Blair Mahaffy
@blairmahaffy.bsky.social
Living in the Boreal Forest of Manitoba developing software, playing guitar, taking photos, sailing, curling, riding horses. Green Party Candidate Provencher (federal) and Lac du Bonnet (MB).
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Ahahahaha 🤣 Elizabeth May explaining the tanker ban “especially to the attention of slow learners; Andrew Sheer, Danielle Smith, take note.”
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Ahahahaha 🤣 Elizabeth May explaining the tanker ban “especially to the attention of slow learners; Andrew Sheer, Danielle Smith, take note.”
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We have to stop burning stuff. We already know how to do it with wind, sun, and batteries. Anything else is just, well, smoke. Lots of smoke. No mirrors.
We have to stop burning stuff. We already know how to do it with wind, sun, and batteries. Anything else is just, well, smoke. Lots of smoke. No mirrors.
So, below is EU President von der Leyen saying that the EU is "not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions."
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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We have to stop burning stuff. We already know how to do it with wind, sun, and batteries. Anything else is just, well, smoke. Lots of smoke. No mirrors.
We have to stop burning stuff. We already know how to do it with wind, sun, and batteries. Anything else is just, well, smoke. Lots of smoke. No mirrors.
I highly recommend this read from @billmckibben.bsky.social
Clean, super-cheap, ag-friendly, oiligarch-free, low resource energy is really exciting.
Hey, MB Hydro! Read this before building your $3B LNG burning backup plant.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/d669e5...
#EndFossilFuels
Clean, super-cheap, ag-friendly, oiligarch-free, low resource energy is really exciting.
Hey, MB Hydro! Read this before building your $3B LNG burning backup plant.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/d669e5...
#EndFossilFuels
Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization by Bill McKibben
Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound th...
app.thestorygraph.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I highly recommend this read from @billmckibben.bsky.social
Clean, super-cheap, ag-friendly, oiligarch-free, low resource energy is really exciting.
Hey, MB Hydro! Read this before building your $3B LNG burning backup plant.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/d669e5...
#EndFossilFuels
Clean, super-cheap, ag-friendly, oiligarch-free, low resource energy is really exciting.
Hey, MB Hydro! Read this before building your $3B LNG burning backup plant.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/d669e5...
#EndFossilFuels
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
Profits before people. Making illness an asset to keep shareholder values high.
Smith is doing her best to undermine everything that is good in our country. Adding that to her pro-Trump sympathies, the Queen of Measles can now be described as Canada's Benedict Arnold.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services
Draft legislation would establish a model for medicine unlike any other in Canada
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Profits before people. Making illness an asset to keep shareholder values high.
Also eating away at Canada's pipeline dreams. Oil and LNG, especially tar sand oil, is going to not have the profit in it to justify a long term capital cost of billions of dollars.
#EndFossilFuels
#EndFossilFuels
Europe's electricity system is changing rapidly and often in places that don't make the headlines.
Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation.
Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.
Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation.
Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Also eating away at Canada's pipeline dreams. Oil and LNG, especially tar sand oil, is going to not have the profit in it to justify a long term capital cost of billions of dollars.
#EndFossilFuels
#EndFossilFuels
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Connecting some dots here...
- 80+ countries call for a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels.
- Many of which are building (Chinese-made) solar capacity.
- Which is rapidly dropping in price and improving in efficiency.
- Rendering our expensive oil a financial loser.
#EndFossilFuels
#NoMorePipelines
- 80+ countries call for a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels.
- Many of which are building (Chinese-made) solar capacity.
- Which is rapidly dropping in price and improving in efficiency.
- Rendering our expensive oil a financial loser.
#EndFossilFuels
#NoMorePipelines
More than 80 countries join call at Cop30 for roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels
More than 80 countries join call at Cop30 for roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels
Countries from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Pacific and Europe plead for transition to be central outcome of talks
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Connecting some dots here...
- 80+ countries call for a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels.
- Many of which are building (Chinese-made) solar capacity.
- Which is rapidly dropping in price and improving in efficiency.
- Rendering our expensive oil a financial loser.
#EndFossilFuels
#NoMorePipelines
- 80+ countries call for a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels.
- Many of which are building (Chinese-made) solar capacity.
- Which is rapidly dropping in price and improving in efficiency.
- Rendering our expensive oil a financial loser.
#EndFossilFuels
#NoMorePipelines
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#Spain
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#Spain
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Re-upping this 🧵 from when Ksi Lisims LNG was given enviro approval.
NOTE: Downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
NOTE: Downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
This Ksi Lisims LNG approval is terrible news.
