LNG - Fracking

Financial considerations likely behind LNG Canada flare fix delay: experts

28/02/26

Author:

Lauren Watson

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Experts question why the B.C. government isn't doing more to get LNG Canada back in line with permit requirements as flaring issue persists. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Canada’s first major liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant, on the B.C. coast, has been having problems with a key piece of equipment since the facility fired up in late 2024. The companies behind the project, a consortium of foreign-owned corporations, have said it will take three years to fix the problem — a timeline experts have questions about.

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AI to Double Earth's Electricity Usage by 2033

26/02/26

Author:

Joey Grostern

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Nation of Change

Feb. 25, 2026

Big Tech accused of AI ‘greenwashing’ - A new report has found that “the promises of planet-saving tech remain hollow.”

The big tech industry’s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are largely unproven and unsubstantiated, according to a new report from a coalition of climate advocacy and accountability groups.

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Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn

24/02/26

Author:

Damian Carrington

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The Guardian

Economic models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the Earth into uncharted territory. Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Feb. 5, 2026

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Flawed economic models mean the accelerating impact of the climate crisis could lead to a global financial crash, experts warn.

Recovery would be far harder than after the 2008 financial crash, they said, as “we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks”.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada Pension Plan is Bankrolling Trump’s Fossil Fuel and AI Agenda

15/02/26

Author:

Taylor Noakes

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DeSmog

President Donald Trump. Credit: Gage Skidmore (CC by 2.0)

Feb 6, 2026

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the United States since Trump’s return to office.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is financing — and profiting from — U.S. President Donald Trump’s fossil fuel and AI development agenda, DeSmog has learned.

The CPPIB has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. since Trump’s return to office. It has partnered with private equity firms to acquire American oil and gas producers, and financed AI companies like Elon Musk’s xAI.

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Trying to make sense of the public mood

14/02/26

Author:

Seth Klein

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Substack

Some good information here, both data and organizing efforts.

-- Gene McGuckin

Feb. 13, 2026

Hello friends!

A bit of a hodgepodge of items to share today, most of which seek to make sense of the public landscape with respect to the interconnected crises of climate and inequality.

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British Columbians want gas out of buildings, cleaner alternatives: poll

10/02/26

Author:

Rhiannon Fox Melissa Lem Emiko Newman Sunil Singal Alexandra Woodsworth

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National Observer

Polling clearly demonstrates that the higher your knowledge about the causes of climate change, the more likely you are to support climate policies. Photo: Pikrepo.com

Feb. 10, 2026

The final months of 2025 were not kind to those concerned about the fate of our planet.

Rollbacks of hard-won climate policies and plans swept across the country like the seasonal flu. Vancouver city council passed an aggressively anti-climate budget despite hundreds of people showing up to speak to council in opposition.

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It’s time for something bolder than Carney’s path of appeasement

06/02/26

Author:

Nick Gottlieb

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Canadian Dimension

Prime Minister Carney’s now-famous speech at Davos outlined a vision of Canada charting a path as a “middle power” between increasingly belligerent “great powers” dominating a lawless planet.

But his speech left out something critical.

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Mark vs Marc [VIDEO]

31/01/26

Author:

Dogwood BC

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You Tube

Jan. 28, 2026

Trump's ghoulish Board of Peace includes billionaire Ksi Lisims LNG investor Marc Rowan. comment "Carney" to send a letter to your MP, demanding they block Canadian taxpayer subsidies to Rowan and his gang of Wall Street MAGA creeps.

Marc Rowan's firm Apollo Global Management (which he co-founded with Jeffrey Epstein's sugar daddy, Leon Black) is one of several U.S. private equity firms buying up key nodes of the Canadian economy and deepening American control of our resources.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

German scientists issue stark climate warning

31/01/26

Author:

David Suzuki with contributions from Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington

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David Suzuki org.

Most people alive today will suffer the fury of a hothouse planet. We’ve created an emergency that threatens all of humankind. (Photo: Lal Torman via Pexels)

Jan. 29, 2026

German scientists are warning that global warming is accelerating, that the planet could heat by as much as 3 C over pre-industrial levels by 2050 — just 24 years from now — and that we could exceed 5 C of warming by the century’s end.

This should be top headline news. It should alarm us all. It should spur politicians to urgent action.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Doomsday Clock hits 85 seconds to midnight, humanity races toward apocalypse

31/01/26

Author:

Chauncey K. Robinson

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Peoples World

Jan. 30, 2026

WASHINGTON—The popular 1984 song “2 Minutes to Midnight” by Iron Maiden—which highlighted humanity’s march toward nuclear war—needs an update to 85 seconds. Because that’s how close the world now stands to human-made global catastrophe, according to the experts behind the Doomsday Clock. The update might not be the catchiest tune, but the alarm has to be raised somehow, as scientists say the situation facing the world is more dangerous than ever.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

LNG - Fracking

Big Tech accused of AI ‘greenwashing’ - A new report has found that “the promises of planet-saving tech remain hollow.”

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the United States since Trump’s return to office.

German scientists are warning that global warming is accelerating, that the planet could heat by as much as 3 C over pre-industrial levels by 2050 — just 24 years from now — and that we could exceed 5 C of warming by the century’s end.

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