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  ‘Stop the bleeding’: top Republicans tell Donald Trump to ban US diesel exports ahead of midterms ` “If our [government] can embargo chips to China it can embargo diesel to help American farmers [and] truckers,” Iowa senator Chuck Grassley posted on X. Grassley called directly on the president to suspend exports of the fuel. “High diesel prices ARE KILLING FARMERS INCOME,” he said. ' #energy https://www.ft.com/content/319c7b67-b585-407e-a0da-6e23b1612180

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  RE: https://beige.party/@TheJen/117294883583212727 Nobody really eats poutine in Canada. It is rare to find it on a menu. The poutine myth kind of got carried away.

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  ‘ While we’re talking about your whakapapa, can we touch on Tuvalu, because we’re united in feeling a sense of grief that the islands are slowly being taken by the moana. Yes, exactly. People are the most important. They’re where stories come from. I took my parents to their islands in 2001. We went to Tokelau and Sāmoa, and then to Tuvalu. My father and mother told me that the land was much bigger when they were young than it is now, as the sea is slowly taking over ‘ https://e-tangata.co.nz...

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  ‘ A local watershed expert says something called urban creek syndrome — or urban stream syndrome — could be part of the reason why Edmonton hasn't been able to keep up with the deluge. ‘ #deluge #flood https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-urban-creek-syndrome-9.7294554

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  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/117010288088830121 Single point of failure. #nuclear #energy #climate

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  RE: https://mstdn.moimeme.ca/@EdwinG/117012071489828220 An act of cowardice. ` As they were approved by the Ministry of the Environment, the maps were to be published on the government portal from March 2026. But currently, the old, outdated maps are still on the portal. “If you go to the Quebec government website, there are maps, but they are far from accurate,” and these maps cause “problems” for municipalities, among other things because citizens want to know what level of flood risk the...

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  Single point of failure. ` Hundreds of people have been evacuated and a major incident declared after a wildfire spread over more than 80 hectares (200 acres) on the coast of Suffolk, just a few miles from the Sizewell B nuclear power station. The fire – which had been described by one witness as “apocalyptic” – was said to be stabilising on Thursday night. The statement was posted by Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service ' #climate #energy #nuclear https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/ju...

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  ‘ The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse the idea of stripping voting rights from some people and giving more votes to the ultra-wealthy. ‘ #Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/shopify-ceo-appears-to-endorse-giving-more-votes-to-wealthy-canadians-9.7286688

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  European heatwave wiped €2bn from value of grain crop, analysis estimates France and Hungary worst hit by lost production of maize and wheat https://www.ft.com/content/c528e40c-4ea4-44ca-ae1c-3738de5cb6d8 https://archive.md/FnpaV#selection-1833.0-1845.249 #climate #climateCrisis #drought

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  ` Fuck Your Fascist Pancakes! A Viral Alberta Moment How one angry woman’s public rebuke of Danielle Smith launched a thousand memes. ' #Alberta #Canada https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/07/20/Fascist-Pancakes-Viral-Alberta-Moment/

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  Crooked seditionist ‘ Tallcree First Nation Chief Rupert Meneen requested the urgent hearing after Rath failed to account for $6 million in retroactive charges to the First Nation’s trust account by its deadline of June 17. Rath’s professional corporation is the trust’s sole trustee. ‘ #Canada #Alberta https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jeff-rath-tallcree-first-nation-court-9.7270118

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  Dr. Jeff Masters with a round up on the wildfire smoke those of us around the Great Lakes, Eastern Canada, US Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, etcetera, will have to endure. #Canada, #Ontario #Quebec https://bsky.app/profile/drjeffmasters.bsky.social/post/3mqmnglt7rk25

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  In Winterpeg the roads are buckling under the heat dome. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/highway-concrete-buckling-roads-heat-9.7268312

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@KraftTea/116909740187675890 The price of gas and diesel will remain elevated even if the price of oil drops. A lot of Russian refineries have been severely damaged over the last few months. Reduced global refining capacity will keep gasoline and diesel prices high.

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  #CBC_fail Western North America has been in perpetual drought the last few years. Without good pastures and filled watering holes producers have had to cull herds. Yet this article makes no mention of the climate crisis. ` Calvin Vaags, president and CEO of True North Foods, a beef processing facility in Manitoba, told The House that the North American supply of cattle is at "historical lows" ' #Canada #climate https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/beef-prices-federal-government-...

