- Joanna Berry does not cower to bullying ZioFascists with Folders. I bet these 10 pro genocide Stasi lawyers (“fascist douche nozzles”) and their cop puppets wouldn’t have dared harass Ms. Berry and try to chill her charter rights if she was a male lawyer working for Encana/Ovintiv at Bennet Jones or Osler.
POLICE IN CANADA WARN LAWYER OVER HER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS ON ISRAEL by Samira Mohyeddin, Oct 4, 2024, OTL Media
Fascists with Folders
UPDATE: Niagara Regional Police has now responded to On The Line with this statement:
“We can confirm that investigators with our 5 District (Fort Erie) detective office attended a residence in relation to an Ottawa ...
- Fascism marches on: Michael de Adder is let go after submitting cartoon to Chronicle Herald showing the world chooses Harris & Walz while America remains undecided
Dear Post Media (recently conquered Chronicle Herald):
You are the shit in Donald Trump’s diapers.
Dear America: “Wake the fuck up.”
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Michael @deAdder Oct 8, 2024:
I just got let go from the Halifax Chronicle Herald after almost 30 years.
I’m going to be honest, I didn’t even listen to the reason. I know the reason. They’ve ...
- Two more frac quakes: 4.0M near Ft St John, BC, 1.5km shallow with 10 felt reports; 4.1M near Frac Central Fox Creek, AB, 5km shallow with 2 felt reports. Will AER’s pathetic lights come on?
AER’s dashboard shows nothing for the Alberta 4.1M quake even though those over 2M require AER notification and invoke a response plan.
Oct 6, 2024: Near Fox Creek AB 4.1M, 2 felt reports, 5km shallow Details by Earthquakes Canada
Image above by Barb Ryan of Fox Creek, Alberta
Image above by Barb Ryan of Fox Creek, Alberta
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- Chevron spins tall tales in court (again) says it has only 200-300 staff, and Chevron Corp., subsidiary Chevron USA and former subsidiary, Chevron Appalachia LLC, since acquired by EQT Corp, are not related. Pennsylvania frac-harmed Brian Latkanich interrogates executive Mary Francis, corporate secretary and chief governance officer.
Chevron executive questioned by attorneys for Deemston family suing driller by Mike Jones, Oct 8, 2024, Observer-Reporter
Attorneys for a father and son who are suing Chevron claiming they were sickened after the company drilled a natural gas well on their Deemston property are trying to demonstrate to a Washington County judge there is no daylight ...
- “Illogical wanker” Steve Harper: Genocide supporter
Amir Attaran (@profamirattaran: Oct 7, 2024:
This illogical wanker again?!
“Praying” is not “meaningful”, sorry, and there is no such thing as “unconditional victory” when your soldiers are dying on the battlefield.
Better to admit the war failed, because Israel rescued more hostages out by negotiation than bombing.
Stephen Harper@stephenharper:
On this dark anniversary, we must stand with Israel’s victims ...
- Dumbest & Dumber: Musk jumps for Trump
https://twitter.com/royal_bobby24/status/1842962733500682362
Christine Pahlmann @ChrisPa1975:
This is sending shivers down my spine…and it’s not the good kind of shivers…
Lisamuse @LisaMuse47823:
jeez, musk looks demonic.
2022: Cartoon by Michael de Adder
2022 Cartoon by Michael de Adder
2021 Cartoon by H Dagsson, Billionaires in Space
- No UnnaturalLG! New peer reviewed paper shows LNG is worse polluter than coal.
https://twitter.com/dpcarrington/status/1842222567953678612
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington:
THIS – Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds
Research by @howarth_cornell debunks idea that sending #LNG around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal
“Ending the use of LNG should be a global priority”
SuperDavid CA@TrendSuperD:
Canada’s LNG dream just turned into a climate nightmare. Exporting gas is worse for emissions than ...
- CEPA (1999): Feds to release list of chemicals used in make-up and flame retardants and “proposes to” (will it?) study health impacts, but not for those that are much more toxic and used in massive volumes in the frac, oil and gas industry. Why not?
2016 12 08 snap from Canadian gov’ts website on oil and gas industry exemptions for chemical disclosure, effectively allowing billion dollar profit-raping companies to legally poison us, our families, communities, drinking water and country in secret.
Ottawa releases new list of chemicals it will prioritize for risk assessments, Ottawa proposes to study the health impacts of ...
- New research: Fossil fuel pollution irreversibly harms kids’ brains, including causing cancer. Imagine babies born into and growing up in bitumen, H2S and or frac fields (rampant in Alberta) where crews spew clouds of diesel fumes and facilities blast out mystery chemicals 24/7 for years on end as they frac and refrac and refrac. No wonder Albertans vote so stupidly.
Dr. Robert Howarth @howarth_cornell:
And most air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels.
Above photos in Alberta frac fields.
The last one is spewing toxic pollution just NW of Calgary.
Above photos in NEBC frac fields, all near homes and farms.
David Roberts@drvolts:
More research finding that air pollution fundamentally alters children’s brains, for the worse, irreversibly. If anyone in ...
- AI and the death of dignity. Another reason why I hate AI.
This is brutally unforgivable and cruel. @character_ai are Fucking monsters.
AI and the death of dignity by Brian Crecente @crecenteb, Oct 2, 2204, Pad and Pixel LLC
Thank you for listening to my pain and anger. Thank you for being there and sharing your outrage.
It meant a lot to my family and to me.
https://twitter.com/crecenteb/status/1841482321909653505
This morning’s discovery made ...
- Canada needs Truth and Reconciliation every day, not just one day a year and racist judges – on the bench and retired, need re-programming to try to get rid of their hate and fascism.
https://twitter.com/heiltsuk_paleo/status/1840803161755566533
215 Birds Set Free by Kayla Bridget Maclean-Williams
Don Wilson@heiltsuk_paleo:
They stole them so young… if this photo doesn’t chill you to the bone, something is very wrong. Today is a tough one because thoughts of my Dad & so many other residential school survivors I know & love are coming in like a flood.
#NationalDayforTruthandReconciliation
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https://twitter.com/APTNNews/status/1840903587712336013
Michelle Cyca@michellecyca:
one ...
- Asherville water infrastructure above and below ground wiped out, residents may not have water for weeks. Headlines about Helene’s massive devastation need to scream big blame on fossil fuel pollution and the industry’s (and its enabling judges, regulators and politicians) decades of lies but most never mention it. The rich will just keep frac’ing life to death.
Michael Thomas@curious_founder:
Flooding has cost U.S. taxpayers $850 billion since 2000.
https://twitter.com/curious_founder/status/1840797170078818597
Prof. Cristi Proistosescu:
“These are not the most expensive disasters of the last 4 decades, these are the cheapest disasters of the next 4 decades.”
@MichaelFWehner Sept 30, 2024:
Our best estimate is that climate change caused over 50% more rainfall during Hurricane Helene in some parts of Georgia ...
- NW of Calgary: HWN Energy Ltd. oilwell explosion (UCP whipped AER calls it a “release of sweet gas”) during drilling rushes 5 workers to hospital, 3 with life-threatening injuries. Fire finally out. “Perfectly safe,” they always lie to us, “Perfectly safe.”
