P.J. Partington 🇨🇦
@pjpartington.bsky.social
Millennial climate wonk & policy cat-herder. Innovation for net zero. *Aspiring LinkedIn DJ*
I've worked on policy from both sides now / from in and out, and still somehow / It's stupid memes that I recall / I really don't know politics at all
I've worked on policy from both sides now / from in and out, and still somehow / It's stupid memes that I recall / I really don't know politics at all
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New playlist for all you Canadian music sickos, *double-doubling* up on the CanCon. How is this possible, you ask? We've got Canadian songs covered by Canadian artists. Hurry hard and give'r a go!
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🚨Call for Speakers🚨
⚡5th Electricity Camp in the Rockies
🗓️May 20-22, 2026
⛰️Banff, Alberta
👪Academics, policymakers, and practitioners talking about all things electricity (and hiking!)
✉️Email abstracts to: electricity.centre@ucalgary.ca by Dec 15
Past programs here: nzeri.ca/electricity-camp
⚡5th Electricity Camp in the Rockies
🗓️May 20-22, 2026
⛰️Banff, Alberta
👪Academics, policymakers, and practitioners talking about all things electricity (and hiking!)
✉️Email abstracts to: electricity.centre@ucalgary.ca by Dec 15
Past programs here: nzeri.ca/electricity-camp
Electricity Camp — Net Zero Electricity Research Initiative
nzeri.ca
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🚨Call for Speakers🚨
⚡5th Electricity Camp in the Rockies
🗓️May 20-22, 2026
⛰️Banff, Alberta
👪Academics, policymakers, and practitioners talking about all things electricity (and hiking!)
✉️Email abstracts to: electricity.centre@ucalgary.ca by Dec 15
Past programs here: nzeri.ca/electricity-camp
⚡5th Electricity Camp in the Rockies
🗓️May 20-22, 2026
⛰️Banff, Alberta
👪Academics, policymakers, and practitioners talking about all things electricity (and hiking!)
✉️Email abstracts to: electricity.centre@ucalgary.ca by Dec 15
Past programs here: nzeri.ca/electricity-camp
Reposted by P.J. Partington 🇨🇦
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Me, shovelling November snow mixed with leaves that were not done falling: is this… the mid-transition? 💁♂️🦋
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Me, shovelling November snow mixed with leaves that were not done falling: is this… the mid-transition? 💁♂️🦋
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Upon taking office, the Doug Ford gov't introduced a law to cut the "carbon tax" which also obliged the government to create a climate plan & emissions targets. Now, they’ve repealed that duty—Ontario’s government no longer has to consider climate action.
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
Doug Ford’s government is abandoning climate targets | The Narwhal
Ontario is moving to repeal aspects of a law that require the government to create a climate plan and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets
thenarwhal.ca
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Upon taking office, the Doug Ford gov't introduced a law to cut the "carbon tax" which also obliged the government to create a climate plan & emissions targets. Now, they’ve repealed that duty—Ontario’s government no longer has to consider climate action.
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
Absolutely gobsmacked. Canada's largest province announces they plan to scrub a legislative requirement to have a climate change target, a climate plan, and progress reports.
Ontario pals... huh???
Ontario pals... huh???
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Absolutely gobsmacked. Canada's largest province announces they plan to scrub a legislative requirement to have a climate change target, a climate plan, and progress reports.
Ontario pals... huh???
Ontario pals... huh???
Alright, got my pot of tea and cartoonishly oversized stress hummus. Let’s go Budget 2025!
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Alright, got my pot of tea and cartoonishly oversized stress hummus. Let’s go Budget 2025!
Dispatch from the Small Victories department: I finally re-found a poem I’d been searching for for a couple years, grasping at clues in a haze of vibes and misremembered keywords. And it’s still great! www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7616/...
Nocturne by Elly Bookman
After I make my home dark I wander through the few quiet rooms and let the bright blinking eyes of the continuing electricity
www.theparisreview.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Dispatch from the Small Victories department: I finally re-found a poem I’d been searching for for a couple years, grasping at clues in a haze of vibes and misremembered keywords. And it’s still great! www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7616/...
Really great profile of Deep Sky’s DAC demo hub in Alberta heatmap.news/carbon-remov...
The DAC Hub Dream Is Alive in Canada. I Went to See It.
Deep Sky is running a carbon removal bake-off on the plains of Alberta.
heatmap.news
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Really great profile of Deep Sky’s DAC demo hub in Alberta heatmap.news/carbon-remov...
Big week in Toronto! In addition to the Jays, we've got the World Series of Energy Nerds!
This week in the lead-up to the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers’ Meeting, Minister Hodgson will participate in various events, including the International Energy Agency Energy Innovation Forum, to showcase Canadian energy and minerals to global leaders.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/Cc1U50XiCmi
Learn more: https://ow.ly/Cc1U50XiCmi
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Big week in Toronto! In addition to the Jays, we've got the World Series of Energy Nerds!
Welcome @natural-resources.canada.ca! Glad I won't be the only one posting NRCat-based contend on here anymore 😸
Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to be here. Join us for updates on:
🔋 energy sources and distribution
🌲 forests and forestry
⛏️ minerals and mining
🛰️ earth sciences
🔌 energy efficiency
🔬 science and data
🔋 energy sources and distribution
🌲 forests and forestry
⛏️ minerals and mining
🛰️ earth sciences
🔌 energy efficiency
🔬 science and data
October 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Welcome @natural-resources.canada.ca! Glad I won't be the only one posting NRCat-based contend on here anymore 😸
So much to love here! Great to see Deep Sky launching their first commercial project and awesome to see it will be in Manitoba with close Indigenous involvement www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b9363f1...
