" #TailingsPonds are leaking toxics into people's air, water & food. We also know about the liabilities. These are some of the most profitable industries in the history of the world. The wealthiest companies & individuals get paid then leave the costs for the taxpayer, the public, to deal with."

PODCAST https://www.podcastics.com/episode/347812/link/

#TzeporahBerman #abpoli #Climate #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #FossilFuelNonProliferation

Tzeporah Berman: Hope is Something We Create

Finding Common Ground in the Energy Transition

The Climate Lens
" #TailingsPonds are leaking toxics into people's air, water & food. We also know about the liabilities. These are some of the most profitable industries in the history of the world. The wealthiest companies & individuals get paid then leave the costs for the taxpayer, the public, to deal with."

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Bluesky Social

"We're going to find out our methane emissions are much higher than we than we thought, than we were reporting & reductions need to be much more significant, and that includes oil sands. #TailingsPonds actually are apparently a massive source of #methane emissions."

https://www.podcastics.com/episode/290038/link/

#Climate #Moratorium #abpoli #EnergyTransition #AxeTheTax #BurnBabyBurn #wildfires #drought #cdnpoli

Burn Baby Burn' Is Not A Climate Solution

Axe the tax, but to do what instead?

The Climate Lens
The bitumen miners and the Alberta Energy Regulator and just in bed together, they are actively copulating while both giving onlookers the finger.
https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/10/03/revealed-imperial-oil-alberta-regulator-knew-of-toxic-seepage-at-kearl-lake-for-years-didnt-tell-first-nation/
#corrupt #cdnpoli #tailingsponds
REVEALED: Imperial Oil, Alberta Regulator Knew of Toxic Seepage at Kearl Mine for Years, Kept First Nation in the Dark

Documents filed by Imperial Oil show the company and Alberta's energy regulator knew the Kearl oil sands mine was seeping tailings into groundwater years before a pool of contaminated fluid was reported on the surface, alarming area First Nations and triggering three investigations, the Canadian Press reports.

The Energy Mix
#Fossilfuel execs should be banned from sitting on pension boards: ‘What on Earth is a director of Imperial Oil doing on the board of directors of my pension fund?’ https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/08/02/news/pension-plan-members-want-imperial-exec-punted-their-board #tailingsponds #tailingsleaks #pollution #alberta
‘What on Earth is a director of Imperial Oil doing on the board of directors of my pension fund?’

A director of Imperial Oil is in the crosshairs of Public Sector Pension Investment Board members who are calling on her to be removed — with cause — over the oilsands giant's tailings leak scandal.

Canada's National Observer

"The estimated [$123 billion] cost of environmental liabilities laid out in the report includes #cleanup or reclamation of #oilsands mines, #abandoned or #orphaned #oil and gas #wells, and #TailingsPonds."

“Now is when these companies are still making massive, massive, massive #profits. And they must be forced to use the profits, to use the revenues, to clean up their mess now.”

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/07/11/news/big-oil-can-afford-clean-its-messes-need-pressure-pay-bills-report-finds

Report finds Big Oil can afford to clean up its mess but needs arm-twisting to pay up

Oil and gas companies can afford the billions it will take to clean up their messes and it’s up to governments to force them to do so, a new analysis has found. 

Canada's National Observer
It's an improvement but this wasn't addressed effectively: New environmental law moved the needle, but how it protects ‘sacrifice zones’ is unclear #environment #sacrificezones #billS5 #Canada #FirstNations #tailingsponds #CEPA #environment https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/06/15/news/environmental-law-moved-needle-how-it-protects-sacrifice-zones-unclear
New environmental law moved the needle, but how it protects ‘sacrifice zones’ is unclear

Reforms to Canada’s leading environmental law are finally here, but it's only the beginning for front-line communities.

Canada's National Observer
The Lie of a Cleaner Oilsands | The Tyee

Pollution protections are stripped while Canada boasts progress. This is the history of promises made and betrayed.

The Tyee
Toxic tailings in Alberta require immediate and urgent attention!