Greg Fingas
@gregfingas.bsky.social
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Eye on the ball folks! It seems the pipeline piece may well be a distraction. While a pipeline remains very unlikely, the practical impact of this deal are all the immediate concessions to oil & gas industry & the federal abandonment of core climate policies.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/n...
BREAKING: Alberta gets its way in deal with Ottawa
A newly signed memorandum of understanding gives Alberta almost its entire list of demands, from the removal of regulations to the fast-tracking of a pipeline.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Eye on the ball folks! It seems the pipeline piece may well be a distraction. While a pipeline remains very unlikely, the practical impact of this deal are all the immediate concessions to oil & gas industry & the federal abandonment of core climate policies.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/n...
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I say caved but honestly at a certain point you kinda have to assume this is what carney wanted too. Fossil fuel maximalism
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I say caved but honestly at a certain point you kinda have to assume this is what carney wanted too. Fossil fuel maximalism
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US-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of 🇨🇦 Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
"Lead members of the Pathways Alliance—Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, Imperial Oil & Suncor—are behaving like a Trojan horse for Trump’s anti-climate politics" www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
"Lead members of the Pathways Alliance—Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, Imperial Oil & Suncor—are behaving like a Trojan horse for Trump’s anti-climate politics" www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
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 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
US-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of 🇨🇦 Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
"Lead members of the Pathways Alliance—Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, Imperial Oil & Suncor—are behaving like a Trojan horse for Trump’s anti-climate politics" www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
"Lead members of the Pathways Alliance—Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, Imperial Oil & Suncor—are behaving like a Trojan horse for Trump’s anti-climate politics" www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
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Important hot-takes from @climatekeith.bsky.social here on today's pipeline MOU. 👇
1. This federal-Alberta pipeline MOU is even worse than I expected. Even before we get to the pipeline:
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Important hot-takes from @climatekeith.bsky.social here on today's pipeline MOU. 👇
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The Liberal party was historically unpopular only a few months before the last election. If you think the reason is that they weren't appeasing the US enough, or were too feminist, or cared too much about climate, or weren't sufficiently militaristic, well, good luck with the next election.
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The Liberal party was historically unpopular only a few months before the last election. If you think the reason is that they weren't appeasing the US enough, or were too feminist, or cared too much about climate, or weren't sufficiently militaristic, well, good luck with the next election.
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The federal-AB agreement is a love letter to fossil fuels
-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The federal-AB agreement is a love letter to fossil fuels
-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
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Also, "creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs" is an absurd and meaningless claim. The O&G industry is shedding jobs aggressively. A new pipeline will, in a best case scenario, sustain a few thousand jobs in the broader industry over the long term.
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Also, "creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs" is an absurd and meaningless claim. The O&G industry is shedding jobs aggressively. A new pipeline will, in a best case scenario, sustain a few thousand jobs in the broader industry over the long term.
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To be clear, even if the pipeline is never built (huge barriers remain + the business case is weak), the feds are making meaningfully regulatory concessions *now* that will matter either way.
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
To be clear, even if the pipeline is never built (huge barriers remain + the business case is weak), the feds are making meaningfully regulatory concessions *now* that will matter either way.
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Lots to unpack here. A couple immediate takeaways:
- oil and gas emissions cap is officially dead (after being only implicitly killed in #Budget2025)
- clean electricity regulations potentially dead, following further negotiations
- Alberta gov will be the proponent for new bitumen pipeline
- oil and gas emissions cap is officially dead (after being only implicitly killed in #Budget2025)
- clean electricity regulations potentially dead, following further negotiations
- Alberta gov will be the proponent for new bitumen pipeline
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Lots to unpack here. A couple immediate takeaways:
- oil and gas emissions cap is officially dead (after being only implicitly killed in #Budget2025)
- clean electricity regulations potentially dead, following further negotiations
- Alberta gov will be the proponent for new bitumen pipeline
- oil and gas emissions cap is officially dead (after being only implicitly killed in #Budget2025)
- clean electricity regulations potentially dead, following further negotiations
- Alberta gov will be the proponent for new bitumen pipeline
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"Landowners’ frustration with industry is reaching a boiling point... Unless these issues are addressed, there can be no consideration of increased production, no new pipelines, or carbon capture and storage. It makes no sense."
