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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

Global #energyliberationday - 6 Oct - mark it in your calendars …

‘If Congress will not check this administration then Chicago will’ - Brandon Johnson.

Man the ramparts, US cities - vox populi vox dei!

#massmediaendtimes

#truthtopower

Is Canada betting big on LNG at just the wrong time? Canada’s $100 billion gamble on liquefied natural gas is counting on Asian nations buying huge volumes as the region transitions from higher-polluting coal power to clean energy. But Canada may have a...

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/20/a...

Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal | Cornell Chronicle Liquefied natural gas leaves a carbon footprint that is 33% worse than coal, when processing and shipping are taken into account, according to a new Cornell study.

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Malaysian national oil company Petronas just dumped 20% of its portfolio of Canadian gas assets - including a slice of its stake in LNG Canada - to MidOcean Energy… which is part owned by Saudi Aramco. Canada’s sole LNG export terminal is owned by four foreign NOCs. Nation-building projects anyone?

In the last decade, the number of jobs per barrel of oil fell by 43%, while production increased by 47%, according to @pembina.org research…

Imperial’s mass firing are latest death throes of an industry sinking into the tar pits …

And that’s ‘just’ a litany of the #health impacts of #LNG. Now add the #climatedamage of this #carbonintesive #fossilfuel and dubious #economics to the equation: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/20/a...
#Liquefiednaturalgas a ‘#nationbuilding’ resource? Not by any definition…

Wildfires are reversing Canada's progress on improving air quality | CBC News A new report released today found that, while globally air pollution levels were somewhat flat, Canada experienced its worst pollution since 1998, with more than half of Canadians breathing air that s...

“Air pollution is like the zombie that we thought we had killed, but it's coming back to life." Air pollution ain’t ‘the zombie’: it’s higher emissions from Canada’s #oilandgas / non-EV transport / construction industries + the second worse #wildfire season in history… Write the #fullstory #CBC!

YouTube video by cpac Going Nuclear - Stephen Lecce talks Energy Strategy

And certainly not the Ont minister for energy #StephenLecce: m.youtube.com/watch?v=A4jx...

BP predicts higher oil and gas demand, suggesting world will not hit 2050 net zero target Conflict in Ukraine and Middle East as well as trade tariffs are making states focus on energy security

#provebpwrong #nonewoil #timesupforfossils #decarbonization

‘Poor people + dopamine engineering = blockbuster returns from an unsuspecting, unfortunate audience that has been segmented, analyzed, and algorithmically sorted into acquisition costs.’

“Unusual weather conditions” is today’s euphemism for #climateemergency at our national broadcaster …

Fall feeling a little drab? Mother nature may be missing her environmental cue | CBC News The dazzling red, orange and yellow jewel tones of autumn that Canadians are used to seeing may be a little muted due to hot, dry conditions across much of the country — but experts say there's still ...

Another shameful example of #climatecrisishushing by #CBC: “Quite a few people will be disappointed” in the “muted” autumn foliage, said Jessilynn Wong, a Toronto-based photographer. Wait til these folk see these trees in flames or withered by #extremedrought: www.cbc.ca/news/fall-co...

‘Look at the charts’: Democrats desert legacy media for new outlets Angry viewers are trying to make legacy outlets pay for their pro-Trump transgressions by turning to competitors.

Rise the #fifthestate: www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Canada’s National Projects: Betting on Nuclear & LNG While the Future Waits - CleanTechnica Canada’s megaproject choices lock in billions for nuclear and LNG. Mining and trade offer alignment with the future but remain small.

The Liberals are investing our tax dollars in yesteryear industries while Canada’s clean power future goes begging: cleantechnica.com/2025/09/11/c...

And the newly formed Liberal environment caucus - staying schtum?

In a world where trustworthy, free-speaking news-sources - factual, objective, democratic - are under unprecedented assault, independent, #fifthestate media are evermore important. If you agree, let us know who you are: us13.list-manage.com/survey?u=8a5...

Pentagon demands journalists sign pledge not to gather certain information If they don’t agree to limits, including restricting movement within building, Pentagon press passes will be revoked

If #journalists don’t sign up to limits on their news-gathering, including restricted movement within the Pentagon, press passes will be revoked www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#freepress #fourthestate #truthtopower

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

Only surprised #Zuck wasn’t pitching Meta’s RayBan spy glasses to this unwitting chap: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... How low can #MagaMark go? Don’t answer that …

For Canada the choice should plain: failing petrostate or rising electrostate, LNG or solar/wind/geothermal/tidal/hydro …

Introducing Meta Ray-Ban Display: A Breakthrough Category of AI Glasses Today at Connect, Mark Zuckerberg debuted the next exciting evolution of AI glasses: the all-new Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band.

RayBan and Meta making an icon of ‘cool’ potentially very creepy: www.meta.com/blog/meta-ra...

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...

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...

Let’s spend tens of billions of dollars on the chance most every market analyst is suffering from a collective (data-driven) delusion … or get cracking with offshore wind and geothermal and a x-country grid. Read @nationalobserver.com tomorrow for our report of @canrea.bsky.social’s latest forecast.

#allisflux

#heracliteanstream

#truthtopower

So more like AB’s ‘Manure Asset Strategy’?

Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters Children as young as three will have lessons on wildfires and flooding under 10-point emergency response plan

How long / soon before this is part of standard primary school curriculum worldwide? Renewables Revolution now!
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