Calvin Beauchesne
@greencalvin.bsky.social
Climate policy wonk. 2024 BC Green Candidate. MA Sustainability Studies. Outdoor enthusiast and musician. Website: climatecal1.wordpress.com Podcast: ‘Climate Wired!’ https://open.spotify.com/show/7oggfw07pW2dZkVrguFjlk?si=WOnVsUdkSLWgQ_L2B3zgsQ
Remember as your eyes burn from the smoke today, Ken Sim and ABC voted to allow fracked gas in new builds, cancelled $8 million in climate retrofit grants; voted against funding for cooling kits for people in the Downtown Eastside; and got rid of the climate justice charter.
Progressive Democratic Candidate wins primary against pro-Israel Candidate in Michigan. Blue wave coming in November. www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan's Democratic Senate primary in major victory for party's progressive wing | CBC News
Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan's Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, defeating Rep. Haley Stevens in a massive victory for the party's progressive wing in a battleground state.
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Record-breaking heat wave grips Northeast Asia. More than 18,000 people in Japan transported to hospitals in 1 week with heat stroke symptoms. Over 17,000 livestock animals and 160,000 farmed fish in S. Korea have died. Lions dying in zoos due to heat-related illnesses. www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...
Record-breaking heat grips North Korea, South Korea and Japan | CBC News
Extreme temperatures in Japan and the Korean peninsula have led to deaths and illnesses and affected day-to-day life, during a heat wave that South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has deemed a "nationa...
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Go Mike! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Former Green MP Mike Morrice announces he's running to be party's next leader | CBC News
Mike Morrice, the former Member of Parliament for the riding of Kitchener Centre in southern Ontario, has announced he's one of two candidates running to be the next leader of the federal party.
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Approving a new oil pipeline as our country burns from fossil-fuelled wildfires and faces record-breaking heat www.cbc.ca/news/politic... @mark-carney.bsky.social @juliedabrusin.bsky.social #cdnpoli
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
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We’ve teamed up with @leahgazan.bsky.social to launch an official parliamentary petition. This will take our message right to the floor of the House of Commons and force the government to respond. Help us fight Carney’s plan to fast-track destruction!
Thanks @mark-carney.bsky.social @juliedabrusin.bsky.social for helping to fry our planet
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d agoMark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:
So I guess the federal pledge to end thermal coal exports by 2030 is done now too? @mark-carney.bsky.social @juliedabrusin.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Plans for sprawling coal mine expansion forge ahead in Alberta despite opposition | CBC News
A sprawling expansion of a massive thermal coal mine near Hinton, Alta., has been approved by Alberta’s provincial regulator, clearing the way for the operator to extend the life of the project well i...
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Alberta approves expansion for massive thermal coal mine without regulatory hearing or federal impact assessment, making it largest coal mine in NA. Also despite federal pledge to phase out thermal coal exports by 2030. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Plans for sprawling coal mine expansion forge ahead in Alberta despite opposition | CBC News
A sprawling expansion of a massive thermal coal mine near Hinton, Alta., has been approved by Alberta’s provincial regulator, clearing the way for the operator to extend the life of the project well i...
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Insect populations face serious declines in Canada according to scientists with consequences for fish, birds, bats, plants and people. Insects are also crucial for pollinating plants and breaking down dead and rotting plant and animal matter. www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Where have all the bugs gone? Scientists are finding sharp declines | CBC News
Many people remember road trips back in the day that left windshields splattered with insects – and may get the uncomfortable feeling that things have changed. Here's what researchers are finding.
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Air quality in Beautiful British Columbia is worsening due to fossil-fuelled wildfire smoke, according to BC Lung Foundation. Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) is responsible for roughly 1900 premature deaths in BC every year according to report. #bcpoli #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
All that wildfire smoke is making B.C.'s air quality worse, report finds | CBC News
The B.C. Lung Foundation's annual State of the Air report has found that wildfires are now the leading cause of fine particulate matter pollution in the province.
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The same province that wants a pipeline is hostile to Canadian clean energy. #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli
Calvin Beauchesne@greencalvin.bsky.social · last wk.Corporate renewable energy deals have declined by 99% since 2023 in Alberta when moratorium on new clean energy projects was first announced. Since moratorium was lifted new restrictions and regulations have hampered new investment. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Corporate renewable energy deals have declined by 99% since 2023 in Alberta when moratorium on new clean energy projects was first announced. Since moratorium was lifted new restrictions and regulations have hampered new investment. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta’s renewable energy industry still recovering from 2023 decline, experts say | CBC News
New pipeline and data centre projects are making headway in Alberta but the renewable energy industry in the province is still facing headwinds, experts say.
