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.
Reposted by Keith Stewart
@thestar.com's Allan Woods looks at Carney's meteoric rise from climate truthsayer to oil pipeline proponent. I was happy to share with my thoughts and how my view of him has changed along the way.
Stand.earth #greensky
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Stand.earth #greensky
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Mark Carney’s journey from climate ‘visionary’ to pipeline promoter
Environmentalists believed the former Bank of Canada governor was a true believer in the need for the world to move away from fossil fuels. Then he became prime minister.
www.thestar.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
@thestar.com's Allan Woods looks at Carney's meteoric rise from climate truthsayer to oil pipeline proponent. I was happy to share with my thoughts and how my view of him has changed along the way.
Stand.earth #greensky
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Stand.earth #greensky
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Delay tactic while awaiting PONI status? It's been over a year since federal Impact Assessment Agency granted Pathways Alliance an extension on the 90 days they had to respond to First Nations' info requests re CCS project. Latest letter is pure bafflegab:
iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/document...
iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/document...
December 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Delay tactic while awaiting PONI status? It's been over a year since federal Impact Assessment Agency granted Pathways Alliance an extension on the 90 days they had to respond to First Nations' info requests re CCS project. Latest letter is pure bafflegab:
iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/document...
iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/document...
Reposted by Keith Stewart
Since this op-ed specifically cites the example of other countries let me remind you that Canadian liberals' decades-long attempt to reconcile with the oil and gas industry and the province of Alberta have yielded no benefits for climate whatsoever and I'm not aware of any economic benefits either.
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Since this op-ed specifically cites the example of other countries let me remind you that Canadian liberals' decades-long attempt to reconcile with the oil and gas industry and the province of Alberta have yielded no benefits for climate whatsoever and I'm not aware of any economic benefits either.
Max makes some excellent points here, so I’ll respond as much as I can before my dinner plans call me away (more tomorrow). Where I think we agree is on the importance of policy durability.
Another thread:
Another thread:
Since my name keeps getting called out here, I thought it would be useful to take a look at Greenpeace's analysis here.
A quick thread:
A quick thread:
He's done so by ignoring long-term costs, the precedent it sets federally and the very real risk to frontline communities. I find it irresponsible and I'm hoping through this back and forth that the full story (and its impacts) behind this political betrayal can be brough to light.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Max makes some excellent points here, so I’ll respond as much as I can before my dinner plans call me away (more tomorrow). Where I think we agree is on the importance of policy durability.
Another thread:
Another thread:
Reposted by Keith Stewart
Hey Pathways, we fixed your ads for you 🥰
Because, no, this isn't a stronger economy. It's stolen Indigenous land. Fuel for wildfires. A paycheque for the rich. And not the future Canada is asking for.
Join us in calling them & the gov out >> act.gp/3YyNnj3
Because, no, this isn't a stronger economy. It's stolen Indigenous land. Fuel for wildfires. A paycheque for the rich. And not the future Canada is asking for.
Join us in calling them & the gov out >> act.gp/3YyNnj3
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hey Pathways, we fixed your ads for you 🥰
Because, no, this isn't a stronger economy. It's stolen Indigenous land. Fuel for wildfires. A paycheque for the rich. And not the future Canada is asking for.
Join us in calling them & the gov out >> act.gp/3YyNnj3
Because, no, this isn't a stronger economy. It's stolen Indigenous land. Fuel for wildfires. A paycheque for the rich. And not the future Canada is asking for.
Join us in calling them & the gov out >> act.gp/3YyNnj3
Canada is not immune (see Bills C2, C5, C8, C9, C12 and related provincial legislation). Important to note criminalisation of protest is a response to weakening of fossil fuel industry's power and legitimacy. The beast is wounded, and thus more dangerous.
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Canada is not immune (see Bills C2, C5, C8, C9, C12 and related provincial legislation). Important to note criminalisation of protest is a response to weakening of fossil fuel industry's power and legitimacy. The beast is wounded, and thus more dangerous.
