Andrew Henry

Canadian. Local paper occasionally publishes pieces I write about climate, energy, and Passive House.

Also interested in disability issues, for reasons. Am on Team Orca.

I am a Nordic skier who used to play Rugby. Happiest in mid-February on a sunny day when it is -5 Celsius.

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2024-09-18 01:02:20

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@npub1q9m…zgdu That must have been a fun time. I have only been skiing in the mountains a couple of times. There are big hills where I live but definitely not mountains.

2024-09-17 23:40:49

Weatherman Jeff Berardelli over on xitter.
Cross posting as the GIF showing the weather events relative to the jet stream is important to understand.
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Everything is stuck! That partly explains the 20” of rain along the Carolina Coast and extreme rains and snows in Central Europe. Take a look at the jet stream in the US and Europe. Rex blocks (high over top of low) abound with an extremely wavy jet stream!
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https://x.com/WeatherProf/status/1835777548170473925

2024-09-07 20:59:56

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In May, citrus growers and juice firms association Fundecitrus based in the orange-growing state of São Paulo forecast that Brazil would produce its smallest crop in 35 years, saying yields would be down almost 25 per cent from last year.
But now “even that quite pessimistic forecast probably won’t be achieved, given the conditions we’re seeing”, said Andrés Padilla, an analyst at Rabobank.
“We’re going through the worst drought in 50 years in Brazil,..."
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FT: https://archive.ph/p2dfh#selection-2375.0-2379.155

2024-08-12 22:46:16

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New Zealand wholesale power prices have more than doubled over the past month, according to data supplied by the Electricity Authority, partly because of low hydro lake storage levels.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-12/methanex-helps-to-ease-new-zealand-power-squeeze-by-idling-plant

2024-07-31 15:13:31

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"We know that the source of the problem is probably the warming of the sea surface temperature in the Gulf of St. Lawrence because it seems like most of the rivers that run into the gulf are more affected than other rivers."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-salmon-restrictions-1.7280694

2024-07-25 19:36:14

While #Jasper burned.
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The Quebec government has authorized Énergir to build a 10-kilometre pipeline to supply "renewable natural gas" at the Waste Management technical landfill in Sainte-Sophie, Que. — a project many environmentalists are opposing.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-approves-pipeline-project-in-the-laurentians-1.7275109

2024-07-13 16:28:29

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The town near the border with Labrador planted what they hope will become a shield for the community, following last year's unprecedented forest fire season.
"In the next year, it has to be something that every city will do,"
"It needs to be at least 30 metres like a shield of hardwood … in case of very extreme fire that cannot be controlled and that we know can happen."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-town-replanting-efforts-deciduous-trees-forest-fires-1.7262241

2024-07-11 18:35:42

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1 dead, dozens rescued after heavy rains inundate Vermont
Towns and cities from Addison to Caledonia counties were hit with 3 to 5 inches of rain late Wednesday, with some totals exceeding 6 inches.
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https://vtdigger.org/2024/07/11/vermont-digs-out-after-more-than-5-inches-of-rain-cover-portions-of-the-state/

2024-07-03 09:42:09

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But another, more sustained thread has run through many sharp increases in food prices. From oranges in Brazil to cocoa in west Africa; olives in southern Europe to coffee in Vietnam, permanently shifting weather patterns as a result of climate change are reducing crop yields, squeezing supplies and driving up prices.
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https://www.ft.com/content/125e89c0-308a-492f-ae8e-6834847d1186

2024-06-29 21:27:47

A hotter atmosphere holds more moisture.
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Officials at Delhi’s airport canceled operations at Terminal 1 after an outdoor metal canopy collapsed following torrential rainfall on Friday. Multiple cars were crushed outside the recently-renovated airport, killing one person and injuring eight, according to authorities. The area recorded its heaviest one-day June rainfall in 88 years.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-29/india-s-busiest-airport-s-roof-collapse-raises-questions-on-modi-s-infra-push

