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Maryann Abbs
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Anti-fascism, climate justice, solidarity, I block tankies.
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betterpensionsbc.bsky.social
December 6: BCI has ~$27.73M in Southern Company, one of the US’s biggest utilities + GHG emitters.🎁 A poster child for climate denial + delay,❄️ including decades-long disinfo campaigns vs. climate action and fighting pollution rules + clean energy, Southern plans to keep using lots of gas + coal.🛷
Southern Company extends life of coal plants to power data centers, appears to abandon net zero goal
New filings show Southern Company is seeking to extend the life of three coal-fired power plants representing approximately 8,200 megawatts.
energyandpolicy.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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ericdoherty.bsky.social
Sadly folks on reddit r/Victoria are reporting that Bowker Creek flooded last night. The climate crisis, mainly caused by burning fossil fuels, is making damage like this much more frequent. #yyj #bcflood #bcstorm
Inside of home basement with water around two feet deep. Outside of house surrounded by flood water, with top of heat pump barely visible.
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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betterpensionsbc.bsky.social
December 12: BCI has ~$43.83M in Caterpillar Inc (CAT), the US construction equipment maker.🔔 Pension funds + Norways’s sovereign wealth fund have dropped CAT for its links to Israel’s abuses and crimes in the West Bank + Gaza, including the use of CAT bulldozers to destroy Palestinian property.🎄
Norway wealth fund sells Caterpillar stake over Israel allegations
World’s largest wealth fund says it has excluded bulldozer maker and five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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betterpensionsbc.bsky.social
☃️🎄ADVENT CALENDAR🎄🎅
Here we are now in the holiday fests,
Discover some firms where BCI invests!
Pipelines, tobacco, and more stranded assets,
Sons of Apartheid, MAGAs and fascists,
Regime supporters, genocide enablers,
Human rights abusers in 24 flavours.
Oil, gas and coal, with barely a mention, …
christmas decorations hanging on a string with numbers 1 through 24
Alt: christmas decorations hanging on a string with numbers 1 through 24
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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betterpensionsbc.bsky.social
Your daily reminder that #FossilFuelsFundFascists
Fascist 🇷🇺 depends on fossil exports for its survival and to pay for its barbarous war against our ally 🇺🇦. And it relies on 6 special LNG tanker ships managed by Seapeak Maritime (Glasgow), which are co-owned by Seapeak LLC, with HQ in VANCOUVER !!!
razomwestand.bsky.social RazomWeStand 🇺🇦 @razomwestand.bsky.social · 10d
Razom We Stand, along with 40 Ukrainian & international NGOs, urges the EU & UK to impose coordinated #sanctions on all 15 Arc7 LNG tankers enabling Russia’s Yamal LNG exports.

Read the full letter - bit.ly/OpenLetterAr...
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social
Fascists supporting fascists. Putin's Russia supplied 45% of refined #fossilfuels to Netanyahu's regime during #Gaza genocide - @oilchange.bsky.social oilchange.org/wp-content/u... Attn @razomwestand.bsky.social #fascism
Behind The Barrel: An update on the origins of Israel's fuel supply. November 2025. Oil Change International. Background graphic of black oil oozing over Palestinian flag.
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
NEW: Over 50,000 people attempted to block the founding convention for the new youth org of the far-right AfD party on Nov. 29 in Gießen, Germany. Wide-ranging actions-including 19 blockades around the small city-prevented a majority of participants from attending. Police violently beat blockaders.
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Why do I feel that “reconstruction” of Ukraine means stealing minerals and building concentrations camps in occupied territories.
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social
Media Release: #CleanBC Review directs government to cleaner, safer and more affordable transportation direction. bikehub.ca/about-us/new... #bcpoli #cycling @ericdoherty.bsky.social @bcclimateemergency.bsky.social @we-can.bsky.social @navdeepsingh.bsky.social @guydauncey.bsky.social
Media Release: CleanBC Review directs government to cleaner, safer and more affordable transportation direction | HUB Cycling: Bike Events, Education, Action in Metro Vancouver
The newly released independent CleanBC Review shows how implementing the existing CleanBC plan would improve affordability, health, and safety.“Protecting children and future generations from climate ...
bikehub.ca
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social
“This is how we avoid building more multi-hundred-million-dollar [highway] interchanges... More people will turn to cycling if it’s safe the whole way” @capitalbike.ca advocacy chair @robbernhardt.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p... #yyj #bcpoli #CleanBC
Project to widen busy Galloping Goose Trail section to start in spring
A four-kilometre section of the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, from the Selkirk Trestle south, will be widened with separate areas for cyclists and pedestrians.
www.timescolonist.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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betterpensionsbc.bsky.social
Tell Canadian banks to stop financing fossil fuel projects!!!
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@changecourse-ca.bsky.social
changecourse-ca.bsky.social Change Course @changecourse-ca.bsky.social · Nov 6
🔥 BREAKING: STUDENTS FIGHT BACK. From coast to coast, students on 9 campuses are rising up to #StopTheZombiePipeline calling out Canada’s Big 5 banks and Carneys "Building Canada Strong" Budget on their billion-dollar fossil fuel deals.

Take Action now! actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” on the right cutout magazine lookalike reads in Black and white “Breaking News”. In the center open faded mouth in the background with Bold text in first Black reads STUDENT and in White text reads “ DAY OF ACTION” below in smaller font in white reads #BANKSOFFCAMPUS below the Change Course Logo in white. In the background traced in Black the Canadian Parliament building and over a text in Bold white reads “ Students on 9 campuses across “ Canada” Demand Banks divest from fossil fuels respond to Carneys’ “ Building Canada Strong “ budget We demands funds for a just transition! Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” Text below in white reads “ Students are calling on the Big 5 Canadian banks (RBC, BMO, TD, CIBC, and Scotiabank) to stop financing fossil fuel expansion and to respect the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous people in all financing decisions. In particular, students are demanding that Canadian banks not finance new liquified natural gas (LNG) build-out in British Columbia, including the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT), which the Gitxsan and Gitanyow nations oppose.” In highlighted black and white bold text reads “ BIG 5 BANKS' FOSSIL FUEL FUNDING SINCE 2021 (IN BILLIONS)” Below a graph illustration of the 5 Banks on the left biggest bubble RBC faded logo with $181.4 Billion below, TD faded logo in a emission bubble over a factory and below reads “$141.2 Billion” on the left same graphic with Scotia Bank logo with below reads “ $131.4 Billion”, on the left same graphic with BMO logo below reads “ $98.8 Billion” anf finally CIBC logo below reads “$109.6 Billion” Below the graphic on the left reads in white “ Source: 2025 Banking on Climate Chaos Report” and the Change Course logo on the bottom right in white. Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” Text below in white reads “ Young people are fed up and are protesting the new federal and provincial legislation, which may be used to roll back environmental reviews and has no guarantee of ‘free, prior, and informed’ Indigenous consent being on “projects of national interest.”Opening the doors for Canada’s big 5 banks to pour even more money into climate-wrecking LNG projects. Below in a bubble white box a text reads in black “Students are responding to the recently announced federal budget, which includes $81 BILLION in WEAPONS, BILLIONS MORE for FOSSIL FUEL subsidies, while imposing cuts to public services that will result in the loss of 40,000 jobs. Traced building at the back and change course white logo on the bottom right. Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” Below in bold Black reads “ Action Alert” and below in smaller and white reads “ WHAT CAN YOU DO SUPPORT STUDENT DOA? 3 bubble white boxes with text reads “ Take our digital action linked in bio” “Tag Journalist!” “Boost our content everywhere” With 3 icons first a hand touching and megaphone icon, a tag follow icon and like heart icon. In the background an open mouth and the parliament building traced in black and the vhange course logo in white below.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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betterpensionsbc.bsky.social
Great work on climate finance👇 @stand.earth “has piloted a Youth Climate Finance Fellowship where fellows are placed with partners in the climate finance movement to grow key organizing skills and provide support to partners.”
@climatesafepension.bsky.social
stand.earth Stand.earth @stand.earth · Nov 5
Young people have been driving institutions to divest from fossil fuels since the launch of the fossil fuel divestment movement.

Taking a look at the Divestment Database, educational institutions now make up 16% of divestment commitments. ✨
Stand.earth’s Climate Finance Youth Fellowship Supports Next Generation Climate Leaders - Stand.earth
Stand.earth piloted a Youth Climate Finance Fellowship with partners in the climate finance movement to grow key skills.
stand.earth
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
maryannabbs.bsky.social
No to fracking! No to logging old growth. #yyj #NDP #bcpoli
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
maryannabbs.bsky.social
Hanging out at the BC NDP convention this am. #yyj #NDP
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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ukrainesol.bsky.social
The details and full impact of what the govt intends remains to be seen, particularly as it will be phasing in the ban over more than a year and in cooperation with other govts. All the more reason to keep up the pressure. Join the meeting on 25 November!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: End UK Complicity: Stop Seapeak. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join our campaign webinar to learn more about how UK companies are bankrolling Russia's war on UK - and what we can do to stop them!
us02web.zoom.us
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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razomwestand.bsky.social RazomWeStand 🇺🇦 @razomwestand.bsky.social · Nov 12
Today, after 3+ years of work, we celebrate a major win: UK bans maritime services for Russian fossil fuels — cutting Putin’s war chest.

We welcome this big step + call for quick G7 & EU action against Russian #energy.

Great reporting by @charliecooper8.bsky.social @politico.com 👏
UK bans firms from helping Russia ship its gas. At last, campaigners say
The prohibition on British companies supporting Russian exports will be phased in during 2026.
www.politico.eu
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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razomwestand.bsky.social
Join our Stop Seapeak Coalition webinar to learn how UK-owned & insured LNG carriers moved £45 bn of Russian #LNG (76% of exports, Feb 2022–Mar 2025), funding bombs hitting Ukrainian cities.
The UK must act now.

🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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ukrainesol.bsky.social
What should trade unions do for Ukraine? International public meeting, 26 November

Organised by the European Network in Solidarity with Ukraine. Register here Join us on 26 November for a discussion on how trade unions and trade unionists in many countries are supporting Ukraine and its workers'…
What should trade unions do for Ukraine? International public meeting, 26 November
Organised by the European Network in Solidarity with Ukraine. Register here Join us on 26 November for a discussion on how trade unions and trade unionists in many countries are supporting Ukraine and its workers' movement; and how we can do more. Speakers from Norway, the UK, France and Catalonia will present the actions taken by and debates conducted in the trade union movement in their countries – by federations, individual trade unions, local organisations and rank-and-file trade union activists – since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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votetanille.bsky.social
Let's build transportation that connects rural and urban communities, that supports health care access, support services access, sports access, all the other things that enable Canadians to have a good life, and that empowers our economy towards a green future. #cdnpoli #publictransit #ndp #canada
Graphic titled "Tanille on Canada-wide, Publicly Built, Owned & Operated TRANSIT" with imagery of a bus and train, featuring the quote "We need transportation connecting communities across Canada-rural and urban. It needs to be efficient, affordable, and green! Let's invest in rail trains and buses, all made by Canadians, built with Canadian materials. Let's work with Indigenous communities for every step; keep it public, because an essential service shouldn't be about profit; and make climate action a pillar of our economic development." With a call to Vote Tanille for NDP Leader and a website link to Tanille.ca
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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ericdoherty.bsky.social
The #ebike for wheelchairs is a game changer, when combined with high quality bike & roll lanes. New blog post with 3 videos. ecoplanning.ca/videos-elect... #wheelchair #pwd
Videos: Electric bicycles for wheelchairs - Ecopath Planning
Carlos de Albert Ysamat used to drive everywhere in Barcelona. But when he got what he calls his “electric bicycle […]
ecoplanning.ca
October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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arzeena.bsky.social
If you're sending prayers to Jamaica and still pro pipeline and LNG, you're part of the problem.

#earthinovershoot #climateinaction #bcpoli #canpoli
October 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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theguardian.com
UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told
UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told
Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF group British military equipment has been found on battlefields in Sudan, used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of genocide, according to documents seen by the UN security council. UK-manufactured small-arms target systems and British-made engines for armoured personnel carriers have been recovered from combat sites in a conflict that has now caused the world’s biggest humanitarian catastrophe. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Don't forget Sudan.
Don't forget Sudan.
Don't forget Sudan.
Don't forget Sudan.
Don't forget Sudan.
Don't forget Sudan.
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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chuffed.org/project/1503...
Support Firefighters and Rescue Workers in Ukraine
Ukraine Solidarity Information is a solidarity group with Ukraine based in Canada. We are fundraising to help Ukrainian Fire Fighters and Rescue Workers.
chuffed.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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betterpensionsbc.bsky.social
Continuing our fun thread ”LNG is Poison for People + the Planet”, here’s a look👇 at an LNG plant’s horrifying impact on local air quality in Texas.
caneurope.org Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · Sep 23
🔥 The EU’s dependence on fossil gas is fuelling death and environmental destruction! Hear it from John Beard, founder and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network in Texas. Watch John’s full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9z...

#TheCostOfMethane #CutMethane #PhaseOutFossilGas
1/7 🧵👇
October 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM