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@climatekeith
Sep 7, 2021 • 10 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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Dear @TomOlsenXIX: Why isn’t @CDNEnergyCentre registered as a Third Party for #elxn44? elections.ca/WPAPPS/WPR/EN/…
The #ableg War Room is clearly promoting positions clearly identified with a #cdnpoli political party, so seems like they should register elections.ca/content.aspx?s… 1/n
@TomOlsenXIX @CDNEnergyCentre 2. For example, we know that the War Room is paying Hamish Marshall’s company ($6K/month?) to help promote its petitions calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-s-priv…
@TomOlsenXIX @CDNEnergyCentre 3. The currently-highlighted petition is “Stop the Just Transition.” Just Transition is a key election platform commitment for the federal Liberal, NDP and Green parties (but not CPC) supportcanadianenergy.ca/stop_the_just_…
@TomOlsenXIX @CDNEnergyCentre 4. The War Room is paying for "issues, elections or politics" category ads on Facebook, incl trying to undermine latest IPCC scientific report on climate change by claiming that “Flawed UN report appears to have an apocalypse bias”. Climate is a top issue of concern for voters
@TomOlsenXIX @CDNEnergyCentre 5. The War Room has also been sending emails about the IPCC report under the heading of “Misinformation Watch”
@TomOlsenXIX @CDNEnergyCentre 6. On August 20 (after the start of the federal election campaign), the War Room sent an email urging people to share CEC materials on social media under the false claim that “Canada is already meeting its climate objectives.”
@TomOlsenXIX @CDNEnergyCentre 7. On August 27, it was a post attacking both the federal $170/tonne carbon tax and the Clean Fuel Standard – issues which clearly differentiate between political parties in #elxn44
@TomOlsenXIX @CDNEnergyCentre 8. Last week, the (Liberal) $170/tonne carbon tax was again featured in a targeted appeal to Ontarians.
@TomOlsenXIX @CDNEnergyCentre 9. All of this comes as the War Room is recruiting an ad agency to run next year’s $5M+ ad campaign designed to build a pro-oil social movement
@TomOlsenXIX @CDNEnergyCentre 10. This would all be fair game for a provincial government, but the CEC is a provincially-funded, arms-length corporation (with only UCP Cabinet ministers on its board). So shouldn't the War Room register as a 3rd party and report like everyone else? #ableg #cdnpoli #elxn44

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May 2
A belated thread on the GHG Inventory released today. High (low?) points: Smaller-than-expected bounce-back from pandemic low. O&G extraction & refining still largest source (31%). Oil sands hits all time high (87 MT), greater than all of Quebec (79 MT). Graph that tells a story: Image
Oil and Gas remains the largest and fastest-rising source of GHGs. What this graph doesn't show you is how O&G lobbyists exercise their power to prevent / delay action to transition off of fossil fuels and keep emissions stubbornly high. Image
The increase in carbon pollution from O&G sector has been driven by oil sands expansion Image
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Dec 17, 2023
Early drought has led Alberta government to restrict water withdrawals & warn industrial users of worse to come. Yet while oil companies warn their shareholders of risk of climate change-induced water shortages, the #ableg Minister responsible remains in denial.
The evidence:
2. In November, AB Ministry of Environment & Protected Areas said river flows and reservoir levels were ~50% of normal and that “spring water levels are expected to be dire.” They will “plan for extreme drought and hope for rain/snow.”
alberta.ca/system/files/e…
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3. We will come back to ‘Hope for rain’ as a strategy while ignoring climate change, but worth noting that in that same presentation, the government is already ordering some users to stop withdrawing water. Image
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Sep 19, 2022
In today's episode of "oil companies doing bad things", a US Congressional report implicates Canada Pension Plan-owned company in a pro-fracking campaign that involved fake-grassroots groups, misleading claims, paid counter-protesters & accusations of harassment + bribery 1/n
2. 7 years ago, @cppib bought Encana's oil and gas wells in Colorado and created its own company, Crestone Peak Resources. Crestone has come under fire for providing $100K to an industry front group campaigning against a proposed fracking ban theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
3. The US House Natural Resources Committee just released a report on PR companies role in blocking climate action which has a devastating case study on Protect Colorado (the front group Crestone was funding)
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Sep 16, 2022
In an op ed, Alberta Energy Minister @SonyaSavage denounces proposed Sovereignty Act for ignoring rule of law.
Yet the Energy War Room, aka @CDNEnergyCentre (funded & directed by Savage in her role as Energy Minister) refuses to comply with federal law governing lobbying #ableg
2. You may be thinking: So what? Aren’t provincial bodies & crown corporations are exempt from fed lobbying rules?
But to avoid public scrutiny via FOI, CEC was set up as a corporation (funded by province with 3 AB Cabinet members, including Savage, on board of directors)
3. When challenged on FOI exemption by @jennierussell_, the CEC/Min of Energy successfully argued that it “cannot be defined as a ‘department, branch or office’ of the Government of Alberta.” canlii.org/en/ab/aboipc/d…
Congrats: you're now subject to lobbying rules!
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Sep 13, 2022
Canada's top oil lobby group @OilGasCanada (via their front group @Energy_Citizens) has shifted gears & is now trying to kill proposed O&G emissions cap. No more 'we need more time' or 'we can't reduce GHGs that fast', new line is Kill this Bill energycitizens.ca/emissions-cap/ #cdnpoli
2. Rationale for abandoning any pretense of caring about the climate crisis is "The world has changed.... We can no longer allow our domestic energy policies to be guided by a singular focus on reducing domestic emissions from our natural gas & oil industry"
Let's break that down Image
3. Has the basic science of climate change been reassessed in a way that eliminates the urgent need to rapidly transition off of fossil fuels?
According to climate scientists, that's a Hard No: unfccc.int/news/united-in… Image
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May 19, 2022
A requiem for Jason Kenney: He rose to power as Stephen Harper’s most capable lieutenant, but once he sat in the big chair it quickly became apparent that his political smarts lay in tactics, not strategy #ableg
2. We saw this most prominently in his handling of Covid, but his ‘fight back’ strategy attacking environmentalists as the source of Alberta’s woes also floundered as the lavishly-funded War Room & Allan Inquiry served up only political punchlines (I certainly had a few laughs)
3. Kenney’s ‘Jobs, Economy, Pipelines’ mantra played well on campaign trail but like King Canute ordering the tide to go out, his majestic words were no match for what the energy transition he so despised is doing to Albertan economy or what climate change is doing to its people
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