"'Bigger, hotter, faster': extreme blazes drive rise in CO2 fire emissions"
Rampant #wildfires in #Canada & around the world drove a jump in global greenhouse gas emissions, with #ClimateChange "fanning the flames"
#CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #KeystoneXL #KXL #Drought #ExtremeWeather
'Several factors contributed to the leap in CO2, including another year of unrelenting fossil fuel burning despite a pledge by the world’s countries in 2023 to "transition away" from coal, oil and gas.'
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #KeystoneXL #KXL #Wildfires #Drought #ExtremeWeather
#uspol #Trump #KXL #KeystoneXL
Also on BBC: Trump trying to bring back the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that we blocked in an incredibly long, tough campaign ten years ago.
Hopefully "political uncertainty" will derail this zombie project
"What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It’s equivalent to burning coal in your automobile. We simply cannot be that stupid"
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #KeystoneXL #KXL #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #USPoli
ICYMI from 2011: the #KeystoneXL pipeline Carney & Trump are talking about resurrecting would be a "fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet"
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #KXL #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #USPoli
WASHINGTON—Unless Hurricane Irene interrupts his travel, renowned NASA climate scientist James Hansen will join demonstrators today at the White House to protest the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. U.S. Park Police officers have arrested hundreds of participants since the sit-in began Aug. 20. Thirty years ago, Hansen was among the first scientists to warn that burning […]
Reminder: the ICJ recently affirmed that 'countries are legally bound to reduce greenhouse gas emissions', 'and not contribute significantly to global warming. Crucially, the court also affirmed that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right'
#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #Canada #KeystoneXL #KXL #NoPipelines
Just like in the years before it was finally cancelled, Carney & Trump working to resurrect the #KeystoneXL pipeline would draw protests, pushback and a pile of lawsuits.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2017/06/15/keystone-xl-timelin
#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #Canada #KXL #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #USPoli
Extra bonus for the exceptionally strong of stomach: Danielle Smith offering advice on how to talk Trump's "love language":
"Let me tell you how Canada being able to provide you raw materials or critical minerals or energy and natural gas allows you to have energy dominance in the world"
#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #Canada #KeystoneXL #KXL #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #ABPoli
The source "emphasized that Carney brought up the cancelled pipeline", and that #KeystoneXL "was just one example of the ways Canada could work more closely with the U.S."
This policy is *literally the opposite* of what Carney promised in the election. Canadians want to diversify away from the States, not increase integration!
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/carney-puts-keystone-xl-table-202909022.html
Keystone, 'Safest Pipeline in the World,' Ruptures—Again
President Donald Trump wants to revive Keystone XL, a highly controversial extension of the tar sands pipeline system, despite three massive leaks over the past eight years.
Brett Wilkins
Apr 08, 2025
"This is a developing story... Please check back for possible updates...
"The Keystone pipeline—which carries hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil nearly 2,700 miles from the Alberta tar sands to refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma daily—was abruptly shut down Tuesday morning following a rupture in #NorthDakota, marking yet another accident along what proponents have called the 'safest pipeline in the world.'
"#SouthBow, the Canadian company that manages the Keystone system, said it shut down the pipeline—which transports an average of around 624,000 barrels of crude oil per day—after detection systems sounded the alarm on a pressure drop. The company said the spill is confined to an agricultural field about 60 miles southwest of #Fargo."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/keystone-pipeline-leak
#NoKXL #Pipelines #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #NoPipelines #TarsandsOil #KXL
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