BC, Canada paying for fossil fuel cleanup
Just to make it painfully clear: this is what the #LPC is spending economic recovery money on: subsidizing oil and gas companies.
Not spending it on enforcing oil and gas companies doing what they are supposed to pay for: cleaning up.
Not spending it on building a post-carbon economy.
Pardon the rant.
BC, Canada paying for fossil fuel cleanup
"Governments Are Making #taxpayers Subsidize #Corporate Cleanup of #Oil and #Gas Wells
Companies are responsible for dormant wells, but the public is helping foot the bill."
Oil and gas companies are not cleaning up their wells. So #Canadians are paying to get it done. #OilSubsidy, but this is also Fed Pandemic Recovery $$.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/19/Governments-Make-Taxpayers-Subsidize-Corporate-Cleanup-Oil-Wells/
#News #Politique #Politics #Business #Energy #FF #FossilFuel #Canada #BC #BCPoli #CDNPoli #CanPol #BCLeg
Conservatives reject 'climate change is real'
" #Conservative delegates reject adding '#climate change is real' to the policy book
Delegates voted down green-friendly policies by a margin of 54 per cent to 46"
Party Leader Erin #OToole told delegates the party cannot ignore the reality of #ClimateChange, but the proposal was not even close to passing despite support in #Québec, Atlantic provinces.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-delegates-reject-climate-change-is-real-1.5957739
#News #Politique #Politics #CC #ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #CanPol
Canada lobbying Mexico re: energy
" #Canada ‘Concerned’ #Mexico #Electricity Law Will Harm Investments"
How unexpected corporations might be interested in supporting #renewable #energy! Actually, it may just be opposing nationalism. Because societies which favor state-run utilities like social medicine and energy are all complete failures, just look at Norway, China, and New Zealand!
Canada GHG Cap-and-Trade proposal
" #Canada Proposing National Cap-and-Trade Market for #GHG #Emissions
Draft regulations have been posted for a cap-and-trade market titled the Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System."
It appears modeled on the #Alberta system, which the government of #AB has crippled by stopping or curtailing monitoring of emissions.
https://www.naturalgasintel.com/canada-proposing-national-cap-and-trade-market-for-ghg-emissions/
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work/output-based-pricing-system/federal-greenhouse-gas-offset-system.html
#News #Business #FF #FossilFuels #CC #ClimateCrisis #CapAndTrade #PostCarbonEconomy #Carbon
AB, Canadian politics, oil
" #Alberta covered $20 million in unpaid #land #rent for #oil and #gas operators in 2020
The bill for delinquent companies — picked up almost entirely by #taxpayers — is up 3,000% from 2010"
I wonder why the #Canadian Taxpayers' Federation has not published a faux study on this yet?
https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-gas-land-rent-2020/
#News #Business #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #CanPol #FF #FossilFuel
France, Women's Rights
« Nous sommes fortes, nous sommes fières » : avant le 8 mars, des manifestations pour les #droits des #femmes dans plusieurs villes de #France
Des cortèges ont notamment défilé à Nice, Lille, Strasbourg et Paris, en préambule des actions prévues lundi, à l’occasion de la Journée internationale des droits des femmes.
Women in France demonstrate for their rights before International Women's Day, 8 March.
"The world’s biggest #forest is in our own backyard and we need to protect it
#Canada’s immense #boreal forest covers half of the country and is the largest intact forest in the world. It influences the planet’s #climate, temperature, and #oceans, but only a fraction is preserved."
#Feature #CBC #Environment #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Earth #Terra
" #Atlantic #Ocean circulation at weakest in a millennium, say scientists
Decline in system underpinning Gulf Stream could lead to more extreme weather in #Europe and higher sea levels on #US east coast"
#News #Environment #Climate #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
" #Exxon Mobil's total reserves drop by a third after COVID-19 #oil price drop"
After borrowing to cover its #dividend, the #FossilFuel giant was forced in SEC filings to write off 30% of its 'proved reserves', mostly in #Canada #tarsands and #US #fracking. Earlier in the month the company reported a 22.4 billion USD loss on 2020.
https://ir.exxonmobil.com/sec-filings/sec-filing/10-k/0000034088-21-000012
#News #Business #Energy #FF #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #PostCarbonEconomy
" #Tufts Won't Invest in #Coal and #TarSands Production"
The #US private #University had the 57th largest endowment in the country. While the university, motivated by students and faculty, is moving to #divest from coal and tarsands, they do not plan to elminate #FossilFuel companies from their portfolios, but asked their investment managers to consider #environment, #social, and #governance when investing.
