Stephen Thomas

As the @climateunit.bsky.social prepares to end its 5-yr mission this month, I'm super proud of these final resources we've produced for our allies in the climate justice movement:
✅ Our final Legacies & Lessons report
✅ A final 12-min video on the 6 markers of emergency
✅ Special podcast series. 👇

BREAKING: Donner Resigns as Co-Chair of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body University of British Columbia climate scientist Simon Donner has resigned as co-chair of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body (NZAB).

This resignation is worth noting. @simondonner.bsky.social is a man of impeccable integrity. If he is saying the process, and the politics, is compromised and broken, that does not bode well for climate action in Carney's Canada.
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I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.

Great interview and resource, @woodsideful.bsky.social.

Kudos to you for the interview and to @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social for the integrity and clarity offered here.

Canada’s clean energy future is within reach ⚡💡 Join David Suzuki, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Jordyn Burnouf, and @stephenjwt.bsky.social for Suzuki Session: The Clean Energy Opportunity.
🗓️ Dec 4 | 1–2:30 PM PST
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'Sorry prime minister, I'm no longer your man': Steven Guilbeault on leaving cabinet In Steven Guilbeault’s first English-media interview since resigning over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to pursue a pipeline agreement with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the former cabinet m...

In @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social’s first English-media interview since resigning over the pipeline MOU with Alberta, the former cabinet minister said the government isn’t being honest with the public and is betraying its commitments.

EXCLUSIVE: O’Leary’s Gas-Powered Data Centre Emissions Could Wipe Out Alberta’s Coal Phaseout Gains Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary’s proposed $70-billion data centre, designed to run on 7.5 gigawatts of gas-fired power, could raise Alberta’s greenhouse gas emissions to levels not seen since the co...

"O’Leary’s Gas-Powered Data Centre Emissions Could Wipe Out Alberta’s Coal Phaseout Gains"

7.5 GW of new gas in Alberta for a $70B data centre is insane.

That's more than the electricity demand in all four Atlantic provinces *combined*

#cdnpoli #EnergySky

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Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal | CBC News Assembly of First Nations chiefs are demanding the withdrawal of Canada and Alberta’s recently announced new pipeline deal and expressing full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast t...

“Assembly of First Nations chiefs voted unanimously on Tuesday to demand the withdrawal of a new pipeline deal between Canada and Alberta”

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STATEMENT: Canada’s tariff announcement will increase the cost of electricity for Canadians  - Canadian Renewable Energy Association STATEMENT: The Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) is very concerned by the Government of Canada’s new measures to further limit foreign steel imports. The decision to impose a 25 percent t...

Canada needs to build manufacturing capacity for wind and solar, no question. It’s one of the great opportunities of this moment.

But applying immediate tariffs to wind components now will only scrap projects or increase power bills. Not great.

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Has any prime minister ever gotten less political value out of a giant investment than Justin Trudeau got from TMX? Obviously environmental groups/voters were never going to like it, and most everyone else just pretends it never happened because it complicates the narrative.

What does suspending Alberta’s clean electricity regulations mean for Canada’s climate goals? | CBC News The federal government suspended the regulations meant to rein in Canada’s worst polluter, but it hasn’t explained how it is going to ensure the country’s climate goals will be met. Carbon pricing, th...

Great article by @davidthurton.bsky.social on the Clean Electricity Regulations carve-out for Alberta.

All signs point to an equivalency agreement on April fool's day.

Devil in the details, because signs also point to that agreement taking us all for fools.

#cdnpoli

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AI Datacentre electricity demand will be nearly double the entire electricity system of Quebec in the next 10 year, according to this Bloomberg projection.

Wow.

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Did the climate world misread Carney? Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start?

The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.

Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand – latest updates Hundreds remain missing in Indonesia and Sri Lanka as rescue efforts continue after Cyclone Ditwah

"Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand"

Really horrific

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Environment minister disputes Guilbeault’s claim that Canada is cutting climate policies | CBC News Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin is pushing back against claims from Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from cabinet this week over Ottawa’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta...

Do they think we’re all idiots, or?

Step 1)
suspend clean electricity regs in AB (which are alone 59% of the total GHGs saved nationally)

Step 2)
all other provinces expect and get the same deal.

Step 3)
no more regs.

They’ve already done Step 1

#cdnpoli #EnergySky

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WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN

That a fed-prov deal giving away nearly every shred of federal climate action to appease a delusional minority base of petro-nationalist separatists in Alberta didn’t fucking work?

WHO COULD POSSIBLY HAVE FORESEEN!

#cdnpoli #climate

Health Canada study on air pollution:

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He doesn't “say” clean electricity would save lives. It would.

15,300 Canadians die each year of preventable causes linked to air pollution, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels.

42 people. Every damn day.

#cdnpoli #climate #Energysky

‘The answer is no and always will be’: UBCIC on Alberta-Canada MOU The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the MOU signed Thursday morning to build a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

“This MOU is nothing less than a high risk and deeply irresponsible agreement that sacrifices Indigenous peoples, coastal communities, and the environment for political convenience,” says Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the UBCIC.

Canada’s top political leaders are climate deniers. There’s no such thing as “decarbonized” oil and no environmentally conscious way to increase fossil fuel production.

Mark Carney and his government are sacrificing the climate and baking in worse natural disasters in the hope of short-term profit.

This pipeline will never be built. But trying to build it is still a tragic waste of time and money at a time when we have neither to spare.

Something that is easy to forget in all the "Carney is a political genius / Carney is a political naif" argle bargle is that climate policies matter. Environmental regulations matter. Getting rid of them may or may not achieve a political end — but it's guaranteed to have real-world implications.

Alberta and Ottawa’s fossil fuel fantasy sacrifices environment PM Mark Carney and AB Premier Danielle Smith dealt a devastating blow to climate and nature by signing an MOU for a new AB-to–BC pipeline.

Our @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social reaction to today's horrendous MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada:

davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.

You can find my full statement below.

Minister Steven Guilbeault resigns from federal cabinet over this today, and calls it a "serious mistake" to remove the Clean Electricity Regulations in his resignation letter.

Couldn't agree more.

#cdnpoli #climate #renewables #cleanelectricity #EnergySky

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As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.

I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work

Just ask the last person who tried.

Today is a historic setback for climate action in Canada. DSF vehemently opposes this proposed pipeline and calls on @mark-carney.bsky.social to do better. Stand firm on environmental standards and advance Canada’s clean energy transition. Not Danielle Smith's fossil fuel fantasy.

Today is a truly awful day in Climate politics in Canada. This move doesn't make that better, but I have to give some respect for the integrity Minister Guilbeault is showing here.

I can't imagine how anyone who cares about climate in this government can reconcile this mess.

Alberta and Ottawa’s fossil fuel fantasy sacrifices environment PM Mark Carney and AB Premier Danielle Smith dealt a devastating blow to climate and nature by signing an MOU for a new AB-to–BC pipeline.

Our @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social reaction to today's horrendous MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada:

davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...