"It's hard to believe that we're moving ahead in B.C. with climate-destroying LNG projects in the midst of a climate crisis," said Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow hereditary chiefs.
Yup.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"It's hard to believe that we're moving ahead in B.C. with climate-destroying LNG projects in the midst of a climate crisis," said Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow hereditary chiefs.
Yup.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
$10B LNG project in northwest B.C. gets environmental certificate despite opposition | CBC News
The Ksi Lisims LNG terminal project, about 80 kilometres north of Prince Rupert, B.C., has received a provincial environmental assessment certificat — a critical step for the megaproject despite conce...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Re-upping this 🧵 from when Ksi Lisims LNG was given enviro approval.
NOTE: Downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
NOTE: Downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
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Fossil fuels are a sunset industry. Investing public money in Oil & Gas infrastructure — e.g., pipelines — is economic madness. Don’t let greenwashing by the fossil fuel cartel convince you otherwise. #FossilFuelPhaseout
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f....
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f....
IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned - Carbon Brief
The world’s fossil-fuel use is still on track to peak before 2030, despite a surge...
www.carbonbrief.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Fossil fuels are a sunset industry. Investing public money in Oil & Gas infrastructure — e.g., pipelines — is economic madness. Don’t let greenwashing by the fossil fuel cartel convince you otherwise. #FossilFuelPhaseout
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f....
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f....
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Electrification could now reach 75% of all energy demand, as the road-transport and heating sectors rapidly electrify 🔥🚗
These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons.
https://loom.ly/BwyhReA
These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons.
https://loom.ly/BwyhReA
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Electrification could now reach 75% of all energy demand, as the road-transport and heating sectors rapidly electrify 🔥🚗
These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons.
https://loom.ly/BwyhReA
These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons.
https://loom.ly/BwyhReA
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
As someone who lives in rural MB, but grew up in Winnipeg (small and not very industrial), it has become increasingly obvious to me how dirty the city's air is. You can seen the brownish cloud hanging over it. Slashing taxes, killing healthcare, to enrich oiligarchs is killing us.
#EndFossilFuels
#EndFossilFuels
Essential research shows that particulate pollution—generated from motor fuels exhaust, tire wear, wildfires, factories, etc—is associated with dementia. More evidence that it is in the interest of public health to reduce pollution. (Gift link)
What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
As someone who lives in rural MB, but grew up in Winnipeg (small and not very industrial), it has become increasingly obvious to me how dirty the city's air is. You can seen the brownish cloud hanging over it. Slashing taxes, killing healthcare, to enrich oiligarchs is killing us.
#EndFossilFuels
#EndFossilFuels
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If you want expensive power a decade from now (that never arrives on budget), by all means choose nuclear. But if you want cheap power as soon as next year, choose wind, solar and storage. The economics are straightforward. #EnergyTransition
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Ontario power rates to rise on higher nuclear generation costs, conservation spending
Rate jump of 29% partly offset by higher provincial electricity rebate
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you want expensive power a decade from now (that never arrives on budget), by all means choose nuclear. But if you want cheap power as soon as next year, choose wind, solar and storage. The economics are straightforward. #EnergyTransition
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Watching Carney's APEC CEO Summit talking about how Canada would vastly increase (more than doubling) our LNG exports by 2040 was distressing.
The costs of fossil fuel damage to climate and health are increasing. Ignoring that is bad economics.
#EndFossilFuels
#FossilFools
#LNGisNotClean
The costs of fossil fuel damage to climate and health are increasing. Ignoring that is bad economics.
#EndFossilFuels
#FossilFools
#LNGisNotClean
Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution. Proponents flog the stale idea that fossil gas can replace coal to generate electricity, but that no longer holds up when renewables are a far cheaper option. davidsuzuki.org/story/expand...
Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution
Proponents flog the stale idea that fossil gas can replace coal to generate electricity, but that no longer holds up when renewables are a far cheaper option.
davidsuzuki.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Watching Carney's APEC CEO Summit talking about how Canada would vastly increase (more than doubling) our LNG exports by 2040 was distressing.
The costs of fossil fuel damage to climate and health are increasing. Ignoring that is bad economics.
#EndFossilFuels
#FossilFools
#LNGisNotClean
The costs of fossil fuel damage to climate and health are increasing. Ignoring that is bad economics.
