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Ben Holt 🇨🇦

@beanjammin.bsky.social

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(he/him) An accidental activist. I kept waiting and waiting for someone to do something. Oh no what if everyone's waiting for me?!? Mostly climate, politics and geeky stuff. I learn by making mistakes and always seem to be learning something new.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 9h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 1d

And we wonder why BC doesn't want our pipelines

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

“A pipeline rupture that sparked a 2024 wildfire in west-central Alberta was caused by a crack, says a report released Thursday.”

If we’re debating what can cause a wildfire still…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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TSB releases findings on Alberta pipeline rupture that caused explosion, wildfire | CBC News

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada published its findings on the causes of the rupture of a natural gas pipeline near Edson, Alta.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 8h

Um, errr, yeah, no.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, cause methane isn't way worse than CO2 when it leaks and "natural gas" isn't almost entirely methane with a climate warming effect nearly identical to coal. 🙄

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 8h

Carney is far too smart not to know this. He's working for fossil fuel interests, the very people who financed Trump. Literally. Elbows down. www.dogwoodbc.ca/news/donald-...

Donald Trump’s billionaire backers plan LNG boom in Canada

Wall Street investment firms are betting on LNG projects in Canada as part of the “Unleashing American Energy” strategy, unveiled this week by President

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 9h

Contacting my MP would only work if I had a bigger bag of money than the guys who already bought him. I don't. No one does.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 9h

And our emissions from forestry are staggeringly high.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 9h

If Good Politician and Bad Politician are both "captured" (polite term) by fossil fuel interests there are only bad politicians.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 9h

And Pixie dust!

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 1d

Harper made Canada the worst climate performer among industrial nations, ranked 58th best by the international Climate Change Performance Index.

Trudeau made Canada an even worse climate arsonist than under Harper, dropping us to an even more dismal 62nd place.

Carney: "Hold my beer."

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 9h

He's waited too long to state the obvious.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 10h

It's already been approved. LNG Canada Phase Two and PRGT have been green lit. Best part, PRGT is MAGA owned. It's not just elbows down, it's come eat at our table.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 10h

No. It's us or the infrastructure.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 10h

If Carney, Eby, Smith, etc are using Trump as an excuse to build more fossil fuel infrastructure they aren't fighting Trump, they're colluding with him.

If "Good Politician" and "Bad Politician" both work for fossil fuel interests there are no good politicians.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

FWIW on Elbows Down Poilievre's not wrong.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

Keep an eye on John Rustad in BC. He's survived a leadership review, but the real knives are just coming out. Poilievre's situation is not secure.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

Made of rubble? Pretty sure they were turned to rubble.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

Sure, let's continue to pretend those rules still apply in US courts.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

Genuinely evil! The planning that has gone into Project 2025 and its execution, and all hidden in plain sight behind a wall of "incompetence." It's horrifyingly impressive.

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

The Clash in the trailer was good and all, but not what I was expecting.

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 11h

“Something that was thought to be rare is now seemingly becoming widespread."

But sure, let's distract people by RIFing & disappearing them, making healthcare costs skyrocket, & making up whoppers about Dem cities so our friends in oil & gas can put the screws to us & the planet a few more years.

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 14h

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

Between Trump and Putin the fossil fuel industry sure knows how to distract from climate action.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

I was starting down a rabbit hole of suffocation under a mountain of not quite fatally fallen bodies. So many dark recesses to explore.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 11h

Remember the good ol' days, before the US was a source of pro-democracy dissidents?

Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 12h

You've given this some thought!

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