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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca Profile picture
@jvipondmd
Jan 18 • 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
Jan 20
A very short thread summarizing the studies on Paxlovid in COVID.
Since it seems to be getting some very bad press these days.
And, in my mind, is widely underprescribed for those at high risk. 1/
Study 1: 89% RRR (6% ARR or NNT of 17) in bad outcomes (hospitalization/death). zero deaths in the active arm, vs. 13 in the control arm. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
study 2: *Omicron
50% relative risk reduction in hospitalization. 75% risk reduction in inhospital deaths.
(worked for vaxx people too)
Paxlovid associated with decreased hospitalization rate among adults with COVID-19 - United States, April-Sept 2022

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca Profile picture
Jan 3
a short thread on respiratory protection for HCWs:

Not long ago I worked at a hospital I don't normally work at. It has a mask mandate. Many of the HCWs weren't masking. I was confused. 1/
So I asked a smart, considerate unmasked colleague. Why, if there is a mask mandate, would you not wear a mask? 2/
He told me he was safe. He had a good immune system. He was unlikely to have a bad outcome if he got infected. 3/
Read 10 tweets
𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca Profile picture
Nov 26, 2023
A short thread on the contents of this article:
"Kids cared for in hallways as viral illness overflows ER at McMaster Children’s Hospital" 1/4
thestar.com/news/gta/kids-…
I think, unfortunately, that article is the death knell for immunity debt. This our second year of RSV being above normal levels. The "debt" should have been paid by now. there is no immunity debt, only dysfunction. 2/
Again, these staffing shortages exist through a combination of 1) acute infection 2) chronic disability, commonly from longCOVID 3) Burnout, due to moral distress and tired of gaslighting. All three can be mitigated via honesty about viral transmission and universal N95 use 3/ Image
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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca Profile picture
Nov 20, 2023
10 Things that would have been different/better had we embraced airborne transmission from the beginning, instead of contact/droplet.

A thread à la @1goodtern style (ternstyle?). 1/
1) Fewer hospital outbreaks, causing fewer patient deaths.
2) Fewer hospital outbreaks, causing fewer prolonged hospital admissions impacting lives, the health care system, and taxpayers.
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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca Profile picture
Sep 13, 2023
Here's your Alberta Covid Acute Care outbreak analysis for Tuesday Sept 12th covering the last week.

Since it is the last real data telling people how dangerous it is out there in the community. And in our hospitals. 1/
Here's the raw data as per the outbreak release. Source:
I'll break down the numbers in the following tweets. 2/ albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/pp…



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five outbreaks were removed from the list, and 10 added, for a total of 17 units on outbreak.

total patients 104 up 55% from last week 67.
Total HCWs 59 up 145% from last week's 24.
3/
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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 joseph.vipond@ucalgary.ca Profile picture
Aug 2, 2023
random observation: twice, in discussions with learned colleagues, talking about the weather, and the climate, there has been acknowledgment that our very society is threatened. that it all could collapse. Not in the far future... in the very near future.... 1/
This has been accompanied with a nervous chuckle. But nothing more.
No... we should try and stop this.
No... what should we do?
No... and therefore I shall pledge to...
2/
It's capitulation to horror. Giving in to extinction.

It's like getting a cancer diagnosis and going "ho-hum."
It's like being told the plane is going to crash, being given a parachute, and not even putting it on.
3/
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