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Fossil fuel industry leaks health and climate harming methane. Where regulators/companies test, they’re under reporting it. Bonus: Newer wells leak more than older ones and frac’d wells leak a lot.
@chemosh933: Disastrous methane leakage was covered in GaslandReleased in 2010, with little improved globally to mitigate the oil, gas and frac industry’s horrendous pollution (the purpose of frac’ing is to force tightly adsorbed methane to let go from formations underground … Continue reading
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New Study on human greenhouse gas pollution: Lead author Piers Forster: “Records are really being broken everywhere.” Zeke Hausfather: “Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster.”
Scientists warn that greenhouse gas accumulation is accelerating and more extreme weather will come VIDEO at link, by Seth Borensrein, June 18, 2025, AP News A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted … Continue reading
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Western White (mostly male) “Christian” Morality
Sony Thang @nxt888 Jun 19, 2025: The West lost the right to speak of morality the moment it called Gaza a war zone, when it is a graveyard it helped dig. Not a battlefield. A burial site. Not a conflict … Continue reading
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Calgary Herald: Quisling piece of shit. Why publish Putin Poodle bullshit by just another lying old white man American lawyer (Jim Duzak)? To rage feed Alberta’s greedy minority hate-filled separatists who can’t do math and believe they’ll be richer in Nazi USA?
Lynette Brown: A very imperialistic, colonialistic attitude. David Thompson: Indeed. My approach would be to not seek appeasement but rather chart an independent course of cooperation with the rest of the world. More like Mark Carney’s approach. My friends and … Continue reading
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National Geographic: What fracking is doing to the Earth—and to our bodies; Dr. Sandra Steingraber: “This is a public health crisis.”
What fracking is doing to the Earth—and to our bodies, Beneath layers of ancient rock, a high-pressure process is reshaping the modern energy landscape. As fracking expands across the globe, so does the growing debate around its impact by Kieran … Continue reading
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“A stealth tariff:” Climate chaos costs responsible for $7.7 trillion, or 36%, of US GDP growth since 2000; $18.5 trillion globally. And, new study shows “a discernible human influence on atmospheric temperature has likely existed for over 130 years”!
@LeonSimons8: I was asked to write a plain language summary. Does this help?: The climate models used by the UN climate panel (IPCC) underestimate the changes in our climate observed by NASA satellites over the past 23 years. Over the … Continue reading
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New 3 year study: PFAS found in 65% of private water wells sampled in Pennsylvania with 18 percent exceeding EPA’s maximum contaminant levels. No wonder Adolf Orange is declawing the EPA.
Geospatial and socioeconomic factors of PFAS contamination in private drinking water wells: Insights for monitoring and management by Kelly Kosiarski, Tamie L Veith, Faith A Kibuye, Jennifer Fetter, Susan Boser, John P Vanden Heuvel, Cheryl L Thompson, and Heather E Preisendanz, J Environ Manage. 2025 Jul:388:125863. doi: … Continue reading
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catholic hell on earth: “Bon Secours Mother and Baby” home: 800 babies and children hid in mass grave in a *sewer* tank. FFS! Why do humans still worship this evil misogynistic kid-murdering “pro-life” religion?
Feather on the ground behind priest with a shovel: “There’s never supposed to be graveyards at a school.” Especially not in a sewer tank. Work begins to exhume remains of 800 dead babies at unwed mothers’ home in Ireland, The … Continue reading
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Expand Energy sets new USA record for longest frac lateral (horizontal) into Marcellus shale at 5.2 miles (8 km)
Longest lateral in US drilled into Marcellus shale by Expand Energy by Farm and Dairy Staff, June 16, 2025, Farm and Dairy SALEM, Ohio — A drilling crew for Expand Energy Corporation has set several new national records while working … Continue reading
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South Memphis: Nazi Elon Musk’s artificial (stolen) intelligence, xAI (runs stupid Grok chatbot), to be sued for polluting without required permits
Elon Musk’s A.I. Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines, The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community by Hiroko Tabuchi, June 17, 2025, NYT Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence … Continue reading
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Tarsands waste lakes competition announced by UCP: Is the $50M from industry or more theft by UCP from Albertans to give more corporate welfare to $billion profiting polluters? Whatever, I think this new game is to con the public; in 2019, industry and AER already said they want to dump the deadly waste into the Athabasca watershed.
