Conor Curtis
@conorcurtis.bsky.social
Comms Director at Sierra Club Canada / MA Policy / BA Hist. / fmr manager at a food bank / writer / podcaster from Corner Brook NL. My Views. Wealth limit, direct redistribution: https://energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fundamental-fairness-can-save
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Conor Curtis
@conorcurtis.bsky.social
· Jul 28
A New ‘Fundamental Fairness’ Can Save Democracy, the Environment, and Canada
As major media focus on negotiations between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Donald Trump, it’s the Canadian people who are our best line of defence. We need a new fairness to empower ourselves.
energymixweekender.substack.com
A limit on extreme individual wealth above healthy, competitive rewards; With any extreme #wealth at the highest end of the spectrum clawed back and shared equally by all.
The proposal in my article for @theenergymix.com: energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fund... #CDNpoli #Canada #USpoli #US
The proposal in my article for @theenergymix.com: energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fund... #CDNpoli #Canada #USpoli #US
(1/2)"With so little logic behind the Carney-Smith agreement, the unasked question is whether anyone is sweating the details or knows what they’re doing. If they did this on purpose, that’s even worse."
Vital analysis from Mitchell Beer: energymixweekender.substack.com/p/separatist... #CDNpoli
Vital analysis from Mitchell Beer: energymixweekender.substack.com/p/separatist... #CDNpoli
Separatists Boo Smith While the Clueless Bros Pitch a Pipeline
With so little logic behind the Carney-Smith agreement, the unasked question is whether anyone is sweating the details or knows what they’re doing. If they did this on purpose, that’s even worse.
energymixweekender.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
(1/2)"With so little logic behind the Carney-Smith agreement, the unasked question is whether anyone is sweating the details or knows what they’re doing. If they did this on purpose, that’s even worse."
Vital analysis from Mitchell Beer: energymixweekender.substack.com/p/separatist... #CDNpoli
Vital analysis from Mitchell Beer: energymixweekender.substack.com/p/separatist... #CDNpoli
We just gave a bunch of U.S. shareholders more profits with this MOU on imaginary pipeline & set back our own economies (including Alberta's) in the process. Call your MP, if they support this MOU make sure they understand the betrayal & loss of faith. Then go support renewables in your community.
By scrapping the emissions cap the federal government betrayed Canadian climate survivors who called for a cap. Who will profit from this betrayal? U.S. shareholders: www.sierraclub.ca/pipeline-mou...
Scrapping climate policy will NOT even help Alberta’s economic stability. #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
Scrapping climate policy will NOT even help Alberta’s economic stability. #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We just gave a bunch of U.S. shareholders more profits with this MOU on imaginary pipeline & set back our own economies (including Alberta's) in the process. Call your MP, if they support this MOU make sure they understand the betrayal & loss of faith. Then go support renewables in your community.
(1/2) [NEW PODCAST] We respond to the Pipeline MOU between the Federal Government and Alberta Government – which scrapped the emissions cap in a betrayal of Canadian climate survivors so that U.S. shareholders could profit. Then...
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www.sierraclub.ca/middle-groun...
Control, Don’t Appease, the Middle Ground AND Avoid Internal Fights... - Sierra Club Canada
Advice on controlling - not appeasing - the middle ground centre of a debate without sacrificing radical action or succumbing to scapegoating
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November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
(1/2) [NEW PODCAST] We respond to the Pipeline MOU between the Federal Government and Alberta Government – which scrapped the emissions cap in a betrayal of Canadian climate survivors so that U.S. shareholders could profit. Then...
www.sierraclub.ca/middle-groun...
www.sierraclub.ca/middle-groun...
