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Claire Kraatz

@climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

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Mom, wife, educator, activist. Co-founder of For Our Kids Alberta. Passionate about people and our beautiful planet. Treaty 7. She/her 🌎

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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · Aug 13

💥 Act now! 💥
🔥 Methane is fueling wildfires.
💨 It’s a super-pollutant heating our planet fast.
✍️ Sign @forourkidscanada.bsky.social’s letter for urgent action:
#cdnpoli #climateaction #halifaxfire #NovaScotiaWildfires #nlwx #nlwildfires #climateactionnow #forourkids
www.forourkids.ca/methane_poll...

Support Bold Action on Methane Pollution

www.forourkids.ca

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 22d

Experts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social @aronczyk.bsky.social and @johnfocook.bsky.social speak with @trackchangesmedia.bsky.social on the rising threat of climate disinformation in the media, solutions misinformation, and the attack on climate science and scientists themselves.

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 14d

See the latest episode of @drilledmedia.bsky.social where authors of our upcoming book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment discuss the rise of rightwing populism and its relationship to climate resistance. The podcast can be found here: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep2 | Welcome to the Rapture! How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Intersect with Climate

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

drilled.media

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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 3h

"Efforts to address climate change have been unsuccessful, we believe because of the work to obstruct them and our failure to understand and overcome this obstruction."

@calgaryclimatehub.ca @canrac.bsky.social @citizensclimateiv.bsky.social @cape-acme.bsky.social @forourkidscanada.bsky.social

Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 18h

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.

Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 4h

This is the quiet, but slowly getting louder horror story taking place across the northern hemisphere

Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15h

Netherlands Scientific Climate Council warns: under pressure from climate change, forests and soils are now taking up less CO2 from the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
www.wkr.nl/adviezen/ove...

Graph showing diminishing uptake of CO2 by global forests, from around 9Gt/year in the beginning of this century to around 2 Gt/year now

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 9h

All of these warriors for democracy know just how crucial passing Prop 50 is.

It's ESSENTIAL that California passes it & that means that we need resisters across the nation to help.

If you care about democracy follow these activists, post about it often & volunteer!

YES ON 50!
go.bsky.app/Jiw4LDg

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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 4h

Be aware @adriandix.bsky.social

#propaganda #energy #bcpoli #abpoli

Jenny Yeremiy, P. Geoph 🪶🌿🇵🇸🇳🇬🇱🇧🇨🇦 @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social · Feb 16

Let’s not forget about founder Sue Riddell Rose,👇 of the Paramount Resources family and the Sequoia-Perpetual liability dump. SRR holds the honour of being the first individual to settle a personal polluter pay litigation. Now all execs are fair game. 💪

#WomenPoweredPropaganda🖕
#abpoli

Founders & Board Members
Sue Riddell Rose
Founder & Board Chair

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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 5h

FYI @adriandix.bsky.social

cc @juliedabrusin.bsky.social

#bcpoli #abpoli

Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · Feb 16

~Women are the new target of Canada's fossil fuel greenwashing machine

A look at the players behind the organization reveals a group that is entwined with Canada's fossil fuel&petrochemical industries.
All of its 6 founding board members are O&G executives who speak routinely at industry events.

Written in a seemingly neutral and measured tone, the post highlights the environmental demands associated with producing electric car batteries and the cost of installing home chargers or finding them on the road. It concludes with a laundry list of potential problems arising from EVs, offering little reassurance they are a viable purchase for people with busy lives.
Click through to Canada Powered by Women’s website, and you’ll find dozens of other blog posts targeted at women that throw shade on new technology and climate policy designed to draw down planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. Many of the titles reveal a bias; for instance, a blog post asks if “net-zero homes are worth the cost," while another asks if there is "a credible alternative to the carbon tax."

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ScienceNotDogma @sciencenotdogma.bsky.social · Nov 23

They've had a Twitter account for 5 years.🤨

Pushing #disinformation all that time about #EVs and #Renewables, to help #BigOil deny the reality of the #ClimateCrisis by sowing doubt about #ElectricVehicles on behalf of the #FossilFuel industry to confuse #Canada's #women buyers.

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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · Feb 15

This is how the fossil fuel industry infiltrates our K-12 #education system. #abed

Must read from journalist Marc Fawcett-Atkinson of the @nationalobserver.com

cc @ata38.bsky.social @schilldawg.bsky.social

www.nationalobserver.com/2024/09/13/n...

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 4d

Join @forourkidscanada.bsky.social on October 23rd for an eye-opening webinar on methane pollution with leading scientists and policy experts. Learn how you can help us get these regulations over the finish line—your voice matters!
www.forourkids.ca/methane-webi... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Clean Air, Healthy Kids & Communities: The Case for Strong Methane Regulations

www.forourkids.ca

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Jenny Yeremiy, P. Geoph 🪶🌿🇵🇸🇳🇬🇱🇧🇨🇦 @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social · 1d

👋 #yyc Take Action in Calgary-Bow! Join us, send a message to the Minister of Ed!

