Seniors for Climate in Niagara
@s4cniagara.bsky.social
We’re part of a country-wide movement advocating urgent action to reduce climate change. We support national/provincial initiatives and work locally/regionally to encourage climate-friendly practices for individuals, municipalities and governments.
It's the end of an era in Algoma Steel’s 125-year history as a conventional integrated steel producer. Now they'll produce only electric arc furnace (EAF) steel. This will reduce their environmental footprint, with an expected reduction of three million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.
'End of an era': Cokemaking shutting down for good at Algoma Steel
When coke ovens near Pittsburgh shut down in 2016, it was followed by large, immediate drops in emergency department visits
www.villagereport.ca
January 15, 2026 at 12:44 PM
It's the end of an era in Algoma Steel’s 125-year history as a conventional integrated steel producer. Now they'll produce only electric arc furnace (EAF) steel. This will reduce their environmental footprint, with an expected reduction of three million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.
Want to reduce your footprint in 2026? Here are some reminders of what you can do.
Saving the planet: top tips to help climate and nature | Friends of the Earth
Discover the most effective ways to help the environment - including actions to curb climate change and help protect nature.
friendsoftheearth.uk
January 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Want to reduce your footprint in 2026? Here are some reminders of what you can do.
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This year, Doug Ford decided that the province would no longer be required to make and hit climate targets. It’s just one of many climate rollbacks from his gov't this year.
#onpoli #climate
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/31/n...
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A year of climate rollbacks under Doug Ford
To get a complete picture of the past year, Canada’s National Observer has compiled a list of climate policy reversals, along with legislation that experts say will have a detrimental impact on the cl...
www.nationalobserver.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:43 PM
This year, Doug Ford decided that the province would no longer be required to make and hit climate targets. It’s just one of many climate rollbacks from his gov't this year.
#onpoli #climate
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/31/n...
#onpoli #climate
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/31/n...
Canadian CEOs broke compensation records in 2024. By 9:23 a.m. on January 2, 2025, Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had already made $65,548, the average Canadian worker’s annual income.
CEO pay hit a record high in 2024
Canada's top 100 CEOs set new record for average earnings in 2024 while Canadians fell further behind inflation.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Canadian CEOs broke compensation records in 2024. By 9:23 a.m. on January 2, 2025, Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had already made $65,548, the average Canadian worker’s annual income.
Canada must not become a haven for commercial greed that exploits vulnerable wildlife and jeopardizes public health under the guise of scientific progress, writes Shaarika Sarasija
Canada’s role in the wild primate trade undermines public trust and scientific integrity
The surge in imports of wild macaques to Canada followed China’s suspension of primate exports during the COVID-19 pandemic, which created a global supply gap.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Canada must not become a haven for commercial greed that exploits vulnerable wildlife and jeopardizes public health under the guise of scientific progress, writes Shaarika Sarasija
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is a first-in-the-world policy by the European Union that charges fees on imports, based on how much planet-warming pollution was produced in their manufacturing, raising costs for European businesses that source products from dirty facilities abroad.
Europe’s world-first carbon tariff is coming. Here’s what to know
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is part of a broader effort to decarbonize heavy industries in Europe and globally. It takes full effect Jan. 1.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is a first-in-the-world policy by the European Union that charges fees on imports, based on how much planet-warming pollution was produced in their manufacturing, raising costs for European businesses that source products from dirty facilities abroad.
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Unlike other provinces, Ontario won’t let municipalities charge natural gas companies for access. That could change, as municipalities begin to push back. Our latest newsletter:
thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-e...
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Why does Enbridge Gas get a free pass in Ontario? | The Narwhal
Unlike other provinces, Ontario won’t let municipalities charge Enbridge Gas for pipeline access. Some of them are pushing back
thenarwhal.ca
December 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Unlike other provinces, Ontario won’t let municipalities charge natural gas companies for access. That could change, as municipalities begin to push back. Our latest newsletter:
thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-e...
thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-e...
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SCOOP: After projecting fossil fuel demand would drop as countries work to lower emissions to fight climate change, the Canada Energy Regulator is delaying its next report as climate and energy policies shift. @meyer.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/canada-energ...