AER are fucking pathetic and useless except for lying and bullying harmed Albertans, a lot, and enabling the nastiest and most harmful industry in the world.
Oil well explosion north of Cochrane caught on video 4 seconds by Cochrane Now, Oct 1, 2024
A worker on site of a oil well explosion on Sept.30 sent the CochraneNow ...
- MRC de La Matanie, Quebec: More communities with water wells gone dry
In the face of dry wells, a “catastrophic” winter to come? This summer, the wells of many of the inhabitants of the MRC of La Matanie were dry Internet translation by Alice Jacottin, Sept 25, 2024, Radio-Canada
Residents of MRC of La Matania, whose wells are dry, will have to be a little more patient.
Residents will ...
- Encana/Ovintiv crimes in Utah punished by U.S. EPA and Dept of Justice with more than $16M settlement ($5.5M fine and upgrades at 139 facilities to reduce over 2,000 tons of VOCs, volatile organic compounds, polluted annually and methane emissions equivalent to more than 53,180 tons per year of CO2). Meanwhile, flooding cost U.S. taxpayers $850B since 2000 and in Alberta, AER helped Encana/Ovintiv get away with illegally frac’ing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers and many other crimes, and Canada’s supreme court intentionally published lies and let AER get away with lying and violating the constitution.
2021: Study: Total VOC emissions from natural gas compressors related to higher human mortality rates.
Ovintiv USA to Pay $5.5m to Resolve Clean Air Act Violations by Jim Silver, Sept 30, 2024, Bloomberg Law
Ovintiv USA to pay federal government and Utah a civil penalty of $5.5m as part of a more than $16m settlement resolving Clean ...
- Carbon Capture (CCS): New public health menace brought to you by oil, gas and frac, and politicians/regulators. “At high concentrations, CO2 gas can immediately disable and then kill within minutes – your goose would be cooked. … Even being home with a respiratory infection such as COVID could increase susceptibility.”
Is Your Goose Cooked? The Potential Health Impacts of CO2 Pipeline Ruptures by Paul Blackburn, September 25, 2024, Pipeline Fighters Hub
Introduction
This is the second of a four-part blog series about carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline ruptures. It focuses on the potential health impacts of CO2 pipeline ruptures. The other blogs in this series cover:
1: Chasing a ...
- Fluffy ‘Fluff piece’ on Frac’ing in Pennsylvania: Observer-Reporter and or Mr. Shrum propagandizing for polluters and shitting on the many harmed. Warning, reading the boasting, lies and Shrumcrap requires vomit bags and cursing.
Mr. Shrum’s advert is as bad as Post Media’s regurgitating CAPP and AER/UCP propaganda and lies in Canada. Some reality before you dive into Mr. Shrum’s sleazy frac advert (you need to scroll way down to find it):
2024 09 22: Germany warns Canada that Europe’s appetite for natural gas is set to shrink
2024: Oil ...
- Cardinal Dolan you are a lying fucking douche pedophile enabler (likely a kid rapist too), hate-filled bigot, sleazy threat-wielding old white man bully with zero credibility and lots of immorality and criminality. No wonder VP Harris turned down your rape cult dinner.
I believe when Trump and IDU leader Steve Harper (via his Picklehead Poilievre) are back in power in USA and Canada, the catholic cult, under guise of religion, will push for rape to be made legal globally, notably rape of kids. The catholic cult, enabled by criminal politicians, lawyers and judges the world over, has ...
- Breath of Death, An Oil Field, an Explosion, and a Man’s Fight for His Life. Excellent but harrowing journalism by Justin Nobel. Poisoned oilman Jeff Springman: “The industry relies on people to die.”
Breath of Death, An Oil Field, an Explosion, and a Man’s Fight for His LifeWhen oil workers like Jeff Springman get oil from tanks, they come face to face with toxic gases — and it can cost them their lives
Right around noon on Oct. 10, 2019, just outside Pecos, Texas, in the Permian oil patch, ...
- Liar Liar Frac’er Pants on Fire: CEO Nick Deiuliis says frac’ing “done the CNX way” is “safe and inherently good for the communities where we operate.” The Pitt Studies (PA Dep’t of Health and U Pittsburgh, 2023) reported otherwise, found children who lived within 1 mile of 1 or more frac wells were 5 to 7 times more likely to develop lymphoma compared to children who don’t live near frac wells; hundreds of other studies report more health harms from frac’ing.
Schlumberger CEO Andrew Gould to investors:
“We’re doing by brute force and ignorance.”
CNX knows more than Schlumberger? I expect they know much less.
Frac Bible: Voluntary guidelines, self regulation, voluntary regulation, secrets and lies.
Scientists skeptical of oil and gas company’s claim that its fracking ‘poses no public health risks’ by Reid Frazier, September 18, 2024, The ...
- Hey Fucker Truckers and your ignorant pals at Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and True North Declaration: SARSCov2 messes with your brain and semen, reduces male fertility and worse, harms kids. Between human ego, stupidity, benzene, frac’ing and COVID-19, will human sperm go extinct?
https://twitter.com/markwarling3/status/1834334562039574995
https://twitter.com/MarvinCori/status/1833909423611490445
COVID-19 reduces male fertility by affecting semen quality and hormone levels by Dr. Chinta Sidharthan, Reviewed by Susha Cheriyedath, M.Sc., Sep 11 2024, News Medical Life Sciences
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The effects of SARS-CoV-2 on sperm health and hormone balance could have significant implications for long-term reproductive well-being.
Study: SARS-CoV-2 impairs male fertility by targeting semen quality and ...
- Congratulations Wet’suwet’en leaders Freda Huson and Molly Wickham! Netflix Buys and Oscar-Qualifies ‘Yintah’ (the land) documentary which “offers the definitive account of a historic wave of Indigenous resistance to Canadian colonialism,” will open in select theatres in U.S. and U.K. and stream on Netflix starting Oct. 18. And available online for free on CBC Gem starting Sept 17 and on The Passionate Eye Sept 18.
@Gidimten:
The 88 minute version of YINTAH will be available to watch online for free on @cbcgemstarting on Sept 17 and broadcast on The Passionate Eye @cbcdocson Sept 18!
https://twitter.com/Gidimten/status/1834479134111584459
@UnistotenCamp:
It’s official! You can watch a newly edited version of Yintah on Netflix, and Netflix has put it forward for an Oscar!
See the director’s cut in a theatre ...
- Felonious Trump’s a fucking fool and a liar; bigger fools are those who worship him. Trump said Kamala Harris would ban frac’ing in Pennsylvania if she’s elected president, which he knows no president has the power to do.
Frac’ing needs to be criminalized globally.
My water hauling tank holds 185 gallons. I make one load last me weeks.
How long can you live on 185 gallons of water in your home?
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1834168308255391823
Fact check: A president can’t ban fracking in Pennsylvania, Former President Donald Trump claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris would ban fracking if she is ...
- Range Resources’ production casing failed during frac’ing, company cited by PA DEP for not reporting the failure immediately as required by law. Will DEP and Range publicly disclose all chemicals injected before during and after the failure? I doubt it.
