Paul Renaud
@paulrenaud.bsky.social
Strategy expert on disruptive tech & avoiding business extinction, climate-friendly maple syrup producer, sustainable agriculture based on natural solutions, allergic to fact-adverse thinking / virtual nonsense.
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Clean energy from the oilpatch?
Think again.
Why no enforcement when Alberta exceeded annual provincial limit by 36% in 2014 and is on track to do it again this year?
LNG and tar sands are not clean, that is why we must have enforced emissions caps.
#cdnpoli
www.reuters.com/world/albert...
Think again.
Why no enforcement when Alberta exceeded annual provincial limit by 36% in 2014 and is on track to do it again this year?
LNG and tar sands are not clean, that is why we must have enforced emissions caps.
#cdnpoli
www.reuters.com/world/albert...
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flari...
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Clean energy from the oilpatch?
Think again.
Why no enforcement when Alberta exceeded annual provincial limit by 36% in 2014 and is on track to do it again this year?
LNG and tar sands are not clean, that is why we must have enforced emissions caps.
#cdnpoli
www.reuters.com/world/albert...
Think again.
Why no enforcement when Alberta exceeded annual provincial limit by 36% in 2014 and is on track to do it again this year?
LNG and tar sands are not clean, that is why we must have enforced emissions caps.
#cdnpoli
www.reuters.com/world/albert...
44% of extraction emissions are from bitumen, 70% might be captured by CCS
No CCS in the world works at capacity, the highest is 40%
Pathways will reduce emissions by < 16%, currently zero commitment by oil industry.
Carney's math doesn't make tar sands oil clean energy.
#cdnpoli
No CCS in the world works at capacity, the highest is 40%
Pathways will reduce emissions by < 16%, currently zero commitment by oil industry.
Carney's math doesn't make tar sands oil clean energy.
#cdnpoli
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
44% of extraction emissions are from bitumen, 70% might be captured by CCS
No CCS in the world works at capacity, the highest is 40%
Pathways will reduce emissions by < 16%, currently zero commitment by oil industry.
Carney's math doesn't make tar sands oil clean energy.
#cdnpoli
No CCS in the world works at capacity, the highest is 40%
Pathways will reduce emissions by < 16%, currently zero commitment by oil industry.
Carney's math doesn't make tar sands oil clean energy.
#cdnpoli
Carney talks about making Canada an oil superpower, did he wake up one morning to news that the IPCC scientists are wrong?
No Virginia, the models aren't wrong. There are 50 yrs of projections vs. actual observations to measure accuracy with and 17 studies confirm they are spot on.
#cdnpoli
No Virginia, the models aren't wrong. There are 50 yrs of projections vs. actual observations to measure accuracy with and 17 studies confirm they are spot on.
#cdnpoli
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Carney talks about making Canada an oil superpower, did he wake up one morning to news that the IPCC scientists are wrong?
No Virginia, the models aren't wrong. There are 50 yrs of projections vs. actual observations to measure accuracy with and 17 studies confirm they are spot on.
#cdnpoli
No Virginia, the models aren't wrong. There are 50 yrs of projections vs. actual observations to measure accuracy with and 17 studies confirm they are spot on.
#cdnpoli
Alberta's electricity generation is > 40% of power generation GHG emissions in Canada, approx. 20 MT / year.
Applying the 2026 social cost of carbon at $275 / ton results in a subsidy to Alberta of $5.5B granted by Carney.
90 MT of extraction emissions no longer have a cap.
Some deal.
#cdnpoli
Applying the 2026 social cost of carbon at $275 / ton results in a subsidy to Alberta of $5.5B granted by Carney.
90 MT of extraction emissions no longer have a cap.
Some deal.
#cdnpoli
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Alberta's electricity generation is > 40% of power generation GHG emissions in Canada, approx. 20 MT / year.
Applying the 2026 social cost of carbon at $275 / ton results in a subsidy to Alberta of $5.5B granted by Carney.
90 MT of extraction emissions no longer have a cap.
Some deal.
#cdnpoli
Applying the 2026 social cost of carbon at $275 / ton results in a subsidy to Alberta of $5.5B granted by Carney.
90 MT of extraction emissions no longer have a cap.
Some deal.
