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Canadian, independent, non-profit news agency reporting on climate change, solutions, and the pathways to net-zero through in-depth and wide-ranging coverage. 🔗 theenergymix.com

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 3h ago

In the midst of wildfires, heat waves, and flooding across Canada, Prime Minister Carney set a September 18 deadline for comments on a move to designate the West Coast Pipeline as a project of national interest under the Building Canada Act. #pipelines #cdnpoli #anybetterideas

Feds Move to Fast-Track West Coast Pipeline as Opponents Turn Up the Heat

The federal government’s latest move to fast-track the controversial West Coast Pipeline has opened up a new opportunity for opponents to turn up the heat on elected representatives to block the proje...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 3h ago

“When people stand together with courage and conviction, change is possible," said Bay Mills Indian Community Pres. Gravelle. “The Straits of Mackinac are not simply a route for an oil pipeline. They are sacred waters, the heart of creation for Anishinaabe people, and a source of life for millions.”

Michigan Supreme Court Suspends Enbridge Permit for Line 5 Pipeline Tunnel

In a landmark victory for Michigan First Nations and others working to defend the Great Lakes ecosystem, the Michigan Supreme Court has rescinded a permit critical to Enbridge Inc.’s plan to replace a...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ yesterday

As devastating #wildfires continue to burn across swaths of Canada, the United States, and Europe, oil major #Shell posted $9.8 billion in second quarter profits, more than double its earnings from this time last year. #climatechange

Wildfires Rage Across 2 Continents as Shell Posts ‘Scandalous’ $9.8B Quarterly Profit

As devastating wildfires continue to burn across swaths of Canada, the United States, and Europe, oil major Shell posted $9.8 billion in second quarter profits, more than double its earnings from this...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 2d ago

The proportion of Canadians who identify environment & climate change as a top-3 concern has jumped from 14 to 21% in the last four months, as a summer of epic wildfires, heat domes, and flooding creates what the @angusreidinstitute.bsky.social calls “thorny challenges” for the Carney government.

Summer of Wildfires Drives 50% Rise in Canadians’ Climate Concern, Prompts Shift for Some Liberal Voters

The proportion of Canadians who identify environment and climate change as a top-three concern has jumped 50% in the last four months, from 14 to 21%, as a summer of epic wildfires, heat domes, and fl...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 3d ago

Jody MacPherson's investigative reporting on data centres for The Energy Mix has been bringing to light details that aren't being freely shared with the public, even within the communities where the projects are being proposed. jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/icymi-temp...

ICYMI: Temporary Grid Power for Data Centres Will Raise Electricity Bills, Alberta Grid Operator Admits

Appeared originally in The Energy Mix on July 10, 2026, updated with full answers from AESO, more quotes from Pembina, and news of a government loan to support the Meta power plant

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 4d ago

"Disinformation minimizes the seriousness of the situation. It systematically redirects our indignation to the wrong targets. It reverses the solutions and the culprits." -Karel Mayrand, in this week's Weekender. @karelmayrand.bsky.social energymixweekender.substack.com/p/it-looks-l...

It Looks Like an AI Image. But the Photos of Beachgoers Watching a Wildfire Are Real.

Wildfire images from Europe and closer by show that the climate emergency is now. But misinformation abounds as powerful interests try to redirect attention, discredit climate solutions.

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 6d ago

Grateful and honoured to have partnered with @irpp.org exploring how communities are building resilience and optimism in the face of transformations in technology, markets, trade relationships, and emissions reductions. Full report, community profiles, and more, here: irpp.org/community-tr...

The Community Transformations Project - IRPP

The Community Transformations Project Supporting Workers and Communities on the Road to Net Zero Summary Canada’s communities are facing major challenges, and opportunities, in the coming decades as t...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 2w ago

If you're looking for an entertaining twist on game night, and one that's likely to get a lively discussion going, how about playing the Any Better Ideas challenge this weekend with friends and family? Full details and inspiration here: www.theenergymix.com/the-west-coa...

Any Better Ideas?

We’re curious about your reaction to up to $43.7B of Canadians’ tax dollars going to a proposed gas pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 2w ago

What if the graphite needed for a rapidly-growing battery supply chain could be produced and refined without using extensive water and toxins like hydrofluoric acid that currently make it a hazardous, environmentally-unfriendly, and expensive process? www.theenergymix.com/montreal-sta...

Montreal Start-Up Has Cleaner, Cheaper Graphite Refining Process

Green Graphite Technologies plans full-scale production by 2030, possibly taking graphite off the standard critical minerals list.

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IRPP@irpp.org ¡ 2w ago

Our 10th and final Community Transformations profile on Fort McMurray helps to provide a deeper understanding of the people and communities most affected by the outcomes of pipelines and carbon capture. Read it here: irpp.org/research-stu... @theenergymix.com @rsamson.bsky.social

Fort McMurray: The Heart of the Alberta Oil Sands Finds its Strength in a World of Change - IRPP

For decades, Fort McMurray has been synonymous with one thing: the oil sands, a vast deposit of viscous, heavy oil mixed with fine sand that accounts for the fourth-largest proven oil reserves in the ...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 2w ago

How long has Canada known about fossil fuels causing climate change? Longer than we claim, says a new report showing the U.S., Canada and China were made aware of research by their own advisors showing the link in the 1950s www.theenergymix.com/governmentsk...

