Climate/energy expertise. Executive Director of Shift. Dad. Canadian. Electrified. The sky is now blue: ➡️ @adamscott.bsky.social Tkaronto/Mnidoo Gamii 340ppm.
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16 Nov 2022
Very excited to rip out our fossil #gas furnace and replace it with a cold climate air-source #heatpump this week. New system is more affordable, efficient and comfortable and will end our household dependance on fossil fuels. Disconnect #gas #electrifyeverything #ClimateCrisis
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4 Feb 2025
Last week, the 🇨🇦 gov’t issued CAD 20 bn in financing for the #TransMountainPipeline to replace private loans.
Huge cost overruns on the #TMX pipeline expansion show how expensive building fossil fuel infrastructure is, with the project now operating at a loss.
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3 Feb 2025
Hey Canada - this is what being sold out by tech billionaires looks like. Not only is this entirely self-serving, it's also logically nonsense. The entire strategy until this point was appeasement, and it failed entirely.
2 Feb 2025
I’m disappointed that trump admin placed the 25% tariffs.
I’m disappointed that this is our governments response.
I love Canada and want it to thrive. I built Canada’s biggest tech company here because I know it’s a special place.
Canada thrives when it works with America together. Win by helping America win. Trump believes that Canada has not held its side of the bargain, and he set terms to prove that we still work together: get the borders under control and crack down on fentanyl dens.
These are things that every Canadian wants its government to do, too. These are not crazy demands, even if they came from an unpopular source.
These tariffs are going to be devastating to so many people’s lives and small businesses.
Action has to be judged based on what it leads to, not how good it sounds or feels. Leadership is about doing what’s right, not what is popular. And hitting back will not lead to anything good. America will shrug it off. Canada will decline.
It’s simply the wrong choice in a possibility space where much better options would have been available.
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13 Dec 2024
The Ontario government has pushed forward plans to boost natural gas to meet soaring energy demand, despite receiving expert advice to “plan a partial abandonment” of gas infrastructure by 2050.
An exclusive by @fatimabsyed thenarwhal.ca/ontario-energy…
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11 Dec 2024
“Why is Toronto traffic so terrible?” wonders man in car
@TheBeaverton
#onpoli #topoli thebeaverton.com/2024/12/why…
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25 Nov 2024
Still looking for the bike-lane induced congestion. 8:32am, Nov. 25. #toronto
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22 Nov 2024
For every police officer that was placed at risk in Coutts
For all the money that the Canadian economy lost from border blockades
For every family that could not sleep in Ottawa
remember who brought the coffee and donuts.
Pat King, a key figure in what became the Freedom Convoy protest that paralyzed downtown Ottawa in early 2022, has been found guilty of five charges against him for his role. cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/pa…
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22 Nov 2024
Boldfaced admission that bike lanes save lives.
21 Nov 2024
#Breaking: Ford government to ban lawsuits against province if cyclists are hurt or killed on streets where bike lanes were removed trib.al/Wr39Had
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22 Nov 2024
A well-crafted question here from @lanesharrison.
"How do you explain the amendment that protects the province from lawsuits around injuries or deaths after you remove bike lanes to the families of those dead cyclists?"
#onpoli #topoli
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22 Nov 2024
The @tdsb fired my son's grade three teacher 5 weeks into the school year due to lack of adequate funding, covering the class with a hastily bodged system of two part-time rotary teachers. @dougford @JillDunlop1 are badly underfunding public education @ETFOeducators @TrusteeSara
18 Nov 2024
Have you seen our new online tool, which shows how Ford's cuts impact your child's school?
The PC government has cut $1,500 in funding, per student, since 2018. What does that mean for the #onted schools near you?
Go to buildingbetterschools.ca/cut… and find out! #onpoli
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22 Nov 2024
Well, that's certainly surprising.
Pierre Poilievre regularly met with directors of oil industry association he deemed a ‘money-sucking lobby group’
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22 Nov 2024
SHOCKING: This is blatant life endangerment thru dangerous public policy I wouldn’t have thought possible until recently. In Ontario the Doug Ford Govt plans to BAN LAWSUITS against the Province WHEN people on bikes are hurt or killed after they rip out safe bike-lanes. “Stay off streets for your own safety.”
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19 Nov 2024
A shocking amount of direct political interference on display here from the Alberta Government on behalf of private oil & gas interests - indirectly meddling not just in @aimco investment decisions, but also those of @cppinvestments #cdnpoli #abpoli
19 Nov 2024
Alberta's preference for Stephen Harper was well known within AIMCo, sources say financialpost.com/fp-finance…
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11 Nov 2024
Every year the Canadian #oil & #gas industry @CRIN_Canada & government sponsor a #greenwash space at #cop29 providing cover for #fossilfuel lobbists to attend & undermine #climate action. Almost no one outside Canada actually notices or attends. It's a show for back home #cdnpoli
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16 Nov 2024
A photo - courtesy of @jvipondmd - of an entirely empty @cdnoilsands greenwashing event at #cop29 - No one at international climate meetings is buying what Canada's #oil & #gas industry is selling.
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15 Nov 2024
NEED SOME GOOD NEWS?
The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.
Graph from @NatBullard graphic using @ember_energy data.
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12 Nov 2024
Last week, the president of Enbridge Gas made a rare public address. Michele Harradence told investors and policy makers that fewer energy rules are better, and Canada needs to loosen its “tangle of regulatory knots.” @fatimabsyed was there: thenarwhal.ca/enbridge-gas-p…
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12 Nov 2024
Ripping out lanes doesn’t add up 🤷: in these communities, thousands of new homes (provincial policy ✅) built in buildings w/ little or no car parking (smart ✅) have thousands of new bike parking spots - all synchronized with new safe, well designed & located cycle lanes 🚲
11 Nov 2024
Percentage of people who commute by bicycle in Toronto wards near bike lanes. My 'hood (Blake-Jones) and neighbour (North Riverdale) are high - 9% and 10.4% (I used to when I commuted) - and these are reduced 2021 pandemic numbers compared to 2016. Via @GraphicMatt newsletter.
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11 Nov 2024
COP parties & observers honestly couldn't care less. It's a big waste of taxpayer money.
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11 Nov 2024
Ironically, @CRIN_Canada & @cdnoilsands scrubbed their websites because they couldn't comply with basic domestic #greenwash rules to back up their claims with international standards - but spent millions to fly a roadshow to Azerbaijan at #unfccc conference #COP29Baku
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