🔥🔥MP Guilbeault lays how much the fed-AB MOU puts at risk
"Compromises on industrial carbon pricing, clean electricity & methane regs undermine Canada’s climate commitments, risk irreversible damage to human health, the environment & trust of Indigenous communities"
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canada’s EV Strategy Pivot: From Failure-ish to Opportunity
Max Fawcett and I discuss the new auto strategy, focusing on EVs.
#cdnpoli
youtu.be/Hk65LKmuikU
In this 2010 TED talk, I linked nuclear weapons proliferation to nuclear energy growth
www.ted.com/talks/stewar...
The response was denial, obfuscation, and attacks.
Yet, the purpose of the war with Iran is to stop them from obtaining nuclear weapons using their nuclear energy program as cover.
A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.
Richard Midhurst's (independent journalist) documentary film will forever change how you see the world and US foreign policy. Explains how Greenland, Iran, Venezuela, China are all connected and what the US plan is.
"BIRTH OF THE PETROGAS-DOLLAR AND THE PIRATE STATE"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nt1...
The most predictable thing in the world: the Iran war is pushing emerging economies to more fulsomely embrace the Chinese clean-energy+electrification model.
When fossil fuel producers demonstrate that they are deranged morons ... you look elsewhere!
www.airdriecityview.com/opinion/lett... Farm groups oppose AAFC research cuts - read why in this letter. Add your voice too. www.nfu.ca/stop-the-aaf...
Colombia declares its entire Amazon biome a reserve for renewable natural resources—effectively bans any new oil exploration, hydrocarbon production, or large-scale mining.
Protected area approx 483,000 sq km—equivalent to the size of Sweden
#TropicalRainforest
#decarbonization
#envhist
Cost of net zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock.
#climate
eciu.net/media/press-...
I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!
The fastest and cheapest way to alleviate rapid electric load growth is through expanding investment in energy efficiency and demand flexibility.
www.aceee.org/press-releas...
Canada's energy sector directly employs over 300,000 people - of which two thirds are in petroleum.
Geothermal projects use the same expertise and skills as the ~200,000 people working in Canada's conventional energy sector.
This is a space where Canada can compete - and win.
RFK JR. ONE MONTH AGO: “I believe glyphosate causes cancer.”
TODAY: Trump signs EO unleashing the use of glyphosate. 🤔
MAHA folks are feeling betrayed, as they should be, and as many knew they would.
🚨 NEW | Counting energy from the perspective of the consumer, rather than the supplier, can help us better understand the dramatic changes sweeping the energy sector today 🔎🌪️⚡️
With this new framework, Ember unpacks 4 key battles for the future of energy 🧵 1/7 👇
2025 EV Share of New Car Sales, Top 10 Countries
1 Norway 97%
2 Nepal 73%
3 Denmark 69%
4 Sweden 61%
5 Iceland 57%
6 Finland 56%
7 Netherlands 56%
8 China 53%
9 Singapore 47%
10 Belgium 43%
EVs are now mainstream across much of the world
www.visualcapitalist.com/ev-share-new... (SG data added)
“In addition to permafrost thaw, wildfires, are increasing in frequency. In 2024, the combination of wildfires and permafrost thaw in the Arctic tundra meant that, for the 1st time in millennia, the region emitted more carbon than it stored”
www.ft.com/content/2ffa...
#GraphicOfTheWeek: Advances in geothermal technology mean it is no longer limited to volcanic regions like Iceland.
43 GW of geothermal capacity is already cost-competitive with coal and gas, and up to 42% of EU coal and gas power could be replaced.
ember-energy.org/lat...
Since 2021, China has added more power capacity than the US has built in its ENTIRE HISTORY. Read that again while we waste time debating "gas as a bridge" or waiting 20 years for 1 nuclear plant
>China just dropped 543GW in just ONE year
>China is building 6x more capacity than US over next 6 years
Contributions to the growth in Chinese investment (left) and GDP overall (right) in 2025 by sector, trillion yuan. Source: Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) analysis for Carbon Brief.
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
Nuclear industry "fizzling out"
In 2025, ~500x more solar+wind added (793 GW) than net new nuclear (1.6GW=4.4GW added-2.8GW retired).
Fewest additions since 2017
5 fewer reactors 2025 than 2024
Number of countries building reactors declined from 16 to 11 in 2 y
theecologist.org/2026/jan/28/...
"Backwards’ was my first thought," said Cathy Holtslander, director of research and policy at the National Farmers Union. "Obviously, they made these cuts without knowing what they were doing."
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/n...
"The choice facing Carney is stark. Invest in the economy of the past, and undermine the future. Or invest in the economy of the future, and spark a new era of Canadian prosperity."
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
📢 New blog: 1.5°C compatibility in Germany’s upcoming revision of export credit rules for fossil gas
Climate target assessments aren’t sufficient: gas project developers should provide country-specific proof that any additional gas capacity is 1.5°C-compatible.
Read it here 🔗 bit.ly/4sMnRoA
Recommended read: Two Harvard scholars argued in Climate Home News for COP presidencies to focus less on climate policy and more on global politics.
Today on Volts: "closed-loop" geothermal energy digs deeper than conventional geothermal & does not require natural hotspots, so it can be done anywhere. I talk with Eavor, a cutting-edge Canadian startup that has just opened its first closed-loop facility in Germany, about the possibilities.
ANDING ROCK Standing Rock Sioux Tribe The Office of Chairman Sitting Bear P.O. BOx D Fort Yates, ND 58538 CHAIRMAN SITTING BEAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING SRST PUBLIC SAFETY JANUARY 9, 2026 I have been receiving reports and evidence of First Nations people being racially targeted, assaulted, and detained by the federal agency Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). We want to remind our members to be safe and proactive by carrying with you at a minimum your tribal identification cards or a copy of your degree of Indian Blood. Our tribal identification affirms our citizenship and political status. Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands. Any federal activity within our boundaries must recognize and respect our tribal sovereignty, treaty obligations, and established jurisdictional boundaries. Any ICE presence or activity within our lands is not authorized, not welcome, and will be addressed. Unauthorized personnel will be escorted off our lands.
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
“AI is just a tool” says tech mogul who is just a tool
54% of China’s new car sales were plugin in first 11 months of 2025 (33% BEVs alone). It took just 4 years for Norway to go from 50% to 90%, and it should not take more than that for China: the country will be at nearly-all new vehicles electric by 2030
cleantechnica.com/2026/01/04/h...
