#oilsands — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oilsands, aggregated by home.social.
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@cbcnews @calgary-cbcnews For context - for 20 years Tim Hodgson worked in New York, London, Silicon Valley and Toronto with Goldman Sachs and served as CEO of Goldman Sachs Canada from 2005 to 2010. He worked with Mark Carney at Goldman Sachs and joined the Bank of Canada as special adviser to him in 2010, when Carney was governor. He was board member for Calgary-based #oilsands producer MEG Energy from 2016 to 2019. He doesn't work for #Canadians.
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@cbcnews @calgary-cbcnews For context - for 20 years Tim Hodgson worked in New York, London, Silicon Valley and Toronto with Goldman Sachs and served as CEO of Goldman Sachs Canada from 2005 to 2010. He worked with Mark Carney at Goldman Sachs and joined the Bank of Canada as special adviser to him in 2010, when Carney was governor. He was board member for Calgary-based #oilsands producer MEG Energy from 2016 to 2019. He doesn't work for #Canadians.
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They Are Dying. And #Canada Is Watching.
#Mikisew #Cree’s own health study confirms what the community has always known: the #OilSands are killing them. If governments and industry don’t act, they say they will shut it all down.
by Brandi Morin
Apr 13, 2026Excerpt: "The findings confirmed what this community has carried in their grief, in their graveyards, for generations: cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 percent higher than the rest of Alberta. Since 1993, there have been 149 documented cases — and that number, Tuccaro says, is a gross underestimate. People who leave the community for treatment are no longer counted in local statistics. Factor those in, and the real number for Mikisew Cree members alone, he estimates, is closer to 250 to 300."
#CanadaPol #FortChipewyan #MikisewCreeFirstNation #NativeAmericanNews #TarSands #BigOil #FirstNations #EnvironmentalRacism
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They Are Dying. And #Canada Is Watching.
#Mikisew #Cree’s own health study confirms what the community has always known: the #OilSands are killing them. If governments and industry don’t act, they say they will shut it all down.
by Brandi Morin
Apr 13, 2026Excerpt: "The findings confirmed what this community has carried in their grief, in their graveyards, for generations: cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 percent higher than the rest of Alberta. Since 1993, there have been 149 documented cases — and that number, Tuccaro says, is a gross underestimate. People who leave the community for treatment are no longer counted in local statistics. Factor those in, and the real number for Mikisew Cree members alone, he estimates, is closer to 250 to 300."
#CanadaPol #FortChipewyan #MikisewCreeFirstNation #NativeAmericanNews #TarSands #BigOil #FirstNations #EnvironmentalRacism
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#Canada is electrifying! #Alberta #oilsands #Pipelines, #Nuclear, #LNG, new #Hydro are economic and environmental disasters that cannot compete with #Wind, #Solar, #Battery, #Geothermal. None of the old conventional energy systems can compete with fairly with the #RenewableEnergyTransition!
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#Canada is electrifying! #Alberta #oilsands #Pipelines, #Nuclear, #LNG, new #Hydro are economic and environmental disasters that cannot compete with #Wind, #Solar, #Battery, #Geothermal. None of the old conventional energy systems can compete with fairly with the #RenewableEnergyTransition!
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The "Oilsands Region" refers to not just the active surface mines, but a large region across 1/5 of Alberta that overlays #bitumen deposits. Most of it is in fact still native vegetation, but it is highly fragmented by seismic lines and other human footprint. After ten years, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has finally been able to publish this report https://osr-report-2026.abmi.ca/osr-home?mc_cid=dc38273590&mc_eid=726c727c41 #oilsands #alberta #biodiversity
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The "Oilsands Region" refers to not just the active surface mines, but a large region across 1/5 of Alberta that overlays #bitumen deposits. Most of it is in fact still native vegetation, but it is highly fragmented by seismic lines and other human footprint. After ten years, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has finally been able to publish this report https://osr-report-2026.abmi.ca/osr-home?mc_cid=dc38273590&mc_eid=726c727c41 #oilsands #alberta #biodiversity
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Mikisew Cree First Nation sues Alberta, feds over industrial development impacts
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HT @miki_lou
"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. "
#BigOil #TarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #WaterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #ToxicChemicals
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HT @miki_lou
"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. "
#BigOil #TarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #WaterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #ToxicChemicals
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HT @miki_lou
"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. "
#BigOil #TarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #WaterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #ToxicChemicals
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HT @miki_lou
"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. "
#BigOil #TarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #WaterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #ToxicChemicals
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HT @miki_lou
"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. "
#BigOil #TarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #WaterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #ToxicChemicals
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For #Indigenous communities in ‘#Alberta,’ the #OilIndustry has left an ugly stain
Facing #OilSpills, evacuations and #illness — nations downstream of the #OilSands grieve their way of life, as the #corporations polluting their water get richer
By Brandi Morin, December 7, 2023
Excerpt: "The rush of the wind and sprays of water add to the thrill as Jason Castor guides his riverboat through a stretch of #LakeAthabasca near #FortChipewyan, in #Treaty8 territories. If he slows down, his boat could get stuck in the mud or even flip over because the water levels in this spot are remarkably low. He steers around buoys, dodges logs and other debris while accelerating to the mouth of the channel, which he knows should be deep enough to navigate at an average speed.