#EndFossilFuels
#FossilFools
#LNGisNotClean
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A bonehead move by our govt. BC has got it right, passing legislation to limit the waste of valuable clean energy on environmentally disastrous data centres. We will need our limited hydro capacity to electrify the economy, not to subsidize Amazon, Meta and X. #MbPoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Premier endorses call for servers, data centres to be built in Manitoba | CBC News
The Manitoba government is looking at having more data storage and cloud computing infrastructure based in the province, following recommendations in a new report on the future of innovation and techn...
www.cbc.ca
November 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A bonehead move by our govt. BC has got it right, passing legislation to limit the waste of valuable clean energy on environmentally disastrous data centres. We will need our limited hydro capacity to electrify the economy, not to subsidize Amazon, Meta and X. #MbPoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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We can find suitable land with sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow plants, wait years to harvest the biomass and burn it for energy, hope to capture the CO₂ with carbon capture and storage technology, and find a suitable spot to bury the CO₂ permanently.
OR we can use solar panels.
OR we can use solar panels.
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We can find suitable land with sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow plants, wait years to harvest the biomass and burn it for energy, hope to capture the CO₂ with carbon capture and storage technology, and find a suitable spot to bury the CO₂ permanently.
OR we can use solar panels.
OR we can use solar panels.
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We are likely facing growing mental health problems due to property loss, evacuations, rising food costs, and general existential crises too. Saying we can't afford to clean up our act is indefensible.
#EndFossilFuels
#FossilFools
#EndFossilFuels
#FossilFools
Here's something that's not talked about enough
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We are likely facing growing mental health problems due to property loss, evacuations, rising food costs, and general existential crises too. Saying we can't afford to clean up our act is indefensible.
#EndFossilFuels
#FossilFools
#EndFossilFuels
#FossilFools
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I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.
October 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.
Wildfires were a distinctive feature of the Pliocene
Which is where we are heading
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Which is where we are heading
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos
Greenhouse gases from wildfires at sixth highest level on record after blazes in large areas of the Americas and Africa
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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📢 Behind Europe’s fossil gas addiction communities across the Atlantic are paying the price. The US is already the EU’s biggest LNG supplier – and imports are set to triple under the new US-EU trade deal. At what cost?
1/3👇🧵
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October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
📢 Behind Europe’s fossil gas addiction communities across the Atlantic are paying the price. The US is already the EU’s biggest LNG supplier – and imports are set to triple under the new US-EU trade deal. At what cost?
1/3👇🧵
1/3👇🧵
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1/3 Last week at PROC, profs lined up to support the "1 candidate/OA" proposal. What caught our attention was that they are not proposing 1 candidate/per OA/per riding. To get a better grasp on why they are so interested in this change we took a look at the 2025 election returns...
October 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
1/3 Last week at PROC, profs lined up to support the "1 candidate/OA" proposal. What caught our attention was that they are not proposing 1 candidate/per OA/per riding. To get a better grasp on why they are so interested in this change we took a look at the 2025 election returns...
I'd argue there is no "economic advantage" in a) contributing to planet destroying emissions, b) giving away billions in subsidies to a planet-destroying product, and c) investing in selling an end-of-life product.
There is no economy without a sustainable environment.
#EndFossilFuels
There is no economy without a sustainable environment.
#EndFossilFuels
@aradwanski.bsky.social preview of Carney’s likely climate strategy confirms that Canada is, yet again, refusing to deal with the oil and gas sector, which generates around 1/3 of Canada’s emissions. Carney is gambling w Canada's economic future & he should know better. 🧵
Carney’s climate vision to deprioritize emissions targets, focus on economic advantages
‘Climate competitiveness strategy’ expected this month as Prime Minister seeks to reframe Canada’s approach to environment, energy
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I'd argue there is no "economic advantage" in a) contributing to planet destroying emissions, b) giving away billions in subsidies to a planet-destroying product, and c) investing in selling an end-of-life product.
There is no economy without a sustainable environment.
#EndFossilFuels
There is no economy without a sustainable environment.
#EndFossilFuels
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@aradwanski.bsky.social preview of Carney’s likely climate strategy confirms that Canada is, yet again, refusing to deal with the oil and gas sector, which generates around 1/3 of Canada’s emissions. Carney is gambling w Canada's economic future & he should know better. 🧵
Carney’s climate vision to deprioritize emissions targets, focus on economic advantages
‘Climate competitiveness strategy’ expected this month as Prime Minister seeks to reframe Canada’s approach to environment, energy
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
@aradwanski.bsky.social preview of Carney’s likely climate strategy confirms that Canada is, yet again, refusing to deal with the oil and gas sector, which generates around 1/3 of Canada’s emissions. Carney is gambling w Canada's economic future & he should know better. 🧵