therockies.life/albertans-wa... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
therockies.life/albertans-wa... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
Albertans Want Polluters To Pay, But Government Trying to Pass Bill to Public
The Alberta Energy Regulator “has black marks all over it for being one sided to development companies like oil and gas and coal,” says Bill Trafford.
therockies.life
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Landowners’ frustration with industry is reaching a boiling point... Unless these issues are addressed, there can be no consideration of increased production, no new pipelines, or carbon capture and storage. It makes no sense."
therockies.life/albertans-wa... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
therockies.life/albertans-wa... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
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It's really infuriating to read on a daily basis about other countries switching to renewables on a massive scale, while we're still digging in the ground, looking for something to burn.
#canpoli #cdnpoli
#canpoli #cdnpoli
Your future and the future of everyone you love set ablaze for a few more dollars in the pockets of fossil fuel intetests. Utter madness. No one voted for this. This is corruption. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Don’t expect oilpatch investment to flood in overnight after ‘grand bargain,’ experts say | CBC News
The argument has often been made that uncertainty over oil and gas regulations, paired with challenges in getting products to market, is chasing away new investment. But even if a new agreement betwee...
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Imagine how scary it’d be if we didn’t know why global temperatures were rising.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
April 20, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Imagine how scary it’d be if we didn’t know why global temperatures were rising.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Remember when the oil companies were saying if they didn’t get their pipelines or w/e they were going to move their operations elsewhere (as if the oil wasn’t, you know, in a fixed location)? Well guess what it doesn’t make a diff where they are because they are just transferring money to the U.S.
“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
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 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Remember when the oil companies were saying if they didn’t get their pipelines or w/e they were going to move their operations elsewhere (as if the oil wasn’t, you know, in a fixed location)? Well guess what it doesn’t make a diff where they are because they are just transferring money to the U.S.
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Nobody likes to see people lose their jobs and livelihoods, but this is a good reminder that blind loyalty to an industry is not a good thing. Oil and gas does not ❤️ you back, no matter how many bumper stickers you have
“Imperial Oil has announced it will eliminate 20% of its workforce by the end of 2027, with most of the positions based in Calgary.”
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
Imperial Oil, ExxonMobil announce major layoffs for Canada amid global restructuring
Experts says layoffs part of broader global trend in oil and gas sector
www.hcamag.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Nobody likes to see people lose their jobs and livelihoods, but this is a good reminder that blind loyalty to an industry is not a good thing. Oil and gas does not ❤️ you back, no matter how many bumper stickers you have
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The irony for me is how Musk bought Twitter with the clear intention of capturing & manipulating the press culture there — something many journalists reported on — and yet they stay there because each assumes they can’t be manipulated… while totally getting manipulated.
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The irony for me is how Musk bought Twitter with the clear intention of capturing & manipulating the press culture there — something many journalists reported on — and yet they stay there because each assumes they can’t be manipulated… while totally getting manipulated.
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Carney needs some basic math skills
Trading the emissions reductions from the oil & gas pollution cap and the clean electricity rules for *maybe* stronger industrial carbon pricing doesn't add up
We do need stronger industrial pricing, but in addition to, not at the expense of, other policies
Trading the emissions reductions from the oil & gas pollution cap and the clean electricity rules for *maybe* stronger industrial carbon pricing doesn't add up
We do need stronger industrial pricing, but in addition to, not at the expense of, other policies
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Carney needs some basic math skills
Trading the emissions reductions from the oil & gas pollution cap and the clean electricity rules for *maybe* stronger industrial carbon pricing doesn't add up
We do need stronger industrial pricing, but in addition to, not at the expense of, other policies
Trading the emissions reductions from the oil & gas pollution cap and the clean electricity rules for *maybe* stronger industrial carbon pricing doesn't add up
We do need stronger industrial pricing, but in addition to, not at the expense of, other policies
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Rutger Bregman said that the line BBC removed from his Reith Lecture broadcast was: "Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
So even UK media is now under Trump/ Putin control?
Chilling.
So even UK media is now under Trump/ Putin control?
Chilling.
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Rutger Bregman said that the line BBC removed from his Reith Lecture broadcast was: "Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
So even UK media is now under Trump/ Putin control?
Chilling.
So even UK media is now under Trump/ Putin control?
Chilling.