Media are complicit in the tarsands companies’ crimes against life. Imagine calling toxic industrial waste leftover water? As if was half a glass of water left at the dinner table. As vile as media reporting on the toxic lakes as … Continue reading
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More reason to boycott foods from USA: Texas lets frac’ers get rid of their toxic radioactive waste water by making farmers irrigate with it.
On my frac speaking tours, 2011-2014, people often asked what would become of the masses of toxic frac chemicals and waste fluids. I replied, “We’ll be forced to eat and drink them.” Texas Approves Use Of Fracking Wastewater To Irrigate … Continue reading
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Oil and gas idiots frac’ing Alberta dry, idiots AER and UCP letting them. Water taken away at the drop of a drought: Milk River Irrigation water cut off, bye bye crops, hello economic hardship.
Milk River Watershed Council Canada June 17, 2025 Notification of Irrigation Shut-down for Alberta Milk River Irrigators was received yesterday afternoon on the decision of the Accredited Officers of the International Joint Commission the notice states: “The natural flows of … Continue reading
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Harper-con Carney and BC escalate trashing rights, water, air, land, fish, wildlife, special places, and minds via AI, to help the rich get richer faster under the guise of security. Just gross lies by Carney and Eby. Johnathan Moore, professor of aquatic ecology and conservation: “B.C. and Canada have an unfortunate track record of failing to protect ecosystems and people from industrial activities.”
Jonathan email hidden; JavaScript is required June 17, 2025: Published an op-ed the other day–fast-tracking actions to protect lands, waters, fish, and wildlife. BC and Canadian policies are rushing natural resource extraction forward–there is a parallel need to fast-track safeguards … Continue reading
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New study: “Neurological symptoms are common and persistent in COVID-19 survivors” with significant prevalence of long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms including fatigue, depression, anxiety, cognitive and memory impairment, dizziness, sleep disturbances, and headaches.
@HarrySpoelstra June 15, 2025: Long-term neurological and cognitive impact of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis in over 4 million patients SHOCKING! The prevalence rates for the different symptoms(>6m) were as follows: ‘In conclusion, this meta-analysis highlights the significant prevalence … Continue reading
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Europe’s ‘Worst Paedophile In Medical History’? Joël Le Scouarnec, retired surgeon, gets maximum prison sentence for raping/assaulting 299 patients, mostly kids, but will likely be out in 6 years to rape kids again. I bet Canadian judges would have given him community service at a daycare.
Diaries of a monster: French surgeon’s record details a catalogue of child abuse, Joel Le Scouarnec: How did French paedophile surgeon carry out abuse unchecked for decades?Easy answer, rape religions and the raping Patriarchy rule the world; they don’t care … Continue reading
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Fossil fuel methane emissions likely underestimated in model based on atmospheric delta-13C trends
Fossil fuel methane emissions likely underestimated in a model based on atmospheric delta-13C trends by Benjamin T. Uveges, Robert W. Howarth and Jed P. Sparks, June 13, 2025, PNAS Letter, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2507837122 Oil and gas companies … Continue reading
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Frac’ing Alberta into a dirty ’30s dust bowl: Bison rancher Butch Smith: “Once you’re out of water, there’s no life.” Farmer Dustin Dial: “We’re having to sell off livestock because we can’t water them.”
Where were you years ago, when many of us were warning of frac’ing’s endless harms and devastation to water, surface and ground? Alberta has been heavily, often illegally (with blessings and deregulation by govt’, AER and Alberta Environment) frac’d by … Continue reading
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Genocide to avoid prison for corruption? Must Watch: The Bibi Netanyahu (“God-given”) Benzion (“son of Zion”) Files. “It’s not that he tried to kill evidence, he tried to kill the system. He took all of us hostage in this trial.”
