2025-08-27 13:04:51
Five days in a row of record breaking temperatures compared to the last 30 years.
#climatechange #endfossilfuels #portalberni https://socialbc.ca/@alberniweather/115100859229365413
Five days in a row of record breaking temperatures compared to the last 30 years.
#climatechange #endfossilfuels #portalberni https://socialbc.ca/@alberniweather/115100859229365413
the blanket of smoke made me grumpy.
Whose prosperity is that smoke securing exactly? #BCLNG and LNG Canada is not helping our prosperity now, or in the future.
It is time not just to end fossil fuels, but to end the companies:
#endfossilfuels #climateemergency #climatechaos #fire #bcwildfire
https://youtu.be/jkPJijt61Rg?si=TQZUs4ZFcD1nAdZ3
Home!
452km driven! 24% on the rangeometer.
7hrs total trip (with stops and some visiting). Time for a nap!
#ev #hyundai #endfossilfuels #rangeanxiety
pitstop to pick up kid 1
Still 396km on the rangeometer.
THE OIL PEOPLE SAY I SHOULD BE SCARED OF RUNNING OUT OF ELECTRONS.
i don't feel scared
#ev #hyundai #endfossilfuels #rangeanxiety
Die #Brikett vom #Baumarkt sind vielleicht doch für die #Laubenpieper? 🤔
#endfossilfuels
pitstop 2. quick charge up at one of the brand new 180kw BCHydro chargers in Sydney at the east end of the YYJ runway!
Our Kona maxes out at 77kw. We'll charge to 80 or so. Only 212km to get back home.
oh wait! Wifey just flew right over us! 😂 ✈️
Apparently she's a little early. Quick charge indeed! charged to 74%
#ev #hyundai #endfossilfuels #rangeanxiety
The “sticker range” advertised on the lot for our new 2019 Hyundai Kona EV was 420km.
The battery was replaced under recall at around 40,000km in 2022 a couple months before we went on an epic 12,000km Pacific-Atlantic-Pacifc cross Canada adventure.
Fast forward to today. The car is at 226,000km and I am headed 225km down to Victoria to bring my wife home from the Airport.
Car is ready. 100% charge. 468km on the rangeOmeter. That is city driving so I don’t expect to get that range at highway speeds. I’ll top it up in Sydney before heading home. This was always our main criteria. Can we drive to Victoria comfortably.
Yep. No problem. Even 200,000km later!
Range anxiety is a myth foisted on you by the oil industry. They are gas lighting the world into believing we are the problem, evs are the problem, electric systems are the problem.
They are the problem. Them. Not us. Them. They need to end.
#ev #hyundai #endfossilfuels #rangeanxiety
This is not the world I or my children deserved or asked for. #WesleyRidgeFire #ElonMusk #Tesla #ClimateChangeEmergency #EndFossilFuels #BCLNG #Fascism #Capitalism #endstagecapitalism #portalberni
The world is on fire, and the owner of an electric car company is helping fuel the flames of both climate change and fascist capitalism.
#WesleyRidgeFire #ElonMusk #Tesla #ClimateChangeEmergency #EndFossilFuels #BCLNG #Fascism #Capitalism #endstagecapitalism #portalberni
There are no “climate skeptic” politicians. Only people financially or electorally bought by the fossil fuel industry.
#climateChangeEmergency #endfossilfuels
It wasn’t a myth. It was a deliberate disinformation campaign by Fossil Fuel companies.
Just like the “evs are bad cuz mining is bad” is disinformation propaganda. The advantages over burning the planet with CO2 emissions are factually inescapable.
Tell me I’m Wrong.
#endfossilfuels #ev #cars #battery #climateCatastrophe #climateChange
https://universeodon.com/@wolfnowl/115449301400784313
Weird... it's as if we've been using extremely inefficient and over-complicated engines for the past 100 years for no good reason at all.
#Electric #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels #Hybrid #Industry #Logging
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/the-first-machine-of-its-kind-campbell-river-manufacturer-creates-first-hybrid-electric-logging-yarder/
“A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks.”
The purveyors of Fossil Fuels stand strong to doom the world to catastrophe for one more dollar.
I won't be shocked if I hear Canada fell in line.
It's enough to make one want to light the world on fire, if it wasn't already.
#ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels #Fascists #Capitalism #EndStageCapitalism #ClimateEmergency #Shipping #SaudiArabia
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vnl0yxg53o
Wildfire Rankings:
#BCWildfire #BCWildfire #endfossilfuels #BCPoli #CanPoli #ClimateChange
no ____ sherlock: “Evidence of drought”
In 2015 we had a long drought and that was the first year *ever* #BCWildfire saw Rank 5 fires in the Coastal Fire Centre of BC. It was a fire near Squamish. I was in a municipal meeting with BC Wildfire folks at UBCM.
