Here’s an idea:

Windfall tax from current price spike earmarked for cleanup of orphan and likely to be orphaned wells.

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... What in the fuck is wrong with people?

Figure from an article showing that "Meteorological costs show a modest upward trend, while wildfire costs rise more steeply over time."

Costs from #wildfires in #Canada are rising and outpacing other weather related disasters. There's also disproportionately less reporting of disaster costs from rural and Indigenous communities.

Congratulations to Mazen El-Baba and team for this important research: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

World-renowned climate scientist and author Kate Marvel, Ph.D., returns to Project Drawdown Marvel to lead new initiative focused on advancing critical climate solutions. “I’m unbelievably excited to return to Project Drawdown."

BIG, EXCITING NEWS!

Dr. Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social -- world-leading climate scientist and author -- is coming to Project Drawdown after leaving NASA.

She will be a Senior Scientist, leading an exciting new initiative on "Emergency Brake" climate solutions.

drawdown.org/news/world-r...

Climate Working Group Records These records released under a federal court order reveal that many of the Trump administration’s unlawful climate actions stem from a secretly formed “Climate Working Group” that targeted the Endange...

Yesterday, the EDF and @ucsclimate.bsky.social made publicly available the entire set of more than 100,153 pages of government records from the Trump Administration's 'Climate Working Group' that were released under a federal court order. Check it out here:
www.edf.org/climate-work...

What the fuck.

We spent millions in 2012 specifically to make the transmission network more robust FOR wind and solar.

But this is all just rules. Rules by bigots and fascists.

An evening with Avi Lewis and friends in St. John's, March 16, 7–9 PM at Gower Street United Church. RSVP: act.lewisforleader.ca/stjohns

St. John’s! Join me on March 16 for an evening with friends & special guests NDP MHA Sheilagh O’Leary, singer-songwriters Kelly McMichael and Valmy, & former NDP MHA Gene Long.

The NDP comeback is here. Come see the momentum for yourself!

RSVP: https://avilewis.link/stjohns

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."

Just saying it right out loud now.

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

VIA naleybynature

"Billionaires are NOT going to save us and they should have no part in governing us and the systems in place to protect us. We need massive movement to push billionaires out of these industries especially the ones that govern us."

Off-grid Dublin data centre fuelled by own power plant Work has been completed on a data centre in Dublin that is not connected to the national electricity grid and instead runs off its own on-site power plant.

This is shocking reporting.

We are led to believe that data centres building their own massive, fossil fuelled energy plants is a positive step.

How is increasing dependency on gas, higher emissions and privately owned energy infrastructure positive?

www.rte.ie/news/busines...

One hundred and sixty-five children were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike on their elementary school. This is an aerial image of the graves being prepared for their bodies.

I defy anyone to justify this.

Every time you hear these reassuringly small or modest energy or water use per AI query numbers, you should understand that they can only be arrived at because of the GARGANTUAN underlying scale of Big Tech's AI infrastructure (often fossil fuel-powered & out-competing communities who need water)

Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they say.

A new report, DepaveLA, finds that 44% of Los Angeles County’s 312k acres of pavement may not be essential for roads, sidewalks and parking, and could be converted to greener cooler cover and habitat.

www.latimes.com/environment/...

acceleratela.org/depavela/

This is a great read.

Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected

Who could have seen this coming?

Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".

A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.

When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.

Wow! Wouldn’t it be wonderful if #Canada and #Newfoundland embraced community energy!

Community energy investment to build community wealth and power Biggest ever public investment in community energy will cut bills and create revenue for community centres, social clubs and places of worship.

Up to £1 billion (!) of new funding for local energy projects to be made available through the Local Power Plan...

"The news stories you consume...are increasingly controlled by technocrat Trump loyalists, and algorithmically skewed to the right to foment hatred...you’d do better getting all your news from Neil Young press releases."

Stewart Lee's brilliant weekly column.
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Some 10,000 people demonstrated in Milan on Saturday, on the first full day of the Winter Olympics, to protest against the environmental, economic and social impact of the Games. A hardcore splinter group later attempted to reach the Santagiulia Olympic ice hockey rink, resulting in clashes.

Local Economies Pushed Aside as Newfoundland LNG Megaproject Presses Ahead The arrival of a deep-pocketed industrial conglomerate from South Korea may be improving the odds for a $10- to $15-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) megaproject off the Newfoundland coast that was ...

#Fermeuse, NL, left out of the picture when it comes to a mega LNG project on its doorstep: Mayor Jerome Kenny says “while Hanwha and Fermeuse Energy may have entered into some MOU, Council has not seen, or have been made aware of, the contents of the MOU."
www.theenergymix.com/local-econom...

New Political Science Research: local press coverage enhances the quality of U.S. state-level democracy, and serves as a moderating force when it comes to ideological extremism in state legislative politics:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Must read.

On a bright red background, the photos of five authors appear on top in narrow column images that resemble the spines of books. The author’s book covers also appear below their pictures. Underneath are the event details written in white and yellow text framed by white borders with one corner resembling the pages of a book. In the bottom left corner is a picture of the host that resembles the front cover of a book. Beside it is the logo for Canada’s Theatre Museum.

You’re invited to the Playwrights Canada Press Winter 2026 Book Launch, an evening celebrating the newest works from some of the country’s most acclaimed and influential playwrights. RSVP here: www.playwrightscanada.com/Blog/2026/Pl...

Have you checked tool libraries?

BREAKING: Winter sports fans want Olympic organizers to drop fossil fuel sponsors.
Good to join international colleagues in a unified call to protect our health and save our snow and ice.
More here: www.newweather.org/2026/01/29/n...

For much of the 20th Century, the forces of violence and oppression claimed their way was "natural." (It's "natural" for men to be in charge; it's "natural" for whites to be in charge; it's "natural" for man to dominate nature).

Seems like now they're saying their way is "realistic."

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said.

"Two of them are high-schoolers.

"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

My bike and I hope to contribute more to the economy this year than ever before.

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