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2026-03-28 22:28:09 UTC

Extra info about yesterday's late breaking update to the ‘mafia style’ allegations levelled at the AER, and more from Duff Conacher’s fight for a stronger democracy in Canada.
Spilling the tea…in my new Substack post.
#ableg #cdnpoli #ethics #democracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/breaking-alberta-regulator-shuts?r=b0efu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

2026-03-27 22:24:07 UTC

BREAKING NEWS: The AER declares no need for a conflict of interest investigation…because this kind of thing with Yager is pretty normal for our board and it’s up to each individual to behave ethically?
I don’t know. Tell me what you think this all means.
#ableg #cdnpoli #democracy #ethics #conflictofinterest
https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-landowner-alleges-mafia-style-meeting-demands-as-energy-regulators-ethics-investigation-stalls/

2026-03-26 15:02:33 UTC

Argentina, Israel and the US voted against. Straight up evil.
Canada abstained. Cowardice.
“Before Wednesday’s vote, Mahama lamented the continuing erasure of Black history in the US through increasing censorship of teaching the “truth of slavery, segregation and racism” in schools.”
“These policies are becoming a template for other governments and some private institutions,” he said at an event at the UN headquarters. “At the very least, they are slowly normalising the erasure.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/25/un-votes-slave-trade-gravest-crime-against-humanity-reparatory-justice
#cdnpoli #racism #history #truth #reparations

2026-03-24 16:03:06 UTC

The Board Chair of Alberta’s Energy Regulator (AEC) has been personally involved in trying to arrange a meeting to discuss an ethics complaint against AEC board director David Yager, a special advisor to Premier Danielle Smith.
It has not been going well.
From banning particular lawyers, refusing a virtual meeting, and disallowing a written record of the in-person meeting, the process is on hold. The AER denies there was an off-the-record demand, but doesn’t deny it rejected a virtual meeting.
Ecojustice just wants the regulator to follow the AER's written policy and procedure for dealing with complaints.
#ableg #cdnpoli #energy #regulation #ethics #conflictofinterest
https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-landowner-alleges-mafia-style-meeting-demands-as-energy-regulators-ethics-investigation-stalls/

2026-02-28 18:50:45 UTC

I prefer Davos Carney over Epic Fury Carney.

2026-02-26 17:07:35 UTC

AI data centres are absolutely throwing a climate-devastating lifeline to the fossil fuel industry.
In Alberta - they're not even trying to hide it.
AI data centres and methane gas are BFF's.

2026-02-02 19:23:18 UTC

Here we have Kevin O'Leary defending ICE and verbally attacking/cutting off a Black woman who is calling out the (well documented) White supremacy of the Trump administration.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6388435830112
#ableg #cdnpoli #elbowsup #wondervalleyAlberta

2026-01-03 18:19:55 UTC

The most disturbing thing about today's news conference was the absolutely breathless account of the military action delivered by General Caine. He seemed to delight in the excitement of potentially breaking both US and international law. That is terrifying.
There was a lot disturbing about the spectacle. But the generals of the past always tried to publicly downplay their enjoyment of any military action, and show restraint.

2025-12-29 17:58:17 UTC

To understand Wonder Valley, you need to know about the dream to repurpose a Cold War missile launch site as a data centre.
Why did one county in North Dakota sell the site to a cryptocurrency mining company named Bitzero backed by Kevin O’Leary and then refuse to answer questions about it?
The COO of Wonder Valley is also the former interim CEO of Bitzero. Read my latest post that could serve as a prequel to the origin story of Wonder Valley.
#ableg #cdnpoli #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #WonderValleyAlberta
https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/wonder-valley-watch-unnoticed-and?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

2025-12-20 04:00:34 UTC

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@SnowyCA/115749111701870271
Now the MOST critical piece of Canada's climate policy...so let's just open it up for comment while most people are away on vacation or taking time off to spend with family, etc.
Opened on December 19, 2025 and will close to new input on January 30, 2026.
SMH. Are they hoping this flies under the radar?
#cdnpoli #CanPoli #ableg #abpoli
Share widely please!
#note1cjg…6rml

2025-12-15 23:57:23 UTC

My first ever fundraising video. Only took me about 5000 takes. 😂
If you are able to support The Energy Mix, we'd really appreciate it.
Support independent, not-for-profit media!
https://youtu.be/K_3dd9MBjuI?si=HVq24wyCXMRwM8bK

2025-12-15 18:54:17 UTC

When the Pathways Alliance funded Hub news is casting doubt on both the pipeline and its own carbon capture project...post MOU. WTH are we even doing here?
"For all the engineering clarity around capture and storage, some of the most important pieces of Pathways remain unresolved."
#cdnpoli #ableg #climate #ClimateChange #CanPoli
https://thehub.ca/2025/12/15/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-worlds-largest-carbon-capture-proposal/

2025-12-12 20:07:23 UTC

Watching Canadian media coverage of this latest batch of Epstein images. Having male TV hosts, interviewing male pundits about the "political" aspects of this is just so depressing.
They are giving advice in real time as to how to "manage the scandal," as if that is the biggest concern.
Not a word about the impacts on women and those with any amount of empathy who have to witness this outrage unfolding every single day and no justice being seriously pursued for the victims.
If you are going to cover this criminal sex trafficking ring, at least make an attempt to treat it like a CRIME, not a PR problem.