Reposted by Keith Stewart
Comment j’ai découvert l’existence de l’entreprise qui veut ramener les pipelines au Québec? 👀🔍
Inscrivez-vous pour suivre notre enquête sur Marinvest Energy et obtenir des informations exclusives sur ce projet >> act.gp/453wXmr
Inscrivez-vous pour suivre notre enquête sur Marinvest Energy et obtenir des informations exclusives sur ce projet >> act.gp/453wXmr
December 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Comment j’ai découvert l’existence de l’entreprise qui veut ramener les pipelines au Québec? 👀🔍
Inscrivez-vous pour suivre notre enquête sur Marinvest Energy et obtenir des informations exclusives sur ce projet >> act.gp/453wXmr
Inscrivez-vous pour suivre notre enquête sur Marinvest Energy et obtenir des informations exclusives sur ce projet >> act.gp/453wXmr
Reposted by Keith Stewart
A new report on Canadian LNG and oil exports rests on highly questionable assumptions about the global emissions impacts of these fuels and lacks transparency on the modelling inputs used. Here’s a brief explainer 🧵⬇️
ppforum.ca/publications...
ppforum.ca/publications...
Refuel - Public Policy Forum
In partnership with the Canadian Chamber Future of Business Centre Executive Summary Would expanding Canadian exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), heavy and light oil raise or lower global greenhou...
ppforum.ca
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A new report on Canadian LNG and oil exports rests on highly questionable assumptions about the global emissions impacts of these fuels and lacks transparency on the modelling inputs used. Here’s a brief explainer 🧵⬇️
ppforum.ca/publications...
ppforum.ca/publications...
Reposted by Keith Stewart
Tune in to the Strategists for more (utterly foreseeable) predictions of ways the Government of Alberta will make a mockery of any effort to reduce the emissions that cause catastrophic climate change. #ableg #canpoli
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Reposted by Keith Stewart
A great example of Canada’s climate innovation ecosystem in action! Homegrown tech, early support from SDTC (may it rest in peace), federal and provincial support to demonstrate, growth capital from Canada Growth Fund to scale 🍁💪🍁
The WSJ reports on the historic news yesterday that Eavor has begun operations of the first commercial-scale multilateral closed loop geotherm power project in the world! It's not every day that a new power tech has its "world's first" moment. Don't miss this www.wsj.com/articles/a-g... 🔌💡
Exclusive | A Geothermal Company Wants to Use New Technology to Heat an Old German Town
A project in Bavaria is harnessing high temperatures from deep beneath the earth to provide a community with warmth in the winter and to power the local grid in the summer.
www.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A great example of Canada’s climate innovation ecosystem in action! Homegrown tech, early support from SDTC (may it rest in peace), federal and provincial support to demonstrate, growth capital from Canada Growth Fund to scale 🍁💪🍁
Alberta further weakens industrial carbon pricing one week after signing MOU promising to strengthen it by allowing new cheap credits to flood the market.
www.linkedin.com/posts/dave-s...
www.linkedin.com/posts/dave-s...
By adding direct investment credits into an already oversupplied market, Alberta makes the MOU’s minimum effective credit price harder to achieve.
Just one week after the grand bargain, Alberta… | Da...
By adding direct investment credits into an already oversupplied market, Alberta makes the MOU’s minimum effective credit price harder to achieve.
Just one week after the grand bargain, Alberta publi...
www.linkedin.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Alberta further weakens industrial carbon pricing one week after signing MOU promising to strengthen it by allowing new cheap credits to flood the market.
www.linkedin.com/posts/dave-s...
www.linkedin.com/posts/dave-s...
Reposted by Keith Stewart
This, friends, is the big & bold climate platform we've been waiting for! 👇
Avi's full climate plan is available here:
lewisforleader.ca/ideas/green-...
Avi's full climate plan is available here:
lewisforleader.ca/ideas/green-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This, friends, is the big & bold climate platform we've been waiting for! 👇
Avi's full climate plan is available here:
lewisforleader.ca/ideas/green-...
