I bet one of the next Carney betrayals will be to help Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (aka big oil dildo) steal more than half of all Canadians’ CPP to give to Harper-led AIMCo to give to fossil fuel polluters and Israeli kid-killing tech Herr Harper’s firm evilly invests in.
@tvsbrent.bsky.social:
No shit.
@parismarx.com:
Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.In my view, Carney is copying Herr Harper, or is following Harper’s orders.
@supriya.bsky.social:
my latest for the Star, pointing out the v obv disconnect between bill C2 — the Strong Borders Act — and the whole elbows up thing
pro tip: you can’t claim the entire security & economic partnership is over and then willingly hand over all sorts of info sans warrant to the US
@ironcurtainyc.bsky.social:
“admin” is giving Trumpy far too much credit; “régime” is more appropriate in my view.
@bhaggart.bsky.social:
Carney’s “proposed separation or resistance is very obviously not what is actually happening.”
This is exactly correct. As I’ve noted for months, Carney’s actual economic and security policies are preparing Canada for deeper integration with the US.
Carney has consistently promised a new comprehensive trade and security agreement with the US and has sacrificed Canadian laws to keep this dream alive. He has continued to seek not just cooperation but formal integration with US security forces.
He’s completely ignored the direct threat that US dominance of online US communications companies like Meta, Google, Microsoft and X pose to our communication sovereignty (think: fake news, propaganda, Meta’s news blackout).
The Safe Third Country Agreement remains a thing, even though the US is obviously no longer a safe country. Canada’s US travel advisory remains a running joke. Canadians harassed at the border or in ICE custody don’t even merit a sidelong glance.
Most telling is the least glamorous: not just zero investment in reinforcing Canadian regulatory agencies and government/military computer networks against US dependence and influence. But rather slashing government at the very moment we need it most. Absent these moves, new data centres are a joke.
That Carney, a former central banker who lived and died by inflation targets, has the gall to say that he’s interested in environmental results, not objectives, is a huge red flag. It’s an insultingly ridiculous statement—results imply objectives—at utter odds with his cultivated technocrat image.
Mark Carney won’t endorse greenhouse gas targets, says he’s focused on ‘results, not objectives’
The prime minister advocated for a “grand bargain” that could see regulations changed to facilitate a new export pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands — if a major project to reduce emissions
Tl;dr: Carney was elected on the promise that he is a serious, technocratic leader who will strengthen Canadian independence. He’s ’s failing on both counts. Canadians need to start pressing the Liberals on why their leader’s actions simply do not match his stated intentions.
@dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de:
Democrats are collaborators and so is Carney.
Mark Carney isn’t who he said he was by Supriya Dwivedi, Sept. 12, 2025, Toronto Star
Supriya Dwivedi is a former senior advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and is a contributing columnist for the Star.
Six months after being elected, the Carney government continues to enjoy high polling numbers from a Canadian public that is still nervous about Trump’s impact on Canada. Thrust into a political scene that required a lot of tough talk from Mr. Carney, voters assumed they were getting someone who would stand up for Canada to Trump. Outside of terminally political circles, Carney wasn’t exactly a known entity to the Canadian public, so Canadians had to take Mr. Carney at his word.
But has Prime Minister Carney’s action matched his stated rhetoric? And aside from what he’s said since becoming prime minister, what are the kinds of things that Mr. Carney values? It’s the sort of question that one shouldn’t have to ask about someone who has written a bestselling 600-page book titled “Values.” But given that environmentalism — a core value of Carney’s — seems to have completely fallen by the wayside, it’s a question that is now worth asking nonetheless.
Gone are the days of Mark Carney as UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance in which he extolled the virtues of carbon pricing as a market-based solution to emission reductions. Instead, we are in the Mark Carney-as-PM days, in which his government remains noncommittal regarding Canada’s climate targets and will potentially push through infrastructure projects without adequate environmental assessment or Indigenous consultation.
Carney’s decision to take Canada back to the pre-Trudeau status quo of not being a reliable environmental partner on the world stage is unlikely to hurt him with voters outside of the progressive flank; Liberal voters who voted for Carney erroneously assumed Carney would carry on with progressive environmental policies.
But it’s his mismatched rhetoric and actions when it comes to the U.S. carries much more of a risk for our rookie PM.
