4 stories on wildfire evacuations in news section of Globe & Mail yesterday, then these 3 in business section on booming profits of oil/gas companies that cause the problem. Worse than failure to link those the news stories, Canada is increasing subsidies for oil/gas as the world burns. #cdnpoli

Are you listening, Mark Carney? Back-bench Liberals? UN Secretary General: “Every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous, and our world less secure." unfccc.int/news/un-secr...

The private sector doesn't want more pipeline. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Canada's Enbridge postpones plans for second phase of Mainline oil pipeline expansion

Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge has postponed the 250,000-barrel-per-day second phase ‌of its Mainline crude pipeline network, it said on Friday, partly because Canadian oil producers have not com...

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Greenpeace reaction: "We're running out of words to describe the obscenity of these numbers. Europe is engulfed by apocalyptic wildfires, communities across Asia are reeling from devastating floods, and the UK battles through drought and yet more dangerous heat" news.sky.com/story/shell-...

Shell faces backlash as profits rise 70% on back of war

Climate activists accuse the industry of profiting from the effects of the US-Iran conflict at a time when Europe is burning on the back of its business.

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We are confronting an attempt to create a war economy that will involve huge austerity and increased authoritarianism. Every killing machine the merchants of death produce means less resources to provide the things people desperately need.

SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal

Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5

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I think a lot of people who entered this issue in the late 2010s (2019 - 2022 ish) left almost immediately once they saw focus fall away, whereas the people who've lived through 8 years of media ignoring this issue understand what needs to be done in that situation

Add 'the polluting gas turbines that power it" to the long list of the things that AI (as it currently exists) is wrecking

Harriet Weber@harri.bsky.social · last wk.

Here's the deal with the pre-review study Tesla funded on turbine carnage. This is my first piece on the Data Centers Breaking Things beat. TLDR; AI training is wearing out, even breaking, a critical source of energy for AI training www.investors.com/news/turbine...

This G&M editorial (fairly) berates Ford govt for not doing enough to prepare for & prevent wildfire damage. Yet no mention of why "fires become more frequent & widespread" or how to prevent that (or how their unalloyed oil boosterism contributes to problem) www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

NEW from me and Darius Snieckus: Export Development Canada financed the Greenlignt gas plant powering Meta’s data centre in Sturgeon County. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/24/n...

Crown corp lends up to $200M for Meta data centre gas plant in Alberta

The gas plant, known as Greenlight, is classified as a project that is “likely to have significant adverse environmental and social effects.”

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Here's a fun little coincidence I noticed: Every Republican Congressmember loudly blaming Canada's forest management policies for this year's unprecedented wildfires (and ignoring climate change) is a massive recipient of fossil fuel funding. Receipts👇

new (wonkish) @climateinstitute.bsky.social post from @enveco.bsky.social & me on carbon market price floors in the Alberta-🇨🇦 MOU. The price floor being proposed is not the same mechanism we've called for, and might actually *exacerbate* credit oversupply climateinstitute.ca/not-all-carb...

Not all carbon market price floors are created equal

The “administrative” carbon market price floor proposed by the Alberta-Canada MOU will entrench oversupply in credit markets over time.

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Alberta electricity companies are telling the public data centres will save Albertans money. But the companies are telling investors they'll triple electricity costs. An investigation by @rorywh.bsky.social

Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres

In Capital Power's latest earnings call, the company's CEO, Avik Dey, told analysts that he couldn't rule out prices of "$80 or $90" per megawatt hour of electricity by early 2028. By 2029, rival comp...

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"It's very shameful that we are living in a country where Indigenous people are made to be climate refugees in their own homelands." - Riley Yesno < @rileyyesnomaybe.bsky.social >, Eabametoong First Nation member www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

First Nation leaders, community members decry response to northern Ontario wildfires | CBC News

With about 600 Eabametoong First Nation members at the centre of another evacuation due to northern Ontario wildfires, community leaders speak out about what makes First Nations more vulnerable to suc...