Failure Of Well Casing During Fracking Operations by The Energy Age, Aug 28, 2024
On August 13, 2024, DEP did an inspection of the Augustine George 6H shale gas well in Cecil Township, Washington County in response to a notification on August 12, 2024 by well owner Range Resources Appalachia LLC of the failure of production ...
- New Book: L’Héritage des luttes environnementales au Québec – Un souffle écocitoyen (The legacy of environmental struggles in Quebec – A breath of fresh air) details struggles by citizens to protect the environment, including work by Johanne Dion of Les Ami(e) du Richelieu to punt frac’ers out.
I was on the mailing list of Johanne Dion’s frac’ing press reviews for years, her work was dedicated and thorough. I still miss them and reading her blogs.
Ms. Dion translated press releases for my lawsuit, many important articles on frac’ing and my case, and portions of Andrew Nikiforuk’s Slick Water and posted them to her ...
- “Very worrying” study: Methane pollution still rising rapidly, mostly caused by humans; Growth rates now higher than any past observed year. IEA says oil and gas sector *could* cut their emissions 40% at no net cost. Sure, they “could” but won’t, they’ll lie and rape out more profits and more deadly methane. Meanwhile, Insurance Bureau of Canada says Calgary’s 2024 hail storm cost $2.8B in insured damages, second costliest Canadian climate change disaster after Fort McMurray’s 2016 wildfire. Hello super polluter Alberta, stop blaming Trudeau for your greed, selfishness, corruption and lies.
I expect the industry and its enablers like AER don’t give a shit about the IEA or life on earth and will not work to reduce methane or carbon emissions. Instead, they and their corrupt politicians like Dildo Danielle and Pierre Picklehead will escalate the lies, claiming to be reducing methane pollution while increasing it ...
- Billy Bob Thorton, Demi Moore, Jon Hamm et. al. battle for oil $billions in Taylor Sheridan’s Landman series, debuts Nov 17
LANDMAN Trailer (2024) 2:01 Min. by One Media, Sept 5, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YkKXY0aoeo
Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, and Jon Hamm battle for oil in Taylor Sheridan’s Landman series’ first trailer, Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph, Michael Peña, and Andy Garcia also star on the fiery new series from the “Yellowstone” creator by Wesley Stenzel, September 5, 2024, Entertainment ...
- AIMCo, Alberta’s own bankrupt frac’er sugar daddy, bails out Pieridae, just another dirty slimy oily sour gassy company in big debt. Is this why Danielle Smith and UCP want to steal pensions (CPP) of more than half of Canadians (including many that never lived or worked in Alberta)?
Pieridae Announces $30 Million Equity Rights Offering With $25 Million Standby Commitment by BOE Report, August 27, 2024
… Pieridae expects to raise gross proceeds of up to $30 million from the Rights Offering and intends to use the proceeds to repay indebtedness….
….the Company has entered into a standby purchase agreement (the “Standby Purchase Agreement”) with ...
- Dear CAPE, Stop enabling frac’ers! Calling again for yet more study (after decades and many hundreds of studies already) and regulation is synergy, which only aids frac’ers. No regulation or study can make frac’ing safe or return the massive volumes of water lost permanently from the hydrogeological cycle. Besides, companies just ignore laws and regulations, and regulators break laws and regulations letting them, *and* bully and abuse the frac-harmed, further aiding frac’ers.
Regulations only benefit frac’ers, corporate polluters and their enablers, like Pembina Institute, Council of Canadians, Sierra Club, CAPE, …
2012: AEA: Support to the identification of potential risks for the environment and human health arising from hydrocarbons operations involving hydraulic fracturing in Europe
A proportion (25% to 100%) of the water used in hydraulic fracturing is not ...
- 4.8M earthquake at Fox Creek, Frac Central Alberta, 3km depth. Many felt reports including six in Calgary and one 700 km away. Who is the frac’er and did they stop frac’ing? If not, will AER order them to stop or will Danielle Smith’s stooges on the board let the harms continue?
It took most of the day, but AER even posted this quake on their dashboard, at a similar size 4.71ml) to what NRC posted, at 5km depth instead of 3.
Above snap from AER’s earthquake dashboard.
It’s large enough to require immediate mitigation, which at this size requires frac’ers to stop.
Image above by Barb Ryan of Fox ...
- Miracle of miracles! JD Vance, Trump’s turnip, is not a childless cat lady!
Refer also to:
2024: JD Vance, side kick of brain dead feeble old white man rapist racist bigoted felon spoiled lump of Trump, predictably complained VP Kamala Harris did not give birth. No US President ever gave birth so eat shit JD.
- Hey, Josh Shapiro, I’m happy back stabber you didn’t get picked for running mate. Frac’d families suffer when politicians like you make deals with polluters like water frac’er Cabot (now Coterra). Dimock Water Now! How many decades must the people wait for the safe water their constitution guarantees them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1iXmf1wslo
Dimock Water Now by Hope For Peace, Aug 16, 2024
The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office knew Ray wasn’t going to get the bulk water deliveries he needs, that he’s run his house with all these years. You can’t shower with 5 gallon jugs. I hate to say Shapiro knew Ray wouldn’t get water when he showed ...
- Who will walk the dog when everyone has Long COVID? As health authorities/politicians (notably super stupid TBA-led Smith’s UCP in Alberta) cater to anti-health, anti-science, anti-intelligence anti-vaxxers; remove health protections like easy to use N95 masks even in care and health facilities (how stupid is that?); intentionally destroy public health care to enrich their rich pals; lie to us, deny that SARSCoV2 is airborne and can kill kids (here’s looking at social murderer Dr. Bonnie Henry) and healthy athletes; and tell us the pandemic is over so that we go back to over-consuming, over-polluting, over-travelling, making billionaires richer while destroying earth’s livability.
https://twitter.com/disorderedyyc/status/1821670941619057084
A bit of reality to balance Alberta UCP’s lies and fantasies:
https://twitter.com/MoriartyLab/status/1820918789061460458
Meanwhile in super evil anti-health Alberta, Long Covid clinics were abruptly shut down as the pandemic rages on:
https://twitter.com/TheBreakdownAB/status/1821618039827161583
2024 Cartoon by S. Jones:
“Daddy, am I going to get Long COVID?”
“Of course darling, everyone will!”
Family dog: “Who will walk the dog?”
- Oil & gas production going up up up, jobs going down down down. It’s called greed. Greg Upton: “Isn’t it great we can produce more with less?”
Oil and gas jobs decline amid record-breaking production by Mike Soraghan, Aug 8, 2024, E & E News, Politico
Fracking has made the U.S. the world’s leading oil and gas producer, but drilling creates fewer jobs each year.
The United States is pumping out more oil and gas than any country in history. But even as production ...
