What is this? 😳😵‍💫

Activist in Europe. Elsewhere not so much.

What struck me most on Europe wasn’t the focus on value, freedom of speech etc - again, very similar to Vance’s Munich speech - but how activist it is. This is about directly trying to influence what is going on in Europe:

Orwellian. Again.

There are a lot of religious people who have tied their religion to politics, just like the states…. So no amount of pipelines will sway them (to stay in Canada).

- oil tanker ban dead
- feds to ramp up subsidies for #CCUS
- new non-emitting power to come from nuclear, not renewables
- greenwashing regulations to be gutted (not entirely removed)
- #CCUS and pipeline mutually contingent, so emissions won't come down before they go up

Lots to unpack here. A couple immediate takeaways:
- oil and gas emissions cap is officially dead (after being only implicitly killed in #Budget2025)
- clean electricity regulations potentially dead, following further negotiations
- Alberta gov will be the proponent for new bitumen pipeline

Ah a chesterfield, my father still says it, my kids think it’s the strangest word. My mom wouldn’t swear but say crimony when upset. Apparently that’s a weird one too.