Emily Hunter
@ecohuntress.bsky.social
Senior Program Manager, Ontario Climate @ Environmental Defence Canada. Tkaronto. Born @ 344 ppm. Views are my own.
Check out my comment in the #Toronto Star today: #Ontario needs batteries AND renewables — NOT battery greenwashing.
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#onpoli #CleanEnergy
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Doug Ford touts Canada’s largest battery storage facility as a way to counter Trump’s tariffs
Ford's comments came at the ground-breaking for the Skyview 2 battery energy storage system, which is expected to open in 2027.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Check out my comment in the #Toronto Star today: #Ontario needs batteries AND renewables — NOT battery greenwashing.
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#onpoli #CleanEnergy
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#onpoli #CleanEnergy
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"Our territories are not carbon sinks or green investments. They are living systems of culture, economy, and spirit.
Ending subsidies and investments that drive deforestation... would do more for climate and biodiversity than any new fund could."
#cop30 #climate
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Ending subsidies and investments that drive deforestation... would do more for climate and biodiversity than any new fund could."
#cop30 #climate
icmagazine.org/indigenous-w...
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals – Intercontinental Cry
Nemonte Nenquimo, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, and Rukka Sombolinggi are Indigenous women leaders from the Amazon, the Chad–Congo Basins and Borneo-Mekong basin, res
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November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Our territories are not carbon sinks or green investments. They are living systems of culture, economy, and spirit.
Ending subsidies and investments that drive deforestation... would do more for climate and biodiversity than any new fund could."
#cop30 #climate
icmagazine.org/indigenous-w...
Ending subsidies and investments that drive deforestation... would do more for climate and biodiversity than any new fund could."
#cop30 #climate
icmagazine.org/indigenous-w...
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$6.5 B electricity subsidies last year, $8.5 B this year! All to artificially lower rates so that the public doesn't freak out about Ford's high cost nuclear + gas energy plan.
It's time to transition to low-cost, smart renewable energy.
#onpoli #climate #fordnation
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's time to transition to low-cost, smart renewable energy.
#onpoli #climate #fordnation
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Critics call on Ford government to address rising hydro rates | CBC News
Critics are calling on the Ford government to stop spending billions subsidizing hydro rates, and to instead find ways to reduce the cost of electricity across the province’s grid after a 29 per cent ...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
$6.5 B electricity subsidies last year, $8.5 B this year! All to artificially lower rates so that the public doesn't freak out about Ford's high cost nuclear + gas energy plan.
It's time to transition to low-cost, smart renewable energy.
#onpoli #climate #fordnation
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's time to transition to low-cost, smart renewable energy.
#onpoli #climate #fordnation
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario’s “Big Battery” plan is greenwashing.
Batteries should store renewable power, not gas-fired electricity. Without a renewables-first strategy, we’re just powering homes and EVs with gas generators.
Read our statement 👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/12/s...
#Ontario #Batteries #Climate
Batteries should store renewable power, not gas-fired electricity. Without a renewables-first strategy, we’re just powering homes and EVs with gas generators.
Read our statement 👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/12/s...
#Ontario #Batteries #Climate
Statement: Ontario Big Battery Plan Falls Short of Clean Power - Environmental Defence
Statement by Emily Hunter, Senior Program Manager, Ontario Climate Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg,
environmentaldefence.ca
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ontario’s “Big Battery” plan is greenwashing.
Batteries should store renewable power, not gas-fired electricity. Without a renewables-first strategy, we’re just powering homes and EVs with gas generators.
Read our statement 👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/12/s...
#Ontario #Batteries #Climate
Batteries should store renewable power, not gas-fired electricity. Without a renewables-first strategy, we’re just powering homes and EVs with gas generators.
Read our statement 👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/12/s...
#Ontario #Batteries #Climate
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The US has abdicated any role in fighting the most urgent threat to human welfare in history, so other countries need to step up and figure out how to do it without us.
How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action
With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The US has abdicated any role in fighting the most urgent threat to human welfare in history, so other countries need to step up and figure out how to do it without us.
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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#MEDIA: A broad coalition is urging Toronto City Council to reject the province’s fossil-fuel-heavy energy plan. It locks residents into decades of pollution, ignores local climate goals, and sidelines clean, affordable solutions.
Read the full release: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/04/g...
Read the full release: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/04/g...