Climate Change is happening, has happened, and will continue until we stop forcing it. Our natural landscapes have no way to adapt.
END FOSSIL FUELS
#BCWildfire #endfossilfuels #BCPoli #CanPoli #ClimateChange
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/local-news/evidence-of-drought-wesley-ridge-wildfire-burns-through-dry-conditions-8175809
I found this in the back as I was cleaning up in case we need to evacuate.
Am I being too subtle?
cc: @…
#EndFossilFuels #bclng #underwoodfire #portalberni #canpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli #climatedisaster #bcwildfire #ourWorldOnFire
Carney has announced LNG Canada will be expanded to its full potential. It will produce as much GHG emissions as 75% of the entirety of the province of British Columbia does right now. Yes, that's right. BC produced 61 million tons of GHGs in 2021, LNG Canada will produce 46 million tons at full power.
I am glad communities and health professionals are demanding a full inventory of the health impacts of this infrastructure. I hope that will also include the directly attributed heating from this plant to the increase in likelihood for wildfires, heat waves, and all the rest with all those health impacts across BC and the globe.
This is a gigantic project. Canada is a gigantic Climate Problem.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #LNG #Kitimat #LNGCanada #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange
Tyee article on health risks calloutI https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/09/11/Halt-LNG-Expansion-Health-Risks/
Emissions and energy data from CleanTechnica 2025: https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/19/lng-canadas-true-cost-2-2-billion-tons-of-co₂e-over-50-years/ )
Nature: Directly attributing global heating and health impacts to “climate majors”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09450-9)
Major Projects Office: Initial Projects under Consideration: https://www.canada.ca/en/one-canadian-economy/news/2025/09/major-projects-office-of-canada-initial-projects-under-consideration.html
And just to emphasize the point, we don’t use our car lightly.
We have gone on numerous road trips including from the Pacific to the Atlantic cross Canada in 2022. We have a hitch on the Kona that I use to pull a trailer for everthing from camping, to road trips, to hauling a yard of soil or rock.
We have certainly had some maintenance costs for the Kona. Some regular (brakes, after 150,000), checkups, 12V battery twice, etc. and some self inflicted (alignment and back shocks due to trailering). Visits to the dealer are your standard $500 to $2000 affair once a year. We have a second set of rims for the winter tires. We have bought 2 new sets of tires, one winter, one all season. The all seasons will be replaced after this summer.
The main battery was replaced under recall in February 2022 (before our road trip) at about 50,000km so we have a slightly newer battery than the car but not significantly, and we have not noticed any degradation in charge life.
On this day in 2022 we were visiting Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan just outside Saskatoon on our way back. We stopped to charge in Saskatoon, North Battleford, Lloydminster and Vegreville on the way to the West Edmonton Mall that day :)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels
EV Charging Cost by the Numbers.
I charge my car at home almost nightly wirh a Level 2 Flo 30A/240V charger.
I noticed today that they have added an "estimated rate" for my address based on my utility (BC Hydro) charge so that it can estimate the cost of the charging.
Their estimate is $0.11400/kWh. I drive alot. 160km a day when I am commuting to work and then 50-100km in the evening 4-5 days a week Dashing. Thanks to dashing I have a solid record of odometer readings.
We have both tiered and time of day pricing so it's complicated to do this manually. I do most of my charging during the lowest rate overnight. I have the Flo charger set to only charge at full 30A power between 11PM and 7AM to match the overnight rate, then 15A in "off peak" (standard rate) and to turn off completely during on-peak 4PM to 9PM times.
I think their estimate is quite accurate considering the overnight rate is usually $0.14 - $0.05/kWh. Ill include my latest electrical bill. (we are billed monthly)
Here are the numbers.
A "full tank" of battery is 65kWh
Monthly: eg. March (full time commuting plus dashing) 4668km
30 charging sessions
853.4kWh
$97 ($2.07/100km)
Last 12 months: 56,107km
8793kWh
$1,002 ($1.78/100km)
There are a few free charges at work in there (15 in the year?) but any saving is eaten up by $6/day parking cost.
As a comparison if I drove our 2014 Prius C hybrid 56,000km at its general fuel mileage of 5L/100km and an average price of $1.60/L that would be $2,800. So I am saving by more than half, and probably more than that, compared to one of the best mileage hybrids out there.
It makes less and less sense to buy a gas car.
(We have 222,607km on the 2019 Hyundai Kona and about 250,000 on the Prius)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels