Prof. of Geography & Enviro Studies. Fossil fuels, managed decline, just transition. Books: Fault Lines l Growing Resistance | The End of This World
Oct 16 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The @Sask_NDP are making a huge mistake with their 6month gas tax relief. It will cost them $250m.
They have deceived the public about this cost in in their costed plan. 🧵
The gas tax will be axed immediately for 6 months meaning 4.5 months of it will be in budget year 2023/25. That's 187.5 m dollars they are hiding.
They have conveniently not included budget year 2024/25 in their published plan.
Mar 27, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
@SKGov has been wronly using a 2018 study to claim "if all oil-producing countries adopted environmental regulations like Saskatchewan’s, greenhouse gas emissions from oil production would shrink by a quarter”
Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage #CCUS#canpoli 🧵
There is only one reason that CCS exists: to prop up an industry that is under existential threat because of the need to transition from fossil fuel energy.
Every major report from the IPCC to the International Energy Association shows that in order to avert catastrophic warming of the climate we need to rapidly phase out fossil fuels