@PaulChampLaw: No evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon, much less of an imminent attack. The Israeli operation is transparently about supporting the political career of a dangerous megalomaniac and an ideology of ethno-supremacy. @ecomarxi: Think of every awful person … Continue reading
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Israel, “child rape capital of the Middle East,” controls porn. PornHub owned by “Ethical” Capital Partners, CEO is Jewish Rabbi, Soloman Friedman. Does Bibi rape kids as well as mass murder them? What about Zionists Steve Harper, Adolf Orange (rapist pal of kid-rapist Jeff Epstein), Rosalie Abella, Irwin Cotler, Alan Dershowitz (helped Epstein get plea deal), etc. etc. etc.? PS “Ethical Oil” anyone?
Want kid rape mitigated? Easy. Ban religions and their texts, notably the bible, and ban self regulation for police, judges and lawyers. But, I bet the kid raping religions, notably catholic church and evangelical christian, Patriarchy and Zionism will never … Continue reading
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Harper-Con Carney’s Bill C-5: Make evil more evil and the rich richer. More profit for war mongers, water & energy devouring noisy polluting stupid stolen AI, and fossil fuel polluters while harming climate, permanently losing water, worsening already terrible wildfires, trouncing environment, impacting already harmed communities, families
More and more I ask myself if Carney managed and still manages Harper, or if Harper manages Carney. It’s clear they’re both fascists owned by Netanyahu, Zionism, spy tech and AI, and big polluters. @jonrandellsmith: Carney is like a McKinsey … Continue reading
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Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66 and Olympic Pipeline Company (subsidiary managed by BP) sued over 2021 heat wave death; first wrongful death case against oil and gas companies for their role in global warming
@kathryngrace.bsky.social: Thank you for making this story available. May she prevail every step of the way all the way to and including the SCOTUS. I know. I know. Still. May she prevail. May we all. Oil Companies Are Sued Over … Continue reading
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Alberta’s sure to contaminate water coal fiasco: Betrayer of Albertans, Danielle Smith, Quisling Queen of the Separatist Greedy Cry Babies, deserves this fury and public lashing, attended and reported on by Andrew Nikiforuk. Peter Lougheed and conservatives of old (not the fascist abusive bigoted Libertarian bullshit ruling now) join in from beyond.
Douglas Williams: great reporting and a hilarious, though serious introduction. Wish all reporters could be so blunt and entertainingMe too! This article is one of Andrew’s best. It’s super funny, and tart. No bullshit in his reporting. The Stink of … Continue reading
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Super creepy Palantir-sponsored genocidal AI war tech trade show
Palantir-sponsored war tech summit ejects Max Blumenthal 14:17 Min. by The Grayzone, June 10, 2025
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Israel’s illegal attacks against Iran: “Genocidal piece of garbage” PM Mark (aka Harper) Carney is an “absolute fascist handmaiden.” Former ambassador to Iran, Richard Dalton: Israel’s strikes on Iran are “in breach of every legal requirement for a pre-emptive attack.”
@Kjell_Anderson: Canada is once again saying, via our foreign minister @AnitaAnandMP, that international law does not apply to Israel. It is free to attack its neigbours, to kill civilians, and to exterminate Palestinians because… “self defence”. @AnitaAnandMP: Thank you Foreign … Continue reading
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USA’s money-wasting Hitler-copying Russia-serving Dictator Parade: Orange Nazi cry baby bully, “saaaad, so saaaad,” behind bullet proof glass, liar douche fucker rapist convicted felon, reportedly on Jeffrey Epstein list, can’t hide his misery as his ego party flops. Is Melania laughing at him? Looks like.