#cdnpoli
Even if the pipeline never happens, and it should never happen, exempting Alberta from clean electricity regulation is a huge blow to the environment.
Carney either has no idea what he is doing, or has betrayed everyone who voted for him expecting real progress on a green economy.
#cdnpoli
Carney either has no idea what he is doing, or has betrayed everyone who voted for him expecting real progress on a green economy.
#cdnpoli
Carney, Smith, and their oil billionaire donors will not hold our province hostage. Call your MP and demand they end this betrayal of British Columbians. #bcpoli
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Even if the pipeline never happens, and it should never happen, exempting Alberta from clean electricity regulation is a huge blow to the environment.
Carney either has no idea what he is doing, or has betrayed everyone who voted for him expecting real progress on a green economy.
#cdnpoli
Carney either has no idea what he is doing, or has betrayed everyone who voted for him expecting real progress on a green economy.
#cdnpoli
Before taxpayers agree to pay an additional $4B to upgrade the capacity of the TMX, we need to recoup the $34B already spent on a pipeline that never pays for itself.
Currently, taxpayers are subsidizing $13/b of oil flowing thru the pipeline based on tools that do not recover cost.
#cdnpoli
Currently, taxpayers are subsidizing $13/b of oil flowing thru the pipeline based on tools that do not recover cost.
#cdnpoli
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Before taxpayers agree to pay an additional $4B to upgrade the capacity of the TMX, we need to recoup the $34B already spent on a pipeline that never pays for itself.
Currently, taxpayers are subsidizing $13/b of oil flowing thru the pipeline based on tools that do not recover cost.
#cdnpoli
Currently, taxpayers are subsidizing $13/b of oil flowing thru the pipeline based on tools that do not recover cost.
#cdnpoli
No amount of collective masturbation in Alberta alters the lack of business case for another oil pipeline.
OPEC's forecast for oil demand over the next 25 years is <1% growth per year, with the risk that advances in energy efficiency substitution may reduce demand growth to zero.
##cdnpoli
OPEC's forecast for oil demand over the next 25 years is <1% growth per year, with the risk that advances in energy efficiency substitution may reduce demand growth to zero.
##cdnpoli
November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
No amount of collective masturbation in Alberta alters the lack of business case for another oil pipeline.
OPEC's forecast for oil demand over the next 25 years is <1% growth per year, with the risk that advances in energy efficiency substitution may reduce demand growth to zero.
##cdnpoli
OPEC's forecast for oil demand over the next 25 years is <1% growth per year, with the risk that advances in energy efficiency substitution may reduce demand growth to zero.
##cdnpoli
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
OPEC's forecast for oil demand hinges on India.
Anything that dramatically changes oil consumption in India will dramatically accelerate peak oil and crush oil prices.
Electrification, renewables, slower pop growth, conservation, war, disease, ...
#climate #climateaction
Anything that dramatically changes oil consumption in India will dramatically accelerate peak oil and crush oil prices.
Electrification, renewables, slower pop growth, conservation, war, disease, ...
#climate #climateaction
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
OPEC's forecast for oil demand hinges on India.
Anything that dramatically changes oil consumption in India will dramatically accelerate peak oil and crush oil prices.
Electrification, renewables, slower pop growth, conservation, war, disease, ...
#climate #climateaction
Anything that dramatically changes oil consumption in India will dramatically accelerate peak oil and crush oil prices.
Electrification, renewables, slower pop growth, conservation, war, disease, ...
#climate #climateaction
The oilheads in Alberta screaming for pipelines don't care that they are not economic, let alone good for the climate.
IEC forecasts a glut of 4 M barrels of oit by Q1 2026. Even the US Dept of Energy forecasts oil prices below $54.
Small wonder there are no proponents for pipelines.
#cdnpoli
IEC forecasts a glut of 4 M barrels of oit by Q1 2026. Even the US Dept of Energy forecasts oil prices below $54.
Small wonder there are no proponents for pipelines.
#cdnpoli
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The oilheads in Alberta screaming for pipelines don't care that they are not economic, let alone good for the climate.
IEC forecasts a glut of 4 M barrels of oit by Q1 2026. Even the US Dept of Energy forecasts oil prices below $54.
Small wonder there are no proponents for pipelines.
#cdnpoli
IEC forecasts a glut of 4 M barrels of oit by Q1 2026. Even the US Dept of Energy forecasts oil prices below $54.