#GovernmentsKnew About Climate Risks Decades Earlier Than They Now Admit

While major emitting countries say they can't be held accountable for climate harm that predates their awareness of the risks, a new report from the U.S. Center for International Environmental Law sho...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 2w ago

#Trump's #wildfire tariff threat was the latest in a series of summer conspiracy theories across North America & Europe, apparently seeking to shift responsibility for #extremeweather and obscure the role of #climatechange & GHG emissions.

Ex-MP Angus Declares ‘Age of the Predator’ as Trump Officials Ponder Wildfire Tariff

Hot on the heels of a new round of 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports, scheduled to take effect Aug. 19, Donald Trump has instructed his administration to look into a separate punitive me...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 2w ago

In the latest instalment of Hidden Wonder Valley, Jody MacPherson explores how as hyperscale #datacentres move into more and more small, #ruralcommunities in the absence of adequate legislative and policy frameworks, communities are becoming increasingly exposed to #misinformation.

As Data Centres Multiply, Government Silence Leaves Communities Exposed to Misinformation

As experts warn that misinformation and disinformation are existential threats to Canadian democracy, communities watching hyperscale data centres move into their neighbourhoods say they are being sto...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 2w ago

The Mix is asking for #anybetterideas on how our federal government should spend the $43.7 billion they recently committed to the West Coast Pipeline. Adamant, a new public policy organization, has mapped out five clean megaprojects that they say would be worth building a nation around. Recap here:

Build Canada Better: Five Clean Megaprojects Worth Building a Nation Around

Instead of propping up sunsetting industries, Canada needs a hard pivot to large-scale, transformative, distributed energy megaprojects.

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 2w ago

Anger is high across Canada as nearly 1,000 #wildfires burn (Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre). #FirstNations communities left to be "their own heroes," firefighters battling #misinformation alongside the flames, and growing frustration about Ottawa’s pivot away from serious #climateaction.

Wildfire Season Bursts Open as First Nations Face Infernos, Firefighters Battle Misinformation

From First Nations communities confronting systemic failures that leave them fleeing ahead of infernos, to firefighters battling misinformation alongside the flames, to smoke-choked urban commentators...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 3w ago

Dozens of #fires burning in northern Ontario have forced people from their communities and burned the #Namaygoosisagagun First Nation to the ground. #Smoke from those fires is causing air quality warnings across Ontario and in multiple U.S. states. U.S. elected officials have responded with outrage.

U.S. Lawmakers Threaten Sanctions, Annexation as Winds Carry Canadian Wildfire Smoke South

Some U.S. lawmakers on Thursday threatened to sanction Canada—or even possibly annex it entirely—as they raged about wildfire smoke blanketing many parts of Canada and swaths of the United States.

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 3w ago

#Pathways won't come close to capturing all the emissions from the new West Coast pipeline, Canadian Climate Institute says, meaning Canada's #GHG emissions are on track to increase significantly. @climateinstitute.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/oil-sands-em...

Oil Sands Emissions Will Outpace Reductions from Pathways CCS, Climate Institute Warns

The Canadian Climate Institute’s Principal Economist, Dave Sawyer, estimates average new emissions from the oil sands at 20 million tonnes per year, well above the total the industry is offering to ca...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 3w ago

Community opposition blocked or delayed US$64 billion of #datacentre projects in the United States in less than a year, yet community concerns do not make the top-four list of considerations for data centre proponents when they pick a location.

Community Pushback Blocks $64B in U.S. Data Centre Development

Community opposition blocked or delayed US$64 billion of data centre projects in the United States in less than a year, yet community concerns do not make the top-four list of considerations for data ...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 3w ago

Joannah Lawson is a philanthropist, nutritionist, and co-founder of the Brian and Joannah Lawson Family Foundation. She spoke with Mitchell Beer about #food, #farming, and how connecting with people around issues they already care about can lead to important discussions about #climate change.

Q&A: Focus on Food is a ‘Powerful Lever’ to Talk Climate, Sequester Carbon, Lawson Says

In a feature interview with The Energy Mix, philanthropist Joannah Lawson finds hope in recent gains in the energy transition and regenerative agriculture—and stresses an intergenerational duty to hel...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 3w ago

The #PathwaysProject "is a master class in #greenwash." "Pollution reductions committed to in this agreement are only 7% of current carbon pollution from the #oilsands and would be dwarfed by the additional pollution enabled by a new, taxpayer-financed #pipeline," says @keithstewart.bsky.social.

‘Master Class in Greenwash’ as Ottawa, Alberta, Oil Sands Alliance Unveil CCS Deal

Multi-billion-dollar Pathways project will capture the equivalent of 6.5% of oil sands’ current production emissions in 2035, and won’t touch the 80% of emissions in each barrel that are exported—if t...

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The Energy Mix@theenergymix.com ¡ 3w ago

July 14 at noon ET, the Climate Communications Alliance is hosting "Beyond the Headlines: Climate News Trends and Communications Strategy." Join climate organizer & strategist @alexcoolfergus.bsky.social, env'tal journalist @arnokopecky.bsky.social, CBC's @inayatsingh.com, and Mitchell Beer.

Beyond the Headlines:Climate News Trends and Communications Strategy ¡ Zoom ¡ Luma

How is the climate story changing in today's media landscape—and what does that mean for the people working to shape public understanding and action? Join us…

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