François-Nicolas Robinne
@fnrobinne.bsky.social
#Forest #Hydrologist at the Government of #Alberta | #geographer and #rewilding believer | #forests, #wildfire, & #water security | Husband, father, baker, boxer, omnivorous, loud sneezer!
💯 Agree, Parksy!
This is the mandate I was given when Albertans voted for me and my UCP in 2023.
I was on record discussing plans on how to privatize healthcare and now I am delivering on that promise!
It’s only going to get worse!
#abpoli #UCPCorruption #abhealth
This is the mandate I was given when Albertans voted for me and my UCP in 2023.
I was on record discussing plans on how to privatize healthcare and now I am delivering on that promise!
It’s only going to get worse!
#abpoli #UCPCorruption #abhealth
Take a read👇
After three years of UCP govt meddling the HC system is more:
- chaotic
- fragmented
- dysfunctional
- lethal
After three years of UCP govt meddling the HC system is more:
- chaotic
- fragmented
- dysfunctional
- lethal
January 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Now that the US is up front with their oil motive, I'm truly afraid that Alberta will be "venezuelized" when the local separatists miserably fail.
January 3, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Now that the US is up front with their oil motive, I'm truly afraid that Alberta will be "venezuelized" when the local separatists miserably fail.
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My view of the #deextinction hype, encapsulated below.
January 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM
My view of the #deextinction hype, encapsulated below.
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🎁 A New Year’s gift to the geospatial community: a brand-new QGIS plugin that unlocks access to 80+ petabytes of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with zero coding required.
January 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
🎁 A New Year’s gift to the geospatial community: a brand-new QGIS plugin that unlocks access to 80+ petabytes of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with zero coding required.
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The mass of CO₂ humans put into the atmosphere in 2025 is 4x the mass of all plastic humans have ever produced.
Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:
January 3, 2026 at 12:45 AM
The mass of CO₂ humans put into the atmosphere in 2025 is 4x the mass of all plastic humans have ever produced.
EU legislation intended to fight #deforestation has been effectively ‘dismantled’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
EU legislation intended to fight deforestation has been effectively ‘dismantled’
Law’s original author points to removal of obligations for downstream traders to verify origin of commodities
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 AM
EU legislation intended to fight #deforestation has been effectively ‘dismantled’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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”Take your life as it exists today. Now imagine no Canadian passport. Imagine border checks to visit family in B.C. or Manitoba. Imagine your pension, healthcare, trade agreements, currency, and mobility all thrown into uncertainty, overnight.”
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#ableg
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#ableg
Alberta Separatists Are About to Flood the Internet With Propaganda. Here’s What to Watch For.
In four days, the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP) will begin collecting signatures for a citizen-led initiative they hope will trigger the process for Alberta to leave Canada.
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
”Take your life as it exists today. Now imagine no Canadian passport. Imagine border checks to visit family in B.C. or Manitoba. Imagine your pension, healthcare, trade agreements, currency, and mobility all thrown into uncertainty, overnight.”
open.substack.com/pub/colenotc...
#ableg
open.substack.com/pub/colenotc...
#ableg
"Planter à tout prix - des arbres pour sauver la planète ?"
youtube.com/watch?v=6EFJ...
youtube.com/watch?v=6EFJ...
Planter à tout prix - Des arbres pour sauver la planète ? | Documentaire | ARTE
YouTube video by ARTE
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December 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Planter à tout prix - des arbres pour sauver la planète ?"
youtube.com/watch?v=6EFJ...
youtube.com/watch?v=6EFJ...
This tiny ancient #fish only lives between two waterfalls in one #river. It’s now under threat
www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
www.cnn.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This tiny ancient #fish only lives between two waterfalls in one #river. It’s now under threat
www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of #ski slopes lie abandoned, will #nature reclaim the #Alps? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of #ski slopes lie abandoned, will #nature reclaim the #Alps? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🚀 Watch the Earth Change: New QGIS Plugin Creates Satellite Timelapse Animations in Seconds 🌍
A QGIS plugin for creating timelapse animations from satellite and aerial imagery using Google Earth Engine. Supports NAIP, Landsat, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, MODIS NDVI, and GOES weather satellite imagery.
A QGIS plugin for creating timelapse animations from satellite and aerial imagery using Google Earth Engine. Supports NAIP, Landsat, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, MODIS NDVI, and GOES weather satellite imagery.
December 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🚀 Watch the Earth Change: New QGIS Plugin Creates Satellite Timelapse Animations in Seconds 🌍
A QGIS plugin for creating timelapse animations from satellite and aerial imagery using Google Earth Engine. Supports NAIP, Landsat, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, MODIS NDVI, and GOES weather satellite imagery.
A QGIS plugin for creating timelapse animations from satellite and aerial imagery using Google Earth Engine. Supports NAIP, Landsat, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, MODIS NDVI, and GOES weather satellite imagery.
Scary dangerous
ICYMI: Albertans spoke—and we didn't care what they said!
