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Keith Stewart

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Climate & energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada. Teach a course on energy policy at U of T. I’m now also on mastodon at @climatekeith @c .im

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@climatekeith
Keith Stewart
2 years
I am currently dangling from a tripod, blocking the entrance to @rbc , the 5th largest fossil fuel funder in the world because decades of politely asking banks to stop fueling climate change hasn’t worked.
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@JoePerticone Pro tip (I work for Greenpeace): offer her tea and coffee and let nature take its course.
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5 years
#climatestrike in Toronto is getting started #TOpoli
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9 months
Politics: Summer 2023
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4 years
Well done to all concerned: no bailouts for companies that avoid paying their fair share of taxes #cdnpoli
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2 months
Kudos to @JustinTrudeau for telling oil execs face-to-face that there's "not a chance" he'll back off on oil sector emissions cap. After watching decades of empty promises by oilpatch to cut emissions, good to see federal government will now hold them to their word.
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Varcoe: Alberta's business leaders want Trudeau to scrap oilpatch emissions cap — they got his answer Friday #yyc #yeg #ableg #cdnpoli
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Early drought has led Alberta government to restrict water withdrawals & warn industrial users of worse to come. Yet while oil companies warn their shareholders of risk of climate change-induced water shortages, the #ableg Minister responsible remains in denial. The evidence:
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Keith Stewart
2 months
I (briefly) held up an "Act on Climate Now" @GreenpeaceCA banner at Poilievre's Toronto Axe the Tax rally. CPC has no plan to deal with climate crisis that drove over 160,000 Canadians from their homes fleeing wildfires last summer or farmers looking at another bone-dry summer
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Keith Stewart
4 years
Just in case you were feeling sorry for oil companies, remember that Shell predicted the rise of @GretaThunberg , and a wave of climate lawsuits, way back in 1998 h/t @amywestervelt
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Keith Stewart
4 years
My 10 year old daughter is doing her online course work and yells up to the attic: "Dad, do you know anything about energy, like which ones are renewable or not?" <Dad rushes downstairs>
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Keith Stewart
6 years
Welcome to your climate-ravaged dystopian future where the rich save themselves and the rest burn
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New York Post
6 years
Kim and Kanye hire private firefighters to save their home, neighborhood
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3 years
As someone who has been arrested, tear-gassed, charged on horseback, stepped on and thrown down a flight of stairs by police officers - I'm pretty sure they don't need new laws to prevent people from blockading hospitals
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Keith Stewart
1 year
The 23rd spill (14K barrels & counting) from 12 yr-old #Keystone pipeline is larger than previous 22 put together. I expect focus of coverage will be on how much money Canadian oil companies lose while pipeline is closed, but this is an ecological disaster
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5 years
CBC reporting that New Brunswick Proud and Strong - whose funding comes from the (Preston) Manning Centre - is behind the robocalls telling voters to go to polls a day late
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Keith Stewart
2 years
So I’m asking RBC CEO Dave McKay to come down from his office tower and accept the burned remnants from a Lytton home
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4 months
Me: Well I guess, you can't print 'Holy Shit' as a reaction, even if the scientists did find toxic air pollution from oil sands is 1900% - 6300% times higher than what industry reports. Them:
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Keith Stewart
2 years
Holy shit. All of Canada's Big 5 banks are members of UN's Race to Zero initiative, which just gave them a June 15, 2023 deadline to stop funding new fossil fuels, implement just transition plans & align lobbying efforts with net zero, or get kicked out
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2 years
Yes I am too old for this shit.
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2 years
We’re disrupting bank business-as-usual because BAU is killing us. Canada’s big 5 banks have put over $800 billion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was signed. RBC has put $390M into the Coastal Gaslink pipeline #fossilbanks
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Keith Stewart
2 years
I’m a middle-aged dad with a mild fear of heights. I hsve been politely asking banks to stop funding fossil fuels for decades but they want to sell gasoline to the arsonists and water to the fire department
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Keith Stewart
2 years
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres sub-tweets @jkenney this morning during release of latest IPCC report: "Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals, but the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels."