2024-06-26 00:19:55

Just a hydro-electric generation facility that provides 15% of Quebec’s electricity being evacuated. No need to be concerned. /s
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Water bombers were pulled off a growing fire near Churchill Falls on Tuesday evening, as a fire duty officer in Newfoundland and Labrador says they were ineffective against the sheer heat of the fast spreading fire.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/churchill-falls-water-spillage-1.7245575

2024-06-17 23:49:22

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I’ve heard people in Iowa agriculture explain away the ‘all white’ thing by saying, well, farming is a generational business (true) and since almost all the early settlers were white (also true), it follows that subsequent generations would also be white. Ok, but why were the early Iowa settlers all white, when 17% of the U.S. was non-white about the time Native American people were being displaced by settlers?
As the title says, it was by design.
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https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/white-by-design

2024-06-13 10:33:48

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While demand is forecast to peak before 2030, continued investment by oil producers, led by the US, would by then result in more than 8mn b/d of spare capacity, the IEA wrote in its annual report on the industry released on Wednesday.
This “massive cushion” of extra oil could “upend” the efforts of Opec+ to manage the market and usher in an era of lower prices, the IEA said, adding that the spare capacity would be unprecedented outside the coronavirus pandemic.
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https://www.ft.com/content/cfb97534-b71b-490f-b626-6dc3487f595d

2024-06-03 12:27:50

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About half of the country remains under flood warnings, with Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg in the south most severely affected. Downpours have continued since Friday, with some areas seeing more rainfall in a day than they typically get in a month.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said recent instances of extreme weather highlight “the challenges in view of the rise in the earth’s temperature and climate change.”
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-03/scholz-to-visit-southern-german-region-battling-severe-flooding?srnd=green

2024-05-28 22:21:16

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@npub1l0s…pgrv
Kids that bike to school everyday get that little bit of fitness boost when it comes to playing field sports.
Your kids are unicorns.

2024-05-21 16:31:36

#ottawa #gatineau
Overnight camp for kids and adults with developmental disabilities needs staff urgently
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Currently we do not have enough staff to run our camp at full capacity. In order to avoid reducing camp registrations we are reaching out to you for help in reaching a broader staff network
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2024-05-21 00:03:13

A hotter atmosphere holds more moisture.
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Only weeks before, hail pounded a solar farm in the state, damaging many panels. And in mid-March, grapefruit-sized hail pelted down from the skies over Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, leading to damages on the ground exceeding $4 billion.
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#insurance
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-hail-storm-damage-insurance/?

2024-05-19 22:17:44

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And yet Canada is the world’s largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia, the US and Russia.
If you believe geography (rather than the popular will) is destiny, it shouldn’t surprise you that North America’s two liberal democracies are now making common cause with authoritarian petrostates.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-19/climate-america-joins-its-frenemies-in-the-fossil-fuel-club?srnd=opinion

2024-05-14 21:32:48

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Thousands of residents in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo have been ordered to leave their homes as a wildfire burning southwest of Fort McMurray continues to draw closer to the community.
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#wildfire
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfire-grande-prairie-fort-mcmurray-1.7203695

2024-05-07 22:43:46

If only there was a way to prevent this.
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"What we are seeing is we have people being admitted for other things and then becoming infected with COVID in the hospital because of visitors or sharing a room," she said.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/high-risk-albertans-covid-vaccine-1.7195855

2024-04-29 22:42:25

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Alberta's respiratory virus dashboard shows 25.1 per cent of Albertans received their flu shot this season, the lowest vaccination rate in the last decade.
“As a result we see unfortunately a record loss of life in the province."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-flu-death-toll-highest-in-15-years-1.7186261

2024-04-28 00:38:00

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according to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, an anti-monopoly group, which adds that prices had to go up to offset these fees. A Borkian might argue that Amazon’s success is the reward for being efficient and raising consumer welfare. But with less and less competition providing a benchmark, these notions of welfare become very hard to gauge.
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https://www.ft.com/content/48bd51aa-ea9a-4cd1-9d20-448ee5ce80f8