This summer, we used heavily biased push-poll surveys and town halls to manipulate Albertans into agreeing with our recommendations for the direction we want to take Alberta.
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Read the results: open.alberta.ca/publications...
This summer, we used heavily biased push-poll surveys and town halls to manipulate Albertans into agreeing with our recommendations for the direction we want to take Alberta.
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Read the results: open.alberta.ca/publications...
December 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Scary dangerous
« Va falloir se calmer sur le #saumon… » Les fermes géantes de ce #poisson très consommé ont-elles un avenir en #Europe ?
www.20minutes.fr/planete/4192...
www.20minutes.fr/planete/4192...
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December 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
« Va falloir se calmer sur le #saumon… » Les fermes géantes de ce #poisson très consommé ont-elles un avenir en #Europe ?
www.20minutes.fr/planete/4192...
www.20minutes.fr/planete/4192...
The #Klamath River Tribes likewise have a culture of stream caretaking, a practice that revolves around #fire. The Karuk [..] burned #forests [..] to aid #salmon, as the pall of smoke shaded #rivers and kept #fish cool.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
A River Reborn – Ben Goldfarb
Journalist Ben Goldfarb and photographer Kiliii Yüyan trace the monumental effort to restitch relationships between land, salmon, and humans on the Klamath River, after four of its most obstructive da...
emergencemagazine.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#Alberta lays out new #wetlands rules after months of ‘divisive’ consultation
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta lays out new wetlands rules after months of ‘divisive’ consultation | CBC News
The Alberta government says it has landed on new policy reforms that will oversee the province’s wetlands — those “sponges” on the landscape that act as “nature’s kidneys.”
www.cbc.ca
December 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
#Alberta lays out new #wetlands rules after months of ‘divisive’ consultation
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
First Resort Area Designations Remove Land from Beloved Protected Areas (#Alberta)
cpaws-southernalberta.org/all-seasons-...
cpaws-southernalberta.org/all-seasons-...
All-Seasons Resort Policy Released - CPAWS Southern Alberta
First Resort Area Designations Remove Land from Beloved Protected Areas Calgary | Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7December 10, 2025 On December 10, 2025, the Government of Albera ... <a href="https://cpaws-sout...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
First Resort Area Designations Remove Land from Beloved Protected Areas (#Alberta)
cpaws-southernalberta.org/all-seasons-...
cpaws-southernalberta.org/all-seasons-...
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"In the fall of 2025, the first full year after the obliteration of the lower Klamath’s four dams, fish came back—and kept coming, thousands upon thousands, a tsunami of salmon, a run that staggered the mind and gladdened the heart." emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
A River Reborn – Ben Goldfarb
Journalist Ben Goldfarb and photographer Kiliii Yüyan trace the monumental effort to restitch relationships between land, salmon, and humans on the Klamath River, after four of its most obstructive da...
emergencemagazine.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"In the fall of 2025, the first full year after the obliteration of the lower Klamath’s four dams, fish came back—and kept coming, thousands upon thousands, a tsunami of salmon, a run that staggered the mind and gladdened the heart." emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...
‘There were eight of us, only two are alive’: the growing crisis of #arsenic in #Argentina’s #water www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘There were eight of us, only two are alive’: the growing crisis of arsenic in Argentina’s water
In some of the country’s poorest, driest areas, people rely on water contaminated with arsenic 60 times over safe limits, causing crippling illnesses in families
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
‘There were eight of us, only two are alive’: the growing crisis of #arsenic in #Argentina’s #water www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In 1939, a Royal Commission found burning #forests leads to more #bushfires. But this cycle of destruction can be stopped
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
In 1939, a Royal Commission found burning forests leads to more bushfires. But this cycle of destruction can be stopped
After devastating fires in 1939, authorities began burning forests to reduce fuel load. But we now know this creates conditions for even worse fires.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In 1939, a Royal Commission found burning #forests leads to more #bushfires. But this cycle of destruction can be stopped
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
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🚀 I am very excited to release the SamGeoQGIS plugin for geospatial image segmentation, powered by Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM 3)
In this full tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to install, configure, and start segmenting satellite imagery in QGIS without writing a single line of code!
In this full tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to install, configure, and start segmenting satellite imagery in QGIS without writing a single line of code!
December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🚀 I am very excited to release the SamGeoQGIS plugin for geospatial image segmentation, powered by Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM 3)
In this full tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to install, configure, and start segmenting satellite imagery in QGIS without writing a single line of code!
In this full tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to install, configure, and start segmenting satellite imagery in QGIS without writing a single line of code!
Why the #US is Removing Thousands of #Dams and Letting #Rivers Run Free - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/w...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Why the #US is Removing Thousands of #Dams and Letting #Rivers Run Free - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/w...
Breaking down the bills some #Alberta oil and gas companies aren’t paying: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-surf...
The unpaid bills of Alberta oil and gas companies, explained | The Narwhal
We break down the ways some Alberta oil and gas companies are shirking their bills, and what that means for Alberta municipalities and landowners
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December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Breaking down the bills some #Alberta oil and gas companies aren’t paying: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-surf...