was hit on Wednesday night. I was only OK because I was mercifully hit by a car and not by an SUV.
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The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Transport Canada has invited Canadians to participate in a survey about the brightness of car headlights on Canadian roads, and whether or not people feel they pose a safety risk. ow.ly/G6SQ50YEE0P
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Transport Canada wants to know: Are headlights too bright? - The Weather Network
Transport Canada has invited Canadians to [participate in a survey](https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night) about the brightness of car headlights on Canadian roads, and whether or not people feel they pose a safety risk.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 30/03/2026
This is what shifting the Overton Window looks like, people
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Again, LNG = even worse than coal. It's climate kryptonite. Carney talks reducing methane emissions while pursuing methane expansion. It's like saying you're dedicated to veganism while opening several new slaughterhouses. 8/ r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
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Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds
Research challenges idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Fossil fuel shills lie that natural gas expansion is good climate news by serving as a "bridge" away from coal use. Research consistently verifies that methane is more harmful to the climate than coal, with short term greenhouse impacts that are 33% worse than coal. 🧵1/ r.pebmac.ca/https://news...
Three images juxtaposed side by side. The first is of a natural gas flare at a fossil fuel plant, with the text "Fossil fuel companies massively underreport their methane emissions for years." The second is Alberta premier Danielle Smith, with the text "Alberta takes industry claims at face value and lets them double count reductions to undermine climate efforts." The third is Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, with the text "Proudly announces deal to let Alberta take the lead on regulating industry methane emissions.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We should tax billionaires until they're millionaires.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I've been around Ontario long enough to know that whenever they dangle booze in front of the voters like keys in front of a baby they're about to do something *unbelievably* corrupt. At THIS level of "Drinks Some Beer, Losers", I have to imagine Algonquin Park is becoming a chemical weapons plant
Ford government to allow ‘bring-your-own’ alcoholic beverages at outdoor public events
By Richard Southern

Posted March 17, 2026 6:30 am. Last Updated March 17, 2026 6:31 am.
It will soon be bring-your-own-booze in Ontario.

The Ford government will soon be allowing provincial residents to bring their own alcoholic beverages to outdoor public events, 680 NewsRadio has exclusively learned.

Starting on April 30, Ontarians can bring their own booze to municipally designated cultural or community events, including farmers’ markets, movie screenings, art exhibits, and neighbourhood festivals. Currently, only organizers of live sporting events can obtain this type of tailgate permit.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation. Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent. @robbonta.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
sfchronicle.com
‘This was forged’: Residents deny sending emails pushing Bay Area air policy change
At least 10 people listed as sending letters in favor of an air quality policy change said they have no recollection of doing so and weren’t even aware of the proposal in the Bay Area.
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Hamilton 350 @hamilton350org.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Not sure how to comment? We’ve got you covered with this quick explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMLo... Comment deadline is Thursday March 12th!
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Making a Dofasco submission to the ERO
YouTube video by Hamilton 350 Videos
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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The government wouldn't give us a list of data centres seeking power in Ontario. So, we built one ourselves. What @rorywh.bsky.social and I found: at least 15 projects drawing a combined 2,202 MW: more electricity than 2 million homes. #OnPoli for @nationalobserver.com 🧵
nationalobserver.com
One data centre or one million homes? Mapping Ontario's proposed hyperscaler boom
Canada’s National Observer found and drew from multiple sources to put together a map of planned data centres in Ontario, and found at least 15 projects with a combined capacity of 2,202 MW currently ...
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Hamilton 350 @hamilton350org.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Will the OLT kill the Garner Marsh, and can you "move" a wetland? What's going on with green steel and Dofasco's ERO posting to get an exemption to air pollution standards? And how does it impact life in #hamont? Join as we discuss it all on Zoom this Wed Feb 25th Register here: shorturl.at/sgqEG
Webinar Wed Feb 25th @ 7pm on Zoom
Provincial Permission to Pollute Hamilton? 
A discussion about current threats to our air & water, and what the impacts are for people
Zoom link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/WJXBOQz-S6y-IEaTUAzmbw
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Cycle Hamilton @cyclehamilton.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Delegation Days may be over for #HamOnt Budget 2026, but heads up. Anyone who watched the GIC meeting on January 29 heard it. There may be a motion coming to pause the accelerated Cycling Master Plan. Yes, pause. During a safety and climate crisis.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/02/2026
“Solar, wind power, and batteries are set to make life a misery for the liquefied natural gas market.” Not great news for Carney’s plan to double down on LNG, but good news for the climate if the LNG projects he was pushing become uneconomical.
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Reminder: journalists get arrested in Canada too. In fact, The Narwhal is in court right now challenging the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. Our editor-in-chief,Carol Linnitt, testifies today and Monday, and court is open to the public if you're in Vancouver.
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Cycle Hamilton @cyclehamilton.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We can’t wait for Winter Bike Day coming up on Friday, February 13th from 7:30am-9:30am on King William Street (between James St N and Hughson St N). 💌🚲❄️ Stop by for hot beverages, treats, good vibes and the opportunity to connect with other winter riders here in #HamOnt! ☕️
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 29/01/2026
That’s funny, we don’t remember ever giving AI “social permission” to suck up precious water and energy resources. 🤔
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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Hootsuite CEO says ICE contract will stand as long as agency honours terms and conditions
‘We did nothing wrong here,’ head of Vancouver social media company said in internal call with employees
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 09/01/2026
We’re fighting for our right to report — and your right to know. Learn more as our trial against the RCMP begins Monday.
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
36 years since the first international climate science report. 38 years since Dr. James Hansen warned congress. 60 years since President Johnson warned the public. 71 years since the fossil fuel industry knew. And existential heat-trapping pollution from fossil fuels is rising faster than ever. 💫
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/01/2026
Looks like this data was quietly updated in the fall for the latest numbers through 2024 - Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) produced by NOAA... It is now up to a 54% increase in the influence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere since 1990 (AGGI = 1.54; heat trapping)
Line graph time series of CO2 equivalent mixing ratio (in ppm) from 1700 through 2024 for AGGI, CO2 alone, and CO2 plus non-CO2 GHGs. There is a long-term increasing trend in recent years only.
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CHCH News @chchnews.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Protests took place in Dundas on Sunday over the provincial government’s proposal to slash the number of conservation authorities from 36 to 7.
chch.com
Protesters rally against proposal to merge conservation authorities in Dundas
Protests took place in Dundas on Sunday over the provincial government's proposal to slash the number of conservation authorities from 36 to 7.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Hype. No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
winnipegfreepress.com
Hope or hype? Deep Sky says unique carbon-capture facility eyed for southwestern Manitoba will help ‘save our planet’; critics call technology high-risk and under-researched
Since early October, the rural municipalities of Pipestone and Two Borders — agriculture and oil-dominant communities about three hours southwest of Winnipeg — have found themselves at the heart of a ...
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