Keith Stewart
@climatekeith.bsky.social
Greenpeace Canada climate campaigner capable of boring you about energy transitions, climate solutions and the history of oil industry perfidy. Part-time prof at U of Toronto. Sci-fi aficionada.
Announcing the next round of the "bypass environmental laws and FPIC" Major-projects list in Prince Rupert is an ominous choice share.google/xHGj7lzAwyBL...
Next round of major projects list coming Thursday: Carney
The second round of major so-called nation-building projects will be announced this Thursday in Prince Rupert, B.C., Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Announcing the next round of the "bypass environmental laws and FPIC" Major-projects list in Prince Rupert is an ominous choice share.google/xHGj7lzAwyBL...
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Could a cold war emerge between fossil-fuel-rich petrostates and renewable-powered electrostates? Some observers think so and a quiet deal made on the eve of #COP30 hints in that direction
#climatecrisis
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Cop30 live: crucial climate talks begin in Brazil as hosts insist summit must lead to ‘implementation’
Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be “the Cop of implementation”.
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Could a cold war emerge between fossil-fuel-rich petrostates and renewable-powered electrostates? Some observers think so and a quiet deal made on the eve of #COP30 hints in that direction
#climatecrisis
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#climatecrisis
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In the same week that next tranche of C5 projects will be announced, Tim Hodgson is speaking at an event sponsored by CAPP, Pathways & Enbridge on which energy projects should go ahead. Other speakers include 2 former AB ministers (finance + energy) + former Suncor exec cdhowe.org/events/prior...
Priority Projects: Getting Canadian Energy Resources to Market – C.D. Howe Institute
C.D. Howe Institute In-Person Conference After years of lagging productivity, stagnant investment, and declining GDP per capita, Canada’s trade crisis with the United States is a wake-up call that for...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In the same week that next tranche of C5 projects will be announced, Tim Hodgson is speaking at an event sponsored by CAPP, Pathways & Enbridge on which energy projects should go ahead. Other speakers include 2 former AB ministers (finance + energy) + former Suncor exec cdhowe.org/events/prior...
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Did you know 80-90% of Canadians support a wealth tax on the rich, yet this budget just CUT taxes for middle- and upper-income earners.
40,000 job cuts, gutting Indigenous services, and cuts to environmental programs doesn't really scream Canada strong... 🤔
@climatekeith.bsky.social
40,000 job cuts, gutting Indigenous services, and cuts to environmental programs doesn't really scream Canada strong... 🤔
@climatekeith.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Did you know 80-90% of Canadians support a wealth tax on the rich, yet this budget just CUT taxes for middle- and upper-income earners.
40,000 job cuts, gutting Indigenous services, and cuts to environmental programs doesn't really scream Canada strong... 🤔
@climatekeith.bsky.social
40,000 job cuts, gutting Indigenous services, and cuts to environmental programs doesn't really scream Canada strong... 🤔
@climatekeith.bsky.social
Kids to Doug Ford: We're suing you for weak GHG reduction targets & no plan to achieve them because our future depends on avoiding worst impact of climate change.
Judge: They've got a point.
Doug Ford: Our new law says we don't have any targets or a climate plan. Gotcha!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Judge: They've got a point.
Doug Ford: Our new law says we don't have any targets or a climate plan. Gotcha!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario to scrap legal requirement to set and update climate target | CBC News
The Ontario government says it wants to scrap parts of a law requiring it to set and update its emission reductions targets, wiping out legislation that's been key to a youth-led constitutional challe...
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Kids to Doug Ford: We're suing you for weak GHG reduction targets & no plan to achieve them because our future depends on avoiding worst impact of climate change.
Judge: They've got a point.
Doug Ford: Our new law says we don't have any targets or a climate plan. Gotcha!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Judge: They've got a point.
Doug Ford: Our new law says we don't have any targets or a climate plan. Gotcha!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development released a report today highlighting how federal investments supporting projects in the oil & gas sector face significant risks in a transition to net‑zero emissions by 2050.
www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/doc...
www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/doc...
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development released a report today highlighting how federal investments supporting projects in the oil & gas sector face significant risks in a transition to net‑zero emissions by 2050.
www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/doc...
www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/doc...