📣Show Up, Bring Signs, Wear Red
Let’s Reclaim Public Ed
RecallNicolaides.ca #AbEd @abresistance.bsky.social
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social
@pialberta.bsky.social @sosalberta.bsky.social @yycraggrannies.bsky.social

Let’s Reclaim Public Education
Thurs, Oct 16, 2:30- 5:00 pm
Bowness Ratepayers
Scout & Guide Hall, Calgary

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 1d

If you didn’t know, Alaska has been hit by a massive storm, causing severe flooding. Many Indigenous villages have been completely wiped out, with some houses floating away with PEOPLE INSIDE THEM. Please keep posting to spread the info. They need help.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Maria Dunn Music @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social · 1d

#Thanksgiving #Gratitude to those who do their best to keep our #publicservices functioning (education, health, housing, postal workers) #teachers #educationalassistants #nurses #doctors #LPNs and more (Oct 5, 2025 photo by Dr Kristopher Wells).

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Jaymie Heilman @jaymieh.bsky.social · 5d

"Pushback is growing among Alberta municipalities, landowners, and concerned residents who say the province is pressing ahead with a regulatory system that lets oil and gas companies dodge taxes, skip rent, and leave orphaned wells behind." #ableg #abpoli
www.theenergymix.com/alberta-orph...

Alberta Orphan Well Strategy Faces Pushback from Residents, Municipalities, Experts

Pushback is growing among Alberta municipalities, landowners, and concerned residents who say the province is pressing ahead with a regulatory system that lets oil and gas companies dodge taxes, skip ...

www.theenergymix.com

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Jaymie Heilman @jaymieh.bsky.social · 5d

Pollutants from leaking wells cause “cancer, strokes, dementia, heart attacks, heart failures, an increase in birth defects and premature births. . .every day the regulator lets industry dodge its cleanup obligations is another day that Albertans are going to face further harm.” #abpoli #ableg

Laurie W 🇨🇦 @lauriedw.bsky.social · 5d

therockies.life/town-hall-ra...

Town Hall Rallies Albertans Against Province’s Plan to Stick Families With Oil Well Cleanup Bill

Over 160 people participated in the event, which called on the UCP to rethink its Mature Assets Strategy.

therockies.life

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 4d

We're making a last push to win a Youth Climate Corps in next month's federal budget. Please help us get it over the line 👇

Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 5d

Momentum is growing for a Youth Climate Corps, a bold new public program to put young people to work protecting our communities & tackling the climate crisis.

It's built for this moment.

Tell Carney: it’s time to fund a Youth Climate Corps!
👉 www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca/tell-carney

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For Our Kids Canada @forourkidscanada.bsky.social · 4d

Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay: act.gp/3RIc9dq

Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay

Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.

act.gp

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DGC Roadguy @dgcroadguy.bsky.social · Aug 21

Well this is cool:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For the first time in over a century, sockeye salmon are able to return to Okanagan Lake | CBC News

After more than a century without salmon in Okanagan waters, a new fish passageway means that salmon and numerous other fish species will be able to migrate upstream to spawn.

www.cbc.ca

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 2d

Say his name.

#SilverioVillegasGonzalez

How do you tell the innocent children that their only father will never come home?

#USDemocracy

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Edmonton Raging Grannies 🇨🇦🍁 @yegraginggrannies.bsky.social · 2d

HAPPY THANKSGIVING... TO ALL OUR READERS, BOTH NEAR AND FAR

#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli #Thanksgiving

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 1d

Today is International Day for Disaster Reduction. 🌍 Data from #C3S and #CopernicusAtmosphere power smart decision-making and risk management, from early warnings for extreme heat and drought to near real-time monitoring of hazardous air quality impacts, and much more.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 3d

PHILIPPINES / CANADA: Filipino migrant workers in Canada call for livable wage, job security www.bulatlat.com/2025/10/11/f...

Filipino migrant workers in Canada call for livable wage, job security

“In an industry where precarious jobs, wage theft, unsafe conditions can be commonplace, where workers — especially migrants, women — face intimidation, fear of reprisal, for speaking up, it is not en...

www.bulatlat.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3d

If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.

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Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW @kathleenwester.bsky.social · 3d

🇨🇦 #Alberta has always been the spoiled child of 🇨🇦, stomping their feet and making demands without taking any responsibility for #EnviromentalImpacts that cost us all $$$s and destry our 🌎. They need to #GrowUp.
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'It depends': Carney shifts st...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'It depends': Carney shifts stance on maintaining emissions cap | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping the poli...

www.cbc.ca

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