2025-12-09 16:57:01 UTC

File this under the opposite of digital sovereignty.
There is no way in hell that Microsoft would cross Trump. We’re supposed to actually believe they would fight for us if asked to withdraw from Canada, or worse, if we were being invaded?
Did Evan Solomon, or anyone in the federal cabinet, read the American National Security Strategy or are we just ignoring that?
#cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg
Gift link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2bddbcc2e5ce5f5fc719f2c290bf4102d11315b53c4ad19ee6d30f5c8711f230/IHILFFU4UBGK5NGYZGYUZZXUWY/

2025-12-04 23:47:29 UTC

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Funny you should mention that, the Justice Minister claimed that this was nothing unusual and compared it to how businesses can't be allowed to copy other business names. Clearly, this is not comparable.

2025-12-04 23:33:14 UTC

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The following words will be banned from the names of any new parties in the province:
❌ advantage
❌communist
❌conservative
❌democratic
❌green
❌independence  
❌liberal
❌pro-life
❌reform
❌republican
❌solidarity
❌wildrose
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

2025-12-04 23:25:01 UTC

It's definitely now a thing for governments to name bills (or at least characterize them) as the exact opposite of what they are.
Case in point, the "Restoring confidence in democratic processes" announcement today by Alberta.
💣
#ableg #cdnpoli #abpoli #democracy
https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=9534830A1321C-A841-52BE-3E2C7FABE4B32EB2

2025-12-04 18:09:18 UTC

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And is Navigator involved yet? I've seen their Principal on LinkedIn "liking" posts by Liberal MP Corey Hogan defending the government's strategy.

2025-12-03 05:30:02 UTC

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Great questions. You're not alone in wondering about these things...I think there are many people discussing how and why this has been allowed to happen. Carney's sudden rise to the PMO did not give voters enough time to get to know him beforehand. And now, there are major concerns with his approach. He's definitely not unifying Canadians, just the opposite.

2025-12-03 04:50:02 UTC

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It is disgraceful to say you will consult with or work in partnership with Indigenous rights holders on the one hand, while ignoring their concerns, not even doing an impact assessment.
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/chief-in-alberta-teams-up-with-environmental-groups-to-try-and-stop-carbon-capture-project/

2025-12-03 04:47:37 UTC

Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that most First Nations oppose the Pathways CCS project.
The awkward video that's out there on social media of the PM taking very few questions while there were Chiefs still lined up to ask questions shows Chief Kelsey Jacko shouting because his microphone was cut off.
Jacko is from Cold Lake First Nations, who opposes the project. You may recall that the project was exempted from an environmental impact assessment by the federal government.
The frustration is palpable.
#climate #ableg #cdnpoli #Indigenous #water #carboncapture
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/afn-assembly-major-projects-9.6999182

2025-11-28 04:22:38 UTC

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Thanks! Why do people always give in to bullying and think it will stop there? It always continues, and Smith now knows it will work again in the future.

2025-11-28 04:04:30 UTC

Some people are just crushing on Carney so hard they can't accept he's just not that good at politics.
He's thinking like a central banker where messy things like people's feelings about nature, coastlines, and -- oh yeah, destroying our chances of surviving climate change -- are just abstract concepts.
More important to him is not being like Trudeau, appearing unequivocally pro-business, and getting feted by elites at the Chamber because subsidizing corporations with 10s of billions of taxpayer dollars is somehow heroic.
He's totally clued out about how his actions may have bolstered Smith’s flailing government's fortunes, and interfered in the efforts of so many Albertans trying to change the province for the better.

2025-11-28 02:23:52 UTC

Spent the afternoon writing this story with Mitchell Beer of The Energy Mix! It's really a shared byline but we couldn't fit both of us due to Wordpress constraints.
What a wild day it was in political news.
Smith scored seven of her nine demands. She could barely contain her glee in the news conference.
Carney hightailed it out of there so fast he didn't even join her at the news conference.
He went directly to speak to the Chamber of Commerce where Deborah Yedlin (Chamber CEO) compared this agreement to the moon landing.
I kid you not.
#ableg #cdnpoli #climate
https://www.theenergymix.com/guilbeault-resigns-as-smith-declares-crushing-victory/

2025-11-27 17:22:37 UTC

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If he doesn't, I will lose a lot of respect for the guy.