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The new Baku to Belém Roadmap fails to ensure rich countries deliver on promised climate finance. 😡
But it does send one clear signal: It’s time to tax fossil fuel giants and #MakePollutersPay
#COP30
But it does send one clear signal: It’s time to tax fossil fuel giants and #MakePollutersPay
#COP30
Baku to Belém Roadmap lacks public finance accountability, but offers signal on polluter taxes - Greenpeace International
The long-awaited release of the Baku to Belém Roadmap to US 1.3 trillion lacks accountability ask of developed countries to deliver promised public finance for climate action.
www.greenpeace.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The new Baku to Belém Roadmap fails to ensure rich countries deliver on promised climate finance. 😡
But it does send one clear signal: It’s time to tax fossil fuel giants and #MakePollutersPay
#COP30
But it does send one clear signal: It’s time to tax fossil fuel giants and #MakePollutersPay
#COP30
A reminder that anti-greenwashing legislation is overwhelmingly popular (93% support), but hated by oil executives www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/pr...
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A reminder that anti-greenwashing legislation is overwhelmingly popular (93% support), but hated by oil executives www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/pr...
Carney is Making Greenwash Great Again. Serious question for the legal eagles: what (if anything?) is left of the anti-greenwashing law after they take this away? (text is from Annex 5 of yesterday's budget document).
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Carney is Making Greenwash Great Again. Serious question for the legal eagles: what (if anything?) is left of the anti-greenwashing law after they take this away? (text is from Annex 5 of yesterday's budget document).
“This is a guns-not-butter budget with massive new spending on border guards, police & the military, but austerity for programs that care for people and nature,” said [me] “You can’t fight for our future when you are retreating on climate action...
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Feds unveil new climate strategy with no details on Canada’s emission commitments
The federal government’s climate competitiveness strategy promises a stronger industrial carbon pricing system and the prospect of ending the emissions cap on oil and gas production to drive more inve...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“This is a guns-not-butter budget with massive new spending on border guards, police & the military, but austerity for programs that care for people and nature,” said [me] “You can’t fight for our future when you are retreating on climate action...
www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
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I guess you can't really support Pathways without also making greenwashing legal at the same time
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I guess you can't really support Pathways without also making greenwashing legal at the same time
I did not have this on my Budget Bingo card: Carney will weaken the anti-greenwashing legislation
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I did not have this on my Budget Bingo card: Carney will weaken the anti-greenwashing legislation
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We are looking down the barrel of an AI-fused, integrated surveillance industrial complex.
Take a look at Bill C-12, C-2, C-8 and C-9 and contact your MP to say NO 👇
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Take a look at Bill C-12, C-2, C-8 and C-9 and contact your MP to say NO 👇
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Surveillance, privacy violations, deportations: How Carney’s new laws are building a freedom repression machine
Prime Minister Carney is in the midst of trying to pass a very ambitious political agenda, which is made of lots and LOTS OF BILLS or new laws that he needs to convince the other parties to support hi...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
We are looking down the barrel of an AI-fused, integrated surveillance industrial complex.
Take a look at Bill C-12, C-2, C-8 and C-9 and contact your MP to say NO 👇
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Take a look at Bill C-12, C-2, C-8 and C-9 and contact your MP to say NO 👇
act.gp/43JKVcx
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NEW: Exxon funded efforts to spread climate denial across Latin America, @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reports, "according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south 'less inclined' to support the UN-led climate treaty process."
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NEW: Exxon funded efforts to spread climate denial across Latin America, @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reports, "according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south 'less inclined' to support the UN-led climate treaty process."
Thoughts for our hockey-loving Prime Minister on his new 'climate competitiveness strategy': If you are serious about winning the Stanley Cup, you don't trade away your star forwards because you have a good goalie
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Now is not the time to roll back action on climate change - Greenpeace Canada
Advice for our hockey-loving Prime Minister on his new climate plan: If you are serious about winning the Stanley Cup, you don't trade away your star forwards because you have a good goalie.
www.greenpeace.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thoughts for our hockey-loving Prime Minister on his new 'climate competitiveness strategy': If you are serious about winning the Stanley Cup, you don't trade away your star forwards because you have a good goalie
www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...
www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...
The organization behind Agenda 2025 is going all-out on the scare-mongering for money. Their latest fundraising email is unhinged, but we can't just dismiss them because they wield real power in Trump's America.
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The organization behind Agenda 2025 is going all-out on the scare-mongering for money. Their latest fundraising email is unhinged, but we can't just dismiss them because they wield real power in Trump's America.
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Canada needs a new playbook to establish economic self-sufficiency, post-Trump. Renewable energy, value-added industries and investing in housing and the care economy are among the keys. Co-sponsored by @policyalternatives.ca & @futurework.org.au #cdnecon www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Elbows up: A practical program for Canadian sovereignty - CCPA
A playbook for economic self-sufficiency. Because Canada can’t become a sovereign country by doing the same old things.
www.policyalternatives.ca
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Canada needs a new playbook to establish economic self-sufficiency, post-Trump. Renewable energy, value-added industries and investing in housing and the care economy are among the keys. Co-sponsored by @policyalternatives.ca & @futurework.org.au #cdnecon www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Tech bros didn't read Tolkien, or at least not closely. Sauron isn't defeated by 'hard men': armies are just a distraction. Or the undeniable bravery of Sam & Frodo. It's saved by Frodo's mercy in letting Gollum live, because it is Gollum who casts the ring into Mt Doom.
Empathy and compassion FTW.
Empathy and compassion FTW.
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Tech bros didn't read Tolkien, or at least not closely. Sauron isn't defeated by 'hard men': armies are just a distraction. Or the undeniable bravery of Sam & Frodo. It's saved by Frodo's mercy in letting Gollum live, because it is Gollum who casts the ring into Mt Doom.
Empathy and compassion FTW.
Empathy and compassion FTW.
Jamaica is being devastated by a hurricane supercharged by fossil fuel-driven climate change, yet next week the Carney govt will roll back climate action in the name of "competitiveness."
With per capita GHGs 6x those of Jamaica, we should be doing more, not less, to build a greener, safer future.
With per capita GHGs 6x those of Jamaica, we should be doing more, not less, to build a greener, safer future.
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Jamaica is being devastated by a hurricane supercharged by fossil fuel-driven climate change, yet next week the Carney govt will roll back climate action in the name of "competitiveness."
With per capita GHGs 6x those of Jamaica, we should be doing more, not less, to build a greener, safer future.
With per capita GHGs 6x those of Jamaica, we should be doing more, not less, to build a greener, safer future.
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A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
Welcome to the Strategic Climate Risk Initiative
How can we stop the consequences of climate change from undermining climate action?
www.scri.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
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“As the climate crisis gets worse for Canadians, there’s a hidden cause. The fact is that lobbyists trying to help groups cope with climate change are actually working for some of Canada’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters.”
Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli
www.desmog.com/2025/10/27/l...
Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli
www.desmog.com/2025/10/27/l...
Landmark New Report Shows Canadian Lobbyists Represent Major Polluters Alongside Environmental Groups
In a major conflict of interest, F-Minus study shows nation’s climate action taking a back seat to Big Oil’s lobbying playbook.
www.desmog.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“As the climate crisis gets worse for Canadians, there’s a hidden cause. The fact is that lobbyists trying to help groups cope with climate change are actually working for some of Canada’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters.”
Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli
www.desmog.com/2025/10/27/l...
Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli
www.desmog.com/2025/10/27/l...
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💥BREAKING💥 Four young Canadians just launched a lawsuit against the Canada Pension Plan investment manager, #CPP Investments, for alleged mismanagement of climate risks.
Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
October 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
💥BREAKING💥 Four young Canadians just launched a lawsuit against the Canada Pension Plan investment manager, #CPP Investments, for alleged mismanagement of climate risks.
Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
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Greenpeace Nordic, Nature and Youth and six courageous youth activists demand human rights protection from Norway in the face of aggressive fossil fuel expansion in the Arctic 🌎 🧊
@greenpeace.no @naturogungdom.bsky.social
@greenpeace.no @naturogungdom.bsky.social
Greenpeace vs Norway: Two climate decisions that could change Europe - Greenpeace International
In 2016, six youth activists, Young Friends of the Earth Norway and Greenpeace Nordic took the Norwegian government to court to stop new Arctic oil drilling.
www.greenpeace.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Greenpeace Nordic, Nature and Youth and six courageous youth activists demand human rights protection from Norway in the face of aggressive fossil fuel expansion in the Arctic 🌎 🧊
@greenpeace.no @naturogungdom.bsky.social
@greenpeace.no @naturogungdom.bsky.social
The U.S. has become a petro-thug and many in Canada want to join them in creating an island of fossil fuel dependency in a world that is going electric
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The U.S. has become a petro-thug and many in Canada want to join them in creating an island of fossil fuel dependency in a world that is going electric
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
I guess it shouldn't surprise us that the (fossil fuel-powered) car lobby is gaslighting us on the impacts of the EV mandate that Carney already lifted so they wouldn't move production outside the country. I wonder what the canola farmers think about this...
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Ottawa’s move to curb tariff relief for GM, Stellantis will harm country’s auto sector, manufacturers say
Group representing the Detroit Three in Canada says Ottawa’s shift is ‘an unforced error at the worst possible time’
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I guess it shouldn't surprise us that the (fossil fuel-powered) car lobby is gaslighting us on the impacts of the EV mandate that Carney already lifted so they wouldn't move production outside the country. I wonder what the canola farmers think about this...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...