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Canada Pension Plan fuels the climate crisis with our own retirement savings

05/10/20

Author:

Patrick DeRochie & Adam Scott

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Recent analyses of CPP’s investments in oil, gas and coal raise red flags about the fund’s alignment with Canada’s climate commitments and mandate to invest in the best interests of Canadians. Photo by Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health

Last month, Mark Machin, CEO of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), wrote that climate change is the crisis beyond COVID-19 that we can’t afford to ignore, stating that “the full effects will depend on the actions we take now and in the future.”

We strongly agree.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

How much COVID-19 recovery money are governments giving to fossil fuels?

29/07/20

Author:

Oil Change International

We aren’t asking you to sign a petition or donate – instead we’re sharing a few interesting new resources.

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Deutsche Bank won't back any new oilsands or coal projects

28/07/20

Author:

Dan Healing

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National Observer

An oil sands extraction facility is reflected in a tailings pond near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta on June 1, 2014. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

July 28th 2020

Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank is joining a lengthening list of European lenders and insurance companies that say they won't back new oilsands projects.

The German bank said Monday its new fossil fuels policy will also prohibit investing in projects that use hydraulic fracturing or fracking in countries with scarce water supplies, and all new oil and gas projects in the Arctic region.

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Global fossil burning breaks record in 2019. Canadians in top 1%

16/07/20

Author:

Barry Saxifrage

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National Observer

July 16, 2020 - Despite decades of promises to prevent a climate crisis, the primary cause of it, global fossil fuel burning, continues to increase rapidly. Last year's fossil burn broke all records.

That's according to data released by the multinational oil and gas company BP, in the latest "BP Statistical Review of World Energy."

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

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Over 5,600 fossil fuel companies have taken at least $3bn in US Covid-19 aid

11/07/20

Author:

Emily Holden

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The Guardian

Environmental advocates say investing billions in an industry that is polluting the planet and causing the climate crisis is short-sighted and a bad use of public money. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

7 Jul 2020

Businesses include oil and gas drillers and coal mine operators, an analysis by Documented and the Guardian finds

More than 5,600 companies in the fossil fuel industry have taken a minimum of $3bn in coronavirus aid from the US federal government, according to an analysis by Documented and the Guardian of newly released data.

The businesses include oil and gas drillers and coal mine operators, as well as refiners, pipeline companies and firms that provide services to the industry.

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Planet of the humans: A reheated mess of lazy, old myths [Detailed critique of the film]

27/04/20

Author:

Ketan Joshi

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ketanjoshi.co

April 24, 2020

The film ‘Planet of the Humans’ opens with the director, Jeff Gibbs, operating a fossil-fuelled combustion engine vehicle, on a road full of combustion engine vehicles, followed up with some footage taken from the International Space Station (fossil fuelled rockets put that in space).

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Michael Moore’s dreadful, ill-informed, unhelpful film

27/04/20

Author:

Elizabeth May

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Green Party of Canada

April 26, 2020

During a Green Party webinar last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, one message from a member of the audience caught my attention:

“Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America.”

And then the question:

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Thanks to musician John Prine - critic of King Coal in Kentucky; victim of Coronavirus

10/04/20

Author:

Patrick Bond

John Prine performing with guitar in later years.

From: Patrick Bond
Date: April 8, 2020 at 12:33:48 PM PDT
Subject: Thanks to musician John Prine - critic of King Coal in Kentucky; victim of Coronavirus

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U.S. energy secretary hopes Mexico, Canada will help export American coal

10/02/20

Author:

Timothy Gardner

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REUTERS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said on Friday that Canada and Mexico could help export U.S. coal to Asia to get around the blocking of shipments by West Coast states concerned about the impact of the fuel on climate change.

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The Climate Crisis and the Crisis of Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets

10/02/20

Author:

Marvin Gandall

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The Bullet

February 10, 2020

The world’s oil, gas, and coal companies would incur what the Financial Times (FT) recently described as “breathtaking” losses if they’re not allowed to extract and burn their enormous reserves.

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Businesses include oil and gas drillers and coal mine operators, an analysis by Documented and the Guardian finds

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