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Richard Brooks

@richardbrooks.bsky.social
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Climate Finance Director @Stand.earth Fighting climate change by challenging the power of the financial institutions enabling fossil fuels companies. Banks, pensions and retirement funds on my radar. Advancing climate finance action.

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IEEFA North America @ieefa-northamerica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LNG Canada Phase 2 just reached final investment decision. Given the U.S.-Canada trade war, contractors bidding today must consider not only current prices but also potential tariffs, trade dispute escalations, supplier markups, and logistics costs. More: buff.ly/7nN8YxF
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LNG Canada Phase 2: After FID key questions remain
Phase 2 must contend with greater uncertainty around construction costs, economic inflation, potential global oversupply, and a turbulent trade environment.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let's remember what made news earlier this year about LNG Canada and how clean its #LNG and operation actually are. In 2025 LNG Canada, which only operated for 6 months of the year, flared more gas than ANY OTHER LNG TERMINAL IN THE WORLD. @davidebybc.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...
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LNG Canada exceeds estimated 2024 global record for burned gas | The Narwhal
LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned more gas in 2025 than any other liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on record in 2024
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shell pre-empts the Prime Minister of Canada, announces expansion of LNG Canada overnight. TC Energy also announces doubling of Coastal Gaslink fracked gas pipeline capacity. More pollution, whale-injuring tanker traffic, flaring, conflicts, profits for foreign corps, fracking. Good for who?
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's a world leader to do after a summer of wildfires & heat waves? Announce the expansion of one of the most polluting #LNG facilities in the world. On Tuesday @mark-carney.bsky.social will announce LNG Canada's Final Investment Decision to double its facility. Welcome to 2 Mordors. #greensky
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 24/09/2026
These are some of the hidden faces of the fashion industry: garment workers in Bangladesh, the world’s third largest apparel exporter. Garment workers sew your clothes, stitch by stitch, yet Big Fashion is putting the burden of the energy transition on their shoulders. 🧵 #GreenSky #Fashion
Yellow and patterned maroon background. “These are the faces of fashion.” Arrow icon. Four stunning illustrations of Bangladeshi garment workers in various colorful shawls. “Art: Doris Rose @dorisroseart” in bottom left corner. Stand.earth logo in bottom right corner.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Explain this math: Germany to be gas free by 2045 but state-owned power companies SEFE & Uniper have signed 20-year purchase agreements or MOUs with unbuilt Ksi Lisims LNG in BC to supply #LNG from 2032 onwards. Who's lying? Why are BC & Canada pushing a project less & less viable? #bcpoli
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How can one be Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Nature and be the face of the approval of this disastrous methane gas project close to one of Canada's major population centres, also the home to endangered orcas, threatened salmon. @juliedabrusin.bsky.social /1 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Tilbury LNG facility in Delta gets greenlight for expansion | CBC News
Approval came immediately after the provincial government issued an environmental assessment certificate to FortisBC. The project involves adding a new storage tank and equipment to produce 7,700 tonn...
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Canada was for sale this week as @mark-carney.bsky.social welcomed the likes of Blackroc, Blackstone, ADNOC & Temasek to peruse the menu of Canadian infrastructure & accelerate me oil, gas & data center projects. Tax breaks, deregulation and public $$ ready to help. We are fighting back. #bluesky
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of coverage in media about the rally to confront the Billionaires who are wheeling and dealing today at the #Canada Investment Summit for control over land, water, minerals, air. $1 trillion up for sale incl. $100 billion of oil and gas projects #greensky toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/15/m...
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Carney's investment summit in Toronto draws protests
The summit is expected to attract the heads of some of the world's largest asset managers, including BlackRock CEO and chairman Larry Fink.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Billionaires and their capital needs a lot of protection from the people. Must be pretty fragile. #billionaires #canada #themanyvsthemoney #investment
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Many vs the Money gather before going to confront the Billionaires betting on Canada's land, water, air and major infrastructure. #TheManyvsTheMoney
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Liquidation of Canada's natural wealth, packaged up in a pitchbook to line the pockets of Trump’s buddies at Wall Street, private equity vulture firms and banks and sovereign funds. Canada will not be more secure nor preserve our sovereignty. #themamyvsthemoney www.thestar.com/news/gta/pro...
