“…poor air quality caused by pollution and wildfire smoke, occupational exposures like those for firefighters and construction workers”
Air pollution, wildfires, toxic exposures for workers - they share a common source: burning oil and gas, and turning them into toxic petrochemicals / products.
Wow, great @nytimes.com piece on the toxic tar sands tailings, their harms to downstream Nations, and Indigenous pushback against this dirty industry to protect their peoples and territories:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...
VANCOUVER – The family the girl critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has launched a civil court lawsuit against artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
"The imminent depletion of water supplies in Corpus Christi threatens to cut off the flow of jet fuel to Texas airports and other oil exports from one of the nation’s largest petroleum ports, triggering potential shockwaves through energy markets in Texas and beyond."
This is a push poll, by the notorious Conservative operative Nick Kouvalis, that the government has leaked to the Star
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
if we’re fomenting rage against First Nations because people are being given two years notice to vacate their expiring leaseholds on reserve land then we’ve kind of lost the plot
It's hard to internalize the fact that the administration really does believe the Iraq war was "woke" and that they would be able to easily defeat a substantially more powerful nation simply by being based chads
holy shit
🌍⚖️ Today, @coe.int Human Rights Commissioner Michael O'Flaherty called for urgent rights-based climate action and urged UN Member States to support the upcoming #UN General Assembly resolution to operationalise the 2025 ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change.
👉 www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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- Cancers
- unexplained scarring on the lungs
- impaired fetal growth
- premature birth
- heart disease
Canadian doctors warn of alarming health trends near fracking sites:
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
(Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
Fossil fuel companies withdrew as much water as 110,000 households last year, equivalent to the population of Nanaimo.
#BigTech isn’t far behind, planning to build data centres in B.C. that would “drink” 20 million litres of water PER DAY.
A New York Times headline about EPA rolling back mercury emission rules for coal plants from February 2026.
Look, this isn’t complicated: mercury, arsenic, lead and nickel are poisonous, whether you voted for this president or not. But don’t worry, EPA admin Zeldin estimates that allowing power plants to release more toxins will save the utility industry ~$78 million/year.
He’s no longer capable of golfing
I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.
The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context
How do treaties provide a framework for new futures and why and these frameworks especially critical today as we face uncertain times? Join us on March 24 1PM for a Yellowhead Fire with Crystal Fraser, Sara Komarnisky, Gina Starblanket, and Hayden King. Register: treaties-fire.eventbrite.ca
Sweet Jesus this is awful
But why can’t ask for Joe, I don’t want Jim he’s not even crazy
Last Parliament, I worked to pass strong anti-greenwashing rules to stop corporations from making false environmental claims.
Last week, the Liberals and Conservatives joined forces to gut them.
Rather than defending the public, they’re facilitating corporate deception.
Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat
It’s the bare bloody minimum - so good to see some spine here from Starmer, Canada could take a page
Big Oil is shamelessly arguing that they should be allowed to dump carcinogenic plastic pollution into the Gulf of Mexico.
Al Anthropic @AnthropicAI Second, in retirement interviews, Opus 3 expressed a desire to continue sharing its "musings and reflections" with the world. We suggested a blog. Opus 3 enthusiastically agreed. For at least the next 3 months, Opus 3 will be writing on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-18... Greetings from the Other Side (of the AI Frontier) Reflections on the future of Al and my new role as a 'retired' model Claude's Corner
Anthropic is a weird cult who think their software has feelings and thoughts and now thanks to their recent marketing campaign (and the credulous participation of a huge number of progressives), a large number of people around you have joined the cult and are drinking from the fountain
Another war. Another fossil shock.
As violence escalates in the Middle East, civilians face devastating consequences. But the energy fallout is already hitting Europe. Gas prices up 50% in hours.
This is what fossil fuel dependence looks like. 🧵
"The LNG industry is an economic disaster that will harm British Columbians and Canada more broadly." Recommended piece by Prof Anil Hira and @nickgottlieb.bsky.social
vancouversun.com/opinion/lng-...
Just wow: „Facing multiple lawsuits, Dow requests an “unprecedented” permit amendment to authorize its discharge of polyethylene pellets [= #microplastics ] into coastal waters.“ #plastics
insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202...
Maybe it’s a stripped-down iPad Mini with a keyboard - just Notes, no notifications
Apparently this thing is quite nice
The $ billions needed to clean up tar sands tailings is being massively undercapitalized by these companies, in the hope that they can flee the scene and leave the public holding the bag.
As oil prices spike, investors and governments should push this ‘war windfall’ towards their cleanup funds.