2025-11-27 17:16:17 UTC

The Liberals are making a big mistake today. The hubris is astounding.

2025-11-26 03:06:05 UTC

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All of the members' statements include some variation of the following:
-"I'm a good MLA, this is not fair."
-"This is a left-wing conspiracy."
-"The legislation wasn't intended for me."
😢

2025-11-26 03:02:41 UTC

Another five MLA's have recall campaigns kicking off today. That's 14 now.
Alberta is RE-Calling.
# of signatures needed below:
⏳ Glenn Van Dijken - 12,719 (Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock)
⏳ Jackie Lovely - 12,391 (Camrose)
⏳ Nathan Neudorf - 13, 207 (Lethbridge-East)
⏳ Jason Stephan - 14,508 (Red Deer South)
⏳ Searle Turton - 15189 (Spruce Grove-Stony Plain)
I mean, what did they think would happen when they made recall easier? SMH
#ableg #cdnpoli
https://www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initiative/recall/current-recall-petitions/

2025-11-19 05:27:31 UTC

Alberta moves to violate people's rights, using a loophole in the Canadian constitution...for the second time in a matter of weeks.
Danielle Smith says the courts should do better otherwise, "they're going to see more legislatures take the action that we did."
Also, she defends the move with a bizarre statement about "protecting kids rights to have babies." Seems like right wing pronatalism bunk - why is it okay for the state to be deciding for individuals that this is the most important thing?
#ableg #cdnpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-government-notwithstanding-clause-bills-9.6983786

2025-11-16 22:33:00 UTC

#SilentSunday
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/561/735/520/367/365/original/e067acc537612301.jpg

2025-11-03 15:33:08 UTC

He's literally talking about blocking the sun.
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/486/465/937/718/904/original/ad3da4bbafcfc451.png

2025-10-30 17:07:59 UTC

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Wonder if there was some kind of quid pro quo...

2025-10-30 16:43:26 UTC

Kevin O’Leary promised he would raise $2B for a huge job-creating AI data centre in northern Alberta. By the end of the next quarter. That was in March.
Nate Glubish wrote in a local paper in his riding that Wonder Valley was pretty much a done deal. That was a year ago.
And Danielle Smith has declared Alberta will be an AI superpower. Let’s look at where all that stands in my latest post for the The Energy Mix!
#AIdatacentres #ableg #cdnpoli
https://www.theenergymix.com/70b-wonder-valley-project-still-a-mirage-as-olearys-ai-dream-stalls-in-alberta/

2025-10-25 19:29:33 UTC

Amazon chose not to include all the ways its data centres use water because it didn’t want to negatively impact its reputation.
Amazon as a whole (including data centres) consumed 105bn gallons of water in total in 2021, as much as 958,000 US households, which would supply a city bigger than San Francisco. Those numbers are likely higher now.
At the same time, the company debuted a new ad campaign in November 2022 called “Water Positive,” (which is still running) with a promise to “return more water than it uses” by 2030. The company argues it should receive credits for water “offsets” or other projects that provide benefits elsewhere (think carbon credits).
The company continues to keep its current overall water consumption confidential.
#aidatacenters #aidatacentres #water
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/amazon-datacentres-water-use-disclosure

2025-10-22 15:29:00 UTC

Lost, but not forgotten. Don’t confuse my ability to get lost, with my determination to find out what is going on with the Wonder Valley project.
The “largest AI compute data centre park on earth” is planned to withdraw large amounts of water from the Smoky River and I travelled north to meet the river and visit the site.
I stopped at a place familiar to Indigenous people for time immemorial, and where settlers have been crossing the river for more than a century.
Also, note to O’Leary Ventures: In Canada, our spelling is “centre” not “center.”
I’ve got a new post in my newsletter about my visit to #WonderValley.
#AIdatacentres
https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/touching-grass-visiting-a-river-and

2025-10-21 22:14:19 UTC

If it seems like déjà vu…it probably is.
“Just as petrochemical plants created ‘sacrifice zones’ of poisoned air, contaminated water, and abandoned communities, data centres are now layering a new wave of extraction on top of that history.”
Read my summary of this detailed new report drawing a parallel between “Cancer Alley” in the US South and how Big Tech companies are siting their AI data centres in the same areas.
#environmentalracism #AIdatacenters #AIdatacentres
https://www.theenergymix.com/big-techs-ai-expansion-revives-legacy-of-environmental-racism-report-warns/

