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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 1h

So Carney's "elbows up" strategy is to double down on our dependence on the US AND fossil fuel exports??

Basically a lose-lose proposition revealing just how short sighted he is

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Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 21h

Decarbonized water makes as much sense as dehydrated water

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 8d

Oil & gas companies have been consistently shedding jobs as fast as they can to improve their already massive profits

Imperial is the latest example - they'll be firing 20% of their employees by 2027

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Imperial Oil to cut workforce 20% by end of 2027 | Globalnews.ca

Calgary-based Imperial Oil had about 5,100 employees as of the end of 2024, according to a regulatory filing.

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 12d

Federal funding programs supporting Indigenous-led renewable energy projects in rural and remote communities are at risk of not being renewed by Carney

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Clean energy projects at risk of cuts by Carney government: report

Federal funding of programs that support Indigenous-led clean energy projects in remote communities are at risk says a new report.

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 12d

More than 250 elected officials across Canada want to see progress on electrification, high speed rail and energy efficiency - not the expansion of fossil fuels

Climate Caucus @climatecaucus.bsky.social · 13d

Yesterday, MP @patbonin.bsky.social raised the #ElbowsUpForClimate campaign in the House of Commons, amplifying the call from 250 local elected officials for investments in nation-building, not nation-burning.

Learn more about why clean nation-building projects are crucial: elbowsupforclimate.ca

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 12d

38 Former world leaders call for new polluter taxes on fossil fuel companies, urging governments to place the burden of funding the global energy transition on those most responsible for climate damages

www.nationofchange.org/2025/09/25/f...

Former leaders urge permanent polluter profit taxes to fund climate action | NationofChange

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 13d

Carney’s last-minute withdrawal from the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Summit today sends an embarrassing signal that Canada is following Trump in becoming global climate laggards

Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 13d

At the UN Climate Summit today, many of Canada's allies will reaffirm & strengthen their commitment to climate action—but PM Carney will be notably absent.

Amid increasing uncertainty over this government's climate approach, we need to know: is Canada in, or out?

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Canada’s absence from UN high-level climate summit sows confusion and uncertainty - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)

Prime Minister Carney’s last-minute withdrawal from the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Summit today sends an embarrassing signal.

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 13d

Carbon capture has a long list of issues (efficace, cost, risks to water & health)

A new study adds one more: nearly 90% of potential CO2 storage capacity is in risky locations

DeSmog @desmog.com · 14d

📍 BREAKING 📍 Groundbreaking new study blows the lid off carbon capture: Most storage zones are too risky or off-limits. Can it still save the climate? Read more buff.ly/DVPZp3Q

‘Gamechanger’ Study Warns Carbon Capture May Fall Short of Expectations, Citing Storage Location Dangers

CCS can “no longer be considered an unlimited” climate solution, researchers caution after concluding most storage options are in risky regions

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 15d

Cold Lake First Nations raises concerns over risky carbon capture project potentially being put on federal fast-track by Carney, despite lack of impact assessment and consultations with impacted Treaty 6 nations

www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/a...

Cold Lake First Nations raises concerns over carbon capture project potentially being put on federal fast-track

The Pathways Carbon Capture project, led by the Pathways Alliance, a consortium of six major oil sands producers, proposes capturing CO2 emissions from multiple oil sands facilities and transporting t...

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International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org · 15d

🗣️NEW: #ProductionGap report shows that governments’ #FossilFuel production plans & projections would lead to:

🪨 500% more coal
🛢 31% more oil
🔥 92% more gas

in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/46AgJBe

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 16d

🚨New research🚨Rich countries can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action by ending fossil fuels handouts, making polluters pay, defunding wars, taxing the super rich. There’s no shortage of $$ for action. It’s just in the wrong hands.
#FixtheFinance

➡️ Read more: oilchange.org/we-can-pay-for-it/

We Can Pay For It - Oil Change International

We Can Pay for It factsheet shows rich counties can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 16d

"God forbid that any explosion would happen — we would be a little wiped-out town.”

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Exxon’s risky CO₂ pipeline passes far too close to homes and businesses, Louisiana residents say

Experts and advocates decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

www.exxonknews.org

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 16d

Colombia is setting the bar for climate leadership by inviting an honest conversation about the necessary phase out of fossil fuels

Meanwhile Canadian politicians are busy setting the world on fire with more production

Fossil Fuel Treaty @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Breaking news from the #UNGA sidelines:

🇨🇴 Colombia will host the 1st International Conference on the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026

Read our press release to learn more: fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-conference

#FossilFuelTreaty #PhaseOutSummit #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateJustice #UNGA

Government of Colombia Announces First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

During the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, Colombia proudly announces its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The ...

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 17d

new report shows Canada's big banks financed ~$200 billion in fossil fuel investments last year, compared with ~$100 billion to "low-carbon energy" (which could also include fossils...)- far more fossil financing than other countries

From @ianbickis.bsky.social

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Canadian banks financed fossil fuels more than renewables in 2024 | CBC News

Canada's big banks financed about $200 billion in fossil fuel investments last year, compared with about $104 billion to low-carbon energy, a new report says. But the proportion varied from bank to ba...