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  Wrote something for the local paper. It is about the mid-transition and how locals shouldn't count on the gas stations that are half way between their exurb and the city always being there as EV adoption picks up. It was inspired by this @TransitionShow@mastodon.energy interview with Emily Grubert from 2022. Designing the Mid-transition https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-185-designing-the-mid-transition/ #energytransition #climate #energy The paper didn't publish the letter...

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  #aHotterAtmosphereHoldsMoreMoisture ‘ The city declared a state of emergency Wednesday because of rapidly worsening flooding after rain overwhelmed the province's Parkland region earlier this week. The city said it had received about 115 millimetres of rain since Sunday night. The Dauphin Regional Health Centre, which also serves outlying areas in the region, was evacuated after the basement flooded and knocked out power Wednesday. ‘ #canada #climate https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/man...

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  RE: https://ottawa.place/@YOW_Weather/116847633338813026 #aHotterAtmosphereHoldsMoreMoisture

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  ‘ That's largely because the Carney government has scrapped key planks of the country's climate policy: the consumer carbon price and a cap on pollution from the oil and gas sector. The Carney government is also expanding exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and supporting another pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast. ‘ #climate #Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-trudeau-carbon-emissions-climate-change-9.7254619

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  RE: https://aus.social/@PhilipVWilson/116586906206926055 This Canadian has one question. What?

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  ‘ A dispute about a ship full of stolen grain has lifted the veil on a geopolitical reality that has persisted for years but is rarely mentioned in western capitals or noticed by western media: the curiously friendly relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. ‘ #ukraine https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grain-dispute-reveals-bad-blood-ukraine-israel-9.7191839

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  ` Wild Scottish salmon catch drops by 40% in one year The number of wild salmon caught in Scotland fell 41 per cent in 2025, the lowest reported figure since records began in 1952, highlighting the “extremely concerning” decline in the fish population. The crisis facing the protected species has been attributed to fewer Atlantic salmon returning from sea, where temperatures are rising, ' https://www.ft.com/content/af094836-2144-46f0-8079-2554e4fdd1f6 https://archive.ph/O68Mx

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  ‘ The Ypsilanti, Mich., board of trustees unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday calling for a 12-month pause on providing water for data centers. The board is opposed to the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory's plan for a $1.2-billion facility in the township. A University of Michigan official previously told Planet Detroit its project could use up to 1.9 million litres (500,000 gallons) of water a day. ‘ #WaterBankruptcy https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wi...

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  #CovidIsNotOver ‘ Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024 “People assume that COVID-19 is done … but what our data is showing is that it’s still having a big impact on our hospitals,” said Mélanie Josée Davidson, director of CIHI’s health system performance division. #Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hospital-rates-vaccine-illnesses-9.7165119

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  LNG Canada gas flaring far exceeding volumes allowed under permits: documents ` Minet, who leads the Clean Air Lab at the University of Victoria, has researched flaring at various LNG export facilities around the world, so she decided to seek out data from Canada’s first project after it started up. “All the numbers are higher than the permits and they’ve been consistently higher since last September at least,” ' #Canada https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/04/09/lng-canada-gas...

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  I never thought this day would come. Hydro Quebec is providing incentives for Solar panels. "Hydro-Québec offers financial assistance in the amount of $1,000 per installed kilowatt, up to 40% of the purchase and installation costs of solar panels when all Program requirements are met." #Quebec #energyTransition See page 22: https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/logisvert/logisvert-guide-participation-residentiel-en.pdf Lots of other incentives for energy efficiency: https://www...

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  ` I don’t mean to suggest that defeating the fossil fuel machine is easy. Capital will use everything it has to stop us. This is what Extinction Rebellion discovered in the UK, as vicious new protest laws were drafted to shut it down. This is what the Standing Rock campaigners in the US found, when they sought to stop an oil pipeline from crossing their land. It’s what Earth defenders in the global south discover even more brutally, as paramilitaries gun them down. ' https://www.thegua...

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  ` Also, this week there were two or three different examples (depends on how you want to count them) of just how close Trump and Putin are working in this war. One was one of the truly weird moments of the war. Trump promised the world that Putin had agreed to a form of ceasefire to not damage Ukraine too much during this period of cold. However the Russians continued on doing their damage as if nothing happened. ... ' https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-170-russian-advan...