Deep Sky unveils plans for one of the world’s biggest direct air carbon capture facilities in Manitoba
The plant, when fully complete, will absorb 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, the Montreal-based company says
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
So much to love here! Great to see Deep Sky launching their first commercial project and awesome to see it will be in Manitoba with close Indigenous involvement www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b9363f1...
A documentary about target setting? YES PLEASE
🎬📉👀👀👀
🎬📉👀👀👀
COMING SOON…
In 2019, the UK made history as the first major economy to commit to net zero by 2050.
But, while the science hasn’t changed, political consensus is fracturing.
We can’t wait to share our new film & to tell the inside story of the UK’s climate target
Stay tuned…
👀13 October
In 2019, the UK made history as the first major economy to commit to net zero by 2050.
But, while the science hasn’t changed, political consensus is fracturing.
We can’t wait to share our new film & to tell the inside story of the UK’s climate target
Stay tuned…
👀13 October
October 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A documentary about target setting? YES PLEASE
🎬📉👀👀👀
🎬📉👀👀👀
I feel like @shastingssimon.bsky.social would enjoy this piece on reviving a vintage neighbourhood atom smasher. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/we...
One Town’s Quest to Find a Loving Home for Its Atom Smasher
A decade after a landowner pledged to preserve the Westinghouse device, it still hasn’t moved. Now he says he has a buyer and a plan.
www.wsj.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I feel like @shastingssimon.bsky.social would enjoy this piece on reviving a vintage neighbourhood atom smasher. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/we...
I don't think there's a sad enough trombone sound for this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario will miss 2030 emission reduction goal by even wider gap than it admits: auditor | CBC News
Ontario's environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, but the auditor general says province will in fact likely miss that target by an even wider margin.
www.cbc.ca
October 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I don't think there's a sad enough trombone sound for this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's happening again, Toronto friends. Come one, come all!
Beaches Brewing, 8pm onwards
Beaches Brewing, 8pm onwards
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It's happening again, Toronto friends. Come one, come all!
Beaches Brewing, 8pm onwards
Beaches Brewing, 8pm onwards
SERENITY NOW!
(Sunrise this morning on Lake Ontario)
(Sunrise this morning on Lake Ontario)
October 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
SERENITY NOW!
(Sunrise this morning on Lake Ontario)
(Sunrise this morning on Lake Ontario)
Toronto pals, I *highly* recommend this event that NRCan is hosting for T.O. Climate Week. If hearing from your favourite federal electricity innovation nerds isn’t enough to lock your Friday morning down, we’ve got Microsoft, Toronto Hydro, Alectra, Goldfinch, AND a net-zero venue luma.com/npilhiuw
Powering the Future: Innovative Electricity Transformations in Canada · Luma
Do you spend almost none of your time thinking about energy and electricity, but thinking you probably should spend a little bit more time? Do you have a…
luma.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Toronto pals, I *highly* recommend this event that NRCan is hosting for T.O. Climate Week. If hearing from your favourite federal electricity innovation nerds isn’t enough to lock your Friday morning down, we’ve got Microsoft, Toronto Hydro, Alectra, Goldfinch, AND a net-zero venue luma.com/npilhiuw
Come for the great journalism, stay for the endless hit parade of Shania Twain references
Ontario bureau chief @elaineanselmi.bsky.social took the prerogative to have a little fun with our latest newsletter, about a proposed nickel mine in Shania Twain’s hometown of Timmins.
thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-t...
thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-t...
Is mining ‘still the one’ in northern Ontario? | The Narwhal
A past effort to attract fans to Shania Twain’s hometown of Timmins didn’t go well. A proposed nickel mine has the town wondering: can it only go up from here?
thenarwhal.ca
September 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Come for the great journalism, stay for the endless hit parade of Shania Twain references
Purely in the name of fun, here's a chart of all countries that were at 3-4% EV share in 2019 in IEA's database: www.iea.org/data-and-sta...
September 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Purely in the name of fun, here's a chart of all countries that were at 3-4% EV share in 2019 in IEA's database: www.iea.org/data-and-sta...
Not to brag, but my morning run took me past a famous landmark 🏃🌟
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Not to brag, but my morning run took me past a famous landmark 🏃🌟
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⚠️Safe underground carbon storage could reduce warming by 10 times less than previously thought.
New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵
New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
⚠️Safe underground carbon storage could reduce warming by 10 times less than previously thought.
New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵
New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵
Was wondering why our outdoor rug is often askew and this morning I got a clue as to why (or at least *how*)
September 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Was wondering why our outdoor rug is often askew and this morning I got a clue as to why (or at least *how*)
Bike parking at the Danish Parliament ❤️
August 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Bike parking at the Danish Parliament ❤️
Friends, if you too missed this unspeakably beautiful @joriegraham.bsky.social gem during the blur of the pandemic, please give yourselves a moment to savour the complete and utter emotional devastation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
a cartoon of ralph and lisa from the simpsons talking
ALT: a cartoon of ralph and lisa from the simpsons talking
media.tenor.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Friends, if you too missed this unspeakably beautiful @joriegraham.bsky.social gem during the blur of the pandemic, please give yourselves a moment to savour the complete and utter emotional devastation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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This is such an important area of investigation regarding the midtransition and who will be facing the costs, and how to manage it equitably.
Interesting new paper from @energymorgan.bsky.social et al. "Households that dont electrify may bear a 46% increase in gas bills on average over the next 15 years (relative to current costs). Targeted electrification may help to alleviate energy burdens." #enegrySky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Effects of uncoordinated electrification on energy burdens for natural gas customers - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Effects of uncoordinated electrification on energy burdens for natural gas customers
www.nature.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is such an important area of investigation regarding the midtransition and who will be facing the costs, and how to manage it equitably.