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2 years
RBC has provided $390M to the Coastal Gaslink pipeline, and the pipeline company’s parent Corp is housed in the RBC tower we are blocking today #gitimden
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Keith Stewart
2 years
When banks go along with a militarized RCMP invasion of Wet’suwet’en territory to make money, that’s wrong. RBC has refused to meet with the Wet’suwet’en - they should. #WetsuwetenStrong
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Keith Stewart
6 years
Let's sell more cigarettes so we can pay for lung transplants
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CBC Politics
6 years
No carbon cuts or ocean protection without pipeline, Trudeau says #hw #cdnpoli
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Keith Stewart
3 years
Poking my head up from vacation while heading home from camping, here’s what seems new in the Liberal’s climate announcement today #Elxn44 1/n
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Keith Stewart
2 years
We want him to look at it every time that he makes a decision on whether to fund fossil fuels. We want him to agree to meet with affected communities in Lytton & Wet’suwet’en & look them in the eyes
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Keith Stewart
2 years
Canada’s big 4 oil companies (Suncor, Imperial, Cenovus and CNRL) reporting over $12 BILLION in profits in just 3 months ($130M/day). Yet they claim they can’t afford to reduce the immense harm they are doing to our climate/communities. We can’t afford to let them off the hook.
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Dave Gray-Donald
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Canadian oil & gas companies have been announcing their Q2 (April - June) financial results. Here are the profits of the big Cdn players🧵
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Keith Stewart
6 months
The height of hypocrisy: the Government of Alberta - which has a ban on new renewable energy projects - boasts about how they are supporting wind and solar power in this video made for #COP28 #greenwash
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Danielle Smith
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This is the message Alberta is bringing to the world at COP28 👇 Alberta is an innovation hub, attracting sustainable investments with low operating costs and a skilled workforce. We are leading in clean energy technology, with hydrogen production, and waste-to-energy, while
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Keith Stewart
2 months
Poilievre has a 'Burn, Baby, Burn' climate plan that puts all Canadians hold dear at risk. We cannot let him slide through without talking about what he would do on climate change.
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Keith Stewart
4 years
Is this parody? I’ve been biking to work in Toronto for 20 years and they are usually about two weeks a year when it’s too cold/icy. It’s colder to stand around waiting for transit.
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Toronto Star
4 years
Forty more kilometres of bicycle lanes? This is not California. We live in Canada. Even in a good winter, it is either too cold to ride a bike or there is snow on the ground five months of the year. Sometimes six. Column by Autos reporter @NorrisMcDonald2 :
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Keith Stewart
2 years
Well this is awkward: federal Auditor General @OAG_BVG disses Trudeau government's investment in TMX: "Investing in the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) is an example of policy incoherence with progress toward climate commitments" #cdnpoli
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Keith Stewart
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@aer @rebeccakschulz 12. When it comes to climate change and drought, hope is not a strategy. But it seems to be the only one the Government of Alberta is prepared to offer.
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Keith Stewart
2 years
The profits his bank is making by worsening the climate crisis have real, painful costs in the here and now.
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Keith Stewart
11 months
Preparing to escort Toronto’s new mayor ⁦ @oliviachow ⁩ to City Hall for her first day as Your Worship
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Keith Stewart
9 months
Very strong editorial in today's @globeandmail . I feel my 30+ years subscribing to the paper entitles me to complain about climate & #cdnpoli coverage, but this is a solid, well-researched piece. Kudos
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Keith Stewart
3 years
Scandal alert: Leaked documents show Enbridge & FortisBC are part of a "consortium to combat electrification" because "Natural gas (fossil fuel) is in for fight of it's life."
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Keith Stewart
2 years
With the Just Transition Act as a key part of the Liberal-NDP #cdnpoli agreement, I wanted to share this fun fact: Jason Kenney’s mighty #ableg War Room has been running a “Stop the Just Transition” petition for months. It has 198 signatures. Alberta tax dollars well spent.
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Keith Stewart
3 years
Canada's latest GHG Inventory is out. Total GHGs in 2019 are 730 MT, up 2 MT from 2018 and 7 MT since Liberals took office in 2015. The largest (and growing) sources are: 1. Extracting and refining oil and gas. 2. Burning oil and gas in our vehicles.