Since Minister Hodgeson thinks Indigenous consulation = zoom, BC pipeline concerns are 'naive', & people caring about the climate is nostalgic, today's #SovereigntySaturdays podcast is about how the Fed. Gov. just betrayed Canadian wildfire & flood survivors so U.S. shareholders can profit. #CDNpoli
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Since Minister Hodgeson thinks Indigenous consulation = zoom, BC pipeline concerns are 'naive', & people caring about the climate is nostalgic, today's #SovereigntySaturdays podcast is about how the Fed. Gov. just betrayed Canadian wildfire & flood survivors so U.S. shareholders can profit. #CDNpoli
This is who we abandoned Canada's climate policies for. This is who the Federal Government betrayed climate survivors for. Oil and gas interests pose the real threat to our sovereignty. #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
Canada’s top oil sands firms earned $131.6B since 2021, and sent most profits to foreign shareholders, mainly in the U.S.
Karel Mayrand (@karelmayrand.bsky.social) warns this capital flight clashes with strong public support for resource sovereignty while industry lobbies to weaken climate policy.
Karel Mayrand (@karelmayrand.bsky.social) warns this capital flight clashes with strong public support for resource sovereignty while industry lobbies to weaken climate policy.
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Reposted by Conor Curtis
I think Smith knows it.
She got what she wanted and can look like a hero to the separatists crowd but the market just won’t support it. I only hope that the renewables ban will be lifted.
She got what she wanted and can look like a hero to the separatists crowd but the market just won’t support it. I only hope that the renewables ban will be lifted.
(1/2) The MOU does not seem to have done much to decrease separatist sentiments in Alberta as CityNews Edmonton reports, because lies do not bring unity - only the truth does: edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1...
The Truth is that there is no business case for a pipeline... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
The Truth is that there is no business case for a pipeline... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
Hope and Skepticism: Albertans react to the new pipeline deal with Ottawa
The Memorandum of Understanding between Smith and Carney have sparked mixed reactions from Albertans and environmentalist groups. Our Leo Cruzat has the story
edmonton.citynews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I think Smith knows it.
She got what she wanted and can look like a hero to the separatists crowd but the market just won’t support it. I only hope that the renewables ban will be lifted.
She got what she wanted and can look like a hero to the separatists crowd but the market just won’t support it. I only hope that the renewables ban will be lifted.
(1/2) The MOU does not seem to have done much to decrease separatist sentiments in Alberta as CityNews Edmonton reports, because lies do not bring unity - only the truth does: edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1...
The Truth is that there is no business case for a pipeline... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
The Truth is that there is no business case for a pipeline... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
Hope and Skepticism: Albertans react to the new pipeline deal with Ottawa
The Memorandum of Understanding between Smith and Carney have sparked mixed reactions from Albertans and environmentalist groups. Our Leo Cruzat has the story
edmonton.citynews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
(1/2) The MOU does not seem to have done much to decrease separatist sentiments in Alberta as CityNews Edmonton reports, because lies do not bring unity - only the truth does: edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2025/1...
The Truth is that there is no business case for a pipeline... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
The Truth is that there is no business case for a pipeline... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
Via CBC: Hodgson is flying to B.C. tonight to meet with his counterpart, B.C. Energy Minister Adrian Dix, and the premier about today’s deal.
“We’re going to see what we can do,” Hodgson said.
A BIT LATE TO PRETEND TO CARE.
“We’re going to see what we can do,” Hodgson said.
A BIT LATE TO PRETEND TO CARE.
Not a good look for @mark-carney.bsky.social's government to dismiss British Columbian's concerns this way. One might again say that advice from oil and gas interests is, and always will be, toxic.
Below from Ipolitics this morning concerning the Pipeline MOU. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #PipelineMOU
Below from Ipolitics this morning concerning the Pipeline MOU. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #PipelineMOU
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Via CBC: Hodgson is flying to B.C. tonight to meet with his counterpart, B.C. Energy Minister Adrian Dix, and the premier about today’s deal.
“We’re going to see what we can do,” Hodgson said.
A BIT LATE TO PRETEND TO CARE.
“We’re going to see what we can do,” Hodgson said.
A BIT LATE TO PRETEND TO CARE.
And Steven Guilbeault has resigned from cabinet and BC and Eby are angry. Some 'master chess playing' there @mark-carney.bsky.social. I'm being sarcastic by the way.
People need truth, not oil and gas-interest driven chaos and theatrical chess.
www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...
People need truth, not oil and gas-interest driven chaos and theatrical chess.
www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
And Steven Guilbeault has resigned from cabinet and BC and Eby are angry. Some 'master chess playing' there @mark-carney.bsky.social. I'm being sarcastic by the way.
People need truth, not oil and gas-interest driven chaos and theatrical chess.
www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...
People need truth, not oil and gas-interest driven chaos and theatrical chess.
www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...
Reposted by Conor Curtis
In case you're looking for relevant listening today!
(1/2) Oil & gas interests want to increase Canada’s reliance on the U.S. So why is the AB Gov. talking about a west coast oil pipeline MOU with the Fed. Gov – since the economics of such a #pipeline are terrible?
www.sierraclub.ca/west-coast-p... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli #USpoli #WestCoastPipeline
www.sierraclub.ca/west-coast-p... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli #USpoli #WestCoastPipeline
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In case you're looking for relevant listening today!
Carney unfortunately also THINKS he is playing chess. People do not need chess right now they need honesty. Here's honesty: the world doesnt need a pipeline, Alberta's economy is in trouble if they don't expand renewables like wind & solar, not expensive nuclear: www.theenergymix.com/breaking-wit...
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Carney unfortunately also THINKS he is playing chess. People do not need chess right now they need honesty. Here's honesty: the world doesnt need a pipeline, Alberta's economy is in trouble if they don't expand renewables like wind & solar, not expensive nuclear: www.theenergymix.com/breaking-wit...
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Pledge to support community-led renewable energy and tell the Canadian government to do the same! @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social
✉️ Send a letter here: www.sierraclub.ca/action-item/...
✉️ Send a letter here: www.sierraclub.ca/action-item/...
Pledge to support community-led renewable energy and tell Carney to do the same! - Sierra Club Canada
A 100% renewable energy economy in Canada is possible and is a much better investment in terms of jobs and the economy than oil and gas.
www.sierraclub.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Pledge to support community-led renewable energy and tell the Canadian government to do the same! @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social
✉️ Send a letter here: www.sierraclub.ca/action-item/...
✉️ Send a letter here: www.sierraclub.ca/action-item/...
Oh my... it's sounding like @mark-carney.bsky.social signed an MOU sacrificing climate policies for... nothing. Hot air. Future meetings on industrial carbon pricing. And a bunch of data centres powered not by wind and solar which we could deploy tomorrow, but by expensive Nuclear and gas?
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oh my... it's sounding like @mark-carney.bsky.social signed an MOU sacrificing climate policies for... nothing. Hot air. Future meetings on industrial carbon pricing. And a bunch of data centres powered not by wind and solar which we could deploy tomorrow, but by expensive Nuclear and gas?
Reposted by Conor Curtis
As Ottawa and Alberta edge toward a new pipeline deal, Carbon Tracker (@carbontracker.bsky.social) warns the plan is a financial trap.
Up to 30% of Canada’s oil & gas value is at risk, and provincial revenues could fall 82% in the 2030s as global demand drops.
Up to 30% of Canada’s oil & gas value is at risk, and provincial revenues could fall 82% in the 2030s as global demand drops.
BREAKING: With Pipeline Deal Coming Soon, New Analysis Shows Big Risks for Investors, Crushing Losses for Provinces
With the federal and Alberta governments touting an imminent deal on a new oil pipeline to British Columbia’s northwest coast, analysis released Thursday morning concludes that investors in Canadian o...
www.theenergymix.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
As Ottawa and Alberta edge toward a new pipeline deal, Carbon Tracker (@carbontracker.bsky.social) warns the plan is a financial trap.
