Eric Doherty
@ericdoherty.bsky.social
Transportation Planner. #Climatejustice activist. He/him. Lekwungen Territory (Victoria Canada). @eric_doherty on Twitter https://ecoplanning.ca/ #yyj #ElbowsUp
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How #BC's New Economic Plan Gets it all Wrong by @policyalternatives.ca senior economist @marclee.bsky.social #bcecon thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
How BC’s New Economic Plan Gets It All Wrong | The Tyee
The government’s ‘Look West’ strategy doubles down on resource extraction at the expense of smarter spending.
thetyee.ca
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
How #BC's New Economic Plan Gets it all Wrong by @policyalternatives.ca senior economist @marclee.bsky.social #bcecon thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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Fires are still burning in the Arctic in the winter. The climate catastrophe is here.
Spending political energy to massively increase pipeline production in Canada is not nation-building. It is planet burning.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Spending political energy to massively increase pipeline production in Canada is not nation-building. It is planet burning.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests
Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Fires are still burning in the Arctic in the winter. The climate catastrophe is here.
Spending political energy to massively increase pipeline production in Canada is not nation-building. It is planet burning.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Spending political energy to massively increase pipeline production in Canada is not nation-building. It is planet burning.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We could live in a country where we reduce our energy bills, clean our air and water, revitalize our communities, take back our energy sovereignty, and create thousands of good-paying union jobs in the process.
The secret? Public ownership.
The secret? Public ownership.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We could live in a country where we reduce our energy bills, clean our air and water, revitalize our communities, take back our energy sovereignty, and create thousands of good-paying union jobs in the process.
The secret? Public ownership.
The secret? Public ownership.
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At 9am tomorrow morning the #CleanBC review will be released at news.gov.bc.ca Link to livestream below ⬇️#bcpoli
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
At 9am tomorrow morning the #CleanBC review will be released at news.gov.bc.ca Link to livestream below ⬇️#bcpoli
"Openly opposed to a ferry terminal in Royal Bay, [Colwood Mayor] Kobayashi said he was particularly concerned about the potential for valuable waterfront land to be consumed by parking lots."
Seems to me that Royal Bay needs a bus lane, and lots more buses?
vicnews.com/2025/11/25/p... #yyj
Seems to me that Royal Bay needs a bus lane, and lots more buses?
vicnews.com/2025/11/25/p... #yyj
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
"Openly opposed to a ferry terminal in Royal Bay, [Colwood Mayor] Kobayashi said he was particularly concerned about the potential for valuable waterfront land to be consumed by parking lots."
Seems to me that Royal Bay needs a bus lane, and lots more buses?
vicnews.com/2025/11/25/p... #yyj
Seems to me that Royal Bay needs a bus lane, and lots more buses?
vicnews.com/2025/11/25/p... #yyj
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Trump and his Administration are targeting me because I said something they didn’t like — but here’s the thing: I won’t be intimidated into silence. I’ve overcome challenges a lot tougher than Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth.
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Trump and his Administration are targeting me because I said something they didn’t like — but here’s the thing: I won’t be intimidated into silence. I’ve overcome challenges a lot tougher than Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth.
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Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:
In a 2024 paper criticizing the 'billion-dollar-disasters' database, Roger Pielke Jr. published analysis that is best described as a Russian-doll of errors.
Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down
In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.
economicsfromthetopdown.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:
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The CleanBC review will be out tomorrow morning
Energy Minister Adrian Dix is holding a 9am press conference with Green MLA Jeremy Valeriote and review co-leads Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz #bcpoli
It will be live streamed: www.youtube.com/live/Bc6-yKH...
Energy Minister Adrian Dix is holding a 9am press conference with Green MLA Jeremy Valeriote and review co-leads Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz #bcpoli
It will be live streamed: www.youtube.com/live/Bc6-yKH...
Hold for Minister Dix Announcement
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The CleanBC review will be out tomorrow morning
Energy Minister Adrian Dix is holding a 9am press conference with Green MLA Jeremy Valeriote and review co-leads Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz #bcpoli
It will be live streamed: www.youtube.com/live/Bc6-yKH...
Energy Minister Adrian Dix is holding a 9am press conference with Green MLA Jeremy Valeriote and review co-leads Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz #bcpoli
It will be live streamed: www.youtube.com/live/Bc6-yKH...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Dear @davidebybc.bsky.social ⬇️ #bcpoli
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Dear @davidebybc.bsky.social ⬇️ #bcpoli
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Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
What do premiers Doug Ford (Ontario) and David Eby (BC) have in common? 'Bikelash' - political attacks on walking, rolling and cycling! (I understand Ford's motivations, but Eby's are a mystery.)
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November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
What do premiers Doug Ford (Ontario) and David Eby (BC) have in common? 'Bikelash' - political attacks on walking, rolling and cycling! (I understand Ford's motivations, but Eby's are a mystery.)
Support @velocanadabikes.bsky.social! Click here to donate: mailchi.mp/velocanadabi... #bcpoli
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Today the ON gov't passed a bill which amends the Highway Traffic Act to ban municipalities from building any bike lane that would reconfigure roads.
We made a submission to Premier Doug Ford, Min. of Transport Prabmeet Sarkaria & Min. of Municipal Affairs & Housing Rob Flack.
lnkd.in/dxDN7hig
We made a submission to Premier Doug Ford, Min. of Transport Prabmeet Sarkaria & Min. of Municipal Affairs & Housing Rob Flack.
lnkd.in/dxDN7hig
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today the ON gov't passed a bill which amends the Highway Traffic Act to ban municipalities from building any bike lane that would reconfigure roads.