- Finally! After decades of lies and delays, and $billions raped out in profits, Alberta’s tarsands industry presents its toxic waste lakes clean up plan: Raise them 30 metres, make them bigger, to assure catastrophic failures emptying the toxic contents into the Athabasca watershed. Bingo! Companies save tens of $billions in mandatory clean-up costs they (and Kochs et al) want to keep for their rich pockets (thus why the deadly lakes have not yet been cleaned up and never will be)
Toxic Alberta: A few of industry’s self-regulated Wild Wild West style, infamous bitumen waste lakes, aka “tailing ponds”
@DrewYewchuk Aug 11, 2024:
On August 9th, Suncor submitted application 1953851 seeking permission to expand their MD9 tailings pit, raising it by 30 metres and merging it with the existing MD9 pit.
https://twitter.com/DrewYewchuk/status/1822803597156843825
@TheFrenchWong:
Who do they apply to? Who governs this? ...
- Deaths by cancer going up up up. Ever wonder why?
Global cancer deaths among men projected to increase by 93% by 2050, study finds by Jamie Gumbrecht, Aug 12, 2024, CNN
Cancer cases and deaths among men are expected to surge by 2050, according to a study published Monday, with large increases among men 65 and older.
For the study, published in the journal Cancer, researchers from ...
- catholic SCOTUS is pro-abortion by enabling Death before conception thanks to its Chevron ruling.
I wonder how much PFAS flows in the blood of Trump, the pope and their judges. How much in your blood?
Were America’s supremely corrupt catholic judges aiding frac’ers with their Chevron ruling, knowing water supplies have been contaminated everywhere companies frac?
In the USA, there’s not much more anti life than a catholic judge on the ...
- Climate Crisis = Music Crisis. What Dr. Sandra Steingraber (of frac compendium fame) would have said, had she not been arrested, made to stand in pouring rain for hours: “Citi Bank, you cannot stop this music. You cannot stop our words. And you cannot stop climate justice.” Boycott Citi Bank!
Dr. Sandra Steingraber @ssteingraber1 Aug 10, 2024:
Here’s the speech I didn’t deliver at John Mark Roszendaal’s defiant cello performance at Citi Bank’s HQ. We were all arrested.
It’s all about what’s happening to the trees used to make orchestral instruments.
climate crisis = music crisis
That’s me in the black dress holding an umbrella during the first bars ...
- Severe Water Shortages: What will Albertans do when frac’ers run Alberta dry? UCP don’t know and don’t care – as long as their polluting billion dollar profit-raping pals get all they want.
https://twitter.com/NdbYyc1305/status/1811128211360862315
Nigel Bankes@NdbYyc1305:
Valuable report but not this statement. “During severe shortages, the government negotiates water sharing agreements with senior licence holders to ensure equitable reductions in usage.”
Not true.
The GoA does NOT negotiate these agmts and these agmts are NOT enforceable.
Tim Goos@goos_tim:
Seems the AG would not make this up …. The GoA must have told them ...
- Huge legal win for PA frac lawsuit: Brian Latkanich wins right to interrogate Chevron executives in court; hearing scheduled for early Oct 2024. Family water well contaminated with high levels benzene, toluene, PFAS “forever chemicals” and more.
Excellent clip at link:
Washington County man wins battle to question drilling company over alleged contamination by Paul Van Osdol, August 9, 20024, Action News
A Washington County man who claims his health was seriously damaged by gas drilling has won the right to question the drilling company in court.
Brian Latkanich claims he was sickened by repeated ...
- Frac’ing Brazeau Dam, Alberta? 4.1M “very shallow” (1km depth) earthquake on July 24, 2024 (felt in Quesnel BC, 423.9km W of epicenter); Aug 10, more than two weeks later, still not listed on “World-Class” AER’s Earthquake Dashboard.
Saturn Oil & Gas and Westbrick Energy want to frac near and under Brazeau Dam (opposed by TransAlta), which is in the area of this new earthquake, 93km SSE of Edson. There is waste injection, frac’ing and EOR in the area.
Of course AER has not listed this new 4.1M quake on their Earthquake Dashboard, in ...
- Cowardly big oil dildos Danielle Smith & Brian Jean rescue profit-raping oil and gas companies refusing to pay taxes: “I mean, look. Trudeau on a moped with an ice machine made companies not pay their bills, so we’ve stepped in with pancakes.”
Municipalities not happy about Alberta changes to unpaid oil and gas property taxes, County of Stettler outspoken about oil and gas changes by Stu Salkeld, Aug 1, 2024,East Central Alberta Review
Over the past several years municipalities in Alberta, particularly rural ones, have been unhappy about how unpaid property taxes in the oil and gas industry ...
- Norfolk Southern Railroad East Palestine Ohio train derailment “apocalyptic fire” released “8,580,000 pounds of highly hazardous materials” into the air affecting over 126,000 square miles in eight states and additionally thousands of square miles in southern Canada. Dr. George R. Thompson to PA’s AG: It “may become the worst chemical medical disaster in history.”
From: Mike & Stephanie StoutDate: Tue, Aug 6, 2024, 3:58 AMSubject: Fwd: Consent Decree Errors That Require A Delay in Approval
To all: I strongly urge you to disseminate this report to ALL your email lists and read it carefully. George Thompson is one of, if not the most authoritative toxicologists in the country. He investigated ...
- New Study: Methane emissions soaring since 2006 (frac’ing the culprit?) jeopardizing already flailing climate goals (while politicians lie, saying emissions are decreasing, serving their frac lords).
Methane concentrations are not just rising, they’re rising faster than ever.
Rob Jackson, professor of Earth systems science, Stanford University
Is there something you can do? Yes! OCTOBER 1ST SENIORS DAY OF ACTION UPDATE
Hi everyone,
As we prepare to forward this latest update, we’re constantly being reminded of the impacts of the climate crisis. “We cannot possibly overstate the ...
- Liar Liar! Alberta Minister Todd Loewen’s pants on fire: “oil and gas industry in Canada, and particularly in Alberta, is doing a fantastic job when it comes to emissions reductions.”
@LaurieAdkin Aug 2, 2023:
Nothing like being out-and-out lied to by Alberta government ministers . . .
“The “oil and gas industry in Canada, and particularly in Alberta, is doing a fantastic job when it comes to emissions reductions.” Loewen
https://twitter.com/LaurieAdkin/status/1819465125247832219
https://twitter.com/brettbergie/status/1819529526864760960
https://twitter.com/weareyellowdot/status/1819053120762355853
Jasper wildfire: 80 groups sign letter calling for more climate action in wake of destructive blaze by ...
- New universal postage stamp
Creator unknown. Bravo to them!
https://twitter.com/RodKahx/status/1818817229527351604
- Perfect VP for pro frac’er pro genocide racist Zionist Kamala Harris: PA Gov. Josh Shapiro, pro frac’er pro genocide racist Zionist cruel betrayer of the frac harmed in Dimock. What a fucking cruel shit show mass murderer USA is with Canada obediently behind.
@mariuspaul10:
The GoC does not even debate the rape of Indigenous People and women in the commons, so-called, like Israel does.
Isabelle@Darkiora:
So the gang raped Palestinian detainee that was hospitalized after major ruptures in his organs, has died. Meanwhile the 9 Israeli jailers that inflicted that torture on the man, are being released after Israeli protesters including ...