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social: Genie: ok what do you want for your birthdayTrump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my nameGenie: okie dokie @allenkendallactor.bsky.social: I’d like to see Melania’s invoice for this appearance. @fred-decker.bsky.social: When you’re … Continue reading
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(Some) Costs of not mitigating our pollution in one graph: Insurable losses in Canada due to extreme weather events, 1983 to 2024, in billions of dollars. Imagine the costs in human and other species suffering which is not insured. PS No such thing as “decarbonized” bitumen, oil, gas or coal.
Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene June 11, 2025: From the Auditor General of Canada’s report on the Government’s National Adaptation Strategy… @JackieSeidel1: Wow. @newscientist: A sudden and dramatic decline in the amount of carbon being soaked up by European forests is … Continue reading
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Canada’s misogynistic judicial industry would have set this child rapist (youth pastor Ryan McElrath) free. Protecting rapists, serving the Religious Patriarchy, is our rule of law
@AP16623882: Churches are way more dangerous for kids than libraries. @suutsprite: few words more chilling than “evangelical youth pastor” @MaileOnX: Weird- a church man not a drag queen @MEarthprime: Not #DragQueen Not #LGBTQIANot an Immigrant @trueanglican: Not trans not gay. … Continue reading
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New Study: Over 1 billion pet dogs worldwide have created an environmental crisis. Wilda Mardlin: “You can’t fix the earth till you fix all the humans.”
@race2extinct.bsky.social: Dogs roam, shit, and scent-mark the last wild places. Their waste pollutes waterways. Their food system rivals livestock in impact. We mourn vanishing species—yet bring predators and pollutants to every trail, stream, and park. @sysadmintools.com: My favorite little factoid … Continue reading
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John Vaillant calling Mark Carney: “The steady increase in fossil fuel-enhanced weather disasters: these floods, fires, heat waves, and intensifying storms are the Bank of Nature’s repo men coming to collect on that debt — ‘repossessing’ our homes, our cars, our towns, even our very lives.”
Air quality resource for Canada. Today, where I live and for much of S Alberta, is at highest risk. The smoke smells like burning bitumen (puke!) and frac fumes (triple puke!!!), I cannot see my favourite view, and the air … Continue reading
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Greedy cry baby CNRL (net earnings 2024: $7.4B) appeals puny $278,000 fine by AER for major law violation, murdering wildlife and endangering canids near its Horizon tarsands mine. How many $billions of the public’s money have the feds given this gross polluting destroyer of the environment? Now it wants to eat more public money by taking up time in court (paid for by the public) to get the fine reduced by more than 80 per cent? Fuckers.
Calgary-based oil giant appeals fine over wildlife deaths in tailings pond by Emma Graney, June 9, 2025 Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. CNQ-T is appealing a $278,000 fine for a major environmental infraction that killed birds and endangered coyotes and wolves … Continue reading
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Dear PM Carney & MP Evan Solomon: Tech Bros’ AI (aka Stolen Intelligence) is helping kill earth’s ability to sustain life; indirect emissions rose 150% in 3 years as AI expands too big for its lying britches.
@dadbeastlarge.bsky.social: Let’s listen to science and trust science when it’s convenient (rockets, cell phones, internet, vehicles, medicine) but just not when it will interrupt the use of our rockets, cell phones, internet, vehicles, medicine. Capitalism truly is the root of … Continue reading
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New Study: Sevenfold Underestimation of Methane Emissions from Non-producing Oil and Gas Wells in Canada.
@EliotJacobson: “If we don’t have accurate estimates of methane emissions, we can’t design effective climate policies” @99blackbaloons: Human civilisation is a perverse aberration within the planet’s biology and ecology. Horrifying lies by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith! Disgusting. Quadruple douche fucker! … Continue reading
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New study links climate change to cancer: “As extreme heat intensified across the Middle East and North Africa between 1998 and 2019, cancer mortality among women steadily climbed.” Will the Patriarchy care? I doubt it, money and rape rule the world. PS Extreme heat kills Americans too but still the Patriarchy won’t care unless the dying are rich and or painted orange.
