My job at @thenarwhalca is to investigate the interrelationships between fossil fuel lobbyists, and the politicians, governments and climate rules they seek to influence.

Here’s a thread on some recent stories I’ve written: 🧵 You may not know how normalized the oil and gas industry is in some politicians’ lives.

@riannalim02 and I wrote about MPs who own fossil fuel stocks.

There’s a movement in the U.S. to ban Congressional stock trades — should it be done here? thenarwhal.ca/mp-oil-stocks-…

THREAD: Here’s why I think the @bankofcanada report today listing climate change as a vulnerability in the Canadian financial system is so important. I believe it could come to represent a pivotal moment in the low-carbon economy shift in Canada. Please read on and retweet: So much of our climate change debate is fought in the political realm: what kind of policies, like carbon taxes or coal regulations, should governments adopt? What kind of investments should they make in clean tech? But as this debate rages on, the financial system forges ahead.

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How did Canada pay for the Trans Mountain pipeline? How was it integrated into the government once bought? Are taxpayers on the hook?

Get ready to be confused! I present to you: the corporate structure of Canada's pipeline, complete with org chart!

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⛽⛽⛽⛽ The story starts with a little-known Crown corp called the Canada Development Investment Corp, or CDEV. For years it has managed 2 entities: 1) Canada's 8.5% interest in the Hibernia offshore oil project, 2) liabilities + retiree benefits related to a decommissioned uranium mine.

Scientists are once again warning about #climate armageddon. Thousands vetted the best science out there. More extinction, death and disease is in store if we don't act fast.

But I think we should focus on something uncomfortable: for many people, this is meaningless. /1 Let’s be clear: the IPCC report is a tour de force. Over 90 scientists spent years writing it, based on over 6,000 peer reviews. It says the planetary warming ALREADY caused “will persist for centuries to millennia.” It says we’re not acting fast enough to cut pollution. /2