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/02/11/tufts-wont-invest-coal-and-tar-sands-production
"Running an OnionShare anonymous dropbox on a Raspberry Pi"
Excellent write-up by @micahflee Your own personal #anonymous file inbox accessible through #TOR network, running on a #RaspberryPi in just a few minutes, using #OnionShare.
https://micahflee.com/2021/02/onionshare-anonymous-dropbox-raspberry-pi/
Québec + California's Carbon Market auction returns
" #Carbon Market: Results of February 17th Auction held between #Québec and #California"
This auction generated 190 million CAD for Québec, which goes into the Electrification and Climate Change Fund, and brings the total income from the carbon market for the province to 4.5 Billion CAD . Pretty soon it adds up to real money.
#News #Business #Environment #Politique #Politics #QC #QCPoli #CDNPoli #CanPol
USA raises Carbon cost to 51 USD/ton
"How Much Does #Climate Change Cost? #Biden Raises #Carbon’s Dollar Value, but Not by Nearly Enough, Some Say
The administration temporarily increased the “social cost” of carbon, climate-concerned economists say the number is not nearly high enough to meet #Paris goals."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022021/carbon-cost-biden-climate-change/
#News #Business #Environment #Politique #Politics #USA #USPol #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CC #SocialCarbonCost #PostCarbonEconomy
"Clean #Energy Rises: Is This The Death Of The #Petroleum Industry?"
A simplistic overview, yet it highlights the risks for the #FossilFuel industries and the nations which rely on them from an investment point of view. And in that view, #oil is not going away, though it will undergo a sea change.
#News #Business #Environment #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ghg #CO2 #FF #Exxon #Chevron
US Pol, Impeachment
It seems to me that everyone expects the #Republican #Senators to violate their oaths.
Half of the voting population insist they must.
Half of the voting population insist they must not.
But the evidence is reasonably clear that Mr. #Trump did, indeed, incite the protesters to act violently against Congress. And the oaths sworn by Senators should find him guilty of impeachable offenses.
And we assume more than ⅓ are so dishonorable as to violate that oath. Which is sad.
chocolate firms sued for child slavery
" #Mars, #Nestlé and #Hershey to face child #slavery lawsuit in #US
#Chocolate companies are among the defendants named in a lawsuit brought by former child workers in Ivory Coast"
#News #Business #ChildLabor #ChildSlavery #HumanTrafficking #IvoryCoast #France #USPol
Alberta, Aus miners vs Albertans
"Don’t Be Fooled: #Alberta Is Still Playing the #Coal Game
Reinstating the Coal Policy does little to protect the Rockies or already scarce #water resources relied on by two million people."
The two biggest points: Alberta government worked on behalf of #Australian Mining corps while keeping #Albertans in the dark, and the projects are all still on.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/02/10/Alberta-Coal-Game/
#News #Law #Justice #Business #FF #FossilFuel #Australia #Aus #AusPol #AB #ABLeg #ABPoli
GM, EVs, and oil in Canada
"Why #GM's switch to #electric vehicles may be more important for the oilpatch than Keystone XL's cancellation
'The future of transportation, starting now, is electric,' says #environmentalist working with #automaker"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/general-motors-electric-oilpatch-1.5905637
#News #Business #Environment #ev #zev #bev #GeneralMotors #auto #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #FF #FossilFuel #Carbon #PostCarbonEconomy #Canada #CDNPoli #CanPol #ABLeg #AB #ABPoli
"As Mauna Loa Observatory records highest atmospheric #carbon dioxide counts, Himalayan glacier bursts in #India"
#ClimateChange is melting the glaciers of the Himalayas, the largest reserve of ice and snow outside of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. #CarbonDioxide is directly linked to rising temperatures, and is currently at its highest measures ever recorded.
#News #Environment #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Disaster #GlobalWarming