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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 2d

New research shows LNG terminals burn nearly 3× more gas in their first two years, releasing toxic air pollution that B.C. isn’t tracking. Doctors say this public-health blind spot puts frontline communities at risk.

Comment: LNG start-up flaring is a public-health blind spot — and B.C. is ignoring it

LNG terminals burn nearly three times more gas during their first two years of operation than afterward.

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 2d

Climate change is a health emergency — let’s act like it.
Join UBC EnviroMed and CAPE BC today for the National Day of Action on Planetary Health!
Sign-making, dinner, and inspiring speakers from CAPE & beyond.
Register: forms.gle/DTeV6nw5U65m...

A large group of UBC medical students holding signs related to climate change and environmental health.

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder that this webinar is happening tonight!

CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 19d

Learn about the dangers LNG poses to our physical and mental health at this webinar with Dr. Bethany Ricker (CAPE BC co-chair), Dr. Rachel Grimminck (CAPE), Zachary Daly (@cane-aciie.bsky.social), & Emiko Newman (@bcclimateemergency.bsky.social ).
📆 Oct. 1, 7-8pm PST
👉 Register: bit.ly/4mlWXzv

Poster for LNG Unpacked: Climate & Health Implications - October 1, 2025 - 7-8pm PT - Zoom
With photos of speakers Dr. Rachel Grimminck and Dr. Bethany Ricker (Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment); Zachary Daly, RN (Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment); and Emiko Newman (BC Climate Emergency Campaign)

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Ann Loewen, CAPE Manitoba chair: "Our health is worth it. All that we are fighting for and advocating for is essential to a life well lived."

Climate Action Team Manitoba @climateactionmb.bsky.social · 15d

Dr. Ann Loewen is a family and emergency medicine physician. This spring and summer she saw the ways the wildfire smoke impacted people’s health and is worried about the long term impacts. Tell the MB gov't to act now to protect what’s precious: climateactionmb.ca/plan-to-prot...

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 12d

💨 “This is yet more evidence to bust the fictitious notion that Canadian LNG is ‘clean.’” -- Dr. Sally Harvie, CAPE radiologist in Smithers, BC

🔎 Check out The Narwhal's story about life near LNG Canada: loom.ly/NLfFclc

📖 Full flaring study in Environmental Science & Technology: loom.ly/unzuz_A

Analysis of Flaring Activity at Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Export Facilities Worldwide

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities are booming worldwide to supply gas for the growing energy demand. Flaring, the controlled burning of natural gas, occurs at these facilities during opera...

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 12d

🫁 That means regulators are underestimating air pollution and health risks for communities nearby. Flaring releases benzene, particulate matter, and other pollutants that harm health, even with short exposure.

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 12d

🔥 That's not smoke. It’s the plume from LNG Canada flaring in Kitimat, BC. New research shows LNG export facilities flare 3x more gas during start-up than regular operations — a phase can last up to 2 years. But in Canada, regulators don’t account for start-up flaring in environmental assessments.

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Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment @cape-acme.bsky.social · 13d

🔥 New study: LNG facilities flare *3x more gas* during start-up than regular operations — a phase that can last 2 years. But 🇨🇦 LNG projects don't include start-up flaring in environmental assessments. So regulators are vastly underestimating air pollution and health risks for nearby communities.

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 14d

Agreed! And yes, vegetarian / vegan options are available.

CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 14d

Connect the Dots between climate and health tomorrow in Vancouver! Join CAPE BC, Sue Big Oil & Frack Free BC for a community picnic on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 5:30pm at Trout Lake Picnic Shelter. www.eventbrite.ca/e/connect-th...

Who: Frack Free BC, Sue Big Oil, and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
What: Connect the Dots community picnic
When/Where: Wednesday, September 24 at 6-8 pm at Trout Lake Park (covered picnic shelter)
Registration page: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/connect-the-dots-vancouver-tickets-1471437060859/

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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 22d

Under the UNFCC Canada is not responsible for the downstream combustion emissions of the fossil fuels we export. So we conveniently ignore them (as in Ksi Lisims Assessment and BC and fed announcements today), though those GHGs are more than Canada's territorial emissions to the global atmosphere.

Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 22d

There it is

BC Environment Minister Tamara Davidson and Energy Minister Adrian Dix have given the green light for the Ksi Lisims LNG Facility

Once operational, the plant will be the second largest LNG production facility in BC and may use natural gas to power the liquefaction process #bcpoli

Environmental assessment certificate granted for Ksi Lisims LNG project

A B.C. environmental assessment certificate has been issued for the Ksi Lisims LNG project, following a joint decision by provincial ministers.

news.gov.bc.ca

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 19d

Learn about the dangers LNG poses to our physical and mental health at this webinar with Dr. Bethany Ricker (CAPE BC co-chair), Dr. Rachel Grimminck (CAPE), Zachary Daly (@cane-aciie.bsky.social), & Emiko Newman (@bcclimateemergency.bsky.social ).
📆 Oct. 1, 7-8pm PST
👉 Register: bit.ly/4mlWXzv

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 19d

Learn about the dangers LNG poses to our physical and mental health at this webinar with Dr. Bethany Ricker (CAPE BC co-chair), Dr. Rachel Grimminck (CAPE), Zachary Daly (@cane-aciie.bsky.social), & Emiko Newman (@bcclimateemergency.bsky.social ).
📆 Oct. 1, 7-8pm PST
👉 Register: bit.ly/4mlWXzv

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 20d

LNG and fracking are making people sick—causing asthma, pre-term birth, heart attacks, cancers, and even premature death. While industry profits, communities pay the price. It’s time to put health first. Learn more: ProtectHealthfromLNG.ca

$An image of Dr. Ulrike Meyer, a Dawson Creek Physician, with the following text: "It's unacceptable that LNG companies profit while our patients living near fracking and LNG infrastructure pay the price: higher rates of asthma, pre-term birth, heart attacks, certain cancers, and premature death." - Dr. Ulrike Meyer, Dawson Creek Physician. ProtectHealthfromLNG.ca$

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 21d

Tonight at 7: 'Climate in Therapy' at @thecinematheque.bsky.social. A moving look at ecological grief & the human side of climate crisis. Post-screening panel with CAPE psychiatrist Dr. Kai Irani & Doctors for Planetary Health physician Rashmi Chadha. We have a few free tix—DM if you’d like one!

