Richard Brooks

@richardbrooks.bsky.social

Climate Finance Director @Stand.earth Fighting climate change by challenging the power of the financial institutions enabling fossil fuels companies. Banks, pensions and retirement funds on my radar. Advancing climate finance action.

Two different headlines, same day. Canada is on fire. Smoke everywhere. Yet Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Alberta Oil Premier want us to pay for another $40 billion tar sands pipeline We need massive public and private investments in renewable energy, not more planet-burning fossil fuels.

Telling that the oped in today's Globe offering full-throated approval of Carney's pipeline straight-up ignores that Asia -- the market that's supposed to save Canada by buying all Alberta's oil and gas -- is pivoting to renewables. This is a policy built for 1996, not 2026.

Your voice matters! 💚 Every chance we get, we have to challenge the fossil fuel industry on its power and lies. 🛢️ The Tilbury LNG Expansion project comes at a high cost – one we can’t afford to pay. 💔 🧵 #GreenSky

 Background photo of the Tilbury LNG facility. “WHAT'S AT RISK WITH THE TILBURY LNG EXPANSION? FortisBC wants to put British Columbia's communities, climate and wildlife at risk so they can super-size an LNG storage tank to be able to fill it up with fracked gas. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW” Arrow icon in bottom right corner.

As you take precautions to stay safe during this dangerous heatwave, remember who’s to blame: the fossil fuel execs who ignored their own scientists’ warnings decades ago so they could keep raking in profits while their polluting products supercharged climate disasters like this. #BlameBigOil.

Premier Smith wants to build a $35 billion pipeline to B.C.'s West Coast. 🤦‍♀️ Annddd, there isn’t an energy company committed to paying for it, meaning the public purse could be on the hook. 💰 This is a climate & economic disaster waiting to happen. 🗣️ Take action: https://stnd.ly/nopipelines

There is no good financial reason for Canadian public pensions to invest their members' money into the risky, malfunctioning LNG Canada project. The associated Coastal Gaslink fracked gas pipeline supplying this terminal was only built with the use of armed militarized police. #cdnpolitics

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As Carney attempts to fast-track dirty gas megaprojects, First Nations leaders have a warning: Any investors in LNG Canada will be complicit in grave violations of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, title and sovereignty. 📣 Listen to Hereditary Chief Na’Moks’ powerful message for financiers. 📣 #GreenSky

🚨 Canada’s largest pension funds are facing pressure from the federal government to finance risky LNG projects that would worsen the climate crisis and undermine their own members’ retirement security. Working and retired pension plan members are speaking out.

Pension Beneficiaries Fear Funds Will Pour Retirement Savings Into LNG

As Ottawa looks to pension funds to finance major energy projects and LNG Canada moves to double production in Kitimat, beneficiaries warn their retirement savings could become their “biggest contribu...

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After rejecting fossil fuel divestment for nearly 15 years on the grounds that a "seat at the table" can lead to transformation of the Exxons of the world, NY State Comptroller Tom Dinapoli just needs to give it up such a unproven excuse. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

NY Comptroller hopefuls held ICE-linked stocks they now criticize

In New York’s comptroller primary, candidates clash over pension divestment from Palantir, fossil fuels and ICE-linked firms.

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Big deal here, previously massive shakeup of Wall Street and who manages significant assets of the New York City pensions funds. Blackrock and State Street and their management of $87 billion of pension assets could be coming to an end. www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...

NYC Comptroller reviews BlackRock and State Street mandates in $87bn portfolio shakeup

The Office of the New York City Comptroller is reviewing its passive equity mandates managed by BlackRock and State Street in an $87bn portfolio overhaul

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BREAKING: Tim Hodgson, Canada's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, just announced a new LNG offtake agreement from Germany for the controversial Ksi Lisims LNG project, which has faced repeated backlash for its construction costs, threat to the environment... 🧵 #GreenSky

Background photo of an LNG terminal. Quote reads "This is no cause for celebration. The yet to be built Ksi Lisims LNG terminal and the 900km fracked gas pipeline to supply it are financially risky, environmentally destructive, and tied up in Indigenous community-led court challenges. We should be announcing German investments in future-proof renewables, not doubling down on the dirty gas exports of the past." Quote attributed to Richard Brooks, Climate Finance Director, Stand.earth”. Background photo of a flaring LNG facility. Photo credit reads “Photo: Supplied Photo”. Screenshot of Stand.earth press release titled “Ksi Lisims LNG offtake agreement: Bad for Canadians, sign of desperation” dated May 26, 2026.

Today the Canadian Minister of Gas announces a deal for yet to built Ksi Lisims LNG to supply Germany with a mere 8.5% of the terminal's output. Justification: Help Europe secure its energy needs. Truth: It's a sham and desperate bid for a delayed overbudget project. 🧵 stand.earth/press-releas...

Ksi Lisims LNG offtake agreement: Bad for Canadians, sign of desperation - Stand.earth

səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) territories (VANCOUVER, B.C.) – In response to Canada Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson’s expected...

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Estimated cost to replace the roughly 15 Snowbird stunt aircraft - sole purpose is to fly loops in the sky over county fairs in Canada? $200 million. How many houses, doctors, electric buses, teachers, [insert anything more valuable] is that? #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Snowbirds to be grounded until early 2030s while new planes are acquired

Flying season that begins this month will be the acrobatic unit’s last for several years

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Carney is selling all out to appease the Alberta separatist bogeyman that Premier Danielle Smith has so cleverly played. She's a Trump-aligned traitor, ready to sign away our climate and communities for Big Oil. @mark-carney.bsky.social just caved. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Ottawa, Alberta close to reaching industrial carbon pricing deal, sources say

Agreement would dramatically roll back Trudeau-era climate policy, set stage for new oil pipeline to B.C. coast

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Lemon alert! LNG Canada again facing operational issues. Here's the litany this time: 1. Main flare tip cracked. Twice. in March. 2. Backup flare tip flared 16 million cubic metres of gas in one month 3. Acid gas incinerator went offline 4... 🧵 Thread www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

LNG Canada reports operational issues at B.C. plant

An emissions report LNG Canada filed to the B.C. Energy Regulator details operational issues at the plant in March as it continued to surpass the amount of gas it is allowed to burn off through flarin...

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