@singingwithin

Quaker, father, environmental lawyer with @WCELaw. Interested in #ClimateChange, Fossil fuel company accountability & spirit-led economics. My views are my own.

 Esquimalt, British Columbia
Joined November 2009
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Where is Canada's 2035 climate target? The deadline established in Canadian law to set the country's next climate milestone passed yesterday, without a word from government. #climate #cdnpoli linkedin.com/pulse/where-can…

Where is Canada's 2035 climate target?

Canada's climate legislation, the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, specifies "The Minister must set the national greenhouse gas emissions target for the 2035 milestone year, no later...

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Premier Eby said that BC NDP would drop the #CarbonPrice if federal gov drops it. Think the #CarbonTax is costly? Wait until you see #ClimateChange. We respond to calls to rollback #ClimateAction without proposing realistic alternatives: wcel.org/media-release/west-… #bcpoli
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After their #PresidentialDebate tomorrow, what would you like to see @KamalaHarris and @realDonaldTrump compete in next? (or suggest another event) #USElection2024 #election #trump #harris
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🚨BREAKING: Chicago is suing Big Oil companies for climate deception! “The fossil fuel industry should be able to pay for the damage they’ve caused. We have to see accountability for the climate crisis.” chicago.suntimes.com/city-ha…
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Wildfire smoke in February? This is not normal and we have #fossilfuel pollution and #climatechange to thank for it. #SueBigOil #Cdnpoli #bcpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…

Believe it or not, wildfire smoke is already back in some parts of B.C. | CBC News

Wildfires that went dormant over the winter have once again moved above ground, producing visible smoke and smouldering, the B.C. Wildfire Service says.

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Canada has turned down a request from its own environment minister calling for an emergency order to protect 2,500 hectares of critical habitat in B.C.’s Fraser Canyon. It is home to the last wild-born northern spotted owl in the country. nsnews.com/highlights/canada…

Canada denies emergency order to protect habitat of last wild-born spotted owl

The decision comes amid allegations that logging continues to eat into old-growth habitat meant to be set aside for the last remaining wild-born spotted owl in Canada.

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Rich Kruger CEO of Suncor will testify in Parliament on Monday morning. In a summer where 200,000 Canadians were dislocated by catastrophic wildfire he boasted of the "sense of urgency" for Big Oil to make as much profit as possible.
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Sue Big Oil@SueBigOil1 Sep 2023
Across BC, groups are organizing to get their local govs to #SueBigOil – and the campaign is gaining steam. Check out this great feature profiling local climate champions & volunteers raising this issue in their communities: breachmedia.ca/sue-big-oil-c… via @TheBreachMedia #bcpoli

A group of B.C. towns want to sue Big Oil over the climate crisis ⋆ The Breach

A coalition of British Columbians are organizing their municipalities to take oil and gas companies to court over the costs of the climate crisis

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Fossil fuel lobbyists have spent billions to convince us that serious #ClimateAction is too expensive or too inconvenient. But the droughts, floods & fires are all around us. And they are massively expensive, inconvenient, heartbreakingly fatal. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice
Seth Klein@SethDKlein22 Jul 2023
Four people missing as record rainfall causes widespread flooding in Nova Scotia theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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1/ Here's a🧵on why the record shattering extremes in Europe are so unsettling for climate scientists. It's increasingly looking that we've underestimated the impacts of #ClimateBreakdown... xitter.cf/WxNB_/status/168132472…
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@WxNB_18 Jul 2023
BREAKING: Rome, Italy just experienced its highest temperature in recorded history with 42.9°C (109.2°F). This beats the previous record from 2022 by 2 full degrees Celsius. That is a huge margin.
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We need a majority of people to know 5 things, which they largely do not:   1. Pollution from oil, coal and gas is heating the earth and causing dangerous weather. 2. All the climate scientists agree. 3. We must move quickly if we are to save a livable climate. 4. There are exciting solutions available right now, most of which save money. 5. Big polluting companies knew, lied, and stopped action. They need to pay to clean up their mess.
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I mean it's almost like they have every financial incentive to delay, lobby against climate action and propose false solutions, believing that they won't be held accounted for the results. #SueBigOil
Catherine McKenna
@cathmckenna7 Jul 2023
"I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong." Great piece by @CFigueres. I feel exactly same way - they could have used massive profits to ⬇️ GHGs, align with @IEA's call for no new production & invest in renewables at scale - but they didn't. aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…
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Alarm bells should be ringing everywhere. We seem to have underestimated the chance of climate breakdown causing simultaneous harvest failure in the world's major breadbaskets. It's an issue I discuss in Regenesis, but it appears much worse than we thought nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections

Nature Communications - Simultaneous harvest failures across crop-producing regions are major threats to global food security. A strongly meandering jet can trigger these, however, climate and crop...

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It's D-Day for fossil fuel companies. Decarbonisation will happen with or without them - whether that's in time for humanity to get through the challenges we know are coming remains to be seen. My piece in @AJEnglish today. aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/…

I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong

Their unprecedented profits over the past year have shown their unwillingness to adapt. It's now D-Day for them.

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If you fly over British Columbia, the most acute problem affecting our forests becomes clear; it’s not just Fairy Creek, old growth logging or clearcutting, it’s the astonishing rate of logging that is happening due to the provincially set Annual Allowable Cut. A 🧵 #bcpoli
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Currently, over 869 k ha have burned in BC thus far in 2023 and most of the fire season is ahead of us. ciffc.net/situation/ This means 2023 is already the 3rd highest seasonal total since 1950.
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Matthias Schmelzer@MGSchmelzer21 Jun 2023
When you hear about climate-related #heatwaves, #floods or #droughts, remember: In 2022 alone, five oil companies ⁠— ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, and TotalEnergies ⁠— more than doubled their profits to an all-time historic record of $200 billion. visualcapitalist.com/cp/big-…
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Julia Levin@lev_jf15 Jun 2023
🧵New @PBO_DPB analysis reveals that despite promises to #StopFundingFossils, Canada continues to pour fuel on the fire by subsidizing oil and gas companies In 2022, in just one year, the federal govt provided over $22 billion to oil and gas companies #cdnpoli
Parliamentary Budget Office@PBO_DPB15 Jun 2023
REPORT: “Update on the energy sector and agriculture: federal revenue forgone from tax provisions” pbo-dpb.ca/en/publications/R… #cdnecon #cdnpoli
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Montana youth are making climate history TODAY! Trial in Held v. State of Montana begins at 9:00am MT in Helena. Details about this first-of-its-kind climate trial can be found at: bit.ly/MTClimateTrial #YouthvGovMT
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Celebrating 2 #climatechange wins today. First, I presented last night to @TownofViewRoyal Council & they voted to work to #SueBigOil! suebigoil.ca/view-royal-vote… 1 of 3.
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Thrilled that View Royal recognized that residents cannot afford the costs of climate change while #BigOil pockets the profits without taking responsibility. Celebrating by wearing my #SueBigOil t-shirt. Buy your own at suebigoil.ca/visit-our-store… (2 of 3)
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On a more personal note, also celebrating that @VECoop is installing solar panels on my home today. Made possible by #CanadaGreenerHomes. (3 of 3)
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