- Toxic tenacious PFAS chemicals, used widely in pesticides despite EPA denial, injected in frac’ing, and heavily used in EVs and Heat Pumps, are damaging our health
Toxic and tenacious – How “forever chemicals” are damaging our health 42 Minutes by DW
As you watch this horrifying documentary, keep in mind that some frac’ers inject PFAS with their fluids (to get rid of toxic waste?) and that some frac’ers like Encana/Ovintiv, illegally frac directly into drinking water aquifers used by communities with full ...
- US Federal court gives preliminary approval to $40M investor recovery in securities fraud class action. Smelling like Encana/Ovintiv, Cabot oil & Gas Corp (Coterra Energy Inc.) intentionally broke the law, contaminated water wells with methane *and* ripped off investors. Frac Motto: Profits over laws, water, life while we steal your money.
Is there anything frac’ers do legally besides promise, lie and boast?
I doubt Cottera will pay if the court gives final approval for this settlement. I expect the company will do the usual legal shit show frac dance and file for bankruptcy. A frac friendly judge (there are many) will let the company escape the bankruptcy, ...
- Frac Lawsuit Latkanich v Chevron et. al. next hearing August 2, 2024 (cancelled); Bryan’s poisoned organ systems are failing, his doctors say he may have only months to live while trial is at least 1.5 years away (in Canada, it would be decades).
Is Radioactivity the Key to Holding the Fracking Industry Accountable? by Justin Nobel, July 25, 2024
In June 2023, attorney Lisa Johnson entered the Washington County Court of Common Pleas in the heart of fracking country in southwestern Pennsylvania, armed with a novel legal theory she believed could be used to hold the oil and gas ...
- Israeli states of america invite kid murdering war criminal Bibi Netanyahu to formally lie to congress; the complicit clowns give him a standing ovation. Only one woman was brave enough to call Bibi out. It wasn’t Kamala Harris.
‘Guilty of Genocide’: Tlaib Protests Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress, “I will never back down in speaking truth to power. The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.”
https://twitter.com/LemkinInstitute/status/1816564904423490052
@LemkinInstitute:
CORRECTION: This post incorrectly refers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the President of Israel.
@CondonJohnJ:
Nor will the people of Ireland. We stand with Palestine and never the ...
- Dr. Sandra Steingraber on PFAS and PCBs.
1.
What’s the opposite of Gone but not forgotten?
It must be Still here but nobody remembers.
2.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are slick molecules that like to repel things: water, oil, stains, dirt, heat, friction. They are seemingly everywhere, and they are found in ordinary, undangerous-sounding places.
Dental floss. Saucepans. Umbrellas. Shampoo. Recycled paper towels. Your couch.
Also, firefighting ...
- JD Vance, side kick of brain dead feeble old white man rapist racist bigoted felon spoiled lump of Trump, predictably complained VP Kamala Harris did not give birth. No US President ever gave birth so eat shit JD.
https://twitter.com/afshinrattansi/status/1816584305457660395
https://twitter.com/danpjsheehan/status/1816496117103948283
https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1816456868320927971
@afshinrattansi:
Kamala Harris meets Benjamin Netanyahu and shakes his hand
Kamala Harris has as much blood on her hands as Joe Biden. Kamala I am sure knows Heil Bibi lied in his speech, and lies all the time, to get more and more $billions in blood money from USA. She’s not stupid like Trump is, and she’s ...
- Dear Mélanie Joly, I call you out on your hypocrisy too, ask you the same questions MEB Dublin, Lynn Boylan, asked Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen; “We are witnessing the most documented genocide in history, and still there are no consequences for Israel. Why are the lives of Palestinians not entitled to the same human rights, the same international laws, the same humanity?”
Is it racism and hatred of Muslims?
Or Canada’s profit-raping munitions industry, enabling profit from stolen waterfront realestate and the $400Billion in oil and gas Israel is stealing from Palestinians which must be frac’d that Canadian companies want in on?
Lynn Boylan@LNBDublin July 18, 2024:
Today I was the only Irish MEP to speak during the Von ...
- UCP cruelty & corruption continues, this time it’s war against grizzlies, a threatened species. Killer Minister Todd Loewen allows murdering grizzlies again, under guise of problem bears/areas. Holly Hoye: “I don’t see problem bears. I see a problem Minister.” Rugged Broad: “As one of the private citizens who gathered signatures to ban the hunt 25 years ago, I’m…so fucking mad.” We need lots more fucking mad people, from all over the world, yelling “NO!” at Loewen and his UCP wildlife killers.
John E Marriott Photography@JohnEMarriott:
Your daily reminder that Minister Loewen has been blatantly lying about all sorts of numbers and ‘facts’ re the Alberta grizzly bear in his justification of the reintroduction of the hunt. He said on CBC it’s 20 problem grizzly bears/yr being killed. Not true, it’s THREE.
https://twitter.com/JohnEMarriott/status/1812957297607405769
Larry Hoeppner@PCnonsense:
Lowen makes money from his rich ...
- Dear Danielle Smith, UCP, other cons and the feds: Your radioactive lemons squirt on. There are no small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). They remain imaginary; the internal design was scrapped after engineering difficulties and years of work. Like Ralph Klein’s non-plan clean-up plans, “A new plan of action on design choice should come” soon.
While Albertans were waiting on King Ralph for his non-plan plans, he died. Now we not only have no non plan, we no longer have the no plan non planner.
PS “Clean” is the new “natural.”
Art Berman@aeberman12 July 1, 2024:
Key Point: there are no SMRs
This announcement is a revision of plans for design of as-yet imaginary ...
- More at The Fudge Store: TC Energy Keystone XL loses $15Billion NAFTA arbitration case of greed and bullying; fails to get its rape and pillage way. Will Alberta lose its lawsuit too?
Brian Mulroney caused Canada, us, our natural resources (forcing the give away our natural gas to USA for less than cost of production) and environment, notably drinking water, much harm because of his gift to Americans and raping corporations via NAFTA, just another scam to steal billions of tax dollars from the commons to launder ...
- Alberta neglects to say to miners, “We’re in severe drought and rising extreme heat, bring your own water and appropriate noise mitigation too,” while chasing $100B in data centre “opportunities” and guaranteed health harming hell for neighbours
Must read first on horrid data centre health harms in Texas (citizen and environment abusing cousin of Alberta, just as stupid, greedy, polluting and corporate controlled):
2024 07 08: ‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town by Andrew R Chow/Granbury, Texas, Photographs lots more excellent photos at linkby ...
- Fascism never went away; it’s dangerous.
Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder May 22, 2024:
The people who told you that fascism was not a threat were wrong.
The people who told you that Russia was not fascist were, if possible, more wrong.
Fascism is might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction over fact, pain over law, blood over love, doom over hope.
Fascism advances every injustice. Its ...
- Abomination #1: UCP’s Brian Jean meddling his nose where it doesn’t belong; Abomination #2: AER, industry’s law-violating lying self-regulator; Abomination #3: Grassy Mountain coalmine back (illegally?) at AER because of Jean’s meddling after being soundly rejected because water pollution and other harms; Abomination #4: Billionaire Gina Reinhart demanding to destroy more of the earth to stuff more money into her over-full pockets): Not one abomination is in the interest of Albertans.