Chief agent for the Patriarchy in Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith (but I blame this grossness on Harper Con Carney): @charlesrusnell.bsky.social: As forest fires rage…. Alberta moves to weaken its carbon price amidst talk of national ‘grand bargain’: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-carb… via @drewanderson.bsky.social … Continue reading
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Diabolus Ex Machina, Devious AI – Must Read! Amanda Guinzburg to ChatGPT: “It’s very very disturbing your response is always to lie.”
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social: This is a hell of a thing to read. @larrynlarryshow.bsky.social: Psychosis isn’t a sufficient description. AI legal briefs and medical diagnoses are everywhere. To think that this technology is generating huge GHG emissions in the service of … Continue reading
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More evidence Mark Carney is a Harper Conservative, not only that, he’s a Copy Cat.
A former prime minister unexpectedly has advice for Mark Carney by Susan Delacourt, National Columnist, June 3, 2025, Toronto Star Susan Delacourt is an Ottawa-based columnist covering national politics for the Star. Reach her via email: email hidden; JavaScript is required … Continue reading
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Simon Donner to PM Carney: “There is no such thing as decarbonized oil and gas. Oil contains carbon. It is high school chemistry. And they emit carbon dioxide when they’re used,” while Janetta McKenzie, Pembina Institute director, pimps it!
We must never forget or forgive this evil Carney quote: “First Ministers agreed that Canada must work urgently to get Canadian natural resources and commodities to domestic and international markets, such as … decarbonized Canadian oil and gas by pipelines” … Continue reading
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New Yale Study: Climate change is happening quicker than birds can fly, “few bird species are able to escape the realities of a warming world.”
Even birds can’t outfly climate change, While birds are better able than most species to relocate in response to climate change, the environment is changing faster than they can fly, a new Yale study finds by Bill Hathaway, May 28, 2025, … Continue reading
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Shame on Harper-Con Carney gov’t: Indigenous peoples don’t have a veto over polluting harmful “nation-building” (aka life-destroying) projects. Many Canadians, notably in Quebec, say “No!” to divisive fossil fuel pipelines. PS It’s impossible to de-carbonize fossil fuels.
We must never forget or forgive this evil Carney quote: “First Ministers agreed that Canada must work urgently to get Canadian natural resources and commodities to domestic and international markets, such as … decarbonized Canadian oil and gas by pipelines” … Continue reading
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While fuckers Trump, JD Vance et al were attacking Zelensky in the Oval Office, for not thanking them
@antongerashchenko.bsky.social June 6, 2025: Today marks the second anniversary of the horrific crime committed by Russian terrorists – the blowing up of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. @neo-soul.bsky.social: russiaisaterroriststate. it should have been expelled from every single world institution for … Continue reading
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Wildfire Smoke Triple Whammy: Humanity gets its punishment. Toxic pollutants like mercury, arsenic, lead, released/spilled/dumped years ago now remobilized in the already harmful smoke. “People fleeing Canada’s fires have to worry not just about losing their homes, but also losing their health.” Think of the harms to fire fighters and wildlife, and chemical laden frac and bitumen fields burning up.
@coreyhogan.ca: “From 1981 to 2015, there were an average of 18 smoke hours per year in the city of Calgary. No year had over 100. Now we see hundreds of smoke hours routinely: 315 in 2017, 450 in 2018, 439 … Continue reading
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SW Pennsylvania: Escalating harmful polluting frac to feed “wrong kind of innovation.”
Natural gas isn’t southwestern Pa.’s future by lou Tierno III, May 29, 2025, Special to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette In early April, thee large companies announced a new strategic alliance todevelop a natural gas-fired power generation facility in WashingtonCounty’s Fort … Continue reading
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Of course Harper-Con Carney ignores single Canadians: 1) He’s Catholic, a religion that pimps man/woman families and baby making (livable planet be damned) to keep churches getting richer and ensure popes, priests, cardinals, bishops etc. have lots of fresh kids to rape; 2) He’s an economist, they push endless growth and escalating GDP to keep the rich and churches getting richer (ignoring that the rich are already too rich, the poor too poor, earth too ravaged).
