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and to think there are still people all-in on trying to convince us that somehow big hydro, big nuclear and fanciful “SMR”nuclear will deliver the same kind of cheap, clean, reliable power.
It's not.
Just get on with building solar and wind and tidal and batteries banks and all the rest!
Australia is now far ahead of Canada. Why…?
"Australia’s long, complicated and difficult energy transition is finally working. As our recent research suggests, if these trends continue – and nothing new goes wrong – we should begin to see lower retail electricity bills by mid-2026. As more coal plants close and new transmission and storage infrastructure is delivered, electricity prices could rise again. But overall, shifting demand from gas and coal for power and petrol for cars is likely to deliver significantly lower energy bills for households.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Energy #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels
https://theconversation.com/renewables-over-50-wholesale-prices-down-is-the-energy-transition-succeeding-274616

I hate this timeline.
As a long time #climate campaigner... I almost feel like I should be hoping that the Iran/US war continues as long as possible so the price of oil and gasoline can go as high as possible and force economies to electrify and shift at emergency-speed to renewables.
We could have started on this the easy way 30 years ago... but a few of the same people objected and obstructed.
#IranUSIsraelWar #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateWar #Oil #EndFossilFuels #ClimateCollapse #USA #CanPoli #CdnPoli

Electrification must be accelerated! Including at the municipal level with things like electric garbage trucks (like in Cowichan), zambonis (like in Port Alberni), and Vancouver’s fire trucks!
@… asked the question recently at a council meeting!
"Cator… estimated that the savings in fuel from the electric garbage truck would be in the tens of thousands of dollars per year at the current prices of diesel.
“It’s just one of our four garbage trucks, but it’s definitely a substantial savings,”
Cowichan Garbage Truck: #MuniPoli #Electrification #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #CanPoli #CdnPoli

France is planning to:
exit coal by 2030
oil by 2045
natural gas by 2050.
Done. End. Finished. C'est fini.
The fossil fuel industry is a dead end!!
#EndFossilFuels #Canada #CanPoli #France #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/france-unveils-fossil-fuel-exit-plan-at-colombia-climate-summit?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NzQ3Nzc2NCwiZXhwIjoxNzc4MDgyNTY0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURTlHNEtLSVAzTFUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.YyRRvfA43ONKCIANNWIpdeGW7PHIn6WfgK7HGnk2NsU

Uhoh... the beginning of some buyer's remorse perhaps for the folks who thought LNG was going to be the Great New Job Creator and saviour of Terrace BC?
"Mayor Sean Bujtas closed off debate by saying he had a problem with LNG Canada itself.
“LNG Canada boasted the cleanest LNG facility in the world and I don’t really think we’re there today,” he said. “And so the question is why, and when are we getting there? We have an air shed. You can only get it so dirty before it becomes a problem.”
“I’m confident everybody in Kitimat and everybody in Terrace is seeing something they did not expect to see at all,” Bujtas continued.”
Imagine that... a fossil fuel operation that has lied to the community, and is causing orders of magnitude more damage to the community and the global environment than they said on paper.
#BCPoli #BCLNG #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #Environment #Pollution
https://terracestandard.com/2026/04/28/terrace-council-backs-call-for-lng-impact-assessment/

I opened an account at a credit union (VanCity) in 2018 as an act of protest against Canadian Big Banks that profit immensely from their investment in fossil fuel infraustrcture.
I guess a few other people did too… they're offering me a whole $75 to encourage others to sign up.
I'll pay them 5 cents to stop harassing me.
#CIBC #EndFossilFuels #CommunityBank #CreditUnion

If we had a national oil company instead of being overrun by Texas oilmen and their Albertan sycophants, maybe we'd be able to redirect some of this temporary profit into... oh I don't know...
reducing national food prices…
building affordable housing…
funding the transition to renewable energy and electrification.
But oh, I see the only two options are: "increase production" or “take the money and run”.
Great.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Oil #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #Economy

"Trump Destroyed the EV Industry, Just When We Need it Most”
And Mark Carney and Doug Ford just went along for the ride.
I “filled" my EV yesterday (200km) for $8.
This is the same price as it would have been a month ago.
This is not a brag. This is a statement of fact and a call to action.
#EV #EndFossilFuels #EndFossilWars #ClimateAction #IranUSIsraelWar

also found this excellent article about the motor developer, MagniX. It has some great technical info, delving into just how much more efficient the electric motors are compared to the piston and turboprop engines that they are replacing.
“a single magni500 Electric Propulsion Unit [the engine, inverter and cables], which weighs 185 kg… produces up to 560 kW. By comparison, the Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior SB engine replaced in the eBeaver weighed 290 kg (not including oil) and produced just 300 kW.”
#BC #AirTravel #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels

Relevant to today's hand-wringing about jet fuel costs:
I was trolling around looking for an update on Harbour Air's eBeaver project (electric conversion for their DHC-2 "Beaver" commercial/passenger fleet) and the latest I have found and most comprehensive on the state of development is here.
#BC #AirTravel #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels

the engineering article about the motors is super in depth, some of it way over my head, but they also compare the development of EV cars to planes and I get this... at least now... because it didn't occur to me:
Regeneration is great for cars!
Regeneration is a BIG NO for airplanes! Because if you glide and the propeller to regenerate power, you fall out of the sky. 😬 😂
so ya, none of that!
"Critically, one area the company worked hard on reducing was regeneration. At no point during flight, as well as descent, can the plane simply carry on under its own momentum while air drives the propellers to generate current. That would create a large amount of drag, and the plane would start to fall rapidly.
“Maybe a glider or UAV could do that, but not a passenger aircraft,” Armesmith says. “There are rules against it in aerospace, so we have to actively stop regeneration from being possible, it’s a fault we have to arrest,” Armesmith says.
“So, if we’ve either lost power or had to turn the motor off for any reason, the propeller needs to be able to windmill freely. We can’t have any electromagnetic resistance to the propeller free-turning owing to regeneration back into the DC bus.”
ya... glide good! fall bad! lol
I am very glad these very smart people are making it happen and a local company is right in there!!
#BC #AirTravel #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels

An Earth Day message from me because why not. And because we have to keep fighting for our planet and everything we treasure.
#EarthDay #EarthDay2026 #VancouverIsland #PortAlberni #TransitionTown #FossilFuels #BCPoli #CamPoli #cdnpoli #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimbingEmergency
#fediverse #peertube

European Night Train rail renaissance in 3-2-1?
#StraitsOfHormuz #EndFossilFuels #Train #Rail #EURail #EU #AirTravel
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w37ggp011o

Here is a future I never considered until this moment.
There is a timeline where Canadians are defending against an invading force in part to prevent that force, or anyone including Canada itself, from extracting its fossil fuel resources.
We would be defenders of not just Canada, but a stable climate.
This is the future Putin, Trump, and others are pushing us toward.
Where is Mark Carney on that?
#canpoli #cdnpoli #oil #EndFossilFuels
#climateChange
@…
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/oil-wars-vs-energy-transition-feat-markham-hislop/id1636062630?i=1000746980583

extremely relevant to the upcoming "Auto Strategy" being released by the Liberal Carney government.
make no mistake. Decades of Canadian, Ontarian, and Alberta governments are complicit in the Oil companies efforts to avoid the transition
#endfossilfuels #canpoli #cdnpoli #onpoli #ev #cars #jobs https://jacobin.com/2026/02/fossil-fuels-michigan-trump-lawsuit

Alternate Headline: “Trans Mountain doubles exports in 2025 resulting in 82 million tonnes of CO2 to atmosphere.”
The news dutifully omits the CO2 impact so here's the math:
There is 2.79 tonnes of CO2 in 1 tonne of average crude oil.
2025 exports: 24.4 million tonnes
= 68 million tonnes of CO2
Oh, but that's not all!
Alberta oil emits about 85kg of CO2 for every barrel of oil produced.
24.4 million tonnes of crude is 176 million barrels
Another 14 million tonnes of CO2!
Yay Canada!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateAction #Oil #EndFossilFuels #ClimateCatastrophe

There is something darkly poetic about the Straits of Hormuz opening on the same day Japan coins a new official word -- “kokushobi” -- to describe extreme hot weather days.
#EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Japan #USA #Iran #IranUSAIsraelWar #Israel #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Oil #Gas

It's wild how far behind North American, European, Japanese and Korean automakers are in the EV space. I submit it is *primarily* because fossil fuel interests are holding them back.
The new tech in China is stunning.
"The EVs were plugged in at 9% state of charge with 93 kilometers of range (57 miles). In 9 minutes and 51 seconds, they charged up to 97% with the range prediction in their gauge cluster displaying 1,008 kilometers (626 miles).
"The Commies” also seem to do capitalism better than "us”:
"The world’s largest EV maker saw its steepest sales plunge since the pandemic, with February sales falling 41% amid cut-throat competition in China's EV market. BYD is now hoping for a comeback by democratizing its cutting-edge new technology.”
#ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels #Electric #Electrification #EV #Cars #Driving

It's wild that Norway is effectively at 100% *today* and Canada/Carney is trying to tell us 70% in 10 years is good enough.
It's a failure for affordability and climate.
It's a huge win for oil companies and American automakers.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #EV #Canada #USA #Automotive #Affordability #CostofLiving #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/livestory/canada-national-auto-strategy-9.7075235