26 Groups Call on Toronto to Ditch the Province’s Dirty Energy Plan - Environmental Defence
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ONTARIO CLEAN AIR ALLIANCE, TORONTO EAST RESIDENTS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY (TERRE), CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE
environmentaldefence.ca
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#MEDIA: A broad coalition is urging Toronto City Council to reject the province’s fossil-fuel-heavy energy plan. It locks residents into decades of pollution, ignores local climate goals, and sidelines clean, affordable solutions.
Read the full release: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/04/g...
Read the full release: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/04/g...
Ontario’s Critical Minerals push is being sold as clean energy — but without a real renewables plan, it’s mining to nowhere.
Read our statement: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/10/29/s...
#ONpoli #CleanEnergy #Lithium #Climate
Read our statement: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/10/29/s...
#ONpoli #CleanEnergy #Lithium #Climate
Ontario’s Lithium Project is “Mining to Nowhere” Without Renewable Energy Strategy - Environmental Defence
Statement by Emily Hunter, Senior Program Manager, Ontario Climate Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg,
environmentaldefence.ca
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Ontario’s Critical Minerals push is being sold as clean energy — but without a real renewables plan, it’s mining to nowhere.
Read our statement: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/10/29/s...
#ONpoli #CleanEnergy #Lithium #Climate
Read our statement: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/10/29/s...
#ONpoli #CleanEnergy #Lithium #Climate
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Tell PM Carney to build a modern east-west electricity grid powered by low-cost renewable energy – wind, water, solar and storage – not nuclear.
#cdnpoli #onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/carney-wrong/
#cdnpoli #onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/carney-wrong/
Carney gets it wrong on climate
Tell PM Carney to build a modern east-west electricity grid powered by low-cost renewable energy – wind, water, solar and storage – not nuclear. #cdnpoli #onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Tell PM Carney to build a modern east-west electricity grid powered by low-cost renewable energy – wind, water, solar and storage – not nuclear.
#cdnpoli #onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/carney-wrong/
#cdnpoli #onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/carney-wrong/
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NEW 🚨Since the Paris Agreement, 4 Global North countries - the US, Canada, Australia & Norway - blocked global progress on oil and gas phaseout.
While the rest of the world reduced oil & gas production by 2%, these 4 countries increased production by nearly 40%. oilchange.org/publications...
While the rest of the world reduced oil & gas production by 2%, these 4 countries increased production by nearly 40%. oilchange.org/publications...
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
NEW 🚨Since the Paris Agreement, 4 Global North countries - the US, Canada, Australia & Norway - blocked global progress on oil and gas phaseout.
While the rest of the world reduced oil & gas production by 2%, these 4 countries increased production by nearly 40%. oilchange.org/publications...
While the rest of the world reduced oil & gas production by 2%, these 4 countries increased production by nearly 40%. oilchange.org/publications...
Check out my new blog - From Green to Gas, how Ontario's Clean Energy Futrure is Being Hijacked!
From Green to Gas: How Ontario’s Clean Energy Future Is Being Hijacked - Environmental Defence
This was supposed to be renewable energy’s big moment. Ontario was set to launch the largest clean-energy build-out ever in our history. Yet, instead of
environmentaldefence.ca
October 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Check out my new blog - From Green to Gas, how Ontario's Clean Energy Futrure is Being Hijacked!
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Great news, Ottawa!
4 new solar projects have been approved, bringing 117.5 MW of #cleanenergy to the region!
This is a huge win for climate action in #Ottawa! We’ll keep engaging as the City develops its upcoming policy framework for community energy projects. Let’s celebrate this solar success!
4 new solar projects have been approved, bringing 117.5 MW of #cleanenergy to the region!
This is a huge win for climate action in #Ottawa! We’ll keep engaging as the City develops its upcoming policy framework for community energy projects. Let’s celebrate this solar success!
October 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Great news, Ottawa!
4 new solar projects have been approved, bringing 117.5 MW of #cleanenergy to the region!
This is a huge win for climate action in #Ottawa! We’ll keep engaging as the City develops its upcoming policy framework for community energy projects. Let’s celebrate this solar success!
4 new solar projects have been approved, bringing 117.5 MW of #cleanenergy to the region!
This is a huge win for climate action in #Ottawa! We’ll keep engaging as the City develops its upcoming policy framework for community energy projects. Let’s celebrate this solar success!
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Hey Toronto - what do you want to see for Toronto - more nuclear and gas OR more renewables and conservation? Tell Council and the ON Gov't on Tues. Join us with your signs, your voices, and your love for the future.