thestar.com
Protests to target Carney’s global investment summit as it kicks off in Toronto
The protest will begin at Nathan Phillips Square then move to the AGO, where hundreds of the summit's attendees will be gathering for a private gala.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Breaking: $100 billion of new oil & gas projects in the Canada Investment Summit dealbook being shopped around to the world's billionaires, private equity firms, pensions and sovereign funds. 180 Mt of CO2e = all cars & trucks in Canada annually. Not the right vision for Canada. #cdnpolitics
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you had $23 billion would you invest it in a wild LNG project in Quebec where the CEOs email is a gmail.com address? The Canada Investment Summit Projects are wild. #cdnpolitics
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If the top energy official in BC - in charge of how tax dollars get spent on energy makes not just one mistake, but four mistakes costing $1.5 billion, how can you trust when they say building more whale killing LNG & polluting fracked gas drilling is a good thing for #BC. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. energy ministry says 4 calculation mistakes led to $1.5B budget error | CBC News
Mistakes involved currency conversion error, incorrect gas unit calculations and use of cost inputs from 2025 instead of 2026.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Canada Investment Summit otherwise known as the Canadian Resources Fire Sale is less than a week away. US billionaires, foreign sovereign wealth funds, private equity vultures are swooping into Toronto to buy up oil, gas, data and mining projects for cheap. Time to fight back. #themanyvsthemoney
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 08/09/2026
Trump-backed U.S. private equity firms just bought up a B.C. pipeline network. This isn't "Canada Strong" — this is lining the pocket of wealthy foreign investors while Canadians pay for higher energy bills and climate disasters. 🧵 #GreenSky
theglobeandmail.com
Enbridge lands $2.7-billion investment from KKR, Apollo in B.C. natural gas pipeline expansion
It’s an example of the type of infrastructure commitment the PM is targeting at upcoming investment summit
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As the @mark-carney.bsky.social gvt gets ready for their big Canada Investment Summit, otherwise known as the Canada Fire Sale, it's good to know that many Canadians are opposed to the expansion of LNG projects that that will only benefit big corporations and billionaires. Don't invest in #LNG
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 03/09/2026
ICYMI ‼️ In the first half of this year alone, the U.S. nearly doubled the gas-fired capacity it is developing to directly power data centers. #GreenSky 🧵
globalenergymonitor.org
U.S. gas power proposals tied to data centers nearly double in six months
Driven by rapid data center expansion, U.S. gas-fired power capacity in development jumped 50% to 378 GW, with Texas leading the push.
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ShellsLies @shellslies.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act legally commits #Canada to achieving #NetZero emissions by 2050 & requires govt to set national emission reduction targets but there are no consequences for missing them & Dec progress report showed the govt is nowhere near meeting its target #EndFossilFuels
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
More in my ongoing series of why no one needs another west coast Canada tar sands pipeline: China’s emissions dropped due to less oil usage age due to surge in EVs. China is reaching peak oil. #cdnpolitics #oil share.google/kbvq0x5Sg9yB...
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China’s falling emissions amid Iran war spark hope of decarbonisation watershed
Oil consumption plummets and EV sales soar as analysts say demand may not fully return even if crude price falls
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Meanwhile, in less than two weeks, billionaires, private equity vulture firms, banks, sovereign funds and pensions will gather in Toronto to bid on a deluge of new oil, gas and mining projects as @mark-carney.bsky.social convenes the Canada Investment Summit aka Canada fire sale. #manyvsthemoney
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Climate change hits Toronto with a red alert thunderstorm, flooding, golf ball-sized hailstorm and power outages. In a broadcast alert, people were told to head to their basements due to possible tornado and storm damage. #greensky #storm ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/damagin...
ca.finance.yahoo.com
Damaging storms sweep across Ontario cause flooding, power outages in Toronto area
TORONTO — Severe storms cut across the Greater Toronto Area late Wednesday afternoon, causing widespread power outages and localized flooding as an intense weather system brought torrential rain, larg...