2025-10-09 21:10:45 UTC

You know, I was involved in the creation of the Suncor Energy Foundation, and what is happening now on Rich Kruger's watch is a real shame.
Lawyers threatening charities on behalf of corporations making record profits, pulling out of multi-year commitments without warning, a total lack of respectful communication...this is not leadership. It's really irresponsible behaviour.
Am I surprised? Not really. Fossil fuel companies are taking off their masks and exposing who they really are.
#ableg #cdnpoli #FossilFuels #charities
https://www.theenergymix.com/communities-can-crumble-charities-warn-in-open-letter-recalling-suncors-decision-to-slash-donations/

2025-10-09 16:27:14 UTC

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The author of the strategy, David Yager, has been lobbying for the government to take it easy on the fossil fuel industry for years. Then, he was paid almost $300k by Danielle Smith to put his opinions into a mature asset strategy that has secretly been approved by cabinet (they won't confirm).
This is what Yager wrote in 2021:
“Albertans must permit the government to move past the “polluter pay” mantra and deal with the issues as they exist today. When legacy Crown mineral licenses were purchased, developers did not envision a time when the reclamation process would be as expensive and challenging as it has become today. Or that there would a broad and growing public sentiment to put them out of business. Oil and gas producers and the province are partners in Alberta’s hydrocarbon prosperity, not opponents.”
http://archive.today/afGUf
#ableg #abpoli #lobbyists

2025-10-09 16:17:48 UTC

The naming of a “mature asset” strategy (instead of a clean-up strategy) for the Alberta government is classic PR spin - a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
It takes an accounting concept and uses it to suggest the government is somehow responsible for ensuring profits for the fossil fuel industry.
And many Albertans are seeing through it.
My latest story for The Energy Mix.
#ableg #cdnpoli #polluterpay #fossilfuels #climate #environment
https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-orphan-well-strategy-faces-pushback-from-residents-municipalities-experts/

2025-10-05 04:01:30 UTC

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought.
“The US and China are racing to see who can destroy the environment most quickly,” said Lenny Siegel, a member of Chips Communities United, a group working with industry and administration officials to try to implement environmental safeguards. “If we had a sensible approach to these things then someone would have to present some answers before they develop and use these systems.”
#AIdatacenters #AIdatacentres #cdnpoli #ableg #foreverchemicals
#pollution #environment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/04/pfas-pollution-data-centers-ai

2025-09-28 17:56:25 UTC

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Who is the Western Canada Data Centre Alliance? Here's a screen capture from their website, which claims they are about "transparency" and "maximizing benefits to the region." Just not available to share any information from this Alberta roadmap conference with media.
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/283/202/766/805/383/original/9f8e9fae95cda174.png

2025-09-27 23:04:17 UTC

Another conference - this time on Alberta's data centre roadmap - happening next week on Tuesday, doesn't allow media to attend and even if we pay the full registration, they want to pre-approve the content (of course, that's a non-starter). The lack of transparency is alarming.
I wonder what these industry conferences are hiding?
#ableg #cdnpoli #AIdatacentres
https://www.datacentreassociation.ca/events

2025-09-25 15:20:00 UTC

Does the CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator have the legal authority to overrule his own hearing commissioners? Two environmental groups in Alberta don’t think so and they want the provincial court of appeal to hear their case.
“...Morgan appointed himself the de facto judge, jury, and executioner in regulating resource development in Alberta,” they say and argue the separation of powers between the governing and regulatory process are in jeopardy.
Read my latest report for The Energy Mix.
#ableg #cdnpoli #coal #climate #regulatory #environment
https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-regulator-faces-court-challenge-over-cancelled-coal-mine-hearing/

2025-09-16 15:54:15 UTC

Breaking news from my colleague, Chris Bonasia at The Energy Mix!
And the former Trans Mountain CEO is now running Canada's major projects office. 🤔
#ableg #cdnpoli #climate
https://www.theenergymix.com/breaking-report-calls-trans-mountain-a-red-flag-for-future-subsidies-after-price-rises-584/

2025-09-13 23:14:19 UTC

“I think that explains the problem with America in a single sentence. We only care about now—the president has an attention span of three minutes, and corporate executives can’t see past the next quarter. Whereas the Chinese are clearly thinking many decades into the future, which they plan to own.”
Bill McKibben’s latest Substack post
https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/a-tale-of-two-countries?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#climate #cdnpoli #ableg

2025-09-12 12:42:41 UTC

Making stuff up to support government policy direction used to be called "fraud."
#nlpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #aislop
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/education-accord-nl-sources-dont-exist-1.7631364

2025-09-07 14:27:04 UTC

And now, a public service announcement: If you have tips on who’s behind oil and gas companies in Canada that aren’t paying their bills, please contact Prairies reporter Drew Anderson over email at drew@thenarwhal.ca or securely over Signal at @Danderson.78.
#ableg #fossilfuels #orphanwells
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilpatch-delinquent-companies/

2025-08-26 17:19:06 UTC

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In an update on this SaskCoal (er, I mean SaskPower) story...Saskatchewan is budgeting close to a billion dollars on coal, because affordability is not even a consideration?
Also, they don't want to import gas from Alberta due to "energy security" concerns?
Canada's goals for emissions are slipping away rapidly. There's not even a single mention of renewables in this story.
#cdnpoli #climate #coal #climatechange
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2bddbcc2e5ce5f5fc719f2c290bf4102d11315b53c4ad19ee6d30f5c8711f230/DXDW7H4QJZF4JEST3IFJCNTETY/

2025-08-18 23:12:38 UTC

I've got a new story coming out tomorrow about the US power grid and demands from AI data centres. There are some important lessons for Canada on what is required to get out ahead of unreasonable power grabs.
It requires a rethink of who gets approvals and how data centres can do their part to avoid causing higher electricity prices for consumers.
Also, my writing on AI data centre greenwashing in Alberta is about to kick into high gear soon.
Stay tuned!

2025-08-17 04:03:41 UTC

"This is a warning. Alberta is not immune to the sickness devouring our neighbours to the south. It is the sickness of authoritarian capitalism, cloaked in patriotism, funded by billionaires and sold as common sense. It tells us that the rich are 'job creators' instead of modern-day feudal lords. It convinces us that we should slash the social safety net so that those who need it most are punished for being born poor, disabled or unlucky."
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/canada-beware-alberta-is-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine?tbref=hp
#ableg #cdnpoli

2025-08-16 16:28:50 UTC

It was just brought to my attention that the pre-order for vaccines for Influenza and Covid is set up with Salesforce, a cloud-based software "focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, artificial intelligence" etc.
This is now money being spent on a tracking and payment system for public health care that should be free. Not integrated with the MyHealth portal, from what I can see so far.
We are being set up to pay extra for healthcare services that should be free. Healthcare that always was free in the past. Who voted for this?
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #covid

2025-08-14 16:05:05 UTC

The Saskatchewan government is hoping to delay and dismiss a case brought by a group of three Saskatchewan and Manitoba residents who say extending coal past Canada’s 2030 deadline is illegal.
The judge in the case is considering whether she should take on the case while the province gets busy with plans to refurbish plants, increasing the amount of coal they burn for electricity.
And Environment and Climate Change Canada replied to my questions with a mild threat.
Read my NEW story for The Energy Mix out now!
https://www.theenergymix.com/court-weighs-case-against-saskatchewans-plan-to-extend-coal-power/
#coal #cdnpoli #saskpoli #climatechange #environment #emissions #electricity

2025-07-25 18:10:20 UTC

Notice anything about this report from Ground News on the coverage of the David Yager conflict of interest story?
No coverage from Postmedia outlets in Alberta. Nothing whatsoever on their news sites about Yager when I search. This is how I know this story MUST be reported far and wide.
#ableg #cdnpoli #Postmedia #media #orphanwells #PolluterPayFederation
https://ground.news/article/alberta-landowner-files-conflict-of-interest-complaint-against-danielle-smith-appointee
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/915/178/776/069/955/original/9ac1d91eb7bc8526.png

2025-07-16 17:50:13 UTC

"Renewable natural gas" is just biogas rebranded. 🙄
I was just on the Enbridge website where they are raving about it. False solutions and greenwashing everywhere.
"RNG is not as low-carbon as the industry claims and its local air and water impacts are concentrated in vulnerable communities. Even if it were low-carbon and equitable, there simply isn’t enough of it to substitute for more than a small fraction of natural gas. And even if it were low-carbon, equitable, and abundant, it still wouldn’t be an excuse to expand natural gas infrastructure or slow electrification."
#ableg #cdnpoli #ClimateChange
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/2/14/21131109/california-natural-gas-renewable-socalgas

2025-07-09 00:53:36 UTC

As a straight, white male with no real qualifications for his job as Minister of Municipal Affairs, Dan Williams is worried that people who are...not straight, white males...might get some opportunities to work in jobs they are totally qualified for.
We can't have that, nope.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.westernwheel.ca/beyond-local/keep-away-from-wokeness-and-dei-new-minister-warns-municipalities-10917280

2025-07-05 20:56:10 UTC

Suncor bulldozes through a probable nesting ground for a threatened species and AER fines them…$5,000. Suncor blames a cyberattack.
Suncor’s net earnings for Q1 2025 were $1.6 billion.
Another super villain level badge earned.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/suncor-bank-swallows-fine-1.7576307
#bigoil #fossilfuels #speciesatrisk