Small wonder there are no proponents for pipelines.
#cdnpoli
Solution is simple, resell the F-35s we already bought to Saudi Arabia and buy Saab for Canadian use.
#cdnpoli 🇨🇦📢
@buttigiegdem.bsky.social 👀⤵️
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6y...
🇸🇪ish defence firm Saab wants 🇨🇦 to buy & build its fighter jets. Saab CEO Micael Johansson says jet manufacturing could create up to 10,000 jobs over 3 to 5 years.
'It's up to 🇨🇦 to decide,' Johansson tells Power & Politics.
@buttigiegdem.bsky.social 👀⤵️
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6y...
🇸🇪ish defence firm Saab wants 🇨🇦 to buy & build its fighter jets. Saab CEO Micael Johansson says jet manufacturing could create up to 10,000 jobs over 3 to 5 years.
'It's up to 🇨🇦 to decide,' Johansson tells Power & Politics.
Saab fighter jet deal could create thousands of Canadian jobs: CEO | Power & Politics
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Solution is simple, resell the F-35s we already bought to Saudi Arabia and buy Saab for Canadian use.
Carney is agreeing to 2 new pipelines while greenwashing the oil industry.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Paul Renaud
Carney is agreeing to 2 new pipelines while greenwashing the oil industry.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Carney is agreeing to 2 new pipelines while greenwashing the oil industry.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
Every child matters.
When governments create the conditions for a class of people (especially children) to suffer or die, the evidence of that should be the central premise of the reporting and the rest of us should be melting their phones before we have to gather the pitchforks.
This is so fu*cking dark, Canada.
This is so fu*cking dark, Canada.
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Every child matters.
Reposted by Paul Renaud
When governments create the conditions for a class of people (especially children) to suffer or die, the evidence of that should be the central premise of the reporting and the rest of us should be melting their phones before we have to gather the pitchforks.
This is so fu*cking dark, Canada.
This is so fu*cking dark, Canada.
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
When governments create the conditions for a class of people (especially children) to suffer or die, the evidence of that should be the central premise of the reporting and the rest of us should be melting their phones before we have to gather the pitchforks.
This is so fu*cking dark, Canada.
This is so fu*cking dark, Canada.
Reposted by Paul Renaud
Methane is in the news and so are we.
"Methane — a greenhouse gas with 80 times the warming potential of CO2 — isn’t visible to the naked eye, so it wasn’t until an investigator from Oilfield Witness showed up with gas sensing camera equipment....
"Methane — a greenhouse gas with 80 times the warming potential of CO2 — isn’t visible to the naked eye, so it wasn’t until an investigator from Oilfield Witness showed up with gas sensing camera equipment....
Chasing methane, the invisible pollutant
We’re being led to believe it’s possible to eliminate wasted methane, but this could be another false promise from an industry that has fooled us too many times.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Methane is in the news and so are we.
"Methane — a greenhouse gas with 80 times the warming potential of CO2 — isn’t visible to the naked eye, so it wasn’t until an investigator from Oilfield Witness showed up with gas sensing camera equipment....
"Methane — a greenhouse gas with 80 times the warming potential of CO2 — isn’t visible to the naked eye, so it wasn’t until an investigator from Oilfield Witness showed up with gas sensing camera equipment....
Carney is agreeing to 2 new pipelines while greenwashing the oil industry.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Carney is agreeing to 2 new pipelines while greenwashing the oil industry.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
His "firm commitment" to achieving Canada's climate targets amounts to insisting the oil industry eventually sequesters 22 MT of CO2 a year vs the 208 MT per year they emit already.
With no cap on extraction emissions.
Evidently Conservative Prime Minister Mark Carney is not a fan of natural carbon solutions.
Liberals scrapping 2 billion tree target.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Liberals scrapping 2 billion tree target.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Liberals scrapping 2 billion trees target as part of budget: sources | CBC News
The Liberal government is dropping its goal to plant two billion trees by 2031 as part of Tuesday's budget, according to sources familiar with the matter.
www.cbc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Evidently Conservative Prime Minister Mark Carney is not a fan of natural carbon solutions.
Liberals scrapping 2 billion tree target.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Liberals scrapping 2 billion tree target.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
$6 B a year buys a heat pump for every house in Ontario within 10 years.
