Oil - Pipelines

Military miseries and bloody oil wars

09/03/26
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Link: 
National Observer
US President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House on March 1, 2026, in Washington. Photo by: Jose Luis Magana / The Associated Press

Mar. 9. 2026

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

24/02/26
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Link: 
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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Danielle Smith Is No Separatist. She’s Much Worse

23/02/26
Author: 
Emmett Macfarlane
Link: 
The Tyee
Premier Danielle Smith’s TV address set out ‘a cruel, inherently racist agenda, straight from the far-right populist playbook in the United States.’ Photo by Amber Bracken, the Canadian Press.

Feb. 23, 2026 

The premier’s referendum plan is destructive, divisive and ultimately evil.

In a televised address Thursday night Alberta Premier Danielle Smith launched a xenophobic assault on immigration and proposed a set of referendum questions for this fall advocating a constitutional agenda that would reduce Canada to a rump of pathetic, disaggregated fiefdoms.

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

15/02/26
Author: 
Taylor Noakes
Link: 
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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Mark Carney’s Goal Is to ‘Increase Our Oil Production,’ Says Former Chief of Staff

06/02/26
Author: 
Mary Stuart
Link: 
Desmog
Prime Minister Mark Carney. Credit: Mark Carney Facebook account

Jan. 27, 2026

It’s an energy agenda seemingly at odds with the prime minister’s previous stated commitments to addressing climate change.

A key goal of the Mark Carney government is to “increase our oil production”, according to the Canadian prime minister’s former Chief of Staff Marco Mendicino.

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Carney replaces EV sales mandate with rebates and regulations

06/02/26
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Link: 
National Observer
Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association President Flavio Volpe shows Prime Minister Mark Carney, front right, the Project Arrow 2.0 prototype vehicle during a tour of an auto-parts plant, Woodbridge, Ont., February 5, 2026. Photo by: Eduardo Lima / The Canadian Press

Feb. 5, 2026

Another Justin Trudeau-era climate policy is now history: Prime Minister Mark Carney is scrapping the electric vehicle sales mandate and replacing it with “more stringent” fuel-efficiency standards and EV purchase rebates.

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

06/02/26
Author: 
Nick Gottlieb
Link: 
Canadian Dimension
Photo by Gatis Rozenfelds/Flickr

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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Reality check: 49,000 Chinese EVs won’t come close to getting Canada back on track

05/02/26
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Link: 
National Observer
Illustration by Aja Otani

Feb. 5, 2026

Last year, Canadian politicians lowered the cost of new fossil-fuel burning passenger vehicles by thousands of dollars by scrapping the carbon price. Unsurprisingly, sales of these high-emissions cars and trucks surged by 135,000 to reach 1.8 million in 2025. If we want to avoid a full-blown climate crisis this number needs to be zero. 

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Who's Behind the Hard-Right in Canada? A Reference Guide to Canada's Disinformation Network

02/02/26
Author: 
The Democracy Defender
Link: 
The Democracy Defender
Who's Behind the Hard-Right in Canada? A Reference Guide to Canada's Disinformation Network

Jan. 14, 2026

From "Freedom" to Dominion: Mapping Canada's Nationalist Turn

You can download this article for free in PDF format with Table of Contents and full resolution images and tables for future reference, sharing, and research with this link:

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Mark vs Marc [VIDEO]

31/01/26
Author: 
Dogwood BC
Link: 
You Tube
Mark vs Marc [VIDEO]

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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