We made a submission to Premier Doug Ford, Min. of Transport Prabmeet Sarkaria & Min. of Municipal Affairs & Housing Rob Flack.
lnkd.in/dxDN7hig
We made a submission to Premier Doug Ford, Min. of Transport Prabmeet Sarkaria & Min. of Municipal Affairs & Housing Rob Flack.
lnkd.in/dxDN7hig
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Today, despite hundreds of people speaking and thousands writing in opposition, Vancouver's Mayor and his ABC majority on council passed their "zero means zero" budget, which freezes property taxes for those fortunate enough to own homes at the expense of everyone else. 1/
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Today, despite hundreds of people speaking and thousands writing in opposition, Vancouver's Mayor and his ABC majority on council passed their "zero means zero" budget, which freezes property taxes for those fortunate enough to own homes at the expense of everyone else. 1/
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Congrats to the VPD on defunding the City.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Congrats to the VPD on defunding the City.
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Something very cool just happened to #Montreal.
Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Something very cool just happened to #Montreal.
Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
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A sad day for climate action. Heathrow’s third runway getting government backing sends the message that airport expansion matters more than safeguarding our future. We need leadership that prioritises people and planet. #Climate
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Heathrow's plan for longer third runway chosen by government
Under the selected plan, the runway would be up to 3.5km long and require a new road tunnel under the airport.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A sad day for climate action. Heathrow’s third runway getting government backing sends the message that airport expansion matters more than safeguarding our future. We need leadership that prioritises people and planet. #Climate
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Instead of confronting the fundamental problem, voluntary care is being overshadowed. Many people requiring involuntary treatment were once less sick, but were unable to access voluntary care when they needed it.
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
Today the BC NDP introduced Bill 31, the Mental Health Amendment Act, in response to an ongoing court case.
The BC Greens say the move is an opportunistic effort to protect its defence of involuntary treatment.
#bcpoli
Our statement ⬇️
The BC Greens say the move is an opportunistic effort to protect its defence of involuntary treatment.
#bcpoli
Our statement ⬇️
BC Greens question when the BC NDP will implement a full review of the Mental Health Act instead of tinkering around the edges - BC Green Caucus
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2025 VICTORIA, B.C. – The BC Greens say the BC NDP’s move to amend Section 31 of the Mental Health Act is an opportunistic effort to protect its defence of involunta...
bcgreencaucus.ca
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Instead of confronting the fundamental problem, voluntary care is being overshadowed. Many people requiring involuntary treatment were once less sick, but were unable to access voluntary care when they needed it.
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
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Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social has "just put climate in the drawer and forgotten about it" suggests @marclee.bsky.social . Are you going to let him keep 'forgetting' about the future of his children's generation? (Don't forget that the #CleanBC Review is due by then end of Nov!) #bcpoli
Premier Eby recently described B.C. as Canada’s future “economic engine,” one that would be powered “by clean, reliable, affordable power.”
Ten days later, BC Hydro quietly released a more muted vision of the path ahead. @zoeyunker.bsky.social explains. ⚡️ #bcpoli
Ten days later, BC Hydro quietly released a more muted vision of the path ahead. @zoeyunker.bsky.social explains. ⚡️ #bcpoli
Will BC Electrify Its Economy? BC Hydro Doubts It | The Tyee
The Crown corporation’s new long-term plan for BC’s energy future is a missed opportunity to commit to electrification, experts say.
thetyee.ca
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social has "just put climate in the drawer and forgotten about it" suggests @marclee.bsky.social . Are you going to let him keep 'forgetting' about the future of his children's generation? (Don't forget that the #CleanBC Review is due by then end of Nov!) #bcpoli
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This will kill people. Expecting people to be able to safely withdraw from fentanyl or other hard drugs *while being homeless* is an insanely high barrier that few can meet. Wet facilities don't work for everyone, but neither do dry facilities. We need to meet people where they're at.
And… I see that Councillor Gardiner, at COTW today, wants the city to explore converting "wet" sites to "dry".
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This will kill people. Expecting people to be able to safely withdraw from fentanyl or other hard drugs *while being homeless* is an insanely high barrier that few can meet. Wet facilities don't work for everyone, but neither do dry facilities. We need to meet people where they're at.
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Fossil fuel enthusiasts keep arguing that we need to increase our exports of LNG and oil to address energy poverty in the developing world.
I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
The energy poverty trap
Will more oil and gas production in Canada help alleviate energy poverty in the developing world? Of course not — but that hasn't prevented Danielle Smith and other industry champions from pretending ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Fossil fuel enthusiasts keep arguing that we need to increase our exports of LNG and oil to address energy poverty in the developing world.
I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
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See, the thing about Rebecca is that (well, many many many things) but also she’s an endless source of hidden treasures
Did I ever share this from our NYC atlas with you? "What Is a Jew? From Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs," a map whose specificities breaks down the idea of a homogenous population so useful to antisemitism. Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Bernie Madoff to Rose Schneiderman to the Beastie Boys.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
See, the thing about Rebecca is that (well, many many many things) but also she’s an endless source of hidden treasures
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Over on X, the nazi algorithm & foreign bots site, they've convinced themselves that climate change is no longer a big deal. They are very wrong:
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Over on X, the nazi algorithm & foreign bots site, they've convinced themselves that climate change is no longer a big deal. They are very wrong:
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege