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Feb 6, 2020 9 tweets 6 min read Read on X
I promised myself I’d finish the advance copy of @MarkJaccard book “The Citizen’s Guid to Climate Success” before it went on sale. It’s on sale today & I finished it over breakfast. If you care about #climateaction it’s an excellent read, no matter your background. #cdnpoli 1/
@MarkJaccard He craftily dismantles both common tropes & the false promise of silver bullets that, he rightly notes, serve as barriers to progress—whether delivered by well-intentioned advocates or incumbents intent on delaying any real action. 2/
@MarkJaccard Bonus points for his use of political cartoons & quotes from the likes of George Orwell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Upton Sinclair, which probably dropped the word count down significantly. A piercing quote & whip smart satirical art are worth 1,000s of words. 3/
@MarkJaccard I encourage you to read the whole book, but the last chapter alone is worth the price of admission. For those with an engineering minds, the bullshit detecting flowchart for evaluating the climate sincerity of political leaders is spot on. 4/ Image
@MarkJaccard As somebody who has worked as an advocate for clean energy & #climatesolutions for nearly 2 decades, I fully endorse his rejection of rigidity about solutions. “We must pay attention to technical, economic, political, and social feasibility, and be willing to shift…” 5/
@MarkJaccard “...our preference for a particular action or policy if one of these factors presents an insurmountable barrier to its contribution.” In short: all too often, perfect is the enemy of good. Rapid incrementalism beats leaps that never happen. Every day of the week. 6/
@MarkJaccard His articulation of why he engaged in civil disobedience in 2012, blocking a coal train & landing himself in jail, his post hoc reflections & explanation for why he chose not to block the TMX pipeline expansion neatly summarizes action informed by his “climate sincerity” test. 7/
@MarkJaccard Inspired by @daveregrets & his support for @leahstokes new book - if $25 is a barrier for you, drop me a DM. I’ll buy up to 4 copies for folks, on condition you read it then pass it on (& keep passing it on). 8/
@MarkJaccard @daveregrets @leahstokes Run to your local bookstore & grab a copy or 10 (or online if you must amazon.ca/Citizens-Guide…). Buy them for friends, family, your elected reps (all levels of gov’t). Spread the word.
Thanks, @MarkJaccard for yet another important contribution to #climateaction in #cdnpoli 9/9

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This piece by @merransmith & Mark Zacharias raises important Qs about possible opportunity costs of more LNG in BC: how we best use our clean electricity. vancouversun.com/opinion/mark-z… It's not an argument against electrifying any additional LNG (incl a possible 2nd phase 1/ #bcpoli
@merransmith of LNG Canada), which would be essential to having any hope of achieving the province's climate targets, but rather raises the Q of whether BC cld do this AND electrify other industries, not to mention heat for buildings & a rapidly growing # of EVs. We will only be able to 2/
@merransmith build so much new electricity so fast - what is its highest value use recognizing electrification can reduce emissions & energy costs & support economic dev't?
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Jun 29, 2022
"CAPP must do a much better job of talking to the investment community about its own net-zero goals, & the industry’s swath of investments in clean & emissions-reducing technologies.”
The problem isn’t the storytelling, it’s the story.
Let’s start with net zero goals.
1/ #cdnpoli
None of CAPP’s members have goals aligned with the Net Zero Standard for Oil & Gas, which is backed by >20 global investors with ~$10 trillion of assets under management. greenbiz.com/article/whats-…
Why not? They refuse to include the pollution from burning their product.
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How about investments in clean & emissions-reducing tech?
Don’t just give us dollar numbers, put it in context.
IEA estimates this will only account for ~5% of upstream spending in 2022 (mostly thanks to European co’s)—95% to sustaining & increasing fossil fuel production. 3/
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most aren’t big & they’ve been focused more on growing than headlines & PR. Companies like @innergex_ine @BErenewables @PowerGreengate @Clirrenewables @NRStorTweets & @MorganSolar, @ecobee & @getmysa, @LionElectricCo @hydrogenics @BallardPwr @Proton_Canada @e3metalscorp & the 2/
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The only way hydrogen might serve as anything other than a short-lived “lifeline” for O&G in Canada is if there is laser-like focus on producing the cleanest H in the world. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Slapping carbon capture & storage on SMR (“blue”) hydrogen isn’t... 1/ #cdnpoli
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A timely #ResilientRecovery piece. It’s notable how Europeans (Germans especially) are considering their stimulus/recovery plans: “The decision on what policies to support shouldn’t be purely based on deep economic analysis, but it should also take into account …" 1/
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Well this is a demonstrably bad take. There are a multitude of ways—other than raising the price on carbon pollution—in which the gov’t can deliver a green recovery without micromanaging “winning” technologies. Contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism is just lazy. 1/ #cdnpoli
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