Blair Mahaffy

‘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

#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

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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... 👇

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...

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
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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.

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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

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

Ontario power rates to rise on higher nuclear generation costs, conservation spending Rate jump of 29% partly offset by higher provincial electricity rebate

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
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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

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...

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
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The carbon flow of BECCS. When BECCS systems are employed, a negative carbon flow from the atmosphere into storage is created. From: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0961953422000678

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.

I wonder how long it will take before they start asking for bailouts, again, because they missed a global trend and kept building big gas guzzlers.

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

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.

#FossilFools

📢 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 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

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

@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. 🧵

The Longest Ballot has been a clever nuisance. Poilievre's response is anti-democracy.

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Global oil surplus could stretch into 2026 on higher OPEC+ output, softening demand, IEA says The International Energy Agency says global supply may exceed demand by about 4 million bpd next year

"World oil supply will rise more rapidly than previously expected this year & a surplus could expand in 2026"
But by all means let's gamble on new oil pipelines in a world with a rapidly expanding oil glut. New pipelines are economic madness. #EndFossilFuels
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Energy firms complete UK’s first ‘hydrogen blending’ trial to power grid A 2% blend of low-carbon gas injected into gas grid to fuel Brigg power station in North Lincolnshire is a UK first

What is this nonsense?

2% of 'green' hydrogen added to the gas grid

Complete and utter waste of time

Gas is fossil fuel. It has to go ASAP

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The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

"Microplastics have been detected in the brains of dementia patients, and in arterial plaques from people with heart disease"

And the response of the plastics industry is......

....to massively ramp up plastic production

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We're making a last push to win a Youth Climate Corps in next month's federal budget. Please help us get it over the line 👇

THIS 👇. Friends, please take this action today and help us get a national Youth Climate Corps over the line...

Imperial Oil to cut 900 jobs, will mostly leave Calgary | CBC News In a release Monday afternoon, the company announces workforce cuts to come by the end of 2027.

The Minister is concerned about energy sector jobs? He should laser focus on moving the unemployed workers into the renewable energy sector: wind, solar, geothermal. No more subsidies for a doomed fossil fuel industry & its dirty, planet-killing products. #EnergyTransition
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Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

"The truth is that on a rapidly heating planet, a pragmatic approach means we are playing Russian roulette with all six barrels loaded. The only question is just how big a mess we will make when we pull the trigger"

In case you missed it

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Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

Just out

My latest @guardian piece on #climate pragmatism and the global rowback on climate action

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Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they're disappearing. Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.

Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they’re disappearing.

Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.

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#Indigenous #Tribes #Canada #Climate #Trucking #Ice #Climate #Roads #Transportation

Canada, major fossil-fuel producers are widening the gap between output and climate targets: report Canada and other major fossil fuel-producing countries are derailing the world’s chance to hit key targets to rein in climate change, a new international report suggests, with 2030 production levels e...

“That production gap – the difference between the cuts required to keep emissions in check and planned production – is even bigger than two years ago,” reports The Canadian Press.

Yet our leaders keep approving new fossil fuel projects.
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