2025-06-24 16:18:20 UTC

I've just made a donation to World Central Kitchen. You can too: https://donate.wck.org/give/417669/#!/donation/checkout
They've now been able to return to Gaza to provide food to starving Palestinians.
🎁
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/middleeast/world-central-kitchen-gaza-restarts-meals.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE8.94PC.qoH5taTMGZ-y&smid=url-share

2025-06-16 20:49:23 UTC

Another photo I took at the #G7 protest yesterday in #Calgary.
#G7Summit #yyc #Protests #police #streetphotography #Palestine #fascism
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/694/953/956/489/493/original/920de170f0ab66af.jpeg

2025-06-10 18:19:57 UTC

Fossil fuel companies and wealthy oil executives who have been losing public support for years, have turned to Christian nationalists and other far right organizations to help them.
Vivian Taylor, a climate policy expert who co-authored the analysis, said the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from “the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.”
#cdnpoli #ableg #climate
https://atmos.earth/fossil-fuel-billionaires-are-bankrolling-the-anti-trans-movement/

2025-06-08 17:54:34 UTC

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Or a practice run for a more widespread deployment.

2025-06-08 16:15:39 UTC

These guys are looking pretty foolish in LA.
For those of us who remember the 1992 LA Riots, this is NOTHING like that. At that time, the army was called in by the state after three days of escalating violence.
Most people agree that the LA police chief caused the escalation by their actions.
This morning in LA they were launching tear gas at a small group of people, some of them in shorts and sandals for just yelling at them and getting too close to the entrance.
https://www.youtube.com/live/KDnSphPbaUU?si=1_4vHQeT-2ORkiYQ
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/648/607/831/296/879/original/91d8a049e2d9b38b.png

2025-06-06 15:23:49 UTC

We appear to be using the crisis in the US as an excuse to set back reconciliation by decades, exploit resources without protecting nature, and double down on a “decarbonized oil” fever dream that will kill more people and devastate the planet.
“The First Nations have put up with a great deal but they will not put up with the destruction of their traditional lands. Leaders from the First Nations are advising Canadians to get ready for Idle No More 2.0.”
#cdnpoli
https://open.substack.com/pub/charlieangus/p/resistance-indigenous-style?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2025-06-05 15:56:37 UTC

When asked why the orphan fund levy only increased from 2024 by 7% in 2025 when the number of wells increased by 125%, the AER provided a link to a web page with no numbers beyond 2023. And then stopped responding to my emails.
The AER has the authority by legislation to decide the levy, but the AER confirmed that the final decision was made by the Alberta government.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #PolluterPays #endfossilfuels #ClimateChange
https://www.theenergymix.com/albertas-orphan-well-levy-is-unlawful-insufficient-coalition-contends/

2025-06-04 21:32:22 UTC

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Mic drop. So true.

2025-06-04 15:20:50 UTC

Bluesky is a dead zone for engagement. I post almost all of the same content there as I do here and get no reactions.
I don't know how they've got that algorithm set up. Maybe I'm doing something wrong...
Ironically, I posted there asking if anyone had any advice and got one other soul who reposted my question and otherwise...nothing.

2025-05-31 18:30:01 UTC

Smith's letter seems desperate and dishonest.
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/alberta-premier-pens-letter-to-chiefs-appealing-for-support-of-alberta-sovereignty/

2025-05-19 16:30:46 UTC

David Climenhaga’s latest opinion piece in The Tyee really nails it.
Danielle Smith has broken up an integrated health service and there are now FOUR CABINET MINISTERS assigned to the health portfolio. Makes zero sense.
Climenhaga calls them “the four horsepersons of the health-care apocalypse.”
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/05/19/Smith-Giant-Cabinet-Sign-Desperation/

2025-05-06 16:17:52 UTC

Whenever I interview people about Alberta's regulatory framework for cleaning up aging oil and gas wells and related infrastructure, the same reference keeps coming up - "foxes in hen houses."
Hiring an oil services executive (and stacking the consultation with 70% industry representation) to come up with the government's strategy doesn't help. The resulting report mirrors efforts by companies in the US to avoid taking full responsibility.
https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-follows-familiar-playbook-to-help-fossils-sidestep-well-cleanup-obligations/
#cdnpoli #ableg #fossilfuels

2025-04-29 14:16:50 UTC

Waking up to a new day. Here's what climate and energy leaders were saying as they watched the election results come in last night.
Read our full coverage at The Energy Mix!
#elxn45 #CanadaElection2025 #Canada #climate #energy #EnergyTransition
https://www.theenergymix.com/canada-election-results/