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U.S. senator Bernie Moreno is sponsoring legislation that would impose draconian sanctions on the Canadian government & senior officials as punishment for wildfire smoke wafting across border. It's as ridiculous as it is worrying (re state of US democracy) www.moreno.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

With the Odyssey in theatres, all of my media reactions will now reference Greek myths: Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...

Republicans in Congress are threatening Canada's sovereignty over climate change fueled wildfires. Here's how much money they've taken from the fossil fuel industry recently. James: $308k+ Bergman: $175k+ McClain: $105k+ Moolenaar: $133k+ - oh and he's a climate denier. Completely shameless.

‘Sovereignty comes with responsibility:’ U.S. lawmakers to Canada on wildfires - National | Globalnews.ca

As wildfire smoke blankets parts of the country, and spills into the United States, some U.S. lawmakers are calling on Canada to do more.

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Trump's embrace of fossil-fueled policy drives a climate crisis causing extreme drought & heat conditions that make fires more likely, frequent, & extreme. Fires devastating Canada & Minnesota are spreading pollution harming the health of millions. Fossil fuels literally put the fuel on the fire.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

This column captures much of what I have been feeling

Adam Radwanski@aradwanski.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not the kind of climate change column I’ve normally written, or want to write, but I felt I had to. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

From @tanyatalaga.bsky.social: Why did members of a northwest Ontario First Nation have to be ‘their own heroes’ amid wildfire? Indigenous people continue to feel the brunt of climate change impacts www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Why did members of a northwest Ontario First Nation have to be ‘their own heroes’ amid wildfire?

In the face of ‘pure devastation,’ Northern Ontario reserves were largely left to fend for themselves, with the provincial and federal governments failing to even respond to calls

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There's no fossil fuel based energy security in the age of ubiquitous cheap long-range attack drones.

Yes we do.

Toronto Environmental Alliance@toenviro.bsky.social · 3w ago

MEDIA: TEA calls on governments to take stronger climate action in light of smoke and heat: https://loom.ly/vzKA18M “Today, too many Torontonians face an impossible choice: open a window and let in dangerous wildfire smoke, or keep it closed and trap the overwhelming heat.” - TEA's @how-sen.com

Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w ago

The world wants to do more with Canada. Our MOU with Alberta will unlock those opportunities in energy — and create lasting benefits for Canadians.

I hope that when Liberal MPs who claim to care about climate change wake up coughing on smoke from a climate-fueled wildfire that is devastating First Nations communities in northern Ontario, they ask themselves: Do we really want to buy oil CEOs another pipeline? www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Wildfires in northern Ontario force First Nations to flee

Several wildfires are forcing members of a number of First Nations to flee their homes in northern Ontario.

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I don't love the smell of climate change in the morning

The sad thing is IMO I don’t think the world’s going to need this oil in the early 2030s when it comes on line, which will come through as low prices, low royalties, and huge long term increased emissions and cleanup liabilities we won’t have funds for. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oilsands emissions on track to outpace reductions from Pathways project: economist | CBC News

Increased oilsands production from a new pipeline to the West Coast would lead to an average of 20 megatonnes in new emissions per year, the Canadian Climate Institute projects.

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Tell me again how now (still) isn't the right time to fight climate change

Unofficial CTV News Mirror@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘It was definitely eerie’: Daylight turns to darkness in Quebec as wildfires cause thunderstorm

My comment in this story: "This is a master class in greenwash, as the pollution reductions committed to in this agreement are only seven per cent of current carbon pollution from the oilsands and would be dwarfed by the additional pollution enabled by a new, taxpayer-financed pipeline."

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cutting emissions. Catalysing massive private investments in clean tech. Creating thousands of good jobs.   The Pathways Project will be the world’s largest carbon capture, utilisation, and storage project — built right here in Alberta.

You can tell an infrastructure project is desperately needed by a private industry when the government has to pay for it and also pay that private industry to use it.

Alberta will provide oilsands producers with incentives to fill proposed West Coast pipeline

Five major companies also agreed to build Pathways carbon capture and storage mega-project

ca.finance.yahoo.com