Carney’s middle-class tax cut plan ignores single Canadians by Rodney Beatty, May 28, 2025, The Globe and Mail Rodney Beatty is a writer and former business leader based in Sarnia, Ont. When I heard Prime Minister Mark Carney announce that … Continue reading
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Harper-Con Carney fully tosses his liberal disguise.
@phillipmeintzer.bsky.social: NINE BILLION for more war and destruction. That’s NINE BILLION of our taxpayer dollars that could fund housing, education, healthcare, renewable energy projects, or any other public service. More money for Raytheon & Lockheed Martin, less for Canadians in … Continue reading
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New Study by CDC: Avian flu, H5N1, transits through air; it’s airborne (If B.C.’s Dr. Bonnie Henry tells you to be kind and wash your hands to stay safe from it, don’t believe her).
ISSN: 1080-6059 Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Isolated from Dairy Farm Worker, Michigan, USA Research Letter by Nicole Brock, Joanna A. Pulit-Penaloza, Jessica A. Belser, Claudia Pappas, Xiangjie Sun, Troy J. Kieran, Hui Zeng, Juan A. De La Cruz, Yasuko Hatta, Han … Continue reading
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Guatemala: Pimping Synergy, Canadian company Pan American Silver (prev Tahoe) wants back in to mine even though the Xinka People said No. Settle ‘n Gags (confidentiality deals/Non Disclosure Agreements) serve law violators and lawyers which is why profit-raping corporations (and rapists like Hockey Canada) use them: To keep raping. NDAs must be made illegal for corporations and rapists and their enablers (like Hockey Canada and AER).
2019: How is settle and gag a “big win” for anyone but the human rights violating company eager to reopen their mine? … As the case moved towards trial, Fiorante obtained a wire transcript taken by Guatemalan police of Tahoe’s … Continue reading
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Alberta’s oil and gas industry makes leaky wells like rats make babies. Bonnyville must watch two family homes destroyed to fix one orphaned leaker (Trican Petro-Chemical Corporation). Imperial Oil tried to fix a leaker in Calmar, made the leak worse which I bet will happen in Bonnyville too.
OWA gives update on decommissioning of leaking orphan well in northern Alberta, The Orphan Well Association (OWA) is addressing a methane leak from an orphan well from the 1960s that was found in the Town of Bonnyville in the 4500 … Continue reading
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Dancing on AI’s grave. Creators too greedy to ask artists for permission before profiting off their works for free? Fuck that.
@hypervisible.bsky.social: Some of the worst people on the planet are in charge of this tech, and they are telling you it should be your friend, coach, therapist, and tutor. @alexsavard.bsky.social: Asking for permission to rob banks would kill the thieving … Continue reading
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Toronto City Council (mostly ugly racist white men but also Olivia Chow and Diane Saxe) passes bubble bylaw serving Israel’s genocide, bans protests around 3000 places but fails to explain people were protesting outside synagogues because these “temples” were breaking the law, allowing agents to illegally sell stolen Palestinian lands. Dear Mark Carney, Do not copy this Zionist bylaw federally.
@policingblack: The bubble zone bylaw that passed is even worse than the one that was proposed. Huge appreciation for the ton of folks who mobilized against this, and while the criminalization of dissent is now further emboldened, unjust laws have … Continue reading
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Ecological disaster unfolding on Australia coast. Anthony Roland: “Everyone was coughing.” Algal blooms can kill, have been linked to degenerative diseases like ALS and Alzheimer’s. “It seems that these normally docile and shy fish had somehow become demented by the algal bloom.” Dr. Paul Alan Cox: “There’s a strong link between environmental degradation and loss of human health.”
This is potentially the start of the decay of the oceans which is going to be the start of the decay of mankind. It needs to be taken seriously. There has to be a way of letting the world realize … Continue reading
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New study: Artificial (aka stolen) intelligence fails to predict unprecedented weather events, a worrying finding as human pollution escalates unimaginable extremes. How can AI be taught to predict what humans can’t?
In Test, A.I. Weather Model Fails to Predict Freak Storm by D360 Digest, May 22, 2025, Yale School of the Environment Artificial intelligence is powering weather forecasts that are generally more accurate than conventional forecasts and are faster and cheaper … Continue reading
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AER issues $456K fine to CEPro Energy and Environmental Services for lying but gives no fine to itself (AER) for lying to Albertans, including judging me a criminal in 2005, then a terrorist in its 2012 court filing, and issues no fines to Encana/Ovintiv for lying to harmed families and the public, saying it never frac’s aquifers or contaminates drinking water (when the company had already illegally frac’d and poisoned Rosebud’s), or for its fraudulent noise studies, falsified speeding study, lying application to frac under my land, etc. etc. etc.
Comment by a rural Albertan: Crazy shit. Imperial pumps garbage into the Athabasca and gets fined nothing. Ya, crazy AER shit indeed. And all the blatant written/verbal lies and harms and pollution by company after company after company, and all … Continue reading
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Dear Doug Burgum: USA does not have plenty of time. AI will not save Americans. You and Trump’s greedy evil Nazis will not be spared Gaia’s fury.
@d.t.8465: May 22, 2025: … This is transnational white Christian thuggery and we all need to be on guard. … ‘Plenty of time’ to solve climate crisis, interior secretary tells representatives, Doug Burgum defends Trump budget slashing green funds, saying … Continue reading
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AI is coming for the world’s energy and water.
Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour, That’s a long time in the microwave by Christianna Silva, May 21, 2025, mashable You’ve probably heard that statistic that every search on ChatGPT uses the … Continue reading
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Climate chaos and wildlife loss deepening EU’s chocolate crisis!
EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn, Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience by Ajit Niranjan Europe environment correspondent, 21 May 2025, The Guardian Climate breakdown and wildlife … Continue reading
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Centuries overdue: “In the Depardieu trial, the judge went further. Setting a legal precedent, he ruled Depardieu’s defence lawyer, Jérémie Assous, had been so “excessively harsh” to the 2 women in court that they must be compensated for *** “secondary victimisation.” ***
Gérard Depardieu’s conviction was a historic moment for #MeToo in France by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris, May 17, 2025, The Guardian The age of impunity is over for male violence against women, say campaigners after the actor was found guilty … Continue reading
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Alberta’s mountain cottontail: Baby bunny “ranks 11 out of 10 on the cuteness scale.” Thank you Calgary for your cat by-law success and thank you *house* cat owners for keeping your *house* cats in the house and enclosed outdoors.
I love this *house* cat by-law success story! This interview with Brian Keating is delightful (and soul and heart healing, notably with Israel’s genocide aided by USA, UK, Germany, Canada, etc., and the many horrid rape cases that keep happening). … Continue reading
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Manitoba Ethics Commissioner: After losing provincial election to Web Kinew and the NDP, former con premier Heather Stefanson and two of her cabinet ministers broke the law trying to sneak in approval for Sio Silica’s aquifer-invading frac sand mine.
Wab Kinew: After you voted, former Premier Heather Stefanson and the PCs tried to ram through a controversial mining deal—after they lost power. They were warned. They broke the law. They were fined. Worse, they ignored your vote. In our … Continue reading
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City of Nelson BC joins class action lawsuit suing Big Oil: “The legal rationale is very clearly defined…the companies lied, this lie led to direct harm, this lie continues to cause harm to the Corporation of the City of Nelson and to Nelson residents…we need to recover costs.”
@jennyyeremiy.bsky.social: “BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show.” Rolling the dice with our futures, think “ESSO Minor hockey Week” Ecocide #ICC #crimes Case for Sue Big Oil … Continue reading
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Excellent letter! Gérard Montpetit to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith: “How dare you!”
Subject: Post-election policiesDate: Wed, 21 May 2025 11:43:49 -0400From: Gérard Montpetit email hidden; JavaScript is requiredTo: email hidden; JavaScript is requiredCC: email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is … Continue reading
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