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jfc. what a joke. of course, it will increase emissions. also, carbon capture is a fucking scam. and, asia doesn't want our oil or lng. china is correctly switching to renewables at light speed. carney is a conservative con man shilling for the o&g lobby.
#fossiloftheday #cdnpoli #climatecrisis
#fossiloftheday #cdnpoli #climatecrisis
Will the Canada-Alberta 'Grand Bargain' oil pipeline deal lead to more emissions? | CBC News
A historic oil pipeline deal between the federal and Alberta governments — set to be announced on Thursday — could lead to more production in the oilsands, cementing Canada’s position as one of the wo...
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
jfc. what a joke. of course, it will increase emissions. also, carbon capture is a fucking scam. and, asia doesn't want our oil or lng. china is correctly switching to renewables at light speed. carney is a conservative con man shilling for the o&g lobby.
#fossiloftheday #cdnpoli #climatecrisis
#fossiloftheday #cdnpoli #climatecrisis
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As we await the pipeline MOU, a reminder that Alberta has 12% of Canada’s population and
• 38% of national GHG emissions
• 75% of oil and gas-related GHGs
• 51% of electricity-related GHGS
Source: 2025 National Inventory Report 1990-2023: GHG Sources and Sinks in Canada (ECCC)
• 38% of national GHG emissions
• 75% of oil and gas-related GHGs
• 51% of electricity-related GHGS
Source: 2025 National Inventory Report 1990-2023: GHG Sources and Sinks in Canada (ECCC)
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
As we await the pipeline MOU, a reminder that Alberta has 12% of Canada’s population and
• 38% of national GHG emissions
• 75% of oil and gas-related GHGs
• 51% of electricity-related GHGS
Source: 2025 National Inventory Report 1990-2023: GHG Sources and Sinks in Canada (ECCC)
• 38% of national GHG emissions
• 75% of oil and gas-related GHGs
• 51% of electricity-related GHGS
Source: 2025 National Inventory Report 1990-2023: GHG Sources and Sinks in Canada (ECCC)
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Carbon capture schemes are the desperate idea of people who cling to fossil fuel extraction but want to make more profit and simultaneously try to sell the idea that we don't have to change the way we live.
Impose that on First Nations and your assumptions go up in flames.
Impose that on First Nations and your assumptions go up in flames.
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Carbon capture schemes are the desperate idea of people who cling to fossil fuel extraction but want to make more profit and simultaneously try to sell the idea that we don't have to change the way we live.
Impose that on First Nations and your assumptions go up in flames.
Impose that on First Nations and your assumptions go up in flames.
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Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
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Maybe just me but the fact that the US President has openly mused about taking over Canada takes the F35 off the table.
Don’t buy your military equipment from the country you are most likely to need to defend yourself against
Don’t buy your military equipment from the country you are most likely to need to defend yourself against
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Maybe just me but the fact that the US President has openly mused about taking over Canada takes the F35 off the table.
Don’t buy your military equipment from the country you are most likely to need to defend yourself against
Don’t buy your military equipment from the country you are most likely to need to defend yourself against
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This is a very concerning story. Cold Lake First Nation is living in 3rd world conditions. They have been completely frozen out by Mark Carney/Danielle Smith's plan to drive a 400 km pipeline carbon capture facility on their land.
This won't end well Mark.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
This won't end well Mark.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
Carney-Smith deal will bring carbon capture to Cold Lake. They don't want it
Alberta First Nations are being shut out of a sprawling carbon capture and storage project on their traditional territories that is a key part of Thursday's Alberta-Ottawa pipeline deal, chiefs say.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is a very concerning story. Cold Lake First Nation is living in 3rd world conditions. They have been completely frozen out by Mark Carney/Danielle Smith's plan to drive a 400 km pipeline carbon capture facility on their land.
This won't end well Mark.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
This won't end well Mark.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
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Pro-oil spokesperson on CBC says we need more oil pipelines because of the extra energy demands from AI. So Canada is going all-in on destroying the planet. It's a choice. Canada has chosen extinction. The Carney government is officially dead to me.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Pro-oil spokesperson on CBC says we need more oil pipelines because of the extra energy demands from AI. So Canada is going all-in on destroying the planet. It's a choice. Canada has chosen extinction. The Carney government is officially dead to me.