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RudeBoy

@rankingfullstop.bsky.social
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Making the next move out here on the left coast. Here you will find art, ska, and news good or bad about the environment.

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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 4h
It is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. There is a long way to go.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 4h
Georgia O'Keeffe - Autumn leaves, Lake George ,1924
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lawren Harris - Farm Buildings Near Stream, ca 1912
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tom Thomson - Autumn Foliage, 1916
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kathleen Munn - Untitled (Cows on a Hillside), c.1916
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Franklin Carmichael - Autumn In The Northland, 1921
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Frank Johnston - Fall, Algoma, 1920
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's “the biggest, wildest place you’ve never heard of.” The Kaska First Nation calls it Dene Kʼéh Kusān, meaning “always will be there,” a name in line with their vision for protecting more than 7.4 million acres of towering mountains and dense, forested valleys in their ancestral territory.
magiccanoe.org
Indigenous-Led Conservation Is the ‘Number One Way’ to Meet Conservation Goals - Magic Canoe
British Columbia’s Kaska Nation wants to protect a wilderness area larger than Denali National Park, which brings both promise and challenge to the future of Indigenous-led conservation.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Helen McNicoll - Stubble Fields, c. 1912
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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good smart stuff from Seth Klein
sethdklein.substack.com
Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier?
Unpacking “the new climate denialism”
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A farm upstream has been receiving, burying and disguising contaminated fill. It's not clear if any laws were broken due to loopholes, and the investigating bureaucracy moves at a snails pace. With all of its stocked fish dead, Furnace Brook estimates it has lost £500,000 income so far.
theguardian.com
‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight?
Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty ...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Introducing the MycoToilet.
apsc.ubc.ca
UBC launches world’s first mushroom-powered waterless toilet - News | UBC Applied Science
The MycoToilet, developed by a team including UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Associate Professor Joseph Dahmen, turns human waste into nutrient-rich compost and features a moder...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Doris McCarthy - Mal Bay with Fish Rack, 1954
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More than 4,000 Alberta oil and gas wells were orphaned in 2025 due to some significant bankruptcies. It will cost Alberta taxpayers billions to remediate them.
pembina.org
All Alberta taxpayers bear the cost of oil and gas sector’s unpaid bills | Pembina Institute
CALGARY — Alberta taxpayers are getting stuck with tens of millions of dollars’ worth of costs from bad actors in the oil and gas sector, according to a new report from the Pembina Institute: Unpaid B...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“It’s not just about the dollar figures.” There were 8,000 Mowachaht people when Captain Cook landed at the pictured site. Today there are 600. Quadra and Vancouver negotiated the Nootka Conventions there, mediated by Chief Maquinna. It is the foundation of Admiralty Law and the US Bill of Rights!
vancouversun.com
'We can be a wealthy nation': B.C. hereditary chief explains First Nation's bid for large swath of Vancouver Island
The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation says the province has infringed its Aboriginal title by authorizing logging, forestry roads and log handling without fair compensation
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bill Reid - Canoe with Raven, 1986
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Robert Moore - Backlit, 2018
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Y2Y is a finalist for a £1 million Earthshot award!
cbc.ca
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative is 1st Canadian finalist for Prince William's prize | CBC News
What if wolves, caribou and other wildlife could roam through protected lands from Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. to Canada's Yukon? A project to create such a massive habitat corridor has beco...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The BC government is bent on destroying every bit of primordial forest in the province. It is truly insane.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn
act.gp
Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tom Thomson - 𝘈𝘭𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘬, 𝘚𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 1913
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good morning Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, BC, Canada. September 2026.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alpenglow on the continental divide, Yoho National Park, BC, Canada. September 2026.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Victoria Lake, Yoho National Park, BC, Canada. September 2026.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Opabin Plateau, Yoho National Park, BC, Canada. September 2026.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, BC, Canada. September 2026.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Frank Johnston - 𝘚𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘴, 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘺
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They are literally trying to kill all of us.
reuters.com
US EPA repeals carbon emission limits for power plants at G20 meeting
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced rules to repeal former ​President Joe Biden's limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants and to prevent future climat...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Green crabs are the perfect invasive species. Adults eat the young, so if you trap the adults more young crabs survive.
thenarwhal.ca
Invasive green crabs threaten Heiltsuk Nation's clam fishery | The Narwhal
Clams are a “keystone species” for Heiltsuk Nation, but they're at risk due to a surge of invasive green crabs
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
These folks from both parties are fighting to save a democracy.
reuters.com
Election officials prepare for chaos as Trump seeks to tilt the midterms to Republicans
U.S. state and local officials are taking extraordinary steps to protect voting systems, staff and public confidence amid growing signs that the president is trying to use federal power and fraud clai...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Clarence Gagnon - 𝘚𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, 1928-1933
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Colorado, blazing the trail, again.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The concept is sound, but the BC provincial goal of harvesting 45 million cubic metres of lumber each year is utter folly.