The Cinematheque / Climate in Therapy

In Nathan Grossman’s Climate in Therapy, climate scientists sign up for a group therapy session facilitated by therapist Richard Beck. Beck employs Socratic questioning to unearth complicated feelings...

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 22d

Big win for clean air & healthy travel in Vancouver's Stanley Park! The Park Board approved a new bus route & study of a permanent bike lane. CAPE BC was proud to send a letter in support of this step toward safer, healthier mobility.

Park board gives green light to bus route, potential bike lane through Stanley Park | CBC News

New commuting options are moving ahead for Vancouver's biggest green space after park board commissioners endorsed a multi-year plan that will eventually bring bus service to the park and consider a p...

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 22d

BC just approved Ksi Lisims LNG. This project threatens ecosystems and human health, locks us into decades of expanded fracking and burning of fossil fuels, and ignores Indigenous consent.

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 22d

B.C. just approved one of its largest LNG projects yet.

Ksi Lisims LNG will ship 12M tonnes of gas a year overseas. Ministers say it will benefit the Nisg̱a’a Nation — but also admit it will worsen greenhouse gas emissions.

#bcpoli

Massive Ksi Lisims LNG approved in B.C. | The Narwhal

B.C. just gave the green light to Ksi Lisims, a project capable of producing almost as much as LNG Canada’s first phase

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 22d

B.C. just approved one of its largest LNG projects yet.

Ksi Lisims LNG will ship 12M tonnes of gas a year overseas. Ministers say it will benefit the Nisg̱a’a Nation — but also admit it will worsen greenhouse gas emissions.

#bcpoli

Massive Ksi Lisims LNG approved in B.C. | The Narwhal

B.C. just gave the green light to Ksi Lisims, a project capable of producing almost as much as LNG Canada’s first phase

thenarwhal.ca

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 24d

Want to take part? Actions are happening in dozens of communities across Canada on Sept 20. This is our chance to come together across movements and say enough is enough. We’ll be there, and we hope you will too. Find an event near you! 2/2

Canada | Draw the Line - For people, for peace, for the planet

We refuse to stand by while the government and Canada’s richest corporations hoard wealth, gut our public services, fuel climate collapse, attack migrants, exploit Indigenous lands, and prop up a geno...

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 24d

The Carney government is pouring billions into war and fossil fuels while cutting public services and abandoning climate and health. As doctors and advocates, we know this threatens lives. On Sept 20, people across Canada will draw the line: for people, peace, and the planet. Join in. 1/2

Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side | The Tyee

For people, for peace, for the planet. An invitation to join the Sept. 20 mass day of action.

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 27d

Doctors, nurses, and First Nations leaders are calling on BC to pause LNG expansion until the health impacts are fully studied. Communities are already reporting higher rates of cancer, lung disease, and worsening symptoms during flaring.

Halt LNG Expansion Until Health Risks Studied, Say Doctors | The Tyee

First Nations leaders and health professionals say people are getting sick, and BC needs to hit pause.

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AQME / Association québécoise des médecins pour l'environnement @aqme.bsky.social · 29d

15 médecins (dont la présidente de l'ACME), infirmières et chefs des Premières Nations de renom, ont mis au défi les gouv. de la C-Britannique, du Canada et l'industrie de prouver que l'industrie du GNL est sûre pour la santé. @cape-acme.bsky.social @cape-bc.bsky.social @drmelissalem.bsky.social

Médecins, infirmières et leaders autochtones mettent au défi les gouvernements de la C.-B. et du Canada de pouvoir prouver que l’industrie du GNL est sans danger - CAPE

Des médecins, infirmiers et infirmières et des leaders autochtones somment les gouvernements provincial de la Colombie-Britannique et fédéral de reconnaître les effets néfastes de l’industrie du gaz n...

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · 29d

Just a few hours until tonight’s event on the health + Indigenous rights impacts of LNG & fracking in BC. Hear from Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Dr. Ulrike Meyer, Gitxsan Firekeepers Drew Harris & Grace Vickers, Dene Ze’ Na’Moks & more. 7pm @ UBC MSAC in Mount Pleasant. RSVP if you haven’t yet!

Protect Health From LNG: Indigenous and Health Leaders on the Front Lines

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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social · Sep 4

The BC government is rushing LNG expansion without considering the health impacts on rural & Indigenous communities. Join Indigenous and health leaders Monday, Sept 8, 7 PM at UBC MSAC to hear why this industry threatens health, rights, and the environment.

Protect Health From LNG: Indigenous and Health Leaders on the Front Lines

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Michael Schwandt @michaelschwandt.bsky.social · Sep 4

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"Eco-distress—distress from changes to the environment—is a normal reaction to threatened and actual loss of individuals, communities, and ecosystems. Clinicians should validate patients’ concerns..."

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Climate change and mental health: A critical intersection

Climate change is an “unappreciated mental health emergency” with inequitable impacts.

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