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May 10, 2022 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Make Big Oil Care by Cutting Profits

We’ve heard lots of big claims from oil companies about their commitment to sustainable energy production, but those are all words. Their actions are still to extract fossil fuels which undercut all their efforts to produce renewable energy. The simple reason oil companies are still killing the environment is profit.

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April 6, 2022 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Oil Companies are Useless

Looking at the actions of oil companies it’s clear they only care about one thing: profit. Everything else, like the planet and human life, is a tertiary concern that is easily ignored. With the release of the most recent IPCC report why are governments and thinkers listening to these planet

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March 15, 2022 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Insulation is Better Than Oil

Insulation is a boring solution to the deadly consumption of oil inside your home. If you have a gas furnace or other fossil fuel heater then you can start reducing your consumption of the dead dino juice by better insulating your home. You can also go a step further and

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February 14, 2022 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Dutch Climate Lawyer Wins Dresden Peace Prize

Yes, a lawyer won a peace prize. Roger Cox, a Dutch climate lawyer who took on Shell, has been awarded the 2022 Dresden Peace Prize for winning a case that inspired similar cases around the world. On behalf of Friends of the Earth, Cox won a ruling in a Dutch

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December 14, 2021 John Klein

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The rise and rise of petrofascism

Saskatchewan is more than a Petrostate, it’s governed by Petrofascists. Surviving C21 By Julian Cribb* A new world superpower is arising. One that is unelected, borderless, controls most governments and, increasingly, employs the familiar tools of repression and deception to attain its goals. In Australia, the US and Britain, young

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November 25, 2021 John Klein

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Sidewalk Tax? You Must Jest?

Yes, the www.sidewalktax.ca is a jest, it’s poking fun at the Saskatchewan Governmenet in a way that might pique your interest if you’re just an average driver going about your day. They’re running radio ads, and there’s less than a week remaining in the campaign where they’ll refund the EV

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October 25, 2021 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Greenland Bans Oil Extraction

Greenland will no longer allow exploration for new oil fields in their territorial waters and newly exposed land. Climate change obviously impacts the country greatly with their ice fields melting at increasing rates. They’ve been experiencing the effects of burning too much oil first hand and refuse to participate it

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August 23, 2021 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Exposing Exxon’s Elaborate Escapades in Eluding the Electorate

Exxon (and other oil companies) knew all about the harm their products cause to the environment 40 years ago, yet they kept making profits despite threatening all life on Earth. This is some real-life cartoon villain stuff that sounds made up, but it’s real and it happened. In fact, it’s

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August 9, 2021 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Given the IPCC Report, Let’s Ban Oil Propaganda

Today the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released data that proves the world has rapidly warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial levels, and is now careening toward 1.5 degrees. They are calling it a red alert for the planet. Obviously this isn’t good news. The oil

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July 5, 2021 John Klein

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Why Is The SaskParty Lying About Well Cleanups?

Here’s the scale of the problem: "Remediation of thousands of orphaned oil&gas wells and the eventual “clean-up” of the oilsands mines& tailings ponds -estimated by the Alberta Energy Regulator to be as high as $260B or equivalent to all of the royalty revenue paid by the industry to Alberta from

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June 15, 2021 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Keystone XL is Dead, For Reals This Time

Protesting works! The absolutely foolish plan to make a massive pipeline to transport a heavily subsidized non-renewable energy source is dead. It is really dead. We’ve heard before that the project is over, only for it to come back to life. Obama and Trudeau both worked hard to ensure that

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April 6, 2021 John Klein

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Anti-carbon tax Government attacks hundreds of EV owners with a new tax

Saskatchewan Government will start charging EV owners $150 a year. The Minister who removed the EV incentive almost a decade ago took his next job as Canada’s top oil and gas lobbyist. If that doesn’t scream Conflict of Interest, what does? This is an “anti-#carbontax“, as it encourages people to

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January 22, 2021 John Klein

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #Petrostate of the Province

You know you live in a #petrostate when local city council exec votes to restrict fossil fuel sponsorship and 1) the Premier threatens the City’s budget and 2) the official provincial opposition has nothing to say about it. This is the #CultureOfSilence I have written about — Emily Eaton (@emi_eaton)

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January 19, 2021 John Klein

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Plague Of Pipelines

We have Canada's worst COVID handling, where's the Premier on that? — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) January 18, 2021 With Biden apparently poised to pause KXL into oblivion, Saskatchewan’s hapless Premier Moe lashes out at Trudeau. The meme, a modified Kenney cartoon, was available prior to Moe’s latest predictable bleating.

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December 8, 2020 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: Denmark: No More Oil from the North Sea

The largest oil producer in the European Union has banned all new oil and gas exploration in their territory. Denmark follows France and New Zealand in the banning of new exploration for destructive and climate-altering fossil fuels (who will be next?). The end of oil as a burnable resource is

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October 21, 2020 Adam Clare

Things Are Good: The Importance of Mapping Fossil Fuel Companies

The Corporate Mapping Project in Canada tries to connect the dots between corporations, organizations, and governmental bodies in regards to the oil and gas industry. Despite all evidence that the tar sands are horrible for the planet the Canadian taxpayer continues to subsidize the fossil fuel industry. Why? That the

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October 2, 2020 John Klein

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Kenney Stands Up For Doomed Oil

Nowhere in Canada is more cursed than Alberta. It’s the Resource Curse. And Jason Kenney is the leader of the cursed. At the empty Tesla charging station in Fort Macleod. Apparently Albertans aren't heeding NDP lectures to "change their behaviour." pic.twitter.com/euc7vGk2ZH — Jason Kenney (@jkenney) January 4, 2017 Some people

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April 23, 2020 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: The United Conservative Party Screws Albertans, Again.

Here in Alberta I am really enjoying our neoconservative UCP government.  They replaced a government that sough to balance economic investment and diversification with support of the public good.  The UCP essentially tore up that balanced economic plan and went ‘all-in’ on ramping up the Oil & Gas industry and

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April 21, 2020 John Klein

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Is Oil Profitable? Negative.

This has been obvious to me for most of the last decade, after it became clear that good information was never going to win over enough people, because disinformation had already corrupted too many. https://t.co/jbwxnjMkB2 — Saskboy from #SocialDistancing (@saskboy) April 20, 2020 Oil prices turn negative for first time

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April 19, 2020 Bill Longstaff

Views from the Beltline: Albertans Want off the Oil Train … Eventually

A common opinion about Albertans is that when it comes to energy they are about oil and nothing but oil. Like most generalizations this contains some truth, but also like most generalizations it isn’t quite true. A CBC News poll, taken just before the pandemic changed everything, reported that 79

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