2025-04-20 15:44:08 UTC

I’m sorry, but when are we going to start treating carbon pollution like the existential threat it is?
In just three years, from 2000 to 2002, the world lost over 1,600 gigatonnes of water from its soils – more than the mass of Greenland’s ice loss over a much longer period.
#climatechange
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/earths-rotation-soil-moisture

2025-04-19 18:54:17 UTC

Fox News coverage of the #Handsoff protest in Houston.
https://www.youtube.com/live/3F2cXXL-ddk?si=kLwMVK1Z7Nw4ve__

2025-04-19 18:30:37 UTC

The New York Post has a livestream of the protests...from Washington DC.
#handsoff
https://www.youtube.com/live/lU6-JNKpjy8?si=mB79WRHxw4-lDfVL

2025-04-19 17:54:36 UTC

Live from the Washington monument - ABC 7 News
Crowd chants "Due Process." This is pretty significant recognition of what is at stake.
#handsoff
https://www.youtube.com/live/hBluiWTsKwQ?si=MVCsZQvhRdUpccW-

2025-04-19 16:59:01 UTC

Coverage of the NYC protest. People are packing the route right now.
#50501 #handsoff #fightfacism
https://www.youtube.com/live/CH8caIIl-50?si=SEVzaZiZS6XmbqPO

2025-04-13 04:10:31 UTC

This Andrew Scheer self-own is epic.
#cdnpoli #CanadaElection2025
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/328/676/610/873/994/original/ab7ed58ad52c8e4c.png

2025-04-09 16:10:30 UTC

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Yes, it's almost like a big training session for volunteers and ambassadors. Not newsworthy and definitely not an indicator of much of anything.

2025-04-09 15:58:34 UTC

I really dislike the sports fan approach to politics.
Rallies are like sports events and the people who show up are fans looking for confirmation of a choice they've already made.
The focus is cheering on your team on instead of getting out there and convincing the undecided people that you have the best policies.

2025-04-05 16:47:12 UTC

There's good video of the #handsoff protests at PBS.
https://www.youtube.com/live/xAMH6Tis7Ck?si=4s9qGqb-c-cW17Yw

2025-04-04 03:40:05 UTC

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That sounds suspicious!

2025-04-03 19:03:58 UTC

While researching a story I’m writing, I came across this article from The Columbia Journalism Review in 2012 dealing with the number of jobs that were promised by TransCanada when it was constructing the Keystone XL pipeline.
The job numbers in media releases from TransCanada differed wildly from their submission to the US State Department for the final environmental impact statement.
/more
#FactsMatter #cdnpoli
https://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/keystone_xl_jobs_bewilder_medi.php

2025-03-28 16:15:15 UTC

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Source: The Canadian Press
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/06/14/erin-otoole-used-american-call-centre-to-contact-conservative-voters/

2025-03-28 16:13:32 UTC

Elect Right has worked for CPC leadership candidates in 2017, including Peter MacKay, Tony Clement and Maxime Bernier.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/erg-national-research-text-polling-complaints-cric-1.7494941
#CanadaElection2025

2025-03-14 23:20:15 UTC

Danielle Smith was not elected to any office when she became premier. She was elected as an MLA about a month later but waited 6 months before calling a general election.
In those 6 months, Smith introduced a lot of legislation without a mandate from Albertans. She was also investigated by the ethics commissioner and found to have contravened the Conflicts of Interest Act in that time.
She still squeaked out a win in May of 2023 with her party receiving 53% of the popular vote.
#ableg

2025-03-14 18:42:41 UTC

What could be more colonial than passing laws dictating what clothing people should wear, how they style their hair, which pronouns they use?
Colonialism isn't some historical anomaly, it's happening right now, every single day. Forcing people into some random dress and behavioural code that isn't even applicable to most of the rest of the world.
We're going all in on conformity here in North America, and if you think it's okay because it doesn't affect you personally, you are so wrong.

2025-03-06 00:43:26 UTC

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Sorry, there must be a difference URL for the live feed vs the video recording: https://youtu.be/bykG6xYlxa4?si=iq7pmrCy4c3gXa9R

2025-03-05 20:13:31 UTC

Danielle Smith invited a guy with a gun to her news conference happening now.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Unyb_EEf8QU?si=FzWj86yjWhZIZtQx
#ableg #cdnpoli

2025-02-28 17:59:58 UTC

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After mine wastewater spilled into the Smoky River for at least 17 hours, posing a risk to aquatic life downstream, the AER levied a $9,000 fine.
You heard that right. $9,000 is pocket change to a coal mining company.
Coal wastewater frequently contains selenium, a substance toxic to fish and people.
#ableg #endfossilfuels #climatechange
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-coal-river-leak-fine-1.7470360

