Victoria Goodday
@victoriagoodday.bsky.social
Researcher and analyst of Canadian environmental law and public policy. Currently with WCS Canada focusing on carbon-rich ecosystems.
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Destroying peatlands is Canada’s climate hypocrisy
It’s beyond time we put a spotlight on our country's peatlands.
www.hilltimes.com
It’s time to get honest about our climate policy blind spots. One of these is the disturbance and degradation of peatlands across Canada. Read my piece today in the @hilltimes.com:
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
#cdnleg #cdnpoli #climate
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
#cdnleg #cdnpoli #climate
Mandatory reading- if only to inform rebuttals. A "playbook" completely incongruent with natural capital discourse/physics. Total failure to account for the critical infrastructure that is intact, healthy ecosystems (e.g. those irreplaceable carbon-rich peatlands above critical minerals) #cdnpoli
Today, the Public Policy Forum released a landmark report outlining urgent strategies to unlock Canada’s full economic potential by accelerating investment in major projects.
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Build Big Things - Public Policy Forum
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Build Big Things, a look at all the energy, mining and infrastructure moves fueling the Canadian economy. Preface By JP Gladu Founder and Principal, Mokwateh I...
ppforum.ca
May 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mandatory reading- if only to inform rebuttals. A "playbook" completely incongruent with natural capital discourse/physics. Total failure to account for the critical infrastructure that is intact, healthy ecosystems (e.g. those irreplaceable carbon-rich peatlands above critical minerals) #cdnpoli
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A new story from @thetyee.ca shows that David Yager, the man responsible for Alberta’s new "mature" oil well cleanup scam, has deep connections to Premier Danielle Smith and a legacy of conflicts of interest - red flags everywhere. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG
An Alberta Energy Regulator’s Close Ties to Danielle Smith | The Tyee
David Yager calls himself the premier’s ‘special adviser.’ He also serves as board director for the supposedly arm’s-length AER.
thetyee.ca
May 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A new story from @thetyee.ca shows that David Yager, the man responsible for Alberta’s new "mature" oil well cleanup scam, has deep connections to Premier Danielle Smith and a legacy of conflicts of interest - red flags everywhere. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG
Important new work from @lornaharris.bsky.social and other WCS scientists. Canada can no longer ignore its global resposibility to do better when it comes to these critical carbon stores. (Regardless of/especially in light of the critical mineral stores beneath many of them) #cdnpoli #cdnleg
February 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Important new work from @lornaharris.bsky.social and other WCS scientists. Canada can no longer ignore its global resposibility to do better when it comes to these critical carbon stores. (Regardless of/especially in light of the critical mineral stores beneath many of them) #cdnpoli #cdnleg
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One of my favorite things about #peatlands is their patterning at different scales caused by millennia of interplay between hydrology and peat accumulation - mainly Sphagnum mosses. Spent my Saturday evening looking at satellite images of the Hudson Bay Lowlands - a perfectly reasonable activity…
January 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
One of my favorite things about #peatlands is their patterning at different scales caused by millennia of interplay between hydrology and peat accumulation - mainly Sphagnum mosses. Spent my Saturday evening looking at satellite images of the Hudson Bay Lowlands - a perfectly reasonable activity…
"Many existing water management and allocation laws create a water rights structure that is too rigid, making it hard to adapt to changing water availability, while still meeting critical needs, such as for drinking water."
Existing laws and policies fail to protect water and sanitation systems from #ClimateChange impacts in #FrontlineCommunities across the US, as found in a recent Pacific Institute and Center for Water Security and Cooperation report.
Read more: pacinst.org/publication/...
#WaterAccessForAll
Read more: pacinst.org/publication/...
#WaterAccessForAll
Law and Policies that Address Equitable, Climate-Resilient Water and Sanitation - Pacific Institute
As climate change intensifies, its impacts are most acutely felt through water-related challenges. Droughts are becoming longer, warmer, and more … Law and Policies that Address Equitable, Climate-Res...
pacinst.org
February 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Many existing water management and allocation laws create a water rights structure that is too rigid, making it hard to adapt to changing water availability, while still meeting critical needs, such as for drinking water."
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An excellent op-ed on the importance of #peatlands in Canada by @victoriagoodday.bsky.social and Laura Tanguay!
Peatlands like the McClelland Wetland Complex in NE Alberta store TONS of carbon, filter freshwater, provide important wildlife habitat, and are one of our greatest nature-based climate solutions. Peatlands NEED to be protected. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0... @victoriagoodday.bsky.social #CDNPoli
Destroying peatlands is Canada’s climate hypocrisy
It’s beyond time we put a spotlight on our country's peatlands.
www.hilltimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
An excellent op-ed on the importance of #peatlands in Canada by @victoriagoodday.bsky.social and Laura Tanguay!