#topoli #onpoli
Find out more: www.cleanairalliance.org/how-much-lon...
#topoli #onpoli
Find out more: www.cleanairalliance.org/how-much-lon...
October 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hey Toronto - what do you want to see for Toronto - more nuclear and gas OR more renewables and conservation? Tell Council and the ON Gov't on Tues. Join us with your signs, your voices, and your love for the future.
#topoli #onpoli
Find out more: www.cleanairalliance.org/how-much-lon...
#topoli #onpoli
Find out more: www.cleanairalliance.org/how-much-lon...
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Crazy weather. . . .
October 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Crazy weather. . . .
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I would love to know at what point the right wingers will finally accept that fossil fuels are dying, but never underestimate the power of obstinance I guess lol
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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I would love to know at what point the right wingers will finally accept that fossil fuels are dying, but never underestimate the power of obstinance I guess lol
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Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
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As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.
Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.
grist.org/internationa...
#Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries
Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.
grist.org/internationa...
#Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries
As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy
Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two reports published this week.
grist.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.
Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.
grist.org/internationa...
#Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries
Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.
grist.org/internationa...
#Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries
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Pierre Poilievre claims Christians are the #1 victims of hate crimes — but StatsCan shows it’s Jewish & Muslim Canadians most targeted. His speech is packed with racist dogwhistles, designed to make his base think they’re under attack by “foreigners.”
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#SaveTheCBC
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#SaveTheCBC
October 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Pierre Poilievre claims Christians are the #1 victims of hate crimes — but StatsCan shows it’s Jewish & Muslim Canadians most targeted. His speech is packed with racist dogwhistles, designed to make his base think they’re under attack by “foreigners.”
🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
#SaveTheCBC
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#SaveTheCBC
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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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100+ Ontario mayors are pushing back on Ford’s threat to scrap school-zone speed cameras.
Critics say he’s pandering to drivers over kids’ safety.
AMO: “This isn’t a cash grab. It’s law enforcement.”
🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
#ontpoli #roadSafety
Critics say he’s pandering to drivers over kids’ safety.
AMO: “This isn’t a cash grab. It’s law enforcement.”
🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
#ontpoli #roadSafety
October 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
100+ Ontario mayors are pushing back on Ford’s threat to scrap school-zone speed cameras.
Critics say he’s pandering to drivers over kids’ safety.
AMO: “This isn’t a cash grab. It’s law enforcement.”
🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
#ontpoli #roadSafety
Critics say he’s pandering to drivers over kids’ safety.
AMO: “This isn’t a cash grab. It’s law enforcement.”
🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
#ontpoli #roadSafety
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☀️ Rooftop solar could power 530–730 homes in Kitchener via six proposed installations — and maybe charge EVs for millions of km! 💡
City council has backed the move unanimously: shorturl.at/OQRQZ
#onpoli #climatenews #climateaction #onclimate
City council has backed the move unanimously: shorturl.at/OQRQZ
#onpoli #climatenews #climateaction #onclimate
Rooftop solar panels look to power hundreds of Kitchener homes
Each project would produce enough energy to power between 530 and 730 homes, or charge electric vehicles for millions of kilometres.
shorturl.at
October 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
☀️ Rooftop solar could power 530–730 homes in Kitchener via six proposed installations — and maybe charge EVs for millions of km! 💡
City council has backed the move unanimously: shorturl.at/OQRQZ
#onpoli #climatenews #climateaction #onclimate
City council has backed the move unanimously: shorturl.at/OQRQZ
#onpoli #climatenews #climateaction #onclimate
Join our Free WEBINAR - On October 23rd at 7 pm EST on 'Exposing the Oil and Gas Playbook' as we crack open Big Oil’s playbook and show you exactly how these tricks work. act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/179460/...
Join our as we reveal the fossil fuel industry’s hidden tactics and how to recognize them.
On Thursday, October 23 at 7 PM EST join us for a webinar that reveals ten key tactics the fossil fuel industry uses to shape opinion, influence decision-makers and block climate progress while securi...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Join our Free WEBINAR - On October 23rd at 7 pm EST on 'Exposing the Oil and Gas Playbook' as we crack open Big Oil’s playbook and show you exactly how these tricks work. act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/179460/...
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Good news: fossil fuels have plateaued and solar is growing by leaps and bounds worldwide
apnews.com/article/clim...
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Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says
A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Good news: fossil fuels have plateaued and solar is growing by leaps and bounds worldwide
apnews.com/article/clim...
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