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Funny how a war or two and a greedy fossil fuel empowered despot in the White House seizing another country's oil industry can really supercharge the energy transition. Sad that my country, Canada, is betting the bank on guaranteed increased oil and gas demand. #energysky #greensky #gas #oil
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looks like the @mark-carney.bsky.social government is running scared on all things climate. Now it wants the courts to throw out a landmark case brought by young people that attempts to hold the government to account. Shameful. #cdnpolitics #greensky www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
ctvnews.ca
Carney government asks court to quash lawsuit over projected missed emission targets
The federal government is asking a Federal Court judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing Ottawa of having no intention of meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump adds 11th hour, ridiculous demands to trade negotiations. Canada is united. "Meanwhile, #Alberta Premier Danielle Smith broke ranks, saying she was “deeply disappointed” a deal could not be reached and urging Ottawa to “restart negotiations as soon as possible.” www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Last-second U.S. demands would have restricted Canadian deals with other nations, PM explains
Canada is back in a trade war with the U.S. that "was not our choice" but "certainly isn't good news," Carney said.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Somehow the @mark-carney.bsky.social government can easily find $40 billion for a fantastical oil pipeline but can't seem to find the cash to buy more water bombers or help the only company in the world building expand production & jobs during a global #wildfire crisis. ⁉️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Wildfire-ravaged countries are clamouring for the Canadair, as production of the water bomber begins anew | CBC News
As Canada, the United States and Europe grapple with another brutal wildfire season, pressure is building on the manufacturer of the Canadair "Super Scooper" water bombers to increase production, and ...
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Come work with me and the rest of the @stand.earth team to stop polluting, risky, community-trashing, rights violating methane gas projects. It'll be fulfilling. #jobs #goodwork
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 13/08/2026
New LNG projects in Canada run on money. We're hiring someone to help cut off the supply. 💸🚫 Climate Finance Campaigner 9-month contract, fully remote across Canada, you'll work with an amazing team alongside frontline communities and First Nations on the ground... 🧵 #GreenSky
Photo of a sea otter with its paws to its face and kelp wrapped around it. "YOU OTTER COME WORK WITH US!" Stand.earth logo at bottom of image.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Wondering if @mark-carney.bsky.social has a fireproof pipeline for his tar sands oil to run through.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Trump threatens Greenland again. US-owned Greenland Energy is about to send drilling equipment to the country to start illegal drilling. The equipment is currently in a Canadian port. Elbows up @mark-carney.bsky.social - time to hold that container ship in port. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hey #Toronto. It's hot, humid. Are you running your AC? Would you like it to be free? In the UK & Australia, it is, for hours every day because of an overabundance of solar & wind power. Too good to be true? Nope. @thestar.com #energysky #greensky @stand.earth www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
thestar.com
They get free power to run air conditioning and charge EVs. Here’s what Canada can learn from the global push for free electricity
Australia and the U.K. have more solar and wind power than their electrical systems know what to do with — so they’re giving it away.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The whole province of British Columbia - 944,000 km2, 5.7 million people is under a state of emergency due to climate change fueled wildfires. Yet BC's premier @davidebybc.bsky.social and CDN Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social can't stop promoting new oil and gas projects and pipelines. #fire
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Somebody named @mark-carney.bsky.social might want to pay attention. You can't expect the Canadian public to just accept $35 billion for a new tar sands pipeline, untold climate policy rollbacks during the worst fire and smoke season in years and not begin to care again about climate change.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Two different headlines, same day. Canada is on fire. Smoke everywhere. Yet Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Alberta Oil Premier want us to pay for another $40 billion tar sands pipeline We need massive public and private investments in renewable energy, not more planet-burning fossil fuels.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The death & likely extinction of this orca whale population will be because of @mark-carney.bsky.social & @juliedabrusin.bsky.social's decision to pay & build a new tar sands pipeline from Alberta to the coast. There's no mitigation measures possible. #greensky #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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75 of these whales remain. A new West Coast pipeline would be 'devastating' for them, experts say | CBC News
Multiple environmental groups are concerned the Alberta government's proposed oil pipeline route poses a risk to southern resident killer whales. They are protected under the Species At Risk Act, but ...
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Weather forecast for Toronto is "Smoke". Not cloudy, not sun. Just "Smoke" as Toronto has the worst air quality in the world. Toronto is where the financial decisions to fund new oil and gas projects like a tar sands pipeline and LNG are made. Are you watching @mark-carney.bsky.social ? #greensky
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Telling that the oped in today's Globe offering full-throated approval of Carney's pipeline straight-up ignores that Asia -- the market that's supposed to save Canada by buying all Alberta's oil and gas -- is pivoting to renewables. This is a policy built for 1996, not 2026.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Quite a Canada Day this year. We're paying for another pipeline *and* abandoning our climate goals. globalnews.ca/news/1194986...