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Another pipeline puts the already critically endangered southern resident killer whales at risk of extinction #cdnpoli #abooli #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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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Decline in ecosystems/species since pre-industrial times: Coral reefs > 50% Amazon rainforest > 20% (>58% degraded) Blue whales > 97% Loggerhead sea turtles > 47% Chimpanzees > 80% Monarch butterflies > 95% Bengal tigers > 97% Kelp forests > 50% Emperor penguins > 22%
Amidst all the blood and chaos in Ukraine nature also struggles to survive. Ukraine’s war zone is home to at least 22 endemic plant and 12 animal species not found anywhere else in the world, all of which are threatened with extinction because of the war. www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...
Ukraine's wild horses and other wildlife put at risk by years of war | CBC News
From Chornobyl's endangered wild horses to bird nests made of drone cables, modern warfare is reshaping fragile ecosystems along Ukraine’s front lines.
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Running list of climate policies being shredded under Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social
Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada@citizenslobbyca.bsky.social · 2w agoHonestly, this is absolute hell what the government is doing right now. It makes no sense economically or environmentally to go down this path. It’s a colossal disappointment. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada spent more than $10 billion in 2025 on fossil fuel subsidies, financing and other incentives despite 2023 pledge from Trudeau gov to phase them out. And Ottawa plans to spend around $35 billion in tax dollars on new pipeline to west coast. #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Public funding for fossil fuel industry breaks another Liberal climate promise, advocates say | CBC News
The Carney government's financial support for the oil and gas industry amounts to breaking a federal commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, according to environmental advocates.
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Calvin Beauchesne@greencalvin.bsky.social · 2w agoAll of this is just a taste of what’s to come. If we had listened to scientists decades ago we could have avoided this, but here we are. And the fact that politicians still want to expand fossil fuel production is unfathomable, greedy and 100% criminal.
The fact that ppl still don’t think climate change is an emergency in 2026 is incomprehensible. We’ve had record-breaking heat domes, wildfires and floods. Thousands of people are dying from extreme heat, animals are starving to death, millions of ppl breathing in polluted air from wildfire smoke.
Brown pelicans are starving to death thanks to fossil fuelled global heating youtu.be/mW1fnFNl-pk?... @juliedabrusin.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @melaniejolycan.bsky.social
Brown pelicans starving, dying in Bay Area due to Marine heat wave, wildlife experts warn
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4 daily heat records reached or breached on Monday in Squamish, Kitimat, Sechelt and Dease Lake at 34.6C. BC Hydro says summer power consumption in province may reach all time highs this week as more people use A/C. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #bcpoli #cdnpoli
Heat warnings in effect for much of southern B.C. | CBC News
Temperatures in coastal areas are expected to surpass 30 C, while the southern Interior and Fraser Valley can expect temperatures into the mid-30s, according to Environment Canada.
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BC needs more EV charging stations so this is welcome news, but to get more people in EVs we also need financial incentives. Bringing back EV rebates would help speed up EV procurement in the province. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli #bcpoli
B.C. Hydro aims to add 2,500 public EV charging ports by 2035 | CBC News
B.C.'s Crown power utility is planning to add more than 2,500 public charging ports for electric vehicles by 2035, nearly tripling the size of its network.
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BC’s first battery energy storage project is coming to province. Batteries mean electricity can run off wind and solar energy when wind isn’t blowing or sun isn’t shining. #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. announces 1st battery energy storage project, to be housed on Vancouver Island | CBC News
B.C. Hydro says the project will be housed near Duncan and will allow energy to be saved up and used during peak times.
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Ontario is in the midst of its worst wildfire season on record, breaking previous record in 2021, thanks in part to fossil-fuelled global heating. Several record-breaking or near record-breaking heat waves in July. @juliedabrusin.bsky.social #cdnpoli #onpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario is in the middle of its worst wildfire season, early estimates suggest | CBC News
The province's latest numbers suggest fires have burned through more than 7,250 square kilometres of Ontario's forest, surpassing the previous record set in 2021. Most of the burning has been in the p...
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@davidebybc.bsky.social your support for fossil gas expansion during times like these is disgraceful and short sighted. Such reckless decisions make people like you unfit for office. People are dying, lives are being ruined and you are pouring fuel on the fires. @adriandix.bsky.social #bcpoli
