JEmphatically
@JEmphatically@mstdn.ca  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

"Renewable natural gas" is just biogas rebranded. 🙄

I was just on the Enbridge website where they are raving about it. False solutions and greenwashing everywhere.

"RNG is not as low-carbon as the industry claims and its local air and water impacts are concentrated in vulnerable communities. Even if it were low-carbon and equitable, there simply isn’t enough of it to substitute for more than a small fraction of natural gas. And even if it were low-carbon, equitable, and abundant, it still wouldn’t be an excuse to expand natural gas infrastructure or slow electrification."

#ableg #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/2/14/21131109/california-natural-gas-renewable-socalgas
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

A discussion on brief history of Canadian nationalism, including earlier attempts at imagining a socialist national project that poses a question of whether it’s even possible to extricate a good Canadian nationalism from the history of colonial land theft and genocide that undergirds this state, revisit the one time Canada was actually cool, and offer trenchant critiques of Canadian civic statuary.

https://albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/07/15/elbows-to-the-left-is-canada-worth-fighting-for/

#canada #cdnpoli
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Weird how Liberals act like they're so very concerned about misinformation, yet here we have Mark Carney peddling discredited carbon capture technology as a way to produce “decarbonized” oil.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/government-adviser-slams-mark-carney-for-promoting-decarbonized-oil-pipelines/article_71fd48cf-5328-4936-b827-d59faee9a817.html

For those unaware, carbon capture is a scam and it is absolutely not a viable solution for dealing with emissions.

https://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/why-carbon-capture-and-storage-is-not-a-real-climate-solution/

#climatecrisis #canada #cdnpoli
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Just over 100 days into his term, Carney is cutting public sector while ramping up military spending. He’s launched a whole-of-government review, pushing deep cuts, deregulation, and a $9 billion boost to defense.

Canada is headed for a neoliberal austerity nightmare.

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/mark-carney-canada-austerity-cuts/

#canada #cdnpoli #economy
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp last week

Tokyo says it is standing firm on trade after Trump announced a 25% tariff on all Japanese imports, with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowing to do what was best for his country rather than yield to pressure from Washington.

According to Toshimitsu Shigemura, a political science professor at Waseda University, Ishiba has been slow to realise that Japan’s “special relationship” with the US is no longer intact.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3317746/japan-refuses-yield-trumps-tariff-threat-we-will-not-be-taken-advantage

#usa #china #geopolitics
firstprimate
@firstprimate@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
@yogthos

Could he give Carney a call? #cdnpoli
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp last week

"Canada should have stood up for its principles and national sovereignty, even in the face of such transparent bullying. The alternative now emerging is the law of the jungle, brute power and Canada becoming, de facto, the 51st US state." - Joseph Stiglitz

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/08/trump-bullied-canada-over-digital-taxes-and-ottawa-submitted

#usa #canada #cdnpoli
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp last week

Canada’s government treats war funding as urgent but climate action as ‘unrealistic’ despite heat domes killing 20x more people than terrorism. While military spending is set to soar to 5% GDP, climate gets scraps at 0.7% GDP, half of which funds fossil fuel scams like carbon capture.

The real security threat is climate chaos displacing millions and collapsing food systems Yet we’re buying missile shields instead of mass electrification.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/09/opinion/money-military-climate-nato

#canada #cdnpoli #climatecrisis

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Stéphanie
@stephanie@ottawa.place  ·  activity timestamp last week

Wtf.

"The letter was sent to Canadian Ambassador Kirsten Hillam to ask how Canada plans to address the ongoing wildfires. The letter asked how the Canadian government plans to mitigate wildfire and smoke that makes its way south.

“With all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting wildfires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken,” the letter wrote.

The Republican lawmakers stated their constituents have been limited in their ability to safely spend time outside.

“Canada has been a friendly neighbor of the United States and the states we represent, so given the significance of this issue we urge you to relay this message to your government, in particular Natural Resources Canada and the Canadian Forest Service,” the letter wrote."

https://www.kttc.com/2025/07/08/rep-finstad-congress-republicans-call-canada-address-wildfires/

#cdnpoli