Will anyone want Canada’s oil and gas? Energy regulator delays forecast | The Narwhal
Canada and the U.S. have shifted energy and climate policies, making it harder to predict global demand for fossil fuels in the coming years
thenarwhal.ca
December 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
SCOOP: After projecting fossil fuel demand would drop as countries work to lower emissions to fight climate change, the Canada Energy Regulator is delaying its next report as climate and energy policies shift. @meyer.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/canada-energ...
Kennedy Green, a non-profit development in Scarborough, Ontario, will be heated and cooled with geothermal energy. It will also use significantly less energy than a code-compliant building and reduce embodied carbon emissions by using concrete and rebar with recycled content.
Canada’s largest co-op development in decades is heated and cooled with geothermal
Kennedy Green is heated and cooled with geothermal energy, which is notable at a time when the province of Ontario is pushing the expansion of its natural gas network. It will also use significantly l...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Kennedy Green, a non-profit development in Scarborough, Ontario, will be heated and cooled with geothermal energy. It will also use significantly less energy than a code-compliant building and reduce embodied carbon emissions by using concrete and rebar with recycled content.
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#Ontario's fixation with high-cost nuclear is going to cost you.
Our new factsheet explains: shorturl.at/UQiEs
#onpoli #ontarionews #climatenews
Our new factsheet explains: shorturl.at/UQiEs
#onpoli #ontarionews #climatenews
December 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#Ontario's fixation with high-cost nuclear is going to cost you.
Our new factsheet explains: shorturl.at/UQiEs
#onpoli #ontarionews #climatenews
Our new factsheet explains: shorturl.at/UQiEs
#onpoli #ontarionews #climatenews
extraction by Alberta’s oil industry has soared by an additional 200 MtCO2 per year since the global Paris climate agreement. For scale, that extra CO2 pulled out of the ground in Alberta and added to our atmosphere is more than all Canadian cars, trucks, trains, planes, ships and homes emit.
The CO2 extractors: Alberta oil vs Canadian climate policies
About the only thing Albertans produce more than crude oil are angry demands to kill off Canada’s climate policies — policies they claim have been throttling its oil industry. This series of charts sh...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
extraction by Alberta’s oil industry has soared by an additional 200 MtCO2 per year since the global Paris climate agreement. For scale, that extra CO2 pulled out of the ground in Alberta and added to our atmosphere is more than all Canadian cars, trucks, trains, planes, ships and homes emit.
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Letter to the editor, T.O. Star
"Ontario is making a risky bet on nuclear and gas... risking higher costs, more pollution, increased emissions and greater threats to public health. Ford should pivot immediately to... solar, wind and storage. "
#onpoli
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"Ontario is making a risky bet on nuclear and gas... risking higher costs, more pollution, increased emissions and greater threats to public health. Ford should pivot immediately to... solar, wind and storage. "
#onpoli
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
December 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Letter to the editor, T.O. Star
"Ontario is making a risky bet on nuclear and gas... risking higher costs, more pollution, increased emissions and greater threats to public health. Ford should pivot immediately to... solar, wind and storage. "
#onpoli
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
"Ontario is making a risky bet on nuclear and gas... risking higher costs, more pollution, increased emissions and greater threats to public health. Ford should pivot immediately to... solar, wind and storage. "
#onpoli
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
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Bold climate action works.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-york-congestion-pricing-pollution
#GoodClimateNews #CongestionPricing
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-york-congestion-pricing-pollution
#GoodClimateNews #CongestionPricing
In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution
e360.yale.edu
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Bold climate action works.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-york-congestion-pricing-pollution
#GoodClimateNews #CongestionPricing
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-york-congestion-pricing-pollution
#GoodClimateNews #CongestionPricing
In a news release, it was clear: the government said the mergers are part of the province’s plan to cut red tape and “help get shovels in the ground faster on homes and other local infrastructure projects.”
Conservation may mean nothing to Doug Ford, but it’s important to Niagara
Merger legislation is the provincial government’s latest assault on Ontario’s vital conservation authorities.
www.stcatharinesstandard.ca
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In a news release, it was clear: the government said the mergers are part of the province’s plan to cut red tape and “help get shovels in the ground faster on homes and other local infrastructure projects.”
We may think that, despite urbanization of southern Ontario, wildlife has the whole of northern Ontario to thrive in. This article debunks that idea - many species' habitat ends at approximately Hwy 11 (think Kapuskasing).