2024-04-25 02:16:34

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"We know in the U.S. about 40 per cent of police families experience intimate partner violence, compared to about 10 per cent of the population," she said, noting a lack of Canadian statistics on the matter.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/paid-to-stay-home-one-third-officers-accused-gender-based-violence-1.7181385

2024-04-14 22:14:17

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The rising price of coffee comes as other soft commodities surge. Cocoa futures surpassed a record $10,000 per ton at the end of last month, and are nearly four times higher than a year ago.
This is becoming the new normal as climate change impacts crop production. “Things are just a lot more volatile,” said Haines. “The weather has gotten a lot more volatile and there’s a lot more extreme [weather] events.”
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https://www.ft.com/content/ba65e510-941e-4cdc-ba60-52b4b4c8d0a0

2024-04-11 23:37:10

March 2024 Drought Assessment
At the end of the month, 66% of the country was classified as Abnormally Dry (D0) or in Moderate to Exceptional Drought (D1 to D4), including 82% of the country's agricultural landscape.
# drought
https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/weather/canadian-drought-monitor/current-drought-conditions
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2024-04-05 10:46:05

Both Alberta and Saskatchewan are lead by petro-theocratic premiers who would at most give lip service to climate action.
They are provinces that are being hit hard by the consequences of accumulated carbon emissions.
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To get an idea of the financial toll extreme weather is taking on this country's agriculture industry, look no further than the government of Saskatchewan's books.
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#drought
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/why-climate-change-on-the-farm-means-a-big-bill-for-canadian-taxpayers-1.7163473

2024-04-02 23:56:39

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Instead, what’s being built isn’t overcapacity, but merely the basic capacity the world needs if it’s to build the low-emissions economy needed to get the planet to net zero. If China is producing the tools to avert global warming more cheaply than we can do it ourselves, we should follow the advice of Adam Smith: “Buy it.”
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-02/us-china-yellen-s-steel-argument-will-hurt-clean-technology

2024-03-14 13:47:24

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“With climate change set to make winters warmer and wetter on this model, farmers are really going to have to think hard about how they can make their system stack up under this sort of pressure.”
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https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/further-wet-weather-raises-fears-of-harvest-catastrophe

2024-03-10 01:33:22

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At the end of the month, 71% of Canada was classified as Abnormally Dry (D0) or in Moderate to Exceptional Drought (D1 to D4), including 85% of the country's agricultural landscape.
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#drought #climatecrisis
https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/weather/canadian-drought-monitor/current-drought-conditions
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2024-02-26 12:49:24

And so it begins...
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A large part of Île-Bizard and Île-Mercier are included in those areas, which were heavily flooded in both 2017 and 2019.
Desjardins said the risk is too high to continue offering mortgages to homes that have a five per cent chance or more of flooding each year, with some exceptions.
"The impacts of climate change, including water damage, are growing in importance and causing substantial damage," Desjardins said in a statement.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/desjardins-cuts-off-mortgages-1.7125435

2024-02-12 22:12:27

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A quarter of the world’s oil will come from Canada and the US this year. Think about the magnitude of that market share, and now think about the climate-change policies — and politics — of both Trudeau and US President Joe Biden. The gap between what both have campaigned on — green investment and energy transition — and the reality on the ground is large.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-12/the-10-billion-tmx-pipeline-that-will-revive-canadian-oil

2024-02-10 22:47:44

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The Hungarian president has announced her resignation over her decision to pardon a man convicted of helping cover up a sex abuse case at a children’s home
The controversy posed a political headache for Orbán, who has campaigned on family-friendly policies and presented himself as an advocate for children’s protection.
Novák, who became president in 2022, also branded herself as a family-focused Christian conservative politician.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/10/hungarys-president-resigns-in-unusual-setback-for-ruling-party

