Stephen Thomas
@stephenjwt.bsky.social
I believe a better world is possible. Climate justice, solidarity and energy policy.
Clean Energy Manager w/ @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
Board Member w/ @canrac.bsky.social
Views my own. Nova Scotian settler living in unceded Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. He/Him
Clean Energy Manager w/ @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
Board Member w/ @canrac.bsky.social
Views my own. Nova Scotian settler living in unceded Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. He/Him
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Stephen Thomas
@stephenjwt.bsky.social
· Sep 23
Couldn’t be more proud to stand alongside 17 allied organizations on Parliament Hill this week calling for an East-West grid based on renewables + respect for workers’ and Indigenous rights
@yoursacredearth.bsky.social @cape-acme.bsky.social @climatecaucus.bsky.social @ibewinternational.bsky.social
@yoursacredearth.bsky.social @cape-acme.bsky.social @climatecaucus.bsky.social @ibewinternational.bsky.social
He doesn't “say” clean electricity would save lives. It would.
15,300 Canadians die each year of preventable causes linked to air pollution, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels.
42 people. Every damn day.
#cdnpoli #climate #Energysky
15,300 Canadians die each year of preventable causes linked to air pollution, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels.
42 people. Every damn day.
#cdnpoli #climate #Energysky
In resigning from the Carney cabinet Thursday, MP Steven Guilbeault wrote a three-page letter in which he says, among other things, that the Clean Electricity Regulations — which Alberta will no longer need to follow — have the potential to save lives. A medical association agrees.
Guilbeault says clean electricity rules would ‘save lives’ in resignation letter
In resigning from the Carney cabinet Thursday, MP Steven Guilbeault wrote a three-page letter in which he says, among other things, that the Clean Electricity Regulations — which Alberta will no longer need to follow — have the potential to save lives. A medical association agrees.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
He doesn't “say” clean electricity would save lives. It would.
15,300 Canadians die each year of preventable causes linked to air pollution, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels.
42 people. Every damn day.
#cdnpoli #climate #Energysky
15,300 Canadians die each year of preventable causes linked to air pollution, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels.
42 people. Every damn day.
#cdnpoli #climate #Energysky
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“This MOU is nothing less than a high risk and deeply irresponsible agreement that sacrifices Indigenous peoples, coastal communities, and the environment for political convenience,” says Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the UBCIC.
‘The answer is no and always will be’: UBCIC on Alberta-Canada MOU
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the MOU signed Thursday morning to build a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“This MOU is nothing less than a high risk and deeply irresponsible agreement that sacrifices Indigenous peoples, coastal communities, and the environment for political convenience,” says Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the UBCIC.
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Canada’s top political leaders are climate deniers. There’s no such thing as “decarbonized” oil and no environmentally conscious way to increase fossil fuel production.
Mark Carney and his government are sacrificing the climate and baking in worse natural disasters in the hope of short-term profit.
Mark Carney and his government are sacrificing the climate and baking in worse natural disasters in the hope of short-term profit.
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Canada’s top political leaders are climate deniers. There’s no such thing as “decarbonized” oil and no environmentally conscious way to increase fossil fuel production.
Mark Carney and his government are sacrificing the climate and baking in worse natural disasters in the hope of short-term profit.
Mark Carney and his government are sacrificing the climate and baking in worse natural disasters in the hope of short-term profit.
Reposted by Stephen Thomas
This pipeline will never be built. But trying to build it is still a tragic waste of time and money at a time when we have neither to spare.
Stop wasting money on pipelines. Give us real nation-building projects.
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Stop wasting money on pipelines. Give us real nation-building projects
This week’s agreement between Ottawa and Alberta on a pipeline to B.C.’s north coast is the latest chapter in this weird, depressing tale of wasting tens of billions of dollars
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This pipeline will never be built. But trying to build it is still a tragic waste of time and money at a time when we have neither to spare.
Reposted by Stephen Thomas
Something that is easy to forget in all the "Carney is a political genius / Carney is a political naif" argle bargle is that climate policies matter. Environmental regulations matter. Getting rid of them may or may not achieve a political end — but it's guaranteed to have real-world implications.
