RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/116854648785434093

Tagging with #USPol #politics #USPolitics

The estimated price tag for the pipeline is $35.2-43.7 billion, before factoring in potential cost increases like the monumental 584% cost overrun by the last fossil project Canadian taxpayers underwrote, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli

https://www.theenergymix.com/90-public-ownership-as-carney-smith-announce-new-pipeline-into-declining-global-oil-market/

RE: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/

World-class reporting on Google's energy consumption, and specifically why several Google claims that have made headlines are either extremely inaccurate or disingenuous or both.

Note that Google released the info this reporting uses, and this can be scaled to get estimates for many other companies don't release any data.

#Google #ClimateChange #AI #LLM #emissions

RE: https://mstdn.social/@canayjun/116851977491961647

I remember someone was asking "are there any folks doing topical music like the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

and while I don't think this has quite the same ineffable instant classic nature, it's definitely topical:

https://youtu.be/LyyFIbaU45w

#CNDPoli #BryanAdxams

“It’s pretty hard to prove that a bitumen pipeline is going to break or leak because of the incredible safety record that Canada has had in the last 50 years." [1]

said a pro-pipeline Chief; compare that claim to

Alberta pipeline rupture that caused explosion, wildfire https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tsb-report-edson-pipeline-rupture-9.6934226

Pipeline leak located more than a week after sheen first reported on Ontario river https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/03/23/pipeline-leak-located-more-than-a-week-after-sheen-first-reported-on-ontario-river/

Trans Mountain Pipeline spill in Abbotsford estimated at up to 190,000 litres of crude oil https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trans-mountain-pipeline-spill-abbotsford-150000-190000-litres-1.5611973

and many, many others (see https://apps2.cer-rec.gc.ca/pipeline-incidents/ or https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7dffedc4-23fa-440c-a36d-adf5a6cc09f1

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[1] https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/imminent-alberta-pipeline-proposal-submission-has-b-c-environmentalists-first-nations-readying-for-battle/

#APTN #pipeline #FossilFuels #OilAndGas #Carney #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #Canada

And what, from the economic perspective, is the point?

the ocean-based B.C. economy at $21 billion annually with over 130,000 full-time jobs.

so we're talking about spending billions of taxpayer dollars to endanger an $21 billion/year economy.

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https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/imminent-alberta-pipeline-proposal-submission-has-b-c-environmentalists-first-nations-readying-for-battle/

#APTN #pipeline #FossilFuels #OilAndGas #Carney #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #Canada

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116851537233896233

Excellent reporting from APTN. These two opening paragraphs:

With Alberta’s promise to fully respect “Canada’s duty to consult with Indigenous Peoples,” as part of its promised July 1 submission on a new bitumen pipeline to the Major Projects Office, the province isn’t revealing which First Nations have been consulted.

Information provided by Alberta’s Ministry of Indigenous Relations said it’s not providing a list of specific communities in the interest of “open and honest participation.”

which is about as dryly sarcastic and critical as a purely factual report can be.

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https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/imminent-alberta-pipeline-proposal-submission-has-b-c-environmentalists-first-nations-readying-for-battle/

#APTN #pipeline #FossilFuels #OilAndGas #Carney #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #Canada

Also

Current models project that as El Nino intensifies, damaging thermal stress will engulf nearly half of the global ocean by late 2026

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/the-return-of-el-nino-escalating-ocean-temperatures-threaten-marine-ecosystems-ldxni8cx

#climate

Do you like eating cod?

Notably, a previous marine heat wave caused Pacific cod populations to plunge by 70 percent in the Gulf of Alaska

...

Climate models project a 2-in-3 probability that a robust to highly severe El Nino will develop by late autumn 2026,

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/the-return-of-el-nino-escalating-ocean-temperatures-threaten-marine-ecosystems-ldxni8cx

Hilda Bastian @hildabast : "Values and Conflicts at Journals" (re: disputed Cochrane review on exercise for ME/CFS, etc.)