2024-01-04 21:40:12

I tree planted a few decades ago north of Lake Superior. Nothing more depressing then a Boreal clear cut.
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But a new study using nearly half a century of data from the provinces of Ontario and Quebec — two of the country’s main commercial logging regions — reveals that harvesting trees has inflicted severe damage on the boreal forest that will be difficult to reverse.
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#share
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/world/canada/canada-boreal-forest-logging.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE0.tozV.eMNxYhPfpI-N&smid=url-share

2023-12-24 18:36:47

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Central B.C. has had about 60 per cent of its usual precipitation in 2023.
Low reservoir levels caused by the drought mean less water is moving through dams.
That's made it difficult for hydro facilities to keep up with demand. The cost of purchasing extra energy from Alberta and neighbouring U.S. states won't immediately increase hydro rates, but the crunch comes around peak demand
"Heating is the biggest use of energy in B.C. during the fall and winter months"
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-electric-rate-changes-as-province-imports-power-1.7065802

2023-12-01 00:07:55

A third of the U.S. corn harvest goes to ethanol production already!
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339
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Now, the nation’s airlines want to power their planes with corn, too.
Their ambitious goals would likely **require nearly doubling ethanol production**
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Shared link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/30/climate/airlines-jet-fuel-ethanol-corn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CU0.OWXr.tO-ykZ4FNPD2&smid=url-share
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2023-11-05 12:24:11

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"We're in really dire circumstances. It's perhaps not an overstatement to say that, you know, these salmon are literally facing the verge of extinction if something doesn't turn around pretty quick here."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-river-chinook-fall-chum-2023-season-1.7018446

2023-10-16 12:30:25

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“Every seed company is facing these problems, but they probably wouldn’t want to tell you that,” said Alan Sparks, an industry veteran who consults for Baker Creek Seeds. “‘We’ve got everything in control! Everything’s gonna be OK!’ But it’s not OK.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/16/seed-farmers-climate-change

2023-10-01 14:53:08

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Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, the praised former commander of the First Army who became widely known for coordinating Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, said he never thought he’d be praying for rain at the peak of hurricane season in the Gulf.
“It’s climate change. That’s the dilemma we have — manmade activity is exacerbating the warming of the Earth that is causing severe changes in weather patterns,”
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/01/us/new-orleans-saltwater-future-climate/index.html

2023-09-01 21:00:24

Goodness, what could be making these very fit tennis players sick, maybe…
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It’s not just players. The ESPN commentator John McEnroe said on Tuesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus after feeling unwell.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/sports/tennis/us-open-players-sick.html

2023-08-30 11:09:32

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The mass death of the cold-water fish has occurred during another summer of extreme drought and heat on Vancouver Island, a region known for its temperate climate.
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#drought
#wildfires
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/world/canada/canada-wildfires-river-salmon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2023-08-30 10:53:05

Debris flows are more likely after wildfires as the vegetation that kept the slope in place has burned.
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"There is debris flow risk due to forecast rain," reads a tweet from the B.C. Transport Ministry.
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#wildfires
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/highway-access-restored-fraser-canyon-wildfire-1.6950959

2023-08-26 20:44:57

Chatting with a family friend who is a nurse. They work at a camp in the summer.
They said a family whose kids attempt camp had three of their children end up with diabetes after Covid.
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVID19

2023-08-22 01:25:07

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Like Graham, King says it has been "one thing after another" starting with post-tropical storm Fiona in September 2022.
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#ClimateCrisis #agriculture
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/n-s-farmers-grapple-with-stress-after-string-of-extreme-weather-events-1.6942733

2023-08-16 18:31:20

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"It's good to hear a fossil fuel CEO being honest about their intentions — squeezing every last drop of oil out of the ground, even if it means cooking our climate and harming communities in the process," said Greenpeace Canada climate campaign head Laura Ullman.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suncor-too-focused-on-energy-transition-rich-kruger-says-1.6937360

2023-07-28 02:29:41

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@npub1uw8…88kr I have fond memories of stacking hay wagons as a young teenager.
That is quite the wagon you have there. : )

2023-07-22 12:53:44

The police will not allow themselves to be policed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-officers-refuse-questions-bei-1.6914130