Grassy Mountain project not in the interests of Albertans by Annie Martin, July 5, 2024, Lethbridge Herald
Editor:
I am shocked to see that the Grassy Mountain mountaintop removal mine project, which was soundly rejected by both the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and federal regulators in 2021 is now back before the AER under the guise of ...
- Wildfire smoke is hazardous (especially in Alberta’s heavily polluted toxic frac’d oil, gas and bitumen fields and their radioactive waste sites/dumps): Respiratory selection guide by Nicolas Smitt to help protect you and your loved ones
Does anything protect us from the oil and gas industry’s secret toxic chemicals, and radioactive waste dumps and storage sites burning up in wildfires?
What about animals and birds that don’t burn up in the fires? How long before they die from breathing the toxic smoke?
Nicolas Smit @PPEtoheros July 6, 2024:
Since most people don’t know ...
- NEBC, region of *prolific* unconventional oil and gas frac’ing: Another study showing harm to pregnant women near frac’d wells
Altered oxidative stress and antioxidant biomarkers concentrations in pregnant individuals exposed to oil and gas sites in northeastern British Columbia by Matthew W Day, Coreen Daley, Yifan Wu, Maduomethaa Pathmaraj, Marc-André Verner, and Élyse Caron-Beaudoin, June 19, 2024, Toxicological Sciences, kfae080
https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfae080
Correspondence to:Élyse Caron-BeaudoinDepartment of Health and SocietyUniversity of Toronto Scarborough1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, ...
- Christie Belcourt, Indigenous artist, honoured with Canada Post stamp: “The earth is my government.”
The earth is my gov’t. By its laws, we learn we are to live harmoniously with each other and all things on Earth.
Christie Belcourt
About Christi Belcourt by Canada Post
Christi Belcourt (b. 1966) is a Métis visual artist and environmentalist who uses her talent to celebrate nature, honour her ancestors, advocate for the protection of land ...
- Must Watch: Dr. Sandra Steingraber on Pore Space in context of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Emissions cap not possible without oil, gas production cuts, Deloitte concludes, Alberta government commissioned report to assess economic impact of Ottawa’s proposed cap by Amanda Stephenson, The Canadian Press, Jun 18, 2024, CBC News
Canadian oil and gas companies facing a federally imposed emissions cap will decide to cut their production rather than invest in too-expensive ...
- Pierre Poilievre thinks he can seduce Quebec with Steve Harper/IDU’s big bad common sense: Good thing Québécois are too wise to fall for those lies.
Godin cartoon, Le Devoir, June 22, 2024
IDU/Canadian Con Politician’s Common Sense:
Keep them poor
Keep them sick
Keep them stupid
Control the women
Oppose Minimum Wage increases/paid sick leave
Divide Unions
Oppose collective bargaining rights
Cripple public education (to keep them stupid)and health care (to keep them sick and to give Canada’s Public Health Care money to American Profit Raping Private Corporations – ...
- From loving AI to hating it: Why a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI, now hates it
10 Reasons Why I Hate AI Now: A Thread by Chris Alvino, June 23, 2024
I still can’t get over how bad AI has become. And this is coming from a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI.
I fucking LOVE AI, but here are 10 reasons I absolutely fucking hate it now, ...
- Fur farming and highly pathogenic avian influenza, H5N1, 2023: “Dead and culled animals, which might have already been infected, were taken from the farms to be processed as feed for other fur animals.” How hideous the human species is.
I’ll never get over how hideous our species is.
The global patriarchal legal-judicial-religious industry (most especially in Canada) proves it again and again, letting rapists and abusers/murderers (including police) of women and kids off again and again, protecting them and giving them easy access to kids (self regulators of lawyers and judges are the worst) ...
- Global warming: Human pollution caused temperature extremes linked to brain damage in kids (before they’re even born).
Climate chaos is a catastrophe but also a teacher, and its first lesson is that everything is connected, which is both the beautiful dream of mutuality and the nightmare of runaway consequences.
-Rebecca Solnit
Early life cold and heat exposure impacts white matter development in children by Laura Granés, Esmée Essers, Joan Ballester, Sami Petricola, Henning Tiemeier, ...
- Happy Pride month, all year every year! Especially you Cruella Daniella Smith, UCP, TBA and hate farmers Pierre Picklehead/Harper reforma cons.
Artist unknown
- AI Ancestry
- Felonias Diaper Don Trump. Of course USA will vote him president again serving Putin, idiots.
https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1796472822388453674
Dr. Jonathan Foley@GlobalEcoGuy:
So Trump finally won a popular vote
* credit for the joke goes to my brother, Adam, who’s very funny — but not on social media
Snoopy on how America was saved in the end.
Felony conviction first thing Trump has earned in whole life by Ian MacIntyre, May 30, 2024
MANHATTAN, NY – With Donald Trump ...
- How I hate AI, most abusive rude ‘n crude human tech creation ever. Alberta UnInnovates: AI Fools Advancing Health Care backwards with $9.5Million
Alberta Innovates is a corrupt gang of marshmallows. Unwise to trust anyone there, even more unwise to trust anyone in UCP/TBA or anyone or thing AI related.
Ever had success trying to report or solve a problem online with AI? I have not.
I am sure some good would/could come from AI, but most humans that control ...
- Dr. Karen Elias on CCS: “Pore space means more space for the fossil fuel industry. … Nothing in carbon storage technology guarantees that buried deposits of massive amounts of CO2 will remain locked in place forever.”
Don’t give away your subsurface rights PennLive letters by Dr. Karen Elias, Lock Haven, Pa., May. 20, 2024
What is “pore space?”
When fossil fuels are burned, they emit CO2, the greenhouse gas primarily responsible for global heating. The oil and gas industry wants to use Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to theoretically reduce these emissions, capturing ...
- Power to the people! Power to the students! Ceasefire! Divestment! Ontario Federation of Labour to U of Toronto President Meric Gertler: “If you move against the students, you’ll have to go through workers first”
In my view, it’s WW3: Zionism’s decades long march against our right to freedom of expression/free speech, democracy, humanity, compassion, decency and anyone opposing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and others and thefts of their lands and resources.
Zionism and Israel gov’t hate our right to Freedom of Expression (Free Speech in USA) because it interferes with ...
- Another human pollution-caused global warming “Oh no!” As arctic warms four times faster than elsewhere, thawing permafrost releases toxic metals, rusting over 75 rivers and streams in Alaska’s Brooks Range, turning them orange (like acid mine leakage), deadly to fish and other life.
Alaska’s Rusting Rivers: The Alarming Impact of Permafrost Thaw on Arctic Rivers by UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, May 20, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBFhsGAFIaw
In this video, researchers from University of California Davis, National Park Service, and USGS, reveal the startling discovery of over 75 streams and rivers in Alaska’s Brooks Range turning orange due to ...
- Hey *Fucker Truckers, Axe the Tax’ers, John Carpay, Pierre Picklehead, UCP, Stevie Harper, Big Oil Dildo Danielle, TBA Evangelical Puppet Meister David Parker et al: How are your or your man’s Freedom Plasticles?
*The Fucker Truckers are the law-violating hate-filled racist fake truckers and others (previously yellow vesters, paid by oil and gas) hired by dark money (largely from USA and Europe) to try to overthrow Canada’s democratically elected gov’t and to divide and spew hate, copying the USA Jan 6 insurrectionists (many now in prison), their lawyers ...
- UCP/TBA Polluter Socialism on Crack: Alberta’s Anti-water & Anti-environment Minister, Rebecca Schulz, announces $50.5 Million corporate welfare for three industrial water intakes sucking from North Saskatchewan River (supplied by a quickly shrinking glacier) while wildfire evacuees got nothing.
aurie patricio@anchirman:
too late. with the little rain we got, the ucp has decided to make sure industry has unlimited use of our water.
@JennyYeremiy:
Wow, I just discovered this North America drought monitor map. Please do not listen to those who are celebrating the recent rain… it is NOT enough. We must plan for less and stop ...
- Frac harms to families never end, Time to criminalize it.
28/06/2017. Legislative ban on fracking. Pictured is Siun Keegan – Murphy aged 7 from Leitrim with supporters outside Leinster House in Dublin today. Love Leitrim welcomed the passing of the legislative ban on fracking as it completed the final stage in the Seanad today and will now be sent to the President to be signed into law. ...
- Must Read by Aya Gruber: “The misogyny of the anti-protest, Our reaction to the students who are protesting against what they see as genocide in real time speaks volumes about who we are”
Misogyny of the world rots everything, often violently, and is fast destroying earth’s livability because misogynistic men in power seem to need to destroy … everything.
When I began speaking out publicly trying to warn people and communities about the harms caused by hydraulic fracturing, and regulators and politicians enabling Encana’s illegal fresh water aquifer fracs, ...
- Kissinger and Mulroney get company, Rex Murphy: Piece of shit genocide-enabling Zionist, paid liar for big oil/CPC, hurt Canada and many people to the glee of racist ignorant hate-filled bigots. Walking Eagle News: “Hateful old prick dead.” Markham Hislop: “His Postmedia columns were CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers) press releases regurgitated as Trumpian word salads.”
They say one must not speak ill of the dead. That’s stupid. Of course we must, especially if they were vile pieces of abusive shit that harmed many like Kissinger, Hitler, Mulroney, Ralph Klein, etc. (the list is long) and if they are such turds and still alive, like Trump/Biden and their genocidal Christian Zionist ...
- Oil Patch Porn, Starring CNRL, Cenovus (Encana/Ovintiv spawn), Obsidian, Imperial, Sequoia, Long Run, Torxen, AlphaBow, Baytex, West Lake, TAQA, Whitecap, and many other smaller fuckers. Creator: Gov’t; Director: AER/ERCB/EUB; Bank: Albertans.
Instead of regulating derelict companies, AER regulates and violates the rights of harmed Albertans, and lies to the public.
Jay.e.en.en.a.a@JennaACunninham: And we are building an arena for #1?!
To the tune of $1.2B, mostly with public funds, for raping hockey players as Alberta goes up in Flames (pun intended), and to fatten and make richer, owner ...
- Irving Oilboy (for 33 years) Premier Blaine Higgs: Frac’ing is a better climate plan than carbon pricing. CAPE New Brunswick calls for permanent frac ban. Dr. Margaret McGregor: “Fracking introduces carcinogenic, mutagenic, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals into the local environment—and that has serious health repercussions.”
Dear Premier Higgs:
Read Andrew Nikiforuk’s Slick Water to learn all the poisonous polluting details about why frac’ing is not a better plan than carbon pricing.
Yours Truly,
Jessica Ernst
2010: Schlumberger Chair and CEO Andrew Gould on frac’ing:
“We’re doing it by brute force and ignorance.”
Above two photos of frac’s in Alberta by FrackingCanada
Encana’s waste (radioactive?) dumped near my ...
- The power of art takes a billionaire down a notch. Australia’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart (wants to profit-rape destroying Alberta’s Grassy Mountain in the Rockies and pollute drinking water for many) fails to have portrait of her removed from exhibition by award-winning Vincent Namatjira.
Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait, NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira by Australian Associated Press, 15 May 2024, The Guardian
The mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait from an exhibition by the award-winning artist Vincent ...
- “Meticulous!” New embellishment for AER, Lying Spying No Duty of Care, Legally Immune, Charter-violating, vulgar bully of harmed Albertans, 100% industry funded and controlled, enabler of corporate crimes (e.g. illegal aquifer frac’er Encana/Ovintiv, gas spewing liabilities dumped onto Lynx) and deadly pollution everywhere.
Meticulous:
Very careful about doing something in an extremely accurate and exact way
Marked by extreme care in treatment of details (Adj)
Alberta Energy Regulator@AER_news May 14, 2024:
While wildfires may be unpredictable, as Alberta’s energy regulator, we meticulously ensure the companies we oversee are prepared. We require companies to have emergency response plans (ERPs) ready to implement ...
- May 15, 2024: 76 years since the Nakba when Palestinians were violently removed from their ancestral lands in 1948.
I wish land (and oil, gas and water) back and return for Palestinians and for permanent peace. This hell ravaged upon them by Israel’s insatiable greed and hatred and vile lies must stop.
Zionists (the real terrorists), USA and the other war mongers must stop aiding Israel’s thieving and genocide. May all those who are ...
- May 21, 2024 5-6pm on Zoom with Sandra Steingraber and others: Learn how dangerous industry’s CCS mega $billion projects and CO2 pipelines are
Climate Action Party: Ban CO2 Fracking! May 21, 2024
ATTENTION NEW YORKERS! URGENT!
HELP NYS CLOSE THE LOOPHOLE IN OUR FRACKING BAN! URGE GOVERNOR HOCHUL TO SIGN THE BILL INTO LAW AND BAN CO2 FRACKING NOW!
New York’s long-standing fracking ban prohibits the use of high volumes of water to extract gas. The state legislature quickly passed a ...
- ATCO Energy Systems: Stupid greedy polluting life-destroying fools bowing down to even more stupid greedy polluting fools Big Oil Dildo Danielle Smith and TBA evangelicals that slithered her into power
I am beyond sick of the fossil fuel industry’s lies, law violations, pollution and abuses to earth, water especially, other species, families and communities. I am even more sick of our cowardly lying stupid ego-driven politicians, no matter what stripe or polka dot, enabling it all.
ATCO Energy Systems announces its largest ever energy infrastructure project: ...
- Congratulations Yintah (the land)! Received five-minute standing ovation at Hot Docs. Over A Decade of Wet’suwet’en Resistance trying to protect their unceded territory against invasion by Coastal GasLink, brutal military RCMP/police overkill and injunctions against them by racist raping white man courts, wins Best Canadian Documentary for 2024
YINTAH (2024) – Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALasZGtCa6M
YINTAH, meaning “land”, is a feature-length documentary on the Wet’suwet’en nation’s fight for sovereignty. Spanning more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth.
Directors: Jennifer Wickham, ...
- Woodland Cree First Nations (WCFN) oppose more frac’ing and cumulative harms by Obsidian Energy (caused 5.6M frac quake in 2022, biggest in Alberta history). Of course Genocidal Canadian courts order injunction against WCFN to get out of the way of corporate profit-raping.
https://twitter.com/sisuvanhell/status/1788200759953076326
Sisu van Hellberta@sisuvanhell May 8, 2024:
The Chief’s brother is a lawyer. They are getting legal advice every step of the way.
https://twitter.com/sisuvanhell/status/1788309125656363171
Arlene King @Northern_Ozbird May 8, 2024:
Wait a minute. The Freedumbers menacing a major highway are being treated with kid gloves & no injunctions for ‘camping along highway’ but an Indigenous protest gets served an injunction ...
- Canada’s Legal Billy Club: The court injunction; 76% filed against First Nations (FN) by corporations granted; 81% filed by FN against corporations and 82% filed by FN against gov’t denied. Study finds Indigenous rights sacrificed by courts using “public interest” to protect boom & bust resource economies. “Spoiler: it was the political economy of settler-colonial law all along.”
Of course Canada’s genocidal racist courts do this.
What happens in the Wild Wild White Raping West now that public interest has been removed from our energy (de)regulators’ mandates? Alberta removed public interest from AER’s mandate after my lawsuit went public, yet lies about that, often. Even AER’s outside counsel Glenn Solomon of JSS, Calgary law ...
- Another big win for humanity (and academia): Toronto Metropolitan U Faculty Association supports academic freedom and solidarity with Palestine. Assistant Prof Joshua Sealy-Harrington: “Institutional racism threatens to be the Trojan Horse that ends the very existence of the independent university in North America.”
Imagine this astounding courage and dedication:
https://twitter.com/MahaGaza/status/1787318405348864485
https://twitter.com/LibyaLiberty/status/1787224745185825239
https://twitter.com/JoshuaSealy/status/1787681734957383791
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY FACULTY ASSOCIATION SUPPORTS ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE May 6, 2024, Press Release
TORONTO – The Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty Association (TFA) has voted in favour of a significant motion in solidarity with the people of Palestine, upholding the principles of academic freedom in the face of ...
- Trudeau: “Every Canadian has the fundamental right to live safely … Canada is a rule-of-law country.” But not in your own home if you live frac’d, near abandoned oil and gas wells, sour gas or tarred and poisoned by bitumen; or blown up by your drinking water contaminated by industry’s methane and ethane like Bruce Jack at Spirit River, Alberta; or blown up by industry’s leaking sour gas in Wheatley Ontario; or health harmed and at risk of blowing up by industry’s leaking sour gas in Norfolk, Ontario; or in my frac’d home in Rosebud; …
2024: Ontario: Pathetic $23.6 Million Action Plan to *try* to stop abandoned oil and gas wells (most locations unknown) from exploding and killing. Rural Albertan: “I don’t think $2 million or $23 million will prevent them all from ‘exploding’ … omg too funny.” And, irresponsible and too tragic.
Living frac’d in NEBC:
Living frac’d in NW Alberta:
2021: ...
- Thompson Rivers University, BC: First in Canada to reach agreement with students regarding disclosure of investments, divestment plan review, guaranteed protection for and affirmed students’, faculty’s, staff’s rights to freedom of expression (Bibi’s balls will explode), peaceful assembly, academic freedom.
Krisna Saravanamuttu@KrisnaS85:
Like Brown University, British Columbia’s Thompson Rivers University demonstrates a mature and reasonable way for University Administrations to negotiate in good faith with the Student Movement for Palestine. It is a choice to call the police and unleash police brutality.
Carlos Azevedo@cprazevedo:
I wonder if academics realise that students are doing this because most academics did ...
- Israeli States of Amerika toppling: First university to *completely* divest from Israel: Evergreen State College, Washington, where Rachel Corrie (crushed intentionally by Israeli dozer) studied.
ABC@Ohitskaykay23:
We are witnessing the defeat of Zionism. The resistance is growing rapidly and becoming a global powerhouse and an influential juggernaut of the world.
God bless the courageous and righteous resistance and free Palestine!
https://twitter.com/DemocraticDaisy/status/1786751496241193215
@Kahlissee:
Evergreen State College in Washington became the first university in America to completely divest from Israel today.
It’s not a coincidence that was the ...
- Frac’d un-natural gas stoves pollute homes all the way down the hall and into your baby’s crib and lungs, greatest risk in smaller homes
Most “natural” gas for decades now is unnaturally frac’d and comes to your home complete with deadly radiation and secret toxic chemicals. Frac’ings causes severe harms to workers and those living in frac fields across North America, and to those using its unnatural poisonous product to heat their homes and cook with.
Gas Stove Pollution Risk ...
- Canada: Total number wildfire evacuation orders annually (1980-2023)
Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD@ryankatzrosene:
I’ve acquired some data about Wildfire Evacuations in Canada as part of a side research project on the social, economic and ecological impacts of Canadian Wildfires… watch this space!
Here’s the total number of Wildfire Evacuation Orders per year in the Database:
One of the wild things about this database is just how long some ...
- Sara Jama: The only honourable courageous politician in Ontario’s Legislature against Israeli dictatorship of North America; Eat your racist old white guy scaredy-cat bully butt heart out Jonathan Kay (“dog shampoo guy”).
Philip J Mills: @PJforTO:
I don’t think you’re allowed to be both racist and unable to distinguish shampoo from dog shampoo. I’d think you’d have to pick one, but here’s Jon Kay doing it all.
Noelle@Noellenarwhal:
Hey that’s not fair!!
He also gets his mommy to fight his battles for him
Nora Loreto@NoLore:
Jesus fucking chirst. Canada’s largest newspaper chain, everybody.
Did ...
- BC: Woodfibre Trojan horse LNG project of idiots with ship full of Trojan condoms gets voted down by Squamish Councillors, concern for safety of women and girls one of the reasons.
LNG company’s plan for floating work camp is rejected by Squamish, B.C. by HO-Jeff Vinnick, Bridgemans, and The Canadian Press, May 1, 2024
Plans to use a renovated cruise ship to house more than 600 workers as they build a liquefied natural gas facility near Squamish, B.C., have been voted down by the local council.
The ship ...
- U Saskatchewan Faculty votes to support BDS against Israel, 6th BDS motion passed by a Canadian faculty association in last few months
You are wrong Trudeau and on the wrong side of history. BDS against Israel belongs everywhere in Canada, everywhere in the world that has care and compassion for the oppressed, invaded, stolen from, murdered, tortured, starved, and endlessly lied about.
***
Below evidence of Israel-controlled USA interfering in the International Criminal Court is just one of endless ...
- Solar geoengineering: “Unusually hot ‘hot potato”’ over-optimistically ignoring messiness of the world will not fix the deadly mess humanity is in, the only way is to stop polluting with fossil fuels.
Warning that solar geoengineering could cause unexpected regional heating by Victoria Corless, 1 May 2024, Chemistry World
A recent modelling study has raised new concerns about the unpredictability of solar geoengineering, questioning our ability to reliably manage the outcomes of this approach in reducing the impacts of climate change.
As efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are ...