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Keith Stewart
4 years
Unleash the War Room on... well this is awkward: Queen Elizabeth looking to make her cash more green, pulling out of oil sands - #cdnpoli #ableg
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Keith Stewart
5 years
@ed_hawkins @jm_mcgrath My wife knit me the Toronto temperature graph (1841-2017) as a Christmas present
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4 years
Ouch: “The Alberta government has become the oil patch’s own worst enemy by weakening environmental monitoring & oversight to the extent that foreign investors and foreign companies alike face reputational risks by investing in oilsands” #ableg
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Keith Stewart
2 years
Hearing that RBC had a town hall for staff today & re @GreenpeaceCA protest “Leaders said the government asks them to fund this stuff [fossil fuels]” Say it ain’t so, @s_guilbeault #fossilbanks
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Keith Stewart
2 years
Canada should produce + send heat pumps & wind turbines to Europe the way we sent tanks & planes during WWII. Renewables can meet energy needs, promote peace, undercut power of petrostates while avoiding most devastating impacts of climate change #cdnpoli
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Keith Stewart
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4. El Nino years tend to have very low snowfall levels, so not much water for Spring melt. El Nino’s occur regularly but last year’s incredible heat & dryness means reservoirs (that'd normally tide us through a dry year) are already depleted. That’s climate change playing out…
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Keith Stewart
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@aer 11. In her relentless attacks on federal climate action & refusal to take significant action at home, @rebeccakschulz is doing her best to make it not rain or snow, worsening the outlook for agriculture, industry and raising the risk of another round of destructive wildfires.
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@aer 9. The Alberta government, on the other hand, is in denial. The Nov AB govt drought presentation, AER bulletin & AB gov webpage on drought management are all silent on the link between climate change & drought. I'd love for someone to find somewhere they make this link...
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3. We will come back to ‘Hope for rain’ as a strategy while ignoring climate change, but worth noting that in that same presentation, the government is already ordering some users to stop withdrawing water.
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5 months
2. In November, AB Ministry of Environment & Protected Areas said river flows and reservoir levels were ~50% of normal and that “spring water levels are expected to be dire.” They will “plan for extreme drought and hope for rain/snow.”
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Keith Stewart
3 years
Hoo boy: Feds just announced they will consider all new or expanded thermal coal mining projects to be contrary to national interest (i.e. you can apply, but we're going to reject your proposal). Applies to current Coalspur project in AB #cdnpoli #ableg
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Keith Stewart
3 years
NOT THE ONION: The #ableg War Room is now accusing the UN of misinformation on climate science because... they correctly state that getting to zero carbon means transitioning off of fossil fuels. Here's the UN statement the War Room is so upset about
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Keith Stewart
3 years
Today's Supreme Court decision is a victory not just for the carbon tax. It recognizes climate change as a threat to Peace, Order & Good Government & lays out a roadmap for the federal govt to set minimum standards that provinces can exceed but not undercut.
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Keith Stewart
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@aer 6. O&G companies have been expecting this kind of warning (though we can expect the jostling for water rights to get nasty). They know that climate science has long been predicting more intense droughts in the Prairies (punctuated by more extreme storms)
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Keith Stewart
3 years
Dear @TomOlsenXIX : Why isn’t @CDNEnergyCentre registered as a Third Party for #elxn44 ? The #ableg War Room is clearly promoting positions clearly identified with a #cdnpoli political party, so seems like they should register 1/n
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Keith Stewart
4 years
Does Imperial Oil really need a public bailout @Bill_Morneau ? After $2.2B in profit last year, it had a $188M loss in Q1 2020 but that's because they gave their shareholders $438M ($164M in dividends, $274M in share buybacks) #cdnpoli #PeopleNotPolluters
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Keith Stewart
3 years
Alert the War Room: New study out in Nature Climate Change has Canadian crude oil as the second-highest in the world for carbon intensity
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Keith Stewart
6 months
CAPP: we are infinitely innovative and will dramatically cut GHGs, unless you make it a legal requirement because then it is impossible
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CAPP Oil Gas Canada
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The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers responds to the federal government emissions cap framework Despite the federal government’s stated objective that the emission cap should not put a limit on Canadian oil and natural gas production, the unintended consequences of
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Keith Stewart
2 years
Wow. The UN's @antonioguterres & @cathmckenna are putting the proverbial boots to greenwashers, which by their definition includes all the big Canadian banks that claim to be committed to net zero:
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Keith Stewart
5 years
An #elxn43 story worth following beyond the headline: It’s not just that the company co-founded by Scheer’s campaign manager (Hamish Marshall) has contracts with both CPC and CAPP for election advertising #cdnpoli
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3 years
Climate Cassandras weep. In the Greek myth, Apollo curses the Trojan princess Cassandra with the gift of prophecy. The catch: she must always tell the truth and yet will never be believed. She watches her city be burned to the ground because no one acted on her warnings.