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/06/24/values-and-conflicts-at-journals/

https://s4me.info/threads/2025-the-2019-24-cochrane-larun-review-exercise-therapy-for-cfs-including-iag-campaign-petition-comments-and-articles.42305/post-702559

Screenshot from latest Science for ME @s4me weekly update

#MEcfs #PwME #ME #MyalgicE
@mecfs

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@datum/116846112429154161

Anyone have any other favourite links to why USA dairy products are unsuitable for the Canadian market?

RE: https://mstdn.social/@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire/116845972289990594

Hey Canadian politicians - when Palantir comes knocking maybe this 👇 might be valuable in any discussion?

@Paulatics @avilewis @emilylowan

#CDNPoli #politics #palantir #surveillance

Amazing AMOC visualization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9cal-dFjx0

via https://www.castanet.net/news/Sustainability-Spotlight/622343/Slowing-Atlantic-current-will-lead-to-flooding-and-fish-collapse which is an excellent and troubling article.

It makes the point for humans first:

A slowing AMOC also affects the jet stream. This will tend to trap weather systems in place, producing prolonged heatwaves, droughts, or severe winter storms. Yes, we are used to a few days of hot weather in Montreal over the summer. But three weeks? Yes we expect -20 C in Ottawa in the winter, but for how long?

but considering plankton do most of the planet's photosynthesis - which all food webs, including ours, are based on! - maybe this part should be more worrisome:

feel some sympathy for the cute little phytoplankton. They are single-celled algae (but they can swim and some of them even hunt). They need the AMOC to bring up nutrients from the deep sea. Fewer nutrients, less fat, happy phytoplankton.

#AMOC #visualization #visualisation #fish #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

SpaceX plans to launch 1 million satellites for space-based data centres.

This diagram shows the satellites that would be visible above our VLT:

⚪ invisible satellites in Earth’s shadow
🟠 2000 satellites brighter than magnitude 7
🔴 200 satellites brighter than magnitude 5

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📷 ESO/O. Hainaut

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116841848684568048

bad internet bills are being proposed across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. They're using the usual tactics: they claim they're fighting for kids or fighting security risks, but in general, that's what surveillance and censorship bills have always claimed.

Here in Canada the Carney Liberals are shoving through this legislation without even giving it full debate in parliamentary committee!

#CDNPoli #internet #politics

What happened to the fight for the internet? https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/

A new blogpost from me. I believe the fight for keeping the internet free is more important than ever but also under more threats than ever.

And the irony is, centralization is partly to blame: people don't feel like the internet is theirs anymore.

But we can't leave it there.

We HAVE to act.

For our sake, for our kids' sake, for ourselves, for the future.

Though I would expect Ghost's default conversion tool to import generic WP without needing anything custom, if not:

If you're running an existing publication on another platform and you'd like to move to Ghost, our team may be able to help.

https://ghost.org/move-to-ghost/

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My monthly update on next generation Covid vaccines is online now @PLOS — with a new streamlined structure I hope makes it easier & quicker to read.

News on:

- a major UK grant supporting a UK/US collaboration on a vax from Stanford Uni

- another 4 trials began recruiting in China, Europe, & USA

- another 2 trials are fully recruited in Germany & USA

Plus preclinical reports:

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/06/29/more-trials-recruiting-and-other-nextgen-covid-vaccine-news/

#Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

RE: https://zirk.us/@impermanen_/116839087894914100

And note that July is when Australia gets the least sun!!!

#solarPower #photovoltaik

Glyphosate is a #herbicide labeled by the IARC as "probably carcinogenic to humans." However, if your elected representative has received a phone call from Bayer, then it is safe for you.

But if you are "miscellaneous" human, you might want to know that soaking fruit in a solution of baking soda (15 min) gets rid of it. Warning: it's gross.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.7b03118

#Glyphosate #EuropeanCommission #EFSA #IARC #monsanto #bayer #fruit