Andrew Gage

Coquitlam #SueBigOil supporters gathered at Coquitlam City Hall today to urge @cityofcoquitlam to explore recovering a fair share of the city’s costs from the world’s largest polluters instead of passing those costs on to taxpayers.

1/2 Well, #BillC-5 just passed in the #SenateofCanada without amendments, but with a government commitment to amend it in the fall to ensure the public registry includes info about how projects will contribute to clean growth and to meeting Canada's climate objectives.

What an opioid lawsuit tells us about climate deception The BC Supreme Court has allowed the Province’s case against McKinsey to proceed as a class action, finding potential links between the company’s opioid-related misinformation and harm in BC. It raise...

New blog: BC and Multnomah County, Oregon are both taking global consultancy McKinsey & Co. to court, raising big questions about the legal accountability of consultants & PR firms that mislead the public and lie about dangerous products. West Coast Lawyer @singingwithin.bsky.social gets into it 👇

I'm aware. I don't know if I've ever seen a CPC candidate at and all candidates meeting. But don't know why anyone would vote for someone who won't show up.

Elbows Up For Climate Elected local leaders from across Canada are uniting to say Elbows Up for Climate. This is the moment to protect our country from the dual threats of tariffs and climate change.

It's like the Leap Manifesto 2025, from 170 municipal leaders representing 10 million Canadians!

We need powerlines, not pipelines.

Big bold projects using Canadian resources to "create hundreds of thousands of good local jobs in cities, rural, and Indigenous communities."

elbowsupforclimate.ca

Went to #ESS All Candidates Meeting last night. Green, NDP, Lib candidates all great, but CPC was a no show. They said prior commitment, but I think candidate Grant Cool didn't bother to come all the way from Uplands. #election2025 #CdnPoli #GreenParty #NDP #LPC #CPC

AND AS A REBATE PROGRAM, ITS EITHER REVENUE NEUTRAL OR A NET FINANCIAL BENEFIT FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF CANADIANS!

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Was surprised and delighted to see a sea otter swimming of of Macaulay Point in Esquimalt this morning. Too far for any good pictures on my phone. Never seen one live before, and they haven't lived here in generations.

The life and death of the Canadian small town Neoliberal capitalism isn't compatible with small and rural communities. At some point, we either face that fact or we simply let them all die.

The life and death of the Canadian small town

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Google La Rose v Canada and Mathur v Ontario for two cases currently before the courts.

The climate-crusading lawyer who sued Switzerland over global warming — and won Cordelia Bähr is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.

I love that the lawyer who connected climate attribution to health risk science is one of @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s 10 people who shaped science in 2024.

She led the lawsuit against the Swiss govt for violating the rights of older women by failing to take steps to prevent climate change.

Good.

Calling all communications folks. Interested in working on #climatechange with @wcelaw.bsky.social and @suebigoil.bsky.social? Come join us. #Greenjobs #Communications www.wcel.org/job-posting/....

Good news for the youth bringing similar #climatechange cases in Canada. #Cdnpoli

Where Do Emissions Come From? 4 Charts Explain Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are rapidly warming the planet. But where do they come from? WRI experts explain which sectors emit the most GHGs.

While most discussions of which sectors contribute to #climatechange and #GHGEmissions focus on end-users, this @worldresources.bsky.social series of graphs shows that 75.7% of global emissions are from fossil fuels & less than 1/4 from other sources. #SueBigOil www.wri.org/insights/4-c...

YouTube video by Sarah Connolly Sue Big Oil stop-motion animation

Love it when people use their own words and mediums to explain why their community needs to #SueBigOil. We can't afford the alternative. #BCPoli #StopMotion #Animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qm9...

Looking forward to watching it.

This Indigenous attorney is fighting for climate justice in the world's highest court Growing up on Guam, Julian Aguon saw the law used against Indigenous peoples. Now he's fighting back.

“The right to self-determination is a cornerstone of the international legal order,” Aguon told the 15 judges on the ICJ. “Yet climate change, and the conduct responsible for it, has already infringed the right to self-determination for the many peoples of Melanesia.”
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Linda McQuaig: Our leaders rarely acknowledge the grip Big Oil has on Canada. That’s why what Catherine McKenna did was so striking Catherine McKenna’s willingness to break the cone of silence of political leaders and clearly identify the obstructionist role played by the immensely powerful oil lobby demonstrates the kind of coura...

"Contrary to the notion that it’s the public resisting the transition to clean energy, McKenna lays out clearly — from the vantage point of a person with a seat at the table — that the real resistance is coming from the fossil fuel industry."
#cdnpoli #Canada 🇨🇦 #ableg
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

How many people know that the potholes that litter our streets are worse due to extreme heat and precipitation? What about the costs of replanting dying urban trees due to drought? Installing new water treatment due to algal blooms or misting stations for heat waves? The list goes on.

Indeed a tragic example, but the reality is that particular storms or weather events are the tip of the iceberg in terms of municipal costs. This story raises questions about rebuilding stormwater infrastructure to address increased precipitation, but that's hardly mentioned.

An excellent piece by a thoughtful woman who acknowledges when she was wrong.

Anyone have good suggestions for an explainer video (5-10 minutes in length) on the many ways that #climatechange is costing local governments and driving done of the increases in municipal taxes we've been seeing (and expect to see)? #cdnpoli #localgov

Systematic assessment of the achieved emission reductions of carbon crediting projects - Nature Communications Carbon markets are key in climate strategies, but only 16% of carbon credits represent real emission reductions, based on a study of 2,346 projects. Reforms are needed to improve the effectiveness of ...

Major investigation of offsets projects ('carbon markets') shows only 16% of carbon credits issued constitute real emission reductions

Yet countries agreed major new C markets at #COP29 with no obvious tightening of standards

Vast majority of offsetting is a scam

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Redefining net zero will not stop global warming, new study shows | In a new study led by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, an international group of researchers who developed the science behind net zero demonstrate that relying on ‘natural carbon

Redefining net zero will not stop global warming, new study shows

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As incredible as it seems, I think this view was widespread among even climate activists until the divestment movement. I remember a high profile activist telling me that #SueBigOil we a bad idea, because solving the climate crisis required industry cooperation.

As environment minister, I thought we had forged an unlikely alliance to save the planet. It turned out to be a sham Former Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna on what she learned in four years leading Canada’s fight against climate change

I thought hard about how to express what needs to be said. The climate crisis is accelerating as is energy transition. 🇨🇦 is blessed with natural & human resources to build the future. But the oil sands are taking us for fools. Time to be on the right side of history. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized ‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say

Climate change is driving up insurance premiums. Would be good to have this data for Canada. @insurancebureau.bsky.social @climateinstitute.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Cdnpoli

Question for Cdn Environment Minister @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social: The law required Canada's 2035 target for reducing #GHG emissions to be set by Dec 1 (2 days ago). What is it? Where can I find it? #missing #climatechange #cdnpoli

Squamish letter: Oil and gas should pay 'Squamish cannot afford to pay the mounting costs of climate change alone, and the planet cannot afford for oil and gas companies to continue to duck the responsibility for their products.'

"Companies put short-term profits over the health of our communities ... not because they are run by "bad" people; [but] because they are rewarded financially and avoid paying the costly climate impacts caused by their products." #SueBigOil #bcpoli www.squamishchief.com/opinion/squa...