Any protectionist U.S. administration flexing its economic strength would be a challenge for Canada. But Trump represents a unique problem. He is an erratic president untethered from basic political norms with a penchant for openly admiring dictators and authoritarian strongmen.
That may well be part of why Carney said just this past spring: “The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperations is over.”
This of course makes sense, given everything that has transpired since Trump was elected. But the proposed separation or resistance is very obviously not what is actually happening.
Consider how information sharing with American law enforcement will work if the Carney government’s Strong Borders Act, or bill C-2, passes this legislative session. According to the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, “data and surveillance powers in Bill C-2 read like they could have been drafted by U.S. officials,” further noting that the breadth of warrantless information sharing covered under the bill has many potential issues: “ … the provision would open the door to information sharing with law enforcement authorities in states like Mississippi, Idaho, or Tennessee, by compelling warrantless access to information about whether a person has obtained services from an abortion clinic in Canada.
The public criticism of bill C-2 has thus far been somewhat muted. But it’s not hard to envision a world where voters start asking exactly where in the information-sharing process with U.S. law enforcement should one’s elbows be held up — is it before or after information has been shared about a woman accessing reproductive health services?
At a time when progressives need leaders who are true to their values and will fight for them, Canada finds itself with a technocratic prime minister who seems more than willing to pre-emptively wave a white flag than have to fight for what’s right.I think traitor Carney is much worse than that, his actions make it clear to me he works with Project 2025, with Adolf Orange (working to destroy USA for his pal Putin), against Canada. Carney is not trustworthy; he’s a vicious creepy misogynistic Zionistiche evil Harper Con.
Cartoon of Trump by Steve Brodner
But the one thing that can kill the career of any politician, irrespective of partisan stripe, is when voters sense even the slightest bit of inauthenticity. For now, Carney and his government have been able to benefit from his tough talk on the US, coupled with the sense that the prime minister is a no-nonsense kind of guy that is true to his word.Pffffft! Douche Fucker Carney is giving $billions to American murder companies, and $100M to American AI. He’s a fucking liar and a traitor.However, if the government’s action continues to diverge from its stated rhetoric — like continuing to extend invites to people actively working to erode democratic norms — voters will come for the government. Perhaps even with their elbows up.
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The federal government under former prime minister Justin Trudeau put in place an investment tax credit that would cover up to 50 per cent of the project’s capital costs, and Alberta’s government is offering an additional 12-per-cent capital-cost subsidy. But Pathways members have expressed reluctance to proceed because of revenue uncertainty.
I dont care if Caney and Smith love this it is wrong. This Pathways project needs massive subsidies, not just in the building but always it is not financially viable and total waste of money for the taxpayer. Just plant some trees like My God is this so hard.
I look at a nation building project as something a private entity invest in that cost me nothing as a taxpayer and makes the country money and provides jobs., Pathways is government subsidized battery plants on steroids, throwing money at bad projects with no financial viability has to stop. Both Carney and Smith can shove this one where the sun don’t shine. If this is a typical nation building project this country is done
Desertrat:
No sequestration project has ever been remotely economical and never will be in the foreseeable future. It makes no sense to go ahead with this one just as an expensive virtue signalling exercise. As always the taxpayer foots the bill.
Ottawa working toward pipeline, oil sands growth with carbon capture project by Emma Graney, Sept 12, 2025, The Globe and Mail
Ottawa is committed to getting a carbon capture project built in Alberta’s oil sands as part of a broader plan to reduce emissions from the sector and ultimately work toward a new oil pipeline, says Tim Hodgson, Canada’s Natural Resources Minister.It’s impossible to reduce emissions with carbon capture projects! They make more pollution than they reduce. And, worse, they are in my view, a criminal money laundering enterprise devised by rich greedy douche fucking politicians like Carney and polluters like Cenovus, Suncor, et al, to steal $billions from Canadians to put into pockets of the rich polluters. Carney is just another old white man liar, fraud and con man.
While there are still “a few things to work out” with the Pathways Alliance – a group of oil sands producers that is proposing the carbon capture plan – and the Alberta governmentwith such evil players in on the con, we know how bad, expensive, life threatening (CO2 in pipelines and sequestered leaks and is deadly; small amounts damage the brain) and polluting it will be, Mr. Hodgson said construction on the project could begin very soon after those details are ironed out.
The Pathways initiative is a 400-kilometre-long pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil sands facilities to an underground hub near Cold Lake, Alta., with the aim of reducing emissions by 22 megatonnes a year.
Carbon Sequestration Wet Dreams & Lies Reality Check:
End Carbon Sequestration Wet Dreams Reality Check.
Deadly CO2 Pipeline Reality Check:
End CO2 Pipeline Deadly Reality Check.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday that the plan will be referred to the federal Major Projects Office, which has the task of determining and advancing projects of national importance.Dirty Douche Fucker Fraud you are PM Fake.
Asked whether there is the potential for a new oil pipeline to the coast in the next few years, Mr. Hodgson said if Pathways is built and there is support for such a project in the jurisdictions it would traverse and with First Nations, “that’s what we’re working towards.”
Pairing progress on Pathways with a new pipeline reflects what Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has called a “grand bargain” in talks with the federal government.
Canada could lead in CO2 removal if Ottawa supports market, coalition saysCCS produces more CO2 than it removes; it’s is the fossil fuel industry’s scam to steal public money from corrupt politicians like Carney to ramp up deadly pollution while profit-raping out more $billions.
Mr. Hodgson said Ottawa and Alberta agree that Pathways would be a nation-building project.Fucking evil, earth’s livability destroying scum bags.
“It will be the first time a country has said they will essentially dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of their oil industry,” he said.Key word is “said.” Harper2 Carney and his Quislings can say all they like about reducing tarsands’ pollution but saying so, will absolutely not make it so, it will increase pollution dramatically because the con will be used to let companies massively increase their bitumen rape projects – even while they STILL do not have a valid plan to mitigate their massive toxic waste lakes. The tarsands must be shut down, at the very least until an appropriate, real – not fake like carbon sequestions, honest, mitigation plan for the waste lakes and the CO2 pollution is in place.
“If we are prepared to do that, we’re on board with growing our oil sands.”
Portrait of Harper2 Carney
Mr. Hodgson would not comment on whether the federal government is in talks with industry to scrap the oil and gas emissions cap in return for environmental concessions, as a Thursday Reuters report based on three unnamed sources said.
“I’m not going to negotiate in public. We are focused on how best to con the publicresults, not how we get there,” Mr. Hodgson said.Secrets are a budding Nazi’s best friend, judges too!
“I am focused, as the Minister of Energy, on making sure we are a clean andpolluting life-destroying evil frac’ing water-and-climate-destroying greedy profit-raping conventional energy superpowerto make the rich richer while sickening Indigenous, wildlife, fish, neighbouring communities, and impoverishing Canadians while we take away their social supports to give more $billions to grossly polluting, high risk carbon capture con jobs … and making sure we do that in an environmentally greedy dishonest iresponsibleresponsible way, which means we need to be but assuredly will not below risk, low cost and low carbon.”
Alberta Utilities and Affordability Minister Nathan Neudorf said Friday that in his discussions about energy policy with Mr. Hodgson, there have been “quite a number of things that seem like they’re going in the right direction,” including the potential scrapping of the emissions cap.UCP pleased with Carney doings means they are bad doings.
“I’m looking forward to the real actionsto destroy life on earth and put Indigenous and local communities in real danger of being murdered by greedy leaking high pressure CO2, mixed with a bit of H2S for good killing that they will be taking out of these great conversations,” Mr. Neudorf said.
Ottawa ties stalled carbon-capture project to new pipeline
Mr. Carney announced the first projects that will be reviewed for fast-track approval under Ottawa’s Building Canada Act in Edmonton, where Liberal MPs were gathered for a caucus retreat ahead of the return of House of Commons sittings Monday.
The five projects being referred to the new Major Projects Office include LNG Canada Phase 2, which would expand the liquefied natural gas export facility at Kitimat, B.C. Also on the list are modular reactors at Ontario’s existing Darlington Nuclear Generating Station; an expansion by the Port of Montreal in Contrecoeur, Que.; Saskatchewan’s Foran McIlvenna Bay copper mine project; and the Red Chris Copper and Gold Mine expansion in B.C.None of these are nation building projects. None. They are rape projects to make the rich richer while destroying Canadian communities, air, land, water, health, fish and wildlife. Fuck you Nazi Carney
In addition to the initial projects, the government also announced that there are “several strategies” for projects that could be “truly transformativedeadly for Canadians and destructive” for Canada but require further development, including the Pathways project.