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Alec Luhn
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Lytton, the town that set the Canadian heat record Tuesday, has literally burned to the ground
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5. On Dec 12 (while Premier & Environment Minister were busy blasting feds over methane regs designed to limit future warming / drought), @AER told oil & gas companies it regulates to prepare contingency plans in the event that they can’t withdraw water
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Keith Stewart
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@aer 8. To mitigate risk, CNRL built a reservoir to hold 28 days worth of water. Someone should ask them how confident they are re that reserve given recent events. Plus: lots of questions re allowable industrial withdrawals vs base flow levels req'd for healthy river ecosystem
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Keith Stewart
4 years
Bravo Denmark: “companies which pay out dividends, buy back own shares or are registered in tax havens won’t be eligible for any of the aid programs”
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3 years
3. This is new and likely very good (depending on the TBD carbon budgets). It cleverly calls the oil companies’ bluff on claims of climate leadership / net zero commitments by making their aspirations (that I don’t believe for a minute) a legislated requirement
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Keith Stewart
2 years
So much for their Net-Zero blah-blah: 3 Canadian banks amongst top 10 global funders of fossil fuels in 2021 @RBC @cibc @TD_Canada #fossilbanks @GreenpeaceCA
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Keith Stewart
3 months
Activists from @GreenpeaceCA have taken over Chrystia Freeland’s constituency office to say Later is Too Late: no more watering down or delays of long-promised climate policies, and add regulation of banks on climate to Budget 2024 #cdnpoli
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Keith Stewart
5 years
Today's the last day to fill up before the Ford government’s attempt to supercharge climate change by subsidizing pollution makes life more dangerous and expensive for your family #onpoli
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Keith Stewart
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That was the same banner we brought to Chrystia Freeland's office last month. Liberals need to take next steps (like regulate banks), but CPC would take us backwards at a time of record-breaking extreme weather
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5 months
@aer 10. In her op ed “Taking Action on Drought”, AB Environment Minister Schulz doesn’t even mention climate change but ends with untended pathos: “We cannot make it rain or snow, but all of us have a role to play.”
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Keith Stewart
3 years
That tremor you felt this morning - it was a massive shift in the energy-nerd tectonic plates as the oh-so-mainstream @IEA puts out a report with headline "There is no need for investment in new fossil fuel supply in our net zero pathway"
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Keith Stewart
11 months
We need to cut with both sides of the scissors: supply and demand. And the last people we should take advice from on phasing out fossil fuels are the CEOs of companies that sell it.
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The Globe and Mail
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Oil bosses urge governments to tackle demand, not supply, in bid to cut emissions
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4 years
A new poll reveals that six in 10 Canadians believe now is the time for the federal government to make “major changes to fix long-standing problems in society” like inequality, racism and the climate crisis. #cdnpoli
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Keith Stewart
3 years
Postmedia is running an op ed today from an @ImperialOil board member on how climate action is too expensive. Climate inaction is the most costly option. By far. #cdnpoli
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CBC British Columbia
3 years
Heat wave cause of 719 sudden deaths, BC Coroners Service reports
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2 years
For the last 80 years, energy security has meant maintaining access to cheap oil by any means necessary, including war. It is now being redefined as freedom from oil. #peace #FossilFreeRevolution #StandWithUkraine
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Keith Stewart
5 years
Outside the courtroom where ⁦ @fordnation ⁩ is spending $30M of our tax dollars to try to block feds from filling the climate action gap Ford govt has left by gutting ON climate plan #onpoli
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2 years
FTR, my beloved trolls: 1. Climate change is real, caused by burning fossil fuels & bad for us 2. We must urgently reduce demand for & supply of fossil fuels so our kids have a liveable world 3. Trying to change a (harmful) system you were born into is human, not hypocritical
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Four days ago, you allowed Trans Mountain to ignore its promises to the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation to protect their sacred lands
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Canada Energy Regulator
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We know we won't always get it right, but we're working to improve. Here's a glimpse of our ongoing efforts throughout the year to support #Reconciliation . #NIHM2023
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@aer 7. In its 2023 disclosure of climate-related risks to shareholders, CNRL estimated the risk of “Changing precipitation patterns and types” as “likely” & cost of not begin able to withdraw water as $27M/day to their oil sands facilities
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Keith Stewart
5 years
So no carbon pricing and now no carbon regulations? Clean Fuel Standard was the largest source of GHG reductions in the Pan-Canadian Framework on climate change. So how would the Conservative climate "plan" work (or is not working the real plan)? #cdnpoli
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CBC Politics
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Scheer vows to scrap clean fuel standard, calls Liberal plan a 'secret fuel tax' #hw #cdnpoli
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Keith Stewart
4 years
In another step-on-a-rake moment, Jason Kenney's War Room's new campaign features 'facts' that are disproved by the source they cite #ableg
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Canadian Energy Centre
4 years
"When we work, Canada works" is the theme of the new national campaign by the Canadian Energy Centre. It will feature facts, data and stories about the role Canada's oil and natural gas can play as we continue to face challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Keith Stewart
6 years
I still can't quite believe that there are more full-time beat reporters covering cannabis than climate and/or environment in Canadian mainstream media. Please subscribe / support @NatObserver @thenarwhalca and others doing this vital work.