Reposted by Victoria Goodday
Peatlands like the McClelland Wetland Complex in NE Alberta store TONS of carbon, filter freshwater, provide important wildlife habitat, and are one of our greatest nature-based climate solutions. Peatlands NEED to be protected. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0... @victoriagoodday.bsky.social #CDNPoli
Destroying peatlands is Canada’s climate hypocrisy
It’s beyond time we put a spotlight on our country's peatlands.
www.hilltimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Peatlands like the McClelland Wetland Complex in NE Alberta store TONS of carbon, filter freshwater, provide important wildlife habitat, and are one of our greatest nature-based climate solutions. Peatlands NEED to be protected. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0... @victoriagoodday.bsky.social #CDNPoli
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In case you miss it: The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment can be considered customary international law and, therefore, binding for States.
A contribution to the CIJ conversation on State obligations regarding climate change.
@iisd.bsky.social
A contribution to the CIJ conversation on State obligations regarding climate change.
@iisd.bsky.social
Healthy Environment: A Human Right and Customary International Law
By Astrid Puentes Riaño, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial organ of the UN, is…
buff.ly
February 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In case you miss it: The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment can be considered customary international law and, therefore, binding for States.
A contribution to the CIJ conversation on State obligations regarding climate change.
@iisd.bsky.social
A contribution to the CIJ conversation on State obligations regarding climate change.
@iisd.bsky.social
It’s time to get honest about our climate policy blind spots. One of these is the disturbance and degradation of peatlands across Canada. Read my piece today in the @hilltimes.com:
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
#cdnleg #cdnpoli #climate
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
#cdnleg #cdnpoli #climate
Destroying peatlands is Canada’s climate hypocrisy
It’s beyond time we put a spotlight on our country's peatlands.
www.hilltimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It’s time to get honest about our climate policy blind spots. One of these is the disturbance and degradation of peatlands across Canada. Read my piece today in the @hilltimes.com:
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
#cdnleg #cdnpoli #climate
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
#cdnleg #cdnpoli #climate
Canada has some of the world's only remaining large, intact, unconverted peatlands. Other countries are scrambling to address GHGs from peatlands they disturbed. Canada must protect these globally important carbon stores. See our brief linked below to see what Canada can do. #cdnleg #cdnpoli
Globally, drained peatlands unleash more heat-trapping gas than the aviation industry.
Germany is pushing to restore peatlands drained for farming, and to harvest their reeds and sedges for use in insulation and packaging.
Germany is pushing to restore peatlands drained for farming, and to harvest their reeds and sedges for use in insulation and packaging.
Turning Farmland Back to Peatland: Can It Slow CO2 Emissions?
Farmers have long drained peatlands for agriculture, but the dried-out soils release vast quantities of CO2. To halt this process, new initiatives in Germany are not only rewetting peatlands but also ...
e360.yale.edu
January 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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This comprehensive review explores the rapidly advancing field of #postgrowth research and presents a compelling case for prioritising human wellbeing and ecological sustainability over endless economic expansion. Published in The Lancet Planetary Health today → www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, o…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This comprehensive review explores the rapidly advancing field of #postgrowth research and presents a compelling case for prioritising human wellbeing and ecological sustainability over endless economic expansion. Published in The Lancet Planetary Health today → www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
When enviro policy work feels futile / Still buzzing from my @koheisaito.bsky.social book club last night-- this was a welcome read to wake up to:
"Better regulations, moratoriums, and protected areas are decent band-aids for an economic system that keeps producing new wounds, but at some point, we have to force those in power to drop the knife." medium.com/@phillipmein... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
Thoughts on Resource Extraction
First, I wholeheartedly agree that we shouldn’t have coal mining on the eastern slopes. That’s a no brainer. It makes no sense whatsoever…
medium.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
When enviro policy work feels futile / Still buzzing from my @koheisaito.bsky.social book club last night-- this was a welcome read to wake up to:
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Is "red tape" really holding back BC mining? Politicians and the industry often blame regulations for slowing down a burgeoning critical minerals market. In reality, evidence shows that some of these mining operations aren't economically viable. #ReformBCMining #bcpoli www.biv.com/news/resourc...
Contrary to industry claims, red tape not slowing B.C. mineral boom, finds audit
Audit finds delays to approve dozens of B.C. mines were largely caused by market forces — not government permitting.
www.biv.com
December 14, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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