2025-02-25 17:44:05 UTC

ICYMI: This story has been updated with quotes from the news conference!
“Let’s not be fooled. The return of these projects is being advocated, no more and no less, by the very people who are the architects of the current chaos in which we find ourselves today. The same people who attack our fundamental rights and democracy. Don’t fall into this trap, don’t be an accomplice to these agents of destruction.”
#cdnpoli #ableg #climateChange
https://www.theenergymix.com/hype-for-new-pipelines-runs-into-community-opposition-industry-indifference/

2025-02-25 16:16:02 UTC

NEW STORY OUT TODAY:
The UCP government continues to transform the AER from a regulator to more of an enabler. The latest is the appointment of a new CEO with deep roots in oil and gas, and the perception out there amongst those paying attention:
“Placing a former oil executive in charge of regulating the oil and gas industry is like asking the fox to guard the hen house—an illusion of oversight designed to pacify the public while industry continues unchecked.”
https://www.theenergymix.com/oil-exec-takes-charge-of-alberta-regulator-sparking-fears-of-industry-capture/

2025-02-14 18:27:01 UTC

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"In this pivotal moment, the nation-building project Canada needs is not another oil pipeline that traps us in a costly, declining industry, but an east-west electricity grid that enables a productive, resilient economy for the century to come."
#cdnpoli #ClimateChange
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/an-east-west-oil-pipeline-is-a-trap-canada-needs-an-east-west-electricity-grid/

2025-02-14 18:02:31 UTC

Did the government of Alberta just appoint a sitting board member of the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada - an oil and gas lobbying group - to be the CEO of the regulator overseeing the oil and gas industry?
#ableg #cdnpoli #ClimateChange
https://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/aer-board-appoints-rob-morgan-as-new-chief-executive-officer

2025-02-11 17:09:01 UTC

In the rush to protect Canadian sovereignty, let's not give away ownership of our natural resources to US companies and billionaires advising Trump.
Canadians overwhelmingly agree we shouldn't allow American companies to take over ownership of our natural resources.
Let's talk more about the US money and influence behind some of the fossil fuel projects, especially LNG, that some want to fast track.
#ableg #bcpoli #FossilLobby
Read my new story for The Energy Mix:
https://www.theenergymix.com/old-pipelines-new-pressure-u-s-tariffs-revive-talk-of-shelved-fossil-fuel-projects/

2025-02-06 21:12:19 UTC

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Also there is a lawsuit filed against Nate Pike at The Breakdown for his investigations into these exact topics.
https://www.abresistance.ca/the_breakdown_ucp_corruption_map

2025-02-06 21:05:32 UTC

Well, this is interesting...
#ableg #cdnpoli
https://mailchi.mp/1a98f83cb9f5/albertas-auditor-general-march-2024-report-released-today-6418441?e=84ac5b93c1

2025-02-05 04:32:56 UTC

Trump is a monster. There's just no way around it.

2025-02-04 23:28:11 UTC

MAGA and Musk are terrified of Black women like Ayanna Pressley. They know they can't compete on equal terms with these women so they're shutting down DEI nationwide.
These are women who've had to fight for every damn thing and they have to be10x better at everything to get ahead.
Getting rid of DEI is not meant to ensure hiring the best people, it sends a signal NOT to hire the best people.

2025-02-04 15:55:34 UTC

This can't continue, can it? 🙃
https://youtu.be/DZXi2mUWzDw?si=EpomLoCdRV4l8fu7

2025-02-02 00:24:29 UTC

Off-the-charts terrifying.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/musk-friday-coup

2025-01-17 17:36:40 UTC

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"The Liberal Party has seen a remarkable turnaround in its fortunes in recent weeks. Following Chrystia Freeland’s resignation a month ago, the Conservative lead had reached an all-time high of 25 pts. In our latest polling, however, that advantage has narrowed to just 11 pts, with the Conservatives leading 39 pts to 28. At 17 pts, the NDP is in 3rd place, and their declared intention to bring down the government does not appear to have produced any benefits."
#cdnpoli
https://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2025/01/conservative-lead-narrows-to-11-points/

2025-01-16 20:46:18 UTC

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Some are saying that it's too early for consultations with Indigenous neighbours like the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation who are The Crown's Treaty partners on the land where Kevin O'Leary's Wonder Valley project in northern Alberta is planned
But listen to this interview with the "visionary behind the project." They've almost completed the plans for the water withdrawal for the Smoky River. Greenview has been working on this for years!
#ableg #cdnpoli
https://youtu.be/SM3E8A7Hf10?si=-9wXG483RU-L-j5N