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Sarah Riddell

@sarahriddell.bsky.social
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Senior Policy Research Associate, Appliance & Equipment Efficiency @ Efficiency Canada. Views are my own.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 15/07/2026
830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.
A NASA map of the wildfires burning across Canada right now.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 08/06/2026
Add your name here to #SayNoToLNG:
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Sign the petition: Stop the Tilbury LNG project
Add your name to help stop this dangerous fracked gas expansion project in Metro Vancouver.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate & sustainability dept. This would spell an end to the city's national leadership in urban climate policy. Great reporting by @mfawcettatkinson.bsky.social & @natashabulowski.bsky.social If you disagree... www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
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Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
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ACEEE @aceee.org · 29/10/2025
“Energy efficiency is one of the fastest, most affordable ways to cut climate pollution, but most countries are only taking incremental steps when bold action is needed,” said ACEEE's Jasmine Mah about the 2025 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard.
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Enbridge execs have been boasting to shareholders they plan to return $40-$45 billion to them over the next five years supported by gas expansions across the continent. Ontario in particular is a cash cow where they have an opportunity to "over earn." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/09/a...
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Enbridge investors to get billions as gas giant expands into small-town Ontario
Enbridge executives know Ontario ratepayers are a cash cow for its gas business, and in recent calls with investors they said they plan to milk it for all its worth.
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Brendan Haley @brhaley.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Federal retrofit loan program is set to dry up by year's end unless Carney steps in www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/21/n...
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Federal retrofit loan program is set to dry up by year's end unless Carney steps in
The multi-billion dollar Canada Greener Homes Loan program that gives zero interest loans to Canadians to retrofit their homes was so popular it got a $600 million top up last year. But within months,...
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Sarah Riddell @sarahriddell.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The Privy Council is consulting on the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act regulations. As proposed, they would weaken the EE Act/Regs' power to stop inefficient appliances and equipment from being shipped between provinces for sale, if the product meets a province's energy efficiency regs.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/07/2025
NYC experimented with new window heat pump models in some public housing units. in winter, "The window unit-heated apartments used a whopping 87% less energy than the rest of the building’s steam-heated apartments did, cutting energy costs per household in half." heatmap.news/sustainabili...
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Window Heat Pumps Could Change the Game
A new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has some exciting data for anyone attempting to retrofit a multifamily building.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/05/2025
The GOP's rollback of efficiency standards will cost US consumers $43 billion, cool cool cool.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
It is not too late to act on climate change because climate change is not pass/fail. Every faction of a degree matters and is worth fighting for. That's not propaganda or wishful thinking. It's evidence-based. Suggesting otherwise is as unscientific as climate denial, and just as damaging.
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