Up to 30% of Canada’s oil & gas value is at risk, and provincial revenues could fall 82% in the 2030s as global demand drops.
Up to 30% of Canada’s oil & gas value is at risk, and provincial revenues could fall 82% in the 2030s as global demand drops.
Reposted by Conor Curtis
Alberta keeps saying it plans to "double" oil production by 2035. But the math here doesn't come close to mathing --- and it has nothing to do with Ottawa's policies. #cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...
Alberta’s pipeline math still doesn’t add up
The biggest obstacle standing between Alberta and its premier's repeated pledge to double oil production isn't the tanker ban, the emissions cap, or any other piece of federal legislation. It's realit...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Alberta keeps saying it plans to "double" oil production by 2035. But the math here doesn't come close to mathing --- and it has nothing to do with Ottawa's policies. #cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...
Not a good look for @mark-carney.bsky.social's government to dismiss British Columbian's concerns this way. One might again say that advice from oil and gas interests is, and always will be, toxic.
Below from Ipolitics this morning concerning the Pipeline MOU. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #PipelineMOU
Below from Ipolitics this morning concerning the Pipeline MOU. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #PipelineMOU
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Not a good look for @mark-carney.bsky.social's government to dismiss British Columbian's concerns this way. One might again say that advice from oil and gas interests is, and always will be, toxic.
Below from Ipolitics this morning concerning the Pipeline MOU. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #PipelineMOU
Below from Ipolitics this morning concerning the Pipeline MOU. #CDNpoli #BCpoli #PipelineMOU
Reposted by Conor Curtis
Hegseth's demeanor is bizarre. He's almost on the verge of laughing while talking about the shooting of two National Guardsmen. He seems elated.
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hegseth's demeanor is bizarre. He's almost on the verge of laughing while talking about the shooting of two National Guardsmen. He seems elated.
"Fed. Energy Minister Tim Hodgson told CP the fed. gov. will be talking to B.C. 'in short order.'"
Probably should have done that first Tim.
Neither Smith nor Carney actually think a private company will back a pipeline... neither talked to BC.
www.theenergymix.com/west-coast-p...
#ABpoli #BCpoli
Probably should have done that first Tim.
Neither Smith nor Carney actually think a private company will back a pipeline... neither talked to BC.
www.theenergymix.com/west-coast-p...
#ABpoli #BCpoli
West Coast Pipeline to Receive ‘Political Support’ from Carney Deal with Alberta
Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Calgary Thursday to unveil “broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding” with Alberta that will offer “political support” for a new pipeline to British Co...
www.theenergymix.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Fed. Energy Minister Tim Hodgson told CP the fed. gov. will be talking to B.C. 'in short order.'"
Probably should have done that first Tim.
Neither Smith nor Carney actually think a private company will back a pipeline... neither talked to BC.
www.theenergymix.com/west-coast-p...
#ABpoli #BCpoli
Probably should have done that first Tim.
Neither Smith nor Carney actually think a private company will back a pipeline... neither talked to BC.
www.theenergymix.com/west-coast-p...
#ABpoli #BCpoli
Do you remember when the last government started making exemptions and carveouts to the consumer carbon tax? That ended well, now @mark-carney.bsky.social decides to repeat the mistake. Seriously, weakening greenwashing regulations so companies can lie? Foolish.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CDNpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CDNpoli
Ottawa, Alberta agree to broad outlines of energy deal, including path to pipeline | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding that would give Alberta special exemptions from federal environmental l...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Do you remember when the last government started making exemptions and carveouts to the consumer carbon tax? That ended well, now @mark-carney.bsky.social decides to repeat the mistake. Seriously, weakening greenwashing regulations so companies can lie? Foolish.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CDNpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CDNpoli
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On a new episode of @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social's 🌳THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA🌳 the team explain why Oil & Gas interests want to increase Canada's reliance on the United States and sabotage Canadian sovereignty.
