Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism!

A snapshot of a page at West Coast Environmental Law, with a headline reading "Brief: Legal and Historical Risk Analysis of a Northwest Coast Pipeline"

'A northwest coast oil pipeline and tankers project, anticipated as part of Prime Minister Carney’s “grand bargain” with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, is a fool’s errand.'

www.wcel.org/publication/...

#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoLNG #NoPipelines

Worried about exactly this.

Agree Canada needs to move fast. May find this thread of interest!

100% The rest of the democratic world owes our ally Ukraine a huge debt of gratitude for fighting off fascist Russia (which after all, is at war with us too). Along with boosting military support and aid, the EU + others need to strangle the Kremlin’s fossil fuel revenues!

Always.🇨🇦🇺🇦

Terrible. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the UK also massively subsidizes burning massive amounts of wood - including old-growth trees(!) from BC - to generate a lot of its power. At a time when renewables + storage are cheap and dependable!!!

US regime = ultimate useful idiots.

…And don’t forget, fascist Russia’s ambitions go far beyond Ukraine - the Kremlin is ACTIVELY attacking and undermining democracies around the world, including Canada. Supporting our ally Ukraine to crush fascist Russia will make us all safer! 🇺🇦🇨🇦

As true today as it was 3 months ago. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 #MakeRussiaSmallAgain

As long as Alberta and Ottawa continue to push for another dirty fossil pipeline…

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It’s almost that time of year again!!! ❄️☃️ That’s right, just a few days till the 2nd Annual BetterPensionsBC Advent Calendar!🎄🛷
Check back here starting December 1st - every day we’ll profile another AWFUL firm that BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans invest in! 🎁🎅
(Here’s last year’s calendar👇)

Your daily reminder that #FossilFuelsFundFascists !!!
If EU countries (looking at you, 🇫🇷+🇧🇪+🇪🇸+🇳🇱), the UK, Australia and other democracies are truly serious about helping our ally Ukraine, they’d stop importing huge quantities of fossil oil + gas from fascist Russia.
@razomwestand.bsky.social

Trump’s latest tweet. He is taking full responsibility for the “peace” plan. It’s not Witkoff’s, Vance’s or Kushner’s.
It’s Trump’s and it has always been Trump’s.

🇨🇦🇺🇦 Zelensky: I had a good and important meeting with Canada’s Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.

Key topics: Ukraine’s reconstruction, support in ensuring our energy resilience and restoring infrastructure.

We are counting on Canadian businesses' involvement.

Putin launched Europe’s biggest war since WWII — killing civilians, kidnapping children, and eliminating political opponents. Yet Mr. Witkoff says he’s “not a bad guy.” Diplomacy requires engaging with dictators, but that doesn't mean we have to check our values at the door.

Fifa partners with Saudi Arabia and pledges $1bn to fund football infrastructure Under the new deal, discounted loans will go towards the construction of stadiums with priority given to developing nations

Saudi Arabia’s fossil fuel foreign policy: buy football soft power, block the climate action needed to protect football fans and players from the biggest threat humanity faces.

Your daily reminder that #FossilFuelsFundFascists !!!
If EU countries (looking at you, 🇫🇷+🇧🇪+🇪🇸+🇳🇱), the UK, Australia and other democracies are truly serious about helping our ally Ukraine, they’d stop importing huge quantities of fossil oil + gas from fascist Russia.
@razomwestand.bsky.social

Drax is still the UK's largest emitter | Ember Drax power plant tops the list of largest carbon emitters in the UK, followed by Port Talbot Steelworks and Pembroke gas power station as coal and steel closures shake up rankings.

To learn more about Drax (seriously, were they trying to choose a comically-villainous name?), check out the @ember-energy.org report👇 Drax power plant is the biggest single CO2e source in 🇬🇧 - 13.3M tonnes (more than the next 4 emitters combined). Sure glad we cut down all that BC old-growth! 3/x

Your daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on fossil revenues to bankroll its imperial war of aggression against our democratic ally Ukraine. Australia👇 and other countries need to wake up and stop supporting the Kremlin! Shameful.
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

EXACTLY. The only thing that 🇺🇸 + 🇨🇦 + 🇪🇺 + others should be doing right now is helping our democratic ally Ukraine CRUSH fascist Russia. That means way more military supplies, humanitarian aid, funding, and airtight sanctions on Moscow. For instance👇
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

🚨 Reminder to register for our webinar tomorrow!

Join us on November 25 at 1 pm EST / 10am PST for a discussion on the landmark climate litigation launched by four young Canadians against the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. #cdnpoli

🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Meanwhile in Canada we are yammering about a bitumen pipeline

…And here’s more ⬇️ from @stand.earth about how Drax runs a preposterous greenwashing scheme that destroys BC old-growth 🌲🌲🌲. The year is 2025, the 🌍 is on fire, and 🇬🇧 taxpayers are PAYING mega ££ to torch 🇨🇦 forests, spew massive GHGs, AND worsen air quality in Yorkshire. Well done, everyone! 2/x

The utter lunacy at every climate-wrecking step of this scandalous business model is hard to overstate: killing old-growth🌲 in BC, trucking them to plants, turning them into pellets, shipping them half-way around the 🌍, then 🔥 them. All subsidized by 🇬🇧 taxpayers. @stand.earth @tzeporah.bsky.social

Thanks for reposting your great 🧵 - remember reading it on Xitter back in 2022! Of course at that point, it seemed completely unimaginable that we too here in 🇨🇦 would be worried about an aggressive authoritarian regime on our doorstep… So 🇫🇮’s approach is VERY much of interest now! Hence thread👇

Great points. And actually with concerns here in 🇨🇦 about inequality, polarization, and austerity budgets, have been often making point to others that Finland’s approach to security + societal resilience explicitly includes progressive taxation, income redistribution, strong social programs, etc.

Outside the russian embassy today in Ottawa.
🇨🇦 #NoPeaceWithoutJustice 🇺🇦

People are bringing toys and flowers to the site of a Ternopil apartment building, destroyed by a russian attack, in memory of the victims of russian terror💔

May they rest in peace🕯️