globalnews.ca
New pipeline from Alberta to B.C. coast to be built as a private-public partnership | Globalnews.ca
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, is aiming for the pipeline to be designated a project of national interest by October and get shovels in the ground as early as September 2027.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 25/06/2026
Your voice matters! 💚 Every chance we get, we have to challenge the fossil fuel industry on its power and lies. 🛢️ The Tilbury LNG Expansion project comes at a high cost – one we can’t afford to pay. 💔 🧵 #GreenSky
 Background photo of the Tilbury LNG facility. “WHAT'S AT RISK WITH THE TILBURY LNG EXPANSION? FortisBC wants to put British Columbia's communities, climate and wildlife at risk so they can super-size an LNG storage tank to be able to fill it up with fracked gas. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW” Arrow icon in bottom right corner.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 03/07/2026
As you take precautions to stay safe during this dangerous heatwave, remember who’s to blame: the fossil fuel execs who ignored their own scientists’ warnings decades ago so they could keep raking in profits while their polluting products supercharged climate disasters like this. #BlameBigOil.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 03/07/2026
Premier Smith wants to build a $35 billion pipeline to B.C.'s West Coast. 🤦‍♀️ Annddd, there isn’t an energy company committed to paying for it, meaning the public purse could be on the hook. 💰 This is a climate & economic disaster waiting to happen. 🗣️ Take action: stnd.ly/nopipelines
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 25/06/2026
Canadian banks like RBC, TD, and Scotiabank are among the world’s top financiers of fossil fuels, according to the latest #BankingOnClimateChaos report. 🧵 #GreenSky
nationalobserver.com
Canadian banks rank among world’s top fossil fuel financiers
Of the five Canadian banks ranked among the world’s top fossil fuel financiers, RBC places highest and is the seventh bank globally.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 16/06/2026
Don’t stop talking about #DelaneyHall. Click the link below to tell U.S. banks and public pensions to stop funding ICE terror. Take action with @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social here 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-fina… #ICEOut #Divest #GreenSky
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Your public pensions and banks are funding Delaney Hall.
YouTube video by Stand.earth
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Great reporting by @natashabulowski.bsky.social with @nationalobserver.com on First Nations leaders putting Canada's big public pensions on notice, demanding they respect their rights & lands and not invest in polluting, malfunctioning LNG Canada. #greensky www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/12/n...
nationalobserver.com
First Nations leaders warn against LNG Canada investment
In a letter to Canadian pension funds, some First Nations leaders are called on pension funds to clearly state their position on investing in LNG Canada Phase 1 and 2 by June 25 and requested meetings...
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Follow this thought thread: ‪ 🇨🇦 Canada's Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social is former chair of Brookfield. 🇩🇪 Brookfield just teamed up with the national pension fund CPP to buy a stake in Uniper, the German gas company. /1 #cdnpolitics uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/germany...
uk.finance.yahoo.com
Germany mulls sale of energy supplier Uniper to Canadian investment group
A potential bidder is Brookfield, the investment group run by Mark Carney, who was Bank of England governor between 2013 and 2020. Uniper has a range of UK assets that are seen as valuable for any wou...
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
There is no good financial reason for Canadian public pensions to invest their members' money into the risky, malfunctioning LNG Canada project. The associated Coastal Gaslink fracked gas pipeline supplying this terminal was only built with the use of armed militarized police. #cdnpolitics
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Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨 Canada’s largest pension funds are facing pressure from the federal government to finance risky LNG projects that would worsen the climate crisis and undermine their own members’ retirement security. Working and retired pension plan members are speaking out.
theenergymix.com
Pension Beneficiaries Fear Funds Will Pour Retirement Savings Into LNG
As Ottawa looks to pension funds to finance major energy projects and LNG Canada moves to double production in Kitimat, beneficiaries warn their retirement savings could become their “biggest contribu...
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
After rejecting fossil fuel divestment for nearly 15 years on the grounds that a "seat at the table" can lead to transformation of the Exxons of the world, NY State Comptroller Tom Dinapoli just needs to give it up such a unproven excuse. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
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NY Comptroller hopefuls held ICE-linked stocks they now criticize
In New York’s comptroller primary, candidates clash over pension divestment from Palantir, fossil fuels and ICE-linked firms.
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New York Communities for Change @nychange.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Statement on @nyccomptroller.bsky.social @marklevinenyc.bsky.social announced review: “New York City’s massive pension funds are far too dependent on BlackRock and State Street, the world’s dirtiest money managers. NYC should prudently move its considerable business to cleaner firms.” Link below
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