cbc.ca
B.C. to pilot forestry model to assist industry, improve wildfire mitigation | CBC News
A proposed new provincial forest model aims to assist B.C.’s struggling forestry industry and aid in wildfire mitigation, but environmentalists worry it may lead to conservation problems.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This whole Huawei witch-hunt has only ever been about propping up US companies like Cisco and Broadcom that cannot compete in an open and fair market. Sure, Huawei is probably sniffing our comms, but the US does too and I see no distinction between the two.
theglobeandmail.com
China’s Huawei is a ‘criminal enterprise’ that stole company secrets, U.S. prosecutor says as trial starts
China’s foreign ministry decries what is says is U.S. ‘suppression and containment’ after opening statements in Brooklyn
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A compound in the tires on our vehicles is killing fish. We don't yet know if it bio-accumulates in scavengers.
thenarwhal.ca
Inside the search for a mysterious salmon killer
For years, scientists and First Nations couldn’t explain the rash of coho deaths that followed heavy rain. Now it’s been traced back to car tires — and they’re racing to keep highly toxic chemicals out of the water
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Anti-Indigenous bullshit abounds everywhere. There is always a way to coexist without undermining anybody's rights, but bigoted right wing nationalists always take the low road. Fuckers.
theguardian.com
Reindeer and rare-earth minerals: Swedish politicians take aim at Indigenous Sami in mining dispute
Gabna community fear their traditional herding routes will be sacrificed as far-right rhetoric ramps up against them
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
'Planting trees, cooling schools, redesigning streets, improving buildings, and expanding early warning systems are often described as climate policies. They are also public health measures...'
theguardian.com
We’re the mayors of Paris, Milan and Phoenix. The heat crisis has us all facing the same question | Emmanuel Grégoire, Giuseppe Sala and Kate Gallego
Our three cities are learning from each other about how to protect residents. These climate policies are also public health measures
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The GOP is out of step as usual.
reuters.com
COMMENTARY: After a summer of wildfires and record heat, Americans are talking about climate change. Why aren’t our leaders?
A World Cup final played under the haze of wildfire smoke. Fourth of July parades cancelled due to extreme heat. In Washington, half a million acres burned in just a couple months of wildfire season, ...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is kind of like holding your own forests hostage and demanding a ransom, but if the outcome is fewer forests razed, so be it.
reuters.com
Brazil eyes China as buyer of carbon credits, targets accord by COP31
Brazil plans to use a high-level visit to China next ‌week to assess whether Beijing could become a buyer of Brazilian carbon credits and advance talks toward a bilateral carbon market accord that off...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A petition to save old-growth forests in Canada.
secure.avaaz.org
A letter to protect Canada’s ancient forests
Canada's Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones is urging British Columbia to stop destroying this land. Sign here to stand with him and protect this ancient sanctuary.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
J.E.H. MacDonald - 𝘈𝘭𝘨𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘉𝘶𝘴𝘩, 𝘚𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 1920
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There are an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year.
theguardian.com
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Timber!
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Kôhô Shōda - Fisherboat on Moonlit Sea, 1920
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The case, Suncor v. Boulder, will be heard on Oct. 5. The decision will set a precedent for some two dozen other climate accountability cases that have been brought forward by states, counties, and cities. A win for the plaintiffs could allow local authorities to seek compensation from big emitters.
time.com
SCOTUS Will Hear a Major Climate Case This Fall. Here's What You Need To Know
The decision could set a significant precedent for states and cities trying to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate impacts.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Forecasts show a 3°C rise in equatorial Pacific sea-surface temps. I just saw results from the first runs of winter temperature prediction models for North America. Canada is in for a wild ride, with temps 7°C above normal in BC, and a deep polar vortex over ON and QC that ain't gonna budge.
reuters.com
UK forecaster predicts strongest El Niño in living memory
Britain's Met Office national weather forecaster on Friday said the developing El Niño weather pattern ​was likely to be the strongest in ‌living memory.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Notwithstanding the pain of separation from loved ones, I'd rather be in Liberia than the US.
aljazeera.com
First group of US deportees, out of an expected 1,200, arrive in Liberia
Liberia is part of a growing list of partners under US President Donald Trump to accept third-country deportations.
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Tally up a win for ultra-low emission zones. Kids are breathing easier.
theguardian.com
Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Nature is Canadians' home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn
act.gp
Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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RudeBoy @rankingfullstop.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
No water? No AI data centre. Common sense. Watch this space.
aptnnews.ca
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation wins first victory against AI data centre
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation's application for a judicial review in the granting of a water license for a massive AI data centre will go ahead.
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