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West Coast Pipeline? Oil & Gas Corps Want Us Tied to the U.S. When Renewables are What We Really Need for Sovereignty
Podcast Episode · The Environment in Canada Podcast · 11/22/2025 · 21m
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November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
On a new episode of @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social's 🌳THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA🌳 the team explain why Oil & Gas interests want to increase Canada's reliance on the United States and sabotage Canadian sovereignty.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... 🔶
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... 🔶
Because the MOU on an imaginary pipeline is actually cover to weaken Canada’s climate regulations and slow the growth of renewable energy – renewable energy that is Canada’s best bet for continuing our sovereignty… Podcast below highlighting recent reporting on the subject.
#ABpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli
#ABpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli
(1/2) Oil & gas interests want to increase Canada’s reliance on the U.S. So why is the AB Gov. talking about a west coast oil pipeline MOU with the Fed. Gov – since the economics of such a #pipeline are terrible?
www.sierraclub.ca/west-coast-p... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli #USpoli #WestCoastPipeline
www.sierraclub.ca/west-coast-p... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli #USpoli #WestCoastPipeline
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Vance is using a tactic that was developed by fascists to destroy democracies: you create a hatred of an 'other' - they dont care who - & you push until democracy collapses.
See @coolzonemedia.bsky.social / @iwriteok.bsky.social's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #CBC
See @coolzonemedia.bsky.social / @iwriteok.bsky.social's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #CBC
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Vance is using a tactic that was developed by fascists to destroy democracies: you create a hatred of an 'other' - they dont care who - & you push until democracy collapses.
See @coolzonemedia.bsky.social / @iwriteok.bsky.social's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #CBC
See @coolzonemedia.bsky.social / @iwriteok.bsky.social's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #CBC
Tomorrow's #SovereigntySaturdays podcast edition of @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social's The Environment in Canada Podcast will be going over the imaginary west coast oil pipeline, because of course we've got to cover it. So stay tuned... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Tomorrow's #SovereigntySaturdays podcast edition of @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social's The Environment in Canada Podcast will be going over the imaginary west coast oil pipeline, because of course we've got to cover it. So stay tuned... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
Reposted by Conor Curtis
Let's please not be left behind as the rest of the world moves on...
THERE IS NO BUSINESS CASE FOR A PIPELINE. This MOU is about oil and gas corporations wanting to further Canada's reliance on the U.S. and slow our transition to renewable energy, leaving us behind other countries and with the cost of clean-up
#ABpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli
#ABpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli
"New fossil fuel infrastructure in Canada delivers a high level of risk if other countries move faster to decarbonize, but almost no reward in the increasingly unlikely event that the energy transition slows down." - @theenergymix.com
www.theenergymix.com/breaking-wit... #ABpoli #CDNpoli #CDNMedia
www.theenergymix.com/breaking-wit... #ABpoli #CDNpoli #CDNMedia
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Let's please not be left behind as the rest of the world moves on...
THERE IS NO BUSINESS CASE FOR A PIPELINE. This MOU is about oil and gas corporations wanting to further Canada's reliance on the U.S. and slow our transition to renewable energy, leaving us behind other countries and with the cost of clean-up
#ABpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli
#ABpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli
"New fossil fuel infrastructure in Canada delivers a high level of risk if other countries move faster to decarbonize, but almost no reward in the increasingly unlikely event that the energy transition slows down." - @theenergymix.com
www.theenergymix.com/breaking-wit... #ABpoli #CDNpoli #CDNMedia
www.theenergymix.com/breaking-wit... #ABpoli #CDNpoli #CDNMedia
BREAKING: With Pipeline Deal Coming Soon, New Analysis Shows Big Risks for Investors, Crushing Losses for Provinces
With the federal and Alberta governments touting an imminent deal on a new oil pipeline to British Columbia’s northwest coast, analysis released Thursday morning concludes that investors in Canadian o...
www.theenergymix.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM