Julia Levin

Alberta covered $150M in oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent | The Narwhal Issue of oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent in Alberta is ‘intertwined’ with unpaid municipal taxes, cleanup bills: law professor

Alberta spent $150M in public money since 2010 & $30M in 2024 alone covering unpaid compensation to landowners for delinquent oil and gas companies. This problem will only grow the longer Alberta delays making O&G companies clean up their inactive wells. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-... #ABLeg #ABPoli

🌍 BREAKING: The world’s highest court just made history.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that climate action is a legal obligation—not a choice.

Read our press release at FossilFuelTreaty.org/icj

Solar was the largest power source in the EU for the first month ever in June

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲, 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁, 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 – with clean flexibility, our power grid can be clean, safe and stable every hour ⚡️⏰ 🔄

Here are 𝟵 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆-𝘁𝗼-𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 and real-life examples of how they're already helping the world wean off fossils 🧵👇

As Indigenous nations meet with Carney today over his major projects plan, no list of projects has been made public. But after speaking with government sources we're got the likely front-runners. Here they are, spanning LNG, power grids & port upgrades.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/17/a...

Will Carney's next move be to hire Elon Musk to carry out his massive cuts to government?

Carney's right wing agenda is
seriously bad news for the government services we all rely on

Carney was all too happy to drop the digital services tax - seeking nothing in return - to benefit wealthy tech companies, which absolutely should be paying their taxes

Another bad move from Carney showing his right wing colours

I guess it shouldn't be surprising that Carney cares so little about democracy

Releasing ONE mandate letter for all of cabinet that is full of meaningless & vague priorities is not transparent

And climate isn't mentioned once

This doesn't bode well

Decades of Deceit Why the case against the major fossil fuel companies for fraud and climate damages is so strong.

Decades of Deceit -- and @ucs.org has the receipts. We've known for a long time that Big Oil and other fossil fuel companies knew their products were disrupting the climate, but the details matter. This new report spells out the ways that fossil fuel companies thwarted action. 1/

Very helpful analysis of the climate impacts of federal parties...

The Debate Commission’s decision to give questions to Rebel Media & other rage farming, disinformation outlets (who focus on attacking progressive politicians & their families as I well know) at expense of credible news organizations is not only absurd, it degrades our democracy.

The U.S. Will Continue Shifting Toward Clean Energy despite Trump Policies, New Analyses Say President Trump’s efforts to dismantle climate policies won’t stop renewables from rising or fossil fuels from slowing, according to outlooks from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and Bloomb...

The shift to Clean Energy Will Persist under Trump - even if he is successful in repealing regulations & slashing subsidies

Renewable generation is still expected to increase 3x by 2050 & become the leading source of power generation by the early 2030s

www.scientificamerican.com/article/shif...

Proposed Massive Carbon Capture Hub Puts Alberta's Water and Farmland At Risk - Environmental Defence This blog is co-written by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate at Environmental Defence Canada, and  James Hannay, Policy Assistant at the

A new piece by @jflevin.bsky.social NFU’s James Hannay warns that the Pathways Alliance’s proposed massive CCS project in Alberta threatens groundwater used by thousands, including farmers, yet no environmental assessment has been done. 🏭🚱

environmentaldefence.ca/2025/04/10/p....

Where water falls, RESISTANCE RISES.

Last night, at Niagara Falls, we shared an important message: enough is enough. Canada cannot and will not get Trumped.

Join us tomorrow >> act.gp/4cKzDrR

#DontTrumpCanada #ElbowsUpCanada

Big Bets on Speculative Carbon Capture Tech Ignore Today’s Solutions Investors and buyers are backing futuristic carbon cleanup technologies rather than ones working at scale now.

Firms are placing major bets on direct air capture even though the technology remains unproven at scale, inordinately expensive and energy intensive

Through 2024, DAC has delivered just ~1,200 tons of CO2 removal

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

À LIRE: Les technologies de capture et de stockage du carbone peuvent mettre les ressources en eau et les terres agricoles à risque. 👇 #polcan #cdnpoli

Response to False Claims on Fossil Funding Report - Environmental Defence In a recent interview, Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, misrepresented Environmental Defence's Fossil Funding 2024 report and our evidence-based perspective on carbon capt...

🗣️ Minister Wilkinson recently commented on our Fossil Funding 2024 report — but got a few things wrong.
📌 So we're setting the record straight — because facts matter.
📖 Read more: bit.ly/42wMrgR
#FossilFunding #ClimateFacts #cdnpoli

En 2024, le gouvernement du Canada a accordé au moins 29,6 milliards de dollars en soutien financier à l’industrie pétrolière et gazière

Trois des cinq principaux partis fédéraux s’engagent à mettre fin au financement public de l’industrie pétrolière et gazière

Why Canada's rural regions are big on expanding EV charging | CBC News Rural communities across Canada are finding ways to bring EV charging infrastructure to their regions so they don't get left behind in the EV transition. Some are already enjoying the opportunities an...

Rural communities want the benefits of EVs, so they're making their own charging networks

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Ban on carbon capture near Mahomet Aquifer wins unanimous approval in Illinois Senate State senators voted unanimously, 55-0, this week to ban carbon sequestration near the Mahomet Aquifer. That's the sole source of water for nearly 1 million people in the region, including much of McL...

Ban on carbon capture storage near aquifer wins unanimous approval in Illinois Senate in an effort to protect the state's drinking water

www.nprillinois.org/illinois/202...

Canada will no longer cover travel costs of experts it nominates to UN's climate science body | CBC News In a sudden and unexplained change from previous decades, the federal government has stopped covering the travel costs of Canadian experts volunteering for the next major global climate science assess...

The Government of Canada needs to answer why they have decided to stop covering travel costs of experts it nominates to UN's climate science body

This smacks of Trump's influence and is incredibly disappointing

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Tariff Relief & Retaliatory Measures: How Governments in Canada Should Respond - Environmental Defence EDC insights into how Canada's governments should respond to President Trump's tariffs to protect Canadians.

Check out our backgrounder on how an export tax would work, as well as other response measures environmentaldefence.ca/report/tarri...

Net Zero Roadmap: A Global Pathway to Keep the 1.5 °C Goal in Reach – Analysis - IEA Net Zero Roadmap: A Global Pathway to Keep the 1.5 °C Goal in Reach - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

Lastly, the International Energy Agency in their updated net-zero roadmap which found no role for hydrogen in buildings www.iea.org/reports/net-...

A recent academic paper found that the associated air pollution and health costs from blending 20% hydrogen into the fossil gas grid could rise as high as £2.3 billion per year for the UK. online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art...

WP7 - Safety assessment — Hy4Heat

On safety: A study found that the use of hydrogen for home heating could quadruple the number of injuries caused by leakages and explosions when compared with fossil gas. www.hy4heat.info/wp7.

Nitrogen oxides rates are expected to be 35% higher than for natural gas www.ge.com/content/dam/...

On cost: Research from Europe shows that blending 20% hydrogen into the fossil gas grid could lead to price increases of up to 43% for industrial consumers, and up to 16% for household consumers doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

On lack of climate benefits: a study found that using blue hydrogen to heat a home uses at least 40% more gas than boilers using fossil gas outright www.creds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Is heating homes with hydrogen all but a pipe dream? An evidence review Dr. Jan Rosenow is a principal and director of European programs at the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), a global team of highly skilled energy ex…

The literature review of 32 hydrogen studies the use of hydrogen for heating is not supported by any of the papers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On inefficiency: electric heat pumps produce 5-7x more heat per unit of energy than hydrogen
www.energy-transitions.org/wp-content/u...

US refiners unlikely to spend big to process more domestic oil U.S. refiners are not planning to make big-ticket investments to process more domestic crude and less oil from top suppliers Canada and Mexico, industry sources and analysts said, an obstacle to President Trump's plan to boost oil output.

U.S. refiners are not planning to make big-ticket investments to process more domestic crude and less oil from Canada - that would take years and can cost hundreds of millions

That's why a tax on oil and gas exports would be a great tool for tariff retaliation

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Canadian mayors push federal leaders for action on climate, not pipelines | CBC News Municipal politicians across Canada have written a letter to the five main federal party leaders calling for climate-related actions they say would improve the country's resilience to environmental ca...

Canadian mayors push federal leaders for action on climate, not pipelines

This is what leadership looks like

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...