The northern cutoff of Ontario's iconic wildlife species may surprise you
The far North makes life hard for people, but it's also foreboding for many of our province's and Canada's most well-known wildlife
www.notllocal.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
We may think that, despite urbanization of southern Ontario, wildlife has the whole of northern Ontario to thrive in. This article debunks that idea - many species' habitat ends at approximately Hwy 11 (think Kapuskasing).
The Ford government has now repealed all requirements to set climate targets, make a plan, and issue accountability reports along the way. The way things are going nationally, Ontario might merely be the early adopter.
The vanishing accountability act
In a case of highly suspect timing, the Ontario government has now repealed all requirements to set climate targets, make a plan, and issue accountability reports along the way — just days before a sc...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Ford government has now repealed all requirements to set climate targets, make a plan, and issue accountability reports along the way. The way things are going nationally, Ontario might merely be the early adopter.
Ford strips protections from Wasaga Beach to sell for development
Ford strips protections from Wasaga Beach to sell for development
Under its controversial omnibus Bill 68, more than one per cent of the park — with some estimates suggesting up to 60 per cent — has been removed from protection. Wasaga Beach is the province’s most v...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ford strips protections from Wasaga Beach to sell for development
Ford is meddling with the organizations that play a crucial role in managing water in local municipalities
Conservation shake-up could shift power from NPCA to provincial agency
A sweeping reform of Ontario’s Conservation Authorities Act has left municipal leaders uncertain about the future of local environmental oversight.
www.notllocal.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Ford is meddling with the organizations that play a crucial role in managing water in local municipalities
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More bad legislation outcomes from the Ontario government as businesses lose recyclable waste pickup in new year.
‘It will be shock and awe to businesses,’ Niagara BIAs say as recycling service stops at end of month
Starting in the new year, producer responsibility organizations will no longer collect noneligible source recyclables on the same trucks as residential recyclables — putting an end to service for abou...
www.stcatharinesstandard.ca
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
More bad legislation outcomes from the Ontario government as businesses lose recyclable waste pickup in new year.
If the 159 countries that signed the pledge follow through on it or similar promises made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, methane emissions would decrease just 8 per cent by 2030, far short of the 30 per cent goal.
International effort to curb methane emissions falls short: UN report
The super-pollutant's emissions continue to climb despite a pledge by countries to curb it.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If the 159 countries that signed the pledge follow through on it or similar promises made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, methane emissions would decrease just 8 per cent by 2030, far short of the 30 per cent goal.
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority board members are prepared to oppose the Ontario government’s legislation to amalgamate the province’s 36 conservation authorities into seven regional entities.
‘There should be some pushback’: Niagara conservation authority board mulls opposing mergers
The proposed changes would amalgamate Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority with Hamilton Conservation Authority, Conservation Halton and Credit Valley Conservation Authority.
www.niagarathisweek.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority board members are prepared to oppose the Ontario government’s legislation to amalgamate the province’s 36 conservation authorities into seven regional entities.
It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities — primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.
One major contributor to climate change is being under-reported
I can’t help wonder how much longer the media can tiptoe around the cow in the room; because until we treat animal agriculture with the same scrutiny we do oil,
www.stcatharinesstandard.ca
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities — primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.
The report shows that this increase in renewable energy could meet nearly all the world’s growing appetite for electricity, which is on track to rise by 40 per cent over the next decade.
Supply boom in cheaper renewables will seal end of fossil fuel era, says IEA
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable,’ despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The report shows that this increase in renewable energy could meet nearly all the world’s growing appetite for electricity, which is on track to rise by 40 per cent over the next decade.
At COP Canada is “completely ‘Missing in Action’” in the international deliberations and is rolling back its progress at home. "Canada has been...masking fossil expansion behind the language of climate leadership.”
A tough climate summit for Canada
Labeled the "Fossil of the Day" at COP30, Canada faces accusations of pulling back climate policies while pushing forward fossil subsidies and projects. But the committee seemed particularly stung by ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
At COP Canada is “completely ‘Missing in Action’” in the international deliberations and is rolling back its progress at home. "Canada has been...masking fossil expansion behind the language of climate leadership.”