Avi's full climate plan is available here:
lewisforleader.ca/ideas/green-...
Reposted by Keith Stewart
This isn't just a pipeline. It's more dirty energy and stolen Indigenous land.
"Canada can approve all the MOUs [...] that they want, but chiefs are united when it comes to approving large national projects." -Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak at the Assembly of First Nations
Add your name: act.gp/4iEXhJi
"Canada can approve all the MOUs [...] that they want, but chiefs are united when it comes to approving large national projects." -Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak at the Assembly of First Nations
Add your name: act.gp/4iEXhJi
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This isn't just a pipeline. It's more dirty energy and stolen Indigenous land.
"Canada can approve all the MOUs [...] that they want, but chiefs are united when it comes to approving large national projects." -Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak at the Assembly of First Nations
Add your name: act.gp/4iEXhJi
"Canada can approve all the MOUs [...] that they want, but chiefs are united when it comes to approving large national projects." -Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak at the Assembly of First Nations
Add your name: act.gp/4iEXhJi
Reposted by Keith Stewart
Only in Canada. A deal that will increase oil production and weaken climate policy is good for climate because:
- oil producers didn't like those pesky climate policies, and
- the economic benefits of "any" incremental emissions from 1.4 Mb/d is worth it.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
- oil producers didn't like those pesky climate policies, and
- the economic benefits of "any" incremental emissions from 1.4 Mb/d is worth it.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: Alberta-Ottawa MOU is a climate breakthrough, despite Steven Guilbeault’s misplaced outrage
Federal climate policies weren’t working, but Ottawa and Alberta’s ‘grand bargain’ puts Canada’s progress back on the road
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Only in Canada. A deal that will increase oil production and weaken climate policy is good for climate because:
- oil producers didn't like those pesky climate policies, and
- the economic benefits of "any" incremental emissions from 1.4 Mb/d is worth it.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
- oil producers didn't like those pesky climate policies, and
- the economic benefits of "any" incremental emissions from 1.4 Mb/d is worth it.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
New from me: Did someone say MOU? Reading between the lines of Carney's plan to weaken climate policy and build a pipeline (yes, there is a very long table - you're welcome) www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...
Did someone say MOU? Reading between the lines of Mark Carney’s plan to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the BC coast - Greenpeace Canada
The Carney government's MOU with the Government of Alberta to build a new tar sands pipeline rolls back key climate policies and attacks Indigenous rights.
www.greenpeace.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New from me: Did someone say MOU? Reading between the lines of Carney's plan to weaken climate policy and build a pipeline (yes, there is a very long table - you're welcome) www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...
Proud that @greenpeaceca.bsky.social is one of the organizations to support this letter.
Breaking: Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs write to 40+ banks, pensions & credit agencies calling on them to not finance or invest in Ksi Lisims #LNG project in BC, Canada - warn of financial, legal and environmental risks. Letter endorsed by 125 NGOs.
#greensky
www.gitanyowchiefs.com/news/gitanyo...
#greensky
www.gitanyowchiefs.com/news/gitanyo...
Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs to Major Banks & Pensions: Investing in Ksi Lisims LNG a Major Risk | Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs
A letter sent was sent to 43 banks and pension funds by Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs and supported by 125 civil society organizations to respect Gitanyow rights, and urge against providing financing or ...
www.gitanyowchiefs.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Proud that @greenpeaceca.bsky.social is one of the organizations to support this letter.
Reposted by Keith Stewart
Breaking: Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs write to 40+ banks, pensions & credit agencies calling on them to not finance or invest in Ksi Lisims #LNG project in BC, Canada - warn of financial, legal and environmental risks. Letter endorsed by 125 NGOs.
#greensky
www.gitanyowchiefs.com/news/gitanyo...
#greensky
www.gitanyowchiefs.com/news/gitanyo...
Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs to Major Banks & Pensions: Investing in Ksi Lisims LNG a Major Risk | Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs
A letter sent was sent to 43 banks and pension funds by Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs and supported by 125 civil society organizations to respect Gitanyow rights, and urge against providing financing or ...
www.gitanyowchiefs.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Breaking: Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs write to 40+ banks, pensions & credit agencies calling on them to not finance or invest in Ksi Lisims #LNG project in BC, Canada - warn of financial, legal and environmental risks. Letter endorsed by 125 NGOs.
#greensky
www.gitanyowchiefs.com/news/gitanyo...
#greensky
www.gitanyowchiefs.com/news/gitanyo...
Reposted by Keith Stewart
"@climatekeith.bsky.social, senior energy strategist for GPCA, said allowing carbon that is captured to be used to “pump more oil out of the ground” would suggest there’s “no net benefit” to that activity."
thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber... @thenarwhal.ca @drewanderson.bsky.social @meyer.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber... @thenarwhal.ca @drewanderson.bsky.social @meyer.bsky.social
A guide to Carney’s Alberta pipeline deal | The Narwhal
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ‘grand bargain’ isn’t just about an Alberta pipeline —it also proposes rolling back a host of climate policies
thenarwhal.ca
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"@climatekeith.bsky.social, senior energy strategist for GPCA, said allowing carbon that is captured to be used to “pump more oil out of the ground” would suggest there’s “no net benefit” to that activity."
thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber... @thenarwhal.ca @drewanderson.bsky.social @meyer.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber... @thenarwhal.ca @drewanderson.bsky.social @meyer.bsky.social
The Assembly of First Nations resolution also calls for the “immediate withdrawal of the Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding and any project contemplated or designated under the agreement that may infringe First Nations’ rights, including the right to self-determination.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Assembly of First Nations resolution also calls for the “immediate withdrawal of the Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding and any project contemplated or designated under the agreement that may infringe First Nations’ rights, including the right to self-determination.”
Reposted by Keith Stewart
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters.
reut.rs
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
Reposted by Keith Stewart
“Steven always fought in cabinet to get govt to finally take action on climate and nature protection. His departure will be felt...He has already shown he can reinvent himself, and I have no doubt he will continue to work for a fairer greener future, in a different way.” – @climatekeith.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“Steven always fought in cabinet to get govt to finally take action on climate and nature protection. His departure will be felt...He has already shown he can reinvent himself, and I have no doubt he will continue to work for a fairer greener future, in a different way.” – @climatekeith.bsky.social
The Indigenous group cited as being in favour of the pipeline in this article is in fact a crown corporation owned by the Government of Alberta. Its funding comes from the GoA and Danielle Smith's Cabinet appoints its Board of Directors
globalnews.ca/news/1155109...
globalnews.ca/news/1155109...
Indigenous groups remain split on Alberta’s pipeline pact with feds | Globalnews.ca
The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation was named a key partner in Ottawa and Alberta's MOU on on Friday for a pipeline to the B.C. coast, but others have concerns.
globalnews.ca
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The Indigenous group cited as being in favour of the pipeline in this article is in fact a crown corporation owned by the Government of Alberta. Its funding comes from the GoA and Danielle Smith's Cabinet appoints its Board of Directors
globalnews.ca/news/1155109...
globalnews.ca/news/1155109...
Reposted by Keith Stewart
Oh interesting, whose fault is that?
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Oh interesting, whose fault is that?
Smart take: "Simply put, the federal government is trying to find a policy solution to what is in reality an identity problem. Such attempts to placate will only embolden, because the goal isn’t compromise."
Pulled together some of my thoughts on AB - CAN agreement here. Simply put, this agreement is likely to deepen divides in the country, not heal them.
open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...
open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...
MOU Problems
While intended to heal the rift in Canadian unity, the agreement between federal and Alberta provincial governments risks leaving the country even more divided
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Smart take: "Simply put, the federal government is trying to find a policy solution to what is in reality an identity problem. Such attempts to placate will only embolden, because the goal isn’t compromise."