"While trawling his boat further down the river, Castor points to odd-looking clusters resembling dirty foam floating by.
" 'There’s just a slurry of a foam that looks like #oil or some kind of #chemical in there,' says Castor, a 42-year-old father, construction business owner and member of the #AthabascaChipewyan #FirstNation (#ACFN).
"He’s been a traditional hunter, trapper and fisherman for nearly 20 years and has documented strange changes in the water, the land and animals.
"Something’s going on in the river, he says.
" 'They say that it’s natural, well, I know that that’s not natural because I’ve been on the river my whole life,' he explains as he points to brown and #WhiteFoam, #OilSheens and other discoloured formations floating on the river.
"Nowadays, it’s risky to navigate these waterways because of industrial intakes like the #WACBennettDam to the west in B.C.; the #AlbertaOilSands just up the river and impacts from #ClimateChange.
"The #PeaceAthabascaDelta is the second-largest #freshwater delta in the world.
"The #AthabascaRiver, and the larger delta, also sit atop the world’s largest known reservoir of #CrudeBitumen.
"The industry that has sprung up around it drives Alberta’s and Canada’s economy, employing about 138,000 people. In 2021, crude bitumen production totaled approximately 3.3 million barrels per day. The oil sands energy sector including oil sands, conventional #OilAndGas, mining and quarrying is valued at about $18 billion.
"But while Canada prospers off the oil sands industry, #Indigenous communities downstream are dealing with its #toxic impacts.
"Not only are the water levels fluctuating, but the health of the water flowing through the Athabasca River is jeopardized."
#CanPol #CanadaPol #Alberta #TarSands #BigOilAndGas #OilSands #WaterIsLife #Pollution #Environment #Oiligarchy
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For #Indigenous communities in ‘#Alberta,’ the #OilIndustry has left an ugly stain
Facing #OilSpills, evacuations and #illness — nations downstream of the #OilSands grieve their way of life, as the #corporations polluting their water get richer
By Brandi Morin, December 7, 2023
Excerpt: "The rush of the wind and sprays of water add to the thrill as Jason Castor guides his riverboat through a stretch of #LakeAthabasca near #FortChipewyan, in #Treaty8 territories. If he slows down, his boat could get stuck in the mud or even flip over because the water levels in this spot are remarkably low. He steers around buoys, dodges logs and other debris while accelerating to the mouth of the channel, which he knows should be deep enough to navigate at an average speed.
"While trawling his boat further down the river, Castor points to odd-looking clusters resembling dirty foam floating by.
" 'There’s just a slurry of a foam that looks like #oil or some kind of #chemical in there,' says Castor, a 42-year-old father, construction business owner and member of the #AthabascaChipewyan #FirstNation (#ACFN).
"He’s been a traditional hunter, trapper and fisherman for nearly 20 years and has documented strange changes in the water, the land and animals.
"Something’s going on in the river, he says.
" 'They say that it’s natural, well, I know that that’s not natural because I’ve been on the river my whole life,' he explains as he points to brown and #WhiteFoam, #OilSheens and other discoloured formations floating on the river.
"Nowadays, it’s risky to navigate these waterways because of industrial intakes like the #WACBennettDam to the west in B.C.; the #AlbertaOilSands just up the river and impacts from #ClimateChange.
"The #PeaceAthabascaDelta is the second-largest #freshwater delta in the world.
"The #AthabascaRiver, and the larger delta, also sit atop the world’s largest known reservoir of #CrudeBitumen.
"The industry that has sprung up around it drives Alberta’s and Canada’s economy, employing about 138,000 people. In 2021, crude bitumen production totaled approximately 3.3 million barrels per day. The oil sands energy sector including oil sands, conventional #OilAndGas, mining and quarrying is valued at about $18 billion.
"But while Canada prospers off the oil sands industry, #Indigenous communities downstream are dealing with its #toxic impacts.
"Not only are the water levels fluctuating, but the health of the water flowing through the Athabasca River is jeopardized."
#CanPol #CanadaPol #Alberta #TarSands #BigOilAndGas #OilSands #WaterIsLife #Pollution #Environment #Oiligarchy
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#Cancer Haunts Neighbors of #Canada’s #OilSands Wastelands
Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated #mining waste into the river system.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/health/canada-oil-sands-fort-chipewyan-alberta.html
https://archive.ph/sxMsp
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#Cancer Haunts Neighbors of #Canada’s #OilSands Wastelands
Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated #mining waste into the river system.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/health/canada-oil-sands-fort-chipewyan-alberta.html
https://archive.ph/sxMsp
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"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. " https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-dying-and-canada-is-watching?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true
#BigOil #tarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #waterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #toxicChemicals
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"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. " https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-dying-and-canada-is-watching?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true
#BigOil #tarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #waterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #toxicChemicals
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"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. " https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-dying-and-canada-is-watching?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true
#BigOil #tarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #waterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #toxicChemicals
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"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. " https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-dying-and-canada-is-watching?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true
#BigOil #tarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #waterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #toxicChemicals
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"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. " https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-dying-and-canada-is-watching?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true
#BigOil #tarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #waterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #toxicChemicals
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#Alberta #Conservatives #UCP #DanielleSmith #JasonKenny #Redford #Klein none of them made the industry cleanup so we now have a multi billion dollar liability. We also have a multi billion dollar liability to clean up #OilSands messes.
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FR - Parmi les dernières vidéos de The Narwhal, il y a celle présentant la situation des pipelines au Canada, et quelques-uns des enjeux liés. Sidérant quand des chiffres concrets sont avancés. Plus de 800 000 km de pipelines au pays ! [en anglais]
ENG - Among The Narwhal's latest videos is one presenting the situation of pipelines in Canada and some of the issues involved. It's staggering when concrete figures are presented. More than 800,000 km of pipelines in the country!
https://thenarwhal.ca/video-pipelines-canada/
#pipelines #GasPipelines #oil #Gas #oilSands #canada #environment #FirstNations @thenarwhal
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FR - Parmi les dernières vidéos de The Narwhal, il y a celle présentant la situation des pipelines au Canada, et quelques-uns des enjeux liés. Sidérant quand des chiffres concrets sont avancés. Plus de 800 000 km de pipelines au pays ! [en anglais]
ENG - Among The Narwhal's latest videos is one presenting the situation of pipelines in Canada and some of the issues involved. It's staggering when concrete figures are presented. More than 800,000 km of pipelines in the country!
https://thenarwhal.ca/video-pipelines-canada/
#pipelines #GasPipelines #oil #Gas #oilSands #canada #environment #FirstNations @thenarwhal
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#CBC provide a very good review of misconceptions and misunderstandings of the #tankerban #tanker ban off the north coast of #BritishColumbia #Alberta #OilSands #tarsands #Pipeline
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A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit | An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.
[David Hughes] is one of the country’s foremost energy analysts and a geologist who worked for the Geological Survey of Canada for 32 years. Based in B.C., Hughes is neither an industry booster nor a green activist.
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Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Alberta #Canada #OilSands #CancerCrisis #EnvironmentalJustice #CleanWater #Health #ToxicTailings #ClimateChange #StopPollution #OulAndGas
https://the-14.com/alberta-chiefs-say-oilsands-causing-cancer-surge-call-for-halt-to-tailings-plan/ -
Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Alberta #Canada #OilSands #CancerCrisis #EnvironmentalJustice #CleanWater #Health #ToxicTailings #ClimateChange #StopPollution #OulAndGas
https://the-14.com/alberta-chiefs-say-oilsands-causing-cancer-surge-call-for-halt-to-tailings-plan/ -
Satellite data shows methane emissions are declining in part of Canada’s oil patch, but more monitoring is needed
#Alberta #Canada #Methane #Emissions #Oilsands #Energy #ClimateChange #Environment #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #GreenhouseGas #ClimateAction
https://the-14.com/satellite-data-shows-methane-emissions-are-declining-in-part-of-canadas-oil-patch-but-more-monitoring-is-needed/ -
Satellite data shows methane emissions are declining in part of Canada’s oil patch, but more monitoring is needed
#Alberta #Canada #Methane #Emissions #Oilsands #Energy #ClimateChange #Environment #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #GreenhouseGas #ClimateAction
https://the-14.com/satellite-data-shows-methane-emissions-are-declining-in-part-of-canadas-oil-patch-but-more-monitoring-is-needed/ -
The Dig, Part 5 - Fort Mac, Part II: Life in the Dig.
Wranglers ride flame-lances, oozes bleed fuel, & camps choke on plastic smoke. Hard work, short lives, whispered legends — survival is ritual.
https://www.hodgepocalypse.com/2025/10/the-dig-part-5-fort-mac-continued-and.html
#drevrpg hodgepocalypse #dnd5e #canada #alberta #oilsands -
The Dig, Part 5 - Fort Mac, Part II: Life in the Dig.
Wranglers ride flame-lances, oozes bleed fuel, & camps choke on plastic smoke. Hard work, short lives, whispered legends — survival is ritual.
https://www.hodgepocalypse.com/2025/10/the-dig-part-5-fort-mac-continued-and.html
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Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
#Canada #MarkCarney #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #NetZero #Environmental #Sustainability #Oilsands #GHG #ClimateCrisis #CarbonEmissions #GreenLeadership
https://the-14.com/mark-carneys-climate-inaction-is-at-odds-with-his-awareness-of-climate-changes-existential-threat/ -
New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants [TEMPO, NASA]
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https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles/tempo-overview <-- shared overview
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TEMPO - Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #NorthAmerica #Mexico #Canada #USA #oilsands #tarsands #emissions #earthobservation #pollution #pollutants #troposphere #O3 #NO2 #SO2 #ozone #CFCs #climatechange #ozonelayer #OMPS #JPSS #satellite #monitoring #instrumentation #ESA #TROPOMI #sentinel5 #TEMPO #geostationary #airpollution #GeoAQ #model #modeling #emissions #atmospheric #atmosphere
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New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants [TEMPO, NASA]
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https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles/tempo-overview <-- shared overview
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TEMPO - Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #NorthAmerica #Mexico #Canada #USA #oilsands #tarsands #emissions #earthobservation #pollution #pollutants #troposphere #O3 #NO2 #SO2 #ozone #CFCs #climatechange #ozonelayer #OMPS #JPSS #satellite #monitoring #instrumentation #ESA #TROPOMI #sentinel5 #TEMPO #geostationary #airpollution #GeoAQ #model #modeling #emissions #atmospheric #atmosphere
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New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants [TEMPO, NASA]
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https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles/tempo-overview <-- shared overview
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TEMPO - Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #NorthAmerica #Mexico #Canada #USA #oilsands #tarsands #emissions #earthobservation #pollution #pollutants #troposphere #O3 #NO2 #SO2 #ozone #CFCs #climatechange #ozonelayer #OMPS #JPSS #satellite #monitoring #instrumentation #ESA #TROPOMI #sentinel5 #TEMPO #geostationary #airpollution #GeoAQ #model #modeling #emissions #atmospheric #atmosphere
@nasa -
New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants [TEMPO, NASA]
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https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles/tempo-overview <-- shared overview
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TEMPO - Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #NorthAmerica #Mexico #Canada #USA #oilsands #tarsands #emissions #earthobservation #pollution #pollutants #troposphere #O3 #NO2 #SO2 #ozone #CFCs #climatechange #ozonelayer #OMPS #JPSS #satellite #monitoring #instrumentation #ESA #TROPOMI #sentinel5 #TEMPO #geostationary #airpollution #GeoAQ #model #modeling #emissions #atmospheric #atmosphere
@nasa -
New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants [TEMPO, NASA]
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https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/articles/tempo-overview <-- shared overview
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TEMPO - Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #NorthAmerica #Mexico #Canada #USA #oilsands #tarsands #emissions #earthobservation #pollution #pollutants #troposphere #O3 #NO2 #SO2 #ozone #CFCs #climatechange #ozonelayer #OMPS #JPSS #satellite #monitoring #instrumentation #ESA #TROPOMI #sentinel5 #TEMPO #geostationary #airpollution #GeoAQ #model #modeling #emissions #atmospheric #atmosphere
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The Polluter Pay Garbage Day rally took place at the Alberta Legislature on May 13 to demand oil and gas companies clean up their own messes without using taxpayer's money.
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#yeg #yegdt #tarsands #oilsands #ableg #abpoli #oilandgas #photojournalism #yegphotographer #yegactivist -
#GHGemissions associated with #logging & #WoodUse were approximately 75 megatonnes in 2020, matching #emissions from all of #Canada ’s #oilsands operations, & making logging one of the #HighestEmitting sectors of Canada’s economy.
Canada’s #failure to #report #LoggingEmissions is a #SeriousProblem ..#StopEcocide #CorporateGreed #corrupt #Unethical #Dishonest #LackOfTransparency #ClimateChange #ecojustice #StopClearcutLogging #JustTransition #Degrowth #StopDeforestation