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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca Profile picture
@jvipondmd
Jan 18, 2024 • 13 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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A short thread on the mysterious world of new energy thinktanks supporting the fossil fuel industry, popping up around Canada recently.
#debunktionjunktion
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Prompted by this article I read this am in @globeandmail.
Containing the phrase "the newly formed think tank called Energy Futures Initiative" spouting off a pro-natural gas narrative.
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 theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
Here is the passage.
So I got curious, what is this amazing think tank? Filled with what plethora of deep thinkers?
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the website is easy to find:

(although not to be confused with the strangely identically named US think tank: )
4/ energyfuturesinitiative.ca
energyfuturesinitiative.org
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Two questions I needed answering:
Who is involved?
Where is the money coming from?
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Who is easy enough, as there only seems to be one person associated with the org: the chair Barry Penner, former min of Enviro for the previous right wing BC Liberal party government.
SubQ: Chair of a committee of one?
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The $$ question is more interesting. Funded by Resource Works, a BC non-profit, that seems partly funded by the Business Council of BC (although there are likely other donors).
7/ resourceworks.com
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The ResourceWorks board has among its members:
Chair is Public Affairs executive
Transmountain pipeline ex-CEO
Corporate lobbyist for Rio Tinto and SNC Lavalin

8/resourceworks.com/board-members
HOw does ResourceWorks feel about natural gas?
see below (over 100 hits on the search)

9/ resourceworks.com/search_results…
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I'd love to know if this org gets any funding from the oil and gas industry or other right wing think tanks. But I believe as a non-profit (not a charity) their donor info is hidden from public sight.
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So. Careful what you read. consider the source. Consider the messaging.

Journalists: you especially. fin/
@GeoffDembicki @CAPE_ACME @Melissa_Lem @DeSmog
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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca Profile picture
Oct 7, 2024
Recently returned from representing the @CanCovSoc with @RougeMatisse and Marie-Michelle Bellon at the 2nd Annual Long COVID Symposium in Edmonton, hosted by @LongCOVIDWebCA.
Thrilled to see so many caring docs and researchers in masks, many in respirator masks.
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One thing I learned is that there is a load of resources out there for people (patients, docs, others) to learn about long COVID (aka Post-Covid Condition). I thought I'd share four.
The first, of course, is @LongCOVIDWebCA.

2/longcovidweb.ca
Next up, BC's website:
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Aug 25, 2024
Time for a thread. Now that we are "post-pandemic" what is the impact of this "endemic" disease on people and society, from a strictly mortality perspective?
(quotation marks intentional)
Let's take a look at the Alberta data. 1/
Our respiratory "season" closes this wk. Currently deaths are at 715, up 10 from prev wk. With an av of about 10/wk recently, and a lag in reporting, I suspect we'll end up at at least 730 for the 12 month period.
Is that a lot? should we care?
source:
2/ alberta.ca/stats/dashboar…
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We have good data from prev year's causes of mortaliy, found in this spreadsheet:
Recall that in Canada (and AB) for 2022 COVID was the 3rd leading cause of death at 1547. (2021 2nd at 1950)
3/ open.alberta.ca/opendata/leadi…
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Jun 7, 2024
I think we need to talk about the Infection Prevention and Control- Canada organization (IPAC-Canada). @IPACCanada, who has their annual conference starting Sunday. 1/ Image
Who is IPAC? this is from their "about us" page. 2/
ipac-canada.org/missionvisionv…
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I was lucky enough to present at last year's convention at the invite of @BarryHunt008, on environmental impact of masking policies, with a focus on airborne protection.
You can see my presentation here: 3/
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May 8, 2024
Here's yesterday's @AHS_media acute care outbreak release.

I'd like to draw attention to three in particular.
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Although not stated, this is undoubtably the PLC NICU outbreak.

So those 2 patients? are premature babies.

and I've heard reports that the unit was indeed maskless when the transmission occurred (that's been rectified, for now).
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You know who else is pretty vulnerable to COVID infections? those undergoing chemo and radiotherapy.
Like on a Cancer ward, for instance.
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Apr 18, 2024
It's out! The @WHO's new wordsmithing report on airborne transmission. I'm going to do a little dissection on the good and the bad, who wins and who loses. 1/
cdn.who.int/media/docs/def…
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the TLDR is: "through the air" is the old "droplet" and "airborne" transmission modalities combined. "inhalation" is the new "airborne". "direct deposition" is the new "droplet" 2/
The great: finally an acknowledgment that short-range airborne transmission is an integral component of all (not just COVID) airborne transmission. This is huge. It means that workers esp. HCWs need respirator masks (FFP2/3, N95) when interacting with concerning patients. 3/ Image
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Feb 22, 2024
Apparently many in the Canadian ID community on this platform are weighing in that paxlovid should no longer be recommended to high-risk (elderly, immunocompromised) outpatients with confirmed covid.
I think we should take a look at the evidence they've presented.
(a thread)
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So far there has been no evidence presented, none, except for the blogpost posted in the first tweet.
No peer reviewed science. At all.
And a reminder that there are still >500 inpts in Alberta with covid, and 10-20 patients dying each week (all likely high risk patients).
2/
Another reminder is I reviewed the paxlovid evidence in a thread a few weeks ago, in response to a paxlovid-minimizing news story by @LaurenPelley of @CBCNews.
You can check out the thread here:
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