Elbows-down Doug Ford wants to spend $Billions more on paying an American company to build SMRs that require American enriched Uranium.
The alternative is grid storage backed renewable power which is far cheaper & faster.
Elbows-down Doug Ford wants to spend $Billions more on paying an American company to build SMRs that require American enriched Uranium.
The alternative is grid storage backed renewable power which is far cheaper & faster.
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
$6 B a year buys a heat pump for every house in Ontario within 10 years.
Elbows-down Doug Ford wants to spend $Billions more on paying an American company to build SMRs that require American enriched Uranium.
The alternative is grid storage backed renewable power which is far cheaper & faster.
Elbows-down Doug Ford wants to spend $Billions more on paying an American company to build SMRs that require American enriched Uranium.
The alternative is grid storage backed renewable power which is far cheaper & faster.
Wheneverver Trump lies, the best antidote is the truth.
Here is the full Reagan address, only 5 min long. Ontario's ad did not manipulate the truth.
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
Here is the full Reagan address, only 5 min long. Ontario's ad did not manipulate the truth.
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Wheneverver Trump lies, the best antidote is the truth.
Here is the full Reagan address, only 5 min long. Ontario's ad did not manipulate the truth.
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
Here is the full Reagan address, only 5 min long. Ontario's ad did not manipulate the truth.
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
Tar sands emissions have increased 480% from 1990 to 2023 and we wonder why we cannot make our 2030 targets?
Pro tip: another pipeline is not the answer.
Pro tip: another pipeline is not the answer.
October 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Tar sands emissions have increased 480% from 1990 to 2023 and we wonder why we cannot make our 2030 targets?
Pro tip: another pipeline is not the answer.
Pro tip: another pipeline is not the answer.
@chebert18.bsky.social
Pipelines? Why is no one asking what happened to climate change and why isn't it important anymore? Make Alberta Great Again is not a national strategy.
Why not an industrial strategy that is not based on resource extraction?
AI, fusion, semiconductors, EV charging, ...
Pipelines? Why is no one asking what happened to climate change and why isn't it important anymore? Make Alberta Great Again is not a national strategy.
Why not an industrial strategy that is not based on resource extraction?
AI, fusion, semiconductors, EV charging, ...
October 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
@chebert18.bsky.social
Pipelines? Why is no one asking what happened to climate change and why isn't it important anymore? Make Alberta Great Again is not a national strategy.
Why not an industrial strategy that is not based on resource extraction?
AI, fusion, semiconductors, EV charging, ...
Pipelines? Why is no one asking what happened to climate change and why isn't it important anymore? Make Alberta Great Again is not a national strategy.
Why not an industrial strategy that is not based on resource extraction?
AI, fusion, semiconductors, EV charging, ...
@acoyne.bsky.social
Pipelines?? 2 questions no one is asking.
1. The TMX is not at capacity and even if it were, it will never pay back on the investment made. Why another when economics don't work?
2. Hello, what about climate change? Oil extraction is the largest source of emissions in Cda.
Pipelines?? 2 questions no one is asking.
1. The TMX is not at capacity and even if it were, it will never pay back on the investment made. Why another when economics don't work?
2. Hello, what about climate change? Oil extraction is the largest source of emissions in Cda.
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
@acoyne.bsky.social
Pipelines?? 2 questions no one is asking.
1. The TMX is not at capacity and even if it were, it will never pay back on the investment made. Why another when economics don't work?
2. Hello, what about climate change? Oil extraction is the largest source of emissions in Cda.
Pipelines?? 2 questions no one is asking.
1. The TMX is not at capacity and even if it were, it will never pay back on the investment made. Why another when economics don't work?
2. Hello, what about climate change? Oil extraction is the largest source of emissions in Cda.
Pro tip, don't tell the other side when you are employing negotiating tactics.
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Click on photo to see whole image.
September 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Pro tip, don't tell the other side when you are employing negotiating tactics.
Click on photo to see whole image.
Click on photo to see whole image.
RCMP looking for politicians with their heads in the sand on climate change.
#cdnpoli ##climateaction
#cdnpoli ##climateaction
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
RCMP looking for politicians with their heads in the sand on climate change.
#cdnpoli ##climateaction
#cdnpoli ##climateaction