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Keith Stewart
2 years
In today's episode of "oil companies doing bad things", a US Congressional report implicates Canada Pension Plan-owned company in a pro-fracking campaign that involved fake-grassroots groups, misleading claims, paid counter-protesters & accusations of harassment + bribery 1/n
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Keith Stewart
3 years
5. Also new is the shift from a zero emission aspiration for 2040 to a promise of a legislated requirement for 50% of new vehicles to be zero emission by 2030 & 100% by 2035. Sends clear signal to auto companies to get cracking (and build them here).
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Keith Stewart
3 years
I am genuinely surprised to see UN Secretary General be this clear (he's correct, I just expected something with a little more diplomatic bafflegab): "This [IPCC] report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet."
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Keith Stewart
4 years
Pardon the language but... holy shit this is a big victory for free speech. Resolute Forest Products ordered to pay CDN $1.15M to Greenpeace USA for legal fees from SLAPP suit.
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Greenpeace USA
4 years
BREAKING: Judge's order for logging giant to pay Greenpeace almost $1 million in attorneys’ fees and costs proves trying to silence free speech is an expensive mistake Greenpeace statement here👉
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Keith Stewart
3 years
The Alberta Inquiry put out a press release on June 18 saying enviro groups could review the allegations & evidence against them. They later told us we wouldn't get access until morning of June 29, but July 16 deadline for responses is fixed. Still hasn't happened... #ableg
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Keith Stewart
4 years
Good morning, @CDNEnergyCentre rapid response team. It's been 17 hours since I tagged you re 3 climate-related misrepresentations on your "Welcome to Cdn Energy Centre" page. You corrected the error re being a crown corporation, so I hope you will correct the record on climate
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Keith Stewart
4 years
@smccarthy55 I'll tag @CDNEnergyCentre in here - care to clarify? Do you "know" oil and gas demand will rise for decades? Is Environment Canada's data wrong? Why should we believe you over the IPCC? #ableg
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Keith Stewart
5 years
I’ve been to almost, if not all, of the major climate marches in Toronto in the last 30 years. This was unprecedented in size and eloquent rage #climatestrikeTO
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Keith Stewart
3 years
Based on Biden’s latest climate Executive Order, US will join EU and UK in ending international public finance for fossil fuels. This will ramp up pressure on Trudeau to do the same (Export Development Canada finances a LOT of oil and gas projects) #cdnpoli
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Keith Stewart
4 years
CPP funds MAGA: Canada Pension Plan bought an oil company, then gave $607K to support Republican, pro-fracking candidates in Colorado to defeat environmental protection measures #cdnpoli #cppib
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Keith Stewart
2 years
The Trans Mountain pipeline is officially a money-loser, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. In best case scenario its net present value is -$600M, worst case its NPV is -$6.3B #TMX #cdnpoli
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Keith Stewart
9 years
Oil mentioned 118 times in #Budget2015 , climate change mentioned 1 time.
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Keith Stewart
6 months
"a stunning rebuke to all the Cdn oil executives & politicians claiming that they can simply slap on some government-funded carbon capture & continue with business as usual" IEA report warns oil and gas companies against banking on carbon capture
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Keith Stewart
5 years
See my theory on how oil money is being laundered through the Manning Centre to support Conservatives via NB Proud & Strong (which also goes by Proudly New Brunswick) in this thread:
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Keith Stewart
5 years
A theory as to who is funneling money through the Manning Centre to right-wing "Strong and Proud" social media attack groups (not to be confused with Jeff Ballingall's Proud franchises) #elxn43 #cdnpoli cc @ByJamesKeller @KellyCryderman
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Keith Stewart
10 months
World's top fossil fuel funder @RBC is hiring new exec to “Develop and implement effective & lasting responses to Climate activism” Maybe if you don't do bad things, people won't say bad things about you?
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@climatekeith
Keith Stewart
3 years
12. If that ruling comes out in favour of transparency, it could be a race between FOI requests and the shredding machines over at @CDNEnergyCentre
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