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 17d

Saskatchewan has tailored the Oil and Gas Processing Investment Incentive to subsidize projects that use captured CO2 for oil production

This is another fossil fuel subsidy - a corporate handout from the people of SK to wealthy fossil fuel companies

www.mltaikins.com/insights/ccu...

CCUS enhanced oil recovery: Small legislative change equals big economic and environmental impact | Insights | MLT Aikins

This article was prepared with the assistance of summer student Chan-Min Roh. The Government of Canada’s Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is a cornerstone poli...

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 19d

In Mississippi firefighters try to prepare for carbon pipeline ruptures

CO2 pipelines are dangerous - yet Alberta & the feds want to build them out, and aren't saying how they will protect the public

www.wapt.com/article/stat...

State Fire Academy gets new prop pipe to help train for CO2 leak emergencies

Mississippi firefighters and first responders have a new tool that will help play a critical role in safety and emergency response.

www.wapt.com

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 19d

A president attacking tv broadcasters and dictating what gets shown isn't cancel culture, it's authoritarianism

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 19d

Oil and gas companies are doing everything in their power to delay climate action & protect their profits.

Great work by @environmentaldefence.ca & @e-belliveau.bsky.social to expose the fossil fuel playbook

environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/18/e...

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 19d

The #hydrogen hype continues to fizzle

The latest evidence? Half of the European Hydrogen Bank winners dropped out

www.hydrogeninsight.com/policy/nearl...

Nearly half of latest European Hydrogen Bank winners have dropped out, EU reveals

European Commission has also disclosed which projects are waiting in the wings to benefit

www.hydrogeninsight.com

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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 23d

The perception that red tape is preventing Canada from building major projects doesn’t hold hold up. Hundreds of projects, worth hundreds of billions of dollars are planned under existing regulations. Yet Carney blames a bureaucratic maze for stifling growth to justify his deregulatory agenda.

Carney's red tape narrative doesn't hold up

The perception that a bureaucratic maze is preventing Canada from building major projects, as Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued to support his deregulatory nation-building agenda, doesn’t hold up ...

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Darius Snieckus 📎 @dariussnieckus.bsky.social · 20d

Canada’s #fossilfuel industry has singlehandedly scotched any chance of the country hitting its legally-binding 2030 #emissionsreduction targets, due to record #oilandgas production. Read @nationalobserver.com for my piece with @natashabulowski.bsky.social: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/18/n...

Pumped-up Alberta oil and gas sector sinks Canada's climate targets

The country’s 2030 commitments are now certain to be missed due to record GHG releases from oilsands operations, climate policy backslides and plans for future LNG production, the Canadian Climate Ins...

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 20d

Once again it's the fossil fuel industry driving national pollution levels

We collectively spent four years trying to develop regulations to limit their ability to pollute - and now Carney is going to trash those efforts and facilitate even more pollution from the industry

Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social · 20d

Our latest early estimate of national emissions shows Canada’s progress flatlined in 2024, putting the 2030 target out of reach.

Canada is at a fork in the road: the country needs a policy reboot from all governments to get emissions back on track.
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In an unprecedented warning, leading climate think-tank says Canada won't meet 2030 climate target | CBC News

Years of progress on bringing Canada’s carbon emissions down have stalled, and future progress looks increasingly fragile, according to an early 2024 emissions estimate from the Canadian Climate Insti...

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 20d

For @thelensnola.bsky.social, @delaneynolan.bsky.social and I dove deep into a CO2 pipeline Exxon wants to build right near communities in St James Parish, La, for carbon capture.

A CO2 rupture can be lethal, and federal safety regs have been pulled by Trump thelensnola.org/2025/09/18/i...

In St. James Parish, Exxon plans to lay carbon pipeline alarmingly close to homes, businesses | The Lens

Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 20d

Edmonton oil company fights $300K fine over failure to clean up toxic leak for over two years

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Edmonton company fights $300K fine over prolonged toxic leak at Alberta oilfield well | CBC News

An Edmonton-based company is appealing the $303,769 fine it was issued for failing to remediate a toxic leak at an oilfield disposal well in central Alberta for more than two years.

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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 20d

The fossil gas industry is getting $4 billion in handouts from Canadian govts

For Carney, who is prioritizing LNG Canada, "national interest" = benefitting fossil CEOs at the expense of the Canadian public

International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org · 20d

Billions in public money for #LNG projects in Canada are not widely reported.

In a new report, @energy.iisd.org outlines the scale of this support, emphasizing transparency is the first step to reforming fossil fuel subsidies.

Learn more: www.iisd.org/publications...

Text reads, "British Columbia's LNG projects will have received CAD 3.9 billion in public support by the end of 2030 without full transparency."

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