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@LaurieAdkin
Oct 3, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This government's abuses of power accumulate by the day. Did they get a mandate from Albertans to eliminate 1000s of jobs, privatise health care, and defund post-secondary education? 1/n #abpoli nationalobserver.com/2020/07/10/opi…
Did the #UCP get a mandate from Albertans to privatise our parks and open the eastern slopes of the Rockies to expanded coal mining? 2/n
Did they consult Albertans before rejecting provincial participation in a national pharmacare program? 3/n
Who do they think they are? The Bourbon restoration monarchy?? Back by divine right to govern?! Unaccountable to anyone but a handful of CEOs? 4/n
Albertans should be outraged to be treated like feudal subjects instead of citizens. Our interests in universal public services, a sustainable environment, and an economy that can provide future generations with good lives are clearly of no concern to these autocrats. 5/5

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Oct 16
I've worked on climate policy since the 1990s, with a focus on Alberta since 2002. I gotta tell you, fellow Albertans, that our govts have never had much more in their tool kit than than ineffectual, fossil fuel industry-vetted approaches to GHG emission reduction. 1/ #abpoli
In fact, all we really have to show for 25 years of Alberta govt. "climate" policy is inflation: (1) inflation in GHG emissions; (2) inflation in the environmental costs to be borne by Albertans; and (3) inflation in the costs of govt. propaganda campaigns. 2/ @albertaNDP
@albertaNDP In 2002, the Klein govt. spent $2 million to convince Albertans that ratification of the Kyoto Protocol would destroy our economy. In 2024, the Smith govt. is spending $7 million to persuade Albertans that a cap on GHG emissions from oil & gas will do the same. 3/ #ableg
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Aug 2
The People's Testimonial in #yeg begins, without university leaders attending to listen to those affected by their decisions. @ualberta Image
This event was held August 1st @UAlberta, providing an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to share their experiences of the People's University for Palestine encampment that was violently removed on May 11th by the EPS, at the request of @BFlanaganUofA . 1/ #abpse
@UAlberta @BFlanaganUofA There were 100 in the lecture theatre and more following online. This is an impressive turnout for mid-summer, when few students are on campus and many faculty are also away. Attending were mostly students and faculty of @UAlberta. 2/@The_Gateway @thegriffmag @UASUualberta
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May 26
@UAlberta made the national CBC news this evening, with the headline that its faculty have expressed non-confidence in President @BFlanaganUofA following his decision to shut down the People's University for Palestine camp on May 11th. 1/ #UAlberta @fac4pal
Two days. That was the executive's tolerance limit for a peaceful demonstration by students who were trying to get their attention. Trying to get them to talk to them, and to be accountable for the university's investments. 2/
This is where we've come, after the imposition of corporate-style management on our universities. Executives who act like CEOs who don't have to answer to anybody except the boards that appoint them. 3/
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Mar 2, 2023
There is high-quality, independent scientific research establishing that the waters downstream and downwind of the oil sands have been contaminated by toxic chemicals produced by bitumen extraction & upgrading. 1/ #abpoli @abndpcaucus #Alberta @KeepersOfWater @APTNNews
Notably, it is not Alberta Govt agencies that have done this research. Events like the one described in this article are not one-offs; they happen continually. "Leaks" and "spills" are the industry's way of releasing pollutants. It's the same in the petro-chemicals sector. 2/
These corporations are poisoning us incrementally, while govts responsible for protecting public health and the environment are complicit--complicit because they refuse to carry out effective monitoring and enforcement. 3/
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Feb 11, 2023
David Olive of @TorontoStar does a great job in this column, explaining why the oil sands producers will not invest their own capital in CCS infrastructure. 1/
#abpoli @NatObserver @EmmaLGraney @s_guilbeault @JustinTrudeau @JonathanWNV @Laurel_BC #cdnpoli
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Put together the timeline for getting CCS infrastructure up and running, its cost ($70B+), predictions that global demand for oil will peak before 2030, and the economic logic that drives the decisions of the oil sands producers. 2/
It is entirely rational for these corporations to conclude that they will not recoup the investment in CCS. It's a bad bet. It's a huge chunk of the profits that can be gouged out of the Earth while demand holds. 3/
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Feb 10, 2023
Naturally, a guy who sells commercial and office real estate thinks this is great news: "According to businesscouncilab.com’s report Alberta’s Economy: An Overview, real estate has replaced manufacturing as the second largest . . . contributor to the province’s GDP." 1/ #abpoli
But should the rest of us be cheering this development as a form of diversification of Alberta's economy? What does it mean for the creation of good, sustainable livelihoods? How stable is this form of economic growth? 2/
Note how guy holds up Ontario as an example of a big success story for real estate investors (the "tsunami" of "savvy investors"). This doesn't translate into affordable housing or employment. 3/
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