The Pathways carbon capture initiative has been floating around since 2021. It is meant to play a key role in the pledge by the Pathways Alliance to bring emissions to net zero by 2050.A pledge that the Polluter Alliance, companies and our corrupt politicians know damned well will massively increase emissions and likely bankrupt Canada, while making a few rich fucking richer, while serving USA’s Nazi Regime of Evil Kid Rapists with super low cost bitumen for decades to come, or until human life on earth roasts dead. Hideous betrayals by Carney’s Nazi Harper2 gov’t, that I knew he was going to lie about, and push full polluting steam ahead to please his demonic billionaire American pals, including Trump.
The main roadblock to the plan is financial.
Despite a federal investment tax credit that would cover up to 50 per cent of the project’s capital costs, and Alberta’s additional 12-per-cent capital-cost subsidy, Pathways Alliance members have expressed reluctance to proceed because of revenue uncertainty.Of course! Member companies know damned well carbon capture is horrifically expensive, does not work, that is pollutes more than it injects or captures, has deadly liabilities and only looses money. They want gov’ts to pay for it all, and gift them each a few $billion just because, and take on all legal liabilities if the high pressure pipelined CO2 explodes from their greed, hurry and shitty workmanship and/or shitty AI, and kills entire communities, and to cover them for their lies pimping a technique that they know is a failure
Ottawa has been trying to provide greater certainty through a mechanism generally known as carbon contracts for differences (CCfDs), which involves the government taking on revenue risk by prepurchasing or otherwise guaranteeing the value of carbon credits.
But the federal government – and the Canada Growth Fund, the agency mandated with offering CCfDs – has to this point balked at the amount of revenue risk Pathways has asked it to take on. Based on both the project’s size and the desired level of credit-value certainty, it could be well above $10-billion.
Mr. Hodgson would not comment on whether the federal government is in negotiations with Pathways on CCfDs.
Refer also to:
LEFT: The CO2 pipeline rupture. RIGHT: Vehicles pass over the pipeline explosion site in Satartia in July. Yazoo County Emergency Management Agency/Rory Doyle for HuffPost
2012: CO2 in Stream, Dead Ducks Prompt Wyo. DEQ Citation against Anadarko
The leak happened in an area where CO2 is injected underground to help revive an old oil field and boost oil production. The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality has ordered Anadarko Petroleum to identify and control the carbon dioxide leak into Castle Creek in central Wyoming. The Casper Star-Tribune reports…DEQ also is telling Anadarko to monitor the stream’s acidity until three consecutive tests show normal pH. A state violation notice says company officials identified a nearby carbon dioxide injection well as the possible source of the leaking gas. Anadarko spokesman Dennis Ellis says Anadarko hasn’t yet verified where the gas originated.
2012: Peer reviewed PNAS paper: Earthquake triggering and large-scale geologic storage of carbon dioxide
Despite its enormous cost, large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) is considered a viable strategy for significantly reducing CO2 emissions associated with coal-based electrical power generation and other industrial sources of CO2. … We argue here that there is a high probability that earthquakes will be triggered by injection of large volumes of CO2 into the brittle rocks commonly found in continental interiors. Because even small- to moderate-sized earthquakes threaten the seal integrity of CO2 repositories, in this context, large-scale CCS is a risky, and likely unsuccessful, strategy for significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions
2012: The evaluation of CO2-based vapour extraction (VAPEX) process for heavy-oil recovery
Vapor extraction (VAPEX) has been proposed as an alternative for heavy-oil recovery in reservoirs where thermal methods face technical and economic problems. In VAPEX, a pair of horizontal injector-producer wells is employed. The gaseous hydrocarbon solvent (normally propane or a mixture of methane–propane or propane–butane) is injected from the top well and the diluted oil drains downward by gravity to the bottom producer. Recently, the idea of incorporation of CO2 into the gaseous hydrocarbon mixture has emerged. Incorporation of CO2 is believed to make the process more economical and environmentally and technically attractive. … The objective of this work, therefore, is to simulate the performance of the VAPEX process when different solvent mixtures, including hydrocarbon gases and CO2, are incorporated with the aim of improving its performance.
2008: Bachu, S., Buschkuehle, B.E., Haug, K. and Michael, K. (2008): Subsurface characterization of the Edmonton-area acid-gas injection operations; Energy Resources Conservation Board, ERCB
Now AER/AGS Special Report 92, 134 p.
… From Page 88:
Figure 59 shows the extent of the Acheson original Blairmore T and subsequent St. Albert-Big Lake Ostracod A pools, and of the Strathfield (undefined) gas reservoir in the context of lithofacies changes in the Lower Mannville Basal Quartz and Ellerslie formations. When approval was granted for acid gas injection at Acheson, the regulatory agency required the operator to file annually with EUB and each other operator in the Acheson Blairmore T and St. Albert-Big Lake Ostracod A pools progress reports that “shall include the impact of acid gas injection on the performance of offsetting producing wells”. In March 2004 the operator at Acheson reported that CO2 was detected in 2003 in well 10-22-53-26W4 in the St. Albert-Big Lake Ostracod A pool, located at 3,625 m north from the acid-gas injection well. No H2S has been detected in the produced gas. Since at Acheson the average composition of the acid gas is 87% CO2 and 11% H2S (Table 14), with H2S being denser and more viscous than CO2, it is expected that CO2 would show first at a producing well. In addition, diagenetic processes within the reservoir could have reduced the H2S concentration in the injected acid gas as a result of pyrite precipitation, if an iron source was available. The issue was brought to EUB’s attention and was heading to a hearing, but the operator at Acheson has indicated to the regulatory agency that it has initiated an Appropriate Dispute Resolution process with the operator of the offset producing well to address the issue of CO2 breakthrough, and that this situation “will be addressed pursuant to the terms of the Mediated Settlement Agreement”.To gag the harmed?
This case shows that, after 13 years of injection, CO2 has migrated northward a distance of [nearly 4 km] mostly under the combined drive of injection and production.
The drive into the St. Albert-Big Lake Ostracod A gas pool has increased lately with the large spike in gas production from this pool (Figure 57b). There are five producing wells much closer to the acid-gas injection well (Figure 59) that did not report CO2 breakthrough, but these wells are owned by the same operator that operated until recently the Acheson acid-gas injection site. If acid gas broke through at any of these wells, it is most likely that the operator just stripped the acid gas from the sour reservoir gas and re-injected it, as the produced gas in this area is sour to begin with. Understanding the migration path and fate of the injected acid gas at Acheson requires a separate study that is beyond the scope of this report. …
2007: Presentation on above 2006 paper Factors Affecting or Indicating Potential Wellbore Leakage by Watson and Bachu at the Alberta regulator, AER (when it was EUB), no less!
2006 May: The Role of the Upper Geosphere in Mitigating CO2 Surface Releases in Wellbore Leakage Scenarios
2006 June: Possible indicators for CO 2 leakage along wells by Bachu and Watson, 8th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Trondheim, Norway
… Storage safety refers to the potential harm to other resources, equity and life that a CO2 leak may entail.
The probability and effects of leakage from CO2 storage sites need assessment by both the operator and regulatory agency during the application and permitting process, during the operational phase and after site abandonment [3].
Any fluid in the subsurface, especially a buoyant one like CO2, will migrate laterally within the injection unit and may leak upwards across formations through faults and fractures and/or defective wells [1, 4].
The potential for CO2 leakage through fractures and faults can be well managed through proper geological characterization and selection of the storage site, and through proper operating procedures.
Managing the potential for CO2 leakage through wells is more difficult.
Exploration and production wells have been drilled, completed and abandoned since the middle of the 19th century, with variable technology and materials, and with no or under variable regulatory regimes. Well materials (cements, steel, elastomers, etc.) will or may degrade over time, particularly in the presence of corrosive agents such as saline formation water and CO2 [5, 6]. Thus, the potential for leakage through existing wells needs to be assessed for site selection and remediation. New wells will also be subjected to the same in-situ conditions as the existing wells.Dr Tony Ingraffea subsequently found new wells to be worse leakers than older ones, which makes sense given the oil and gas industry’s relentless greed, lies, and demanding deregulation which has been consistently granted by our deregulators, notably Alberta’s “No Duty of Care” legally immune bullying shameless AER. …