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Something that is easy to forget in all the "Carney is a political genius / Carney is a political naif" argle bargle is that climate policies matter. Environmental regulations matter. Getting rid of them may or may not achieve a political end — but it's guaranteed to have real-world implications.
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Our @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social reaction to today's horrendous MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada:
davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...
davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...
Alberta and Ottawa’s fossil fuel fantasy sacrifices environment
PM Mark Carney and AB Premier Danielle Smith dealt a devastating blow to climate and nature by signing an MOU for a new AB-to–BC pipeline.
davidsuzuki.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Our @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social reaction to today's horrendous MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada:
davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...
davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...
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This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
Minister Steven Guilbeault resigns from federal cabinet over this today, and calls it a "serious mistake" to remove the Clean Electricity Regulations in his resignation letter.
Couldn't agree more.
#cdnpoli #climate #renewables #cleanelectricity #EnergySky
montrealgazette.com/news/canada_...
Couldn't agree more.
#cdnpoli #climate #renewables #cleanelectricity #EnergySky
montrealgazette.com/news/canada_...
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Minister Steven Guilbeault resigns from federal cabinet over this today, and calls it a "serious mistake" to remove the Clean Electricity Regulations in his resignation letter.
Couldn't agree more.
#cdnpoli #climate #renewables #cleanelectricity #EnergySky
montrealgazette.com/news/canada_...
Couldn't agree more.
#cdnpoli #climate #renewables #cleanelectricity #EnergySky
montrealgazette.com/news/canada_...
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I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know
Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
Reposted by Stephen Thomas
Today is a historic setback for climate action in Canada. DSF vehemently opposes this proposed pipeline and calls on @mark-carney.bsky.social to do better. Stand firm on environmental standards and advance Canada’s clean energy transition. Not Danielle Smith's fossil fuel fantasy.
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Today is a historic setback for climate action in Canada. DSF vehemently opposes this proposed pipeline and calls on @mark-carney.bsky.social to do better. Stand firm on environmental standards and advance Canada’s clean energy transition. Not Danielle Smith's fossil fuel fantasy.
Today is a truly awful day in Climate politics in Canada. This move doesn't make that better, but I have to give some respect for the integrity Minister Guilbeault is showing here.
I can't imagine how anyone who cares about climate in this government can reconcile this mess.
I can't imagine how anyone who cares about climate in this government can reconcile this mess.
#Breaking: Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault resigns from cabinet following Carney government's energy deal with Alberta
Steven Guilbeault resigns from Mark Carney’s cabinet
Before entering elected politics, Guilbeault was a famed environmentalist.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Today is a truly awful day in Climate politics in Canada. This move doesn't make that better, but I have to give some respect for the integrity Minister Guilbeault is showing here.
I can't imagine how anyone who cares about climate in this government can reconcile this mess.
I can't imagine how anyone who cares about climate in this government can reconcile this mess.
Our @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social reaction to today's horrendous MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada:
davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...
davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...
Alberta and Ottawa’s fossil fuel fantasy sacrifices environment
PM Mark Carney and AB Premier Danielle Smith dealt a devastating blow to climate and nature by signing an MOU for a new AB-to–BC pipeline.
davidsuzuki.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Our @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social reaction to today's horrendous MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada:
davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...
davidsuzuki.org/press/albert...
Everything in this MOU is bad.
Likely overlooked is the suspension of the Clean Electricity Regulations in Alberta (which will surely lead to them being removed everywhere)
They would have saved 181 Mt of GHGs.
Thousands of people fought for years to get these regs. Less than a year later. Gone.
Likely overlooked is the suspension of the Clean Electricity Regulations in Alberta (which will surely lead to them being removed everywhere)
They would have saved 181 Mt of GHGs.
Thousands of people fought for years to get these regs. Less than a year later. Gone.
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Everything in this MOU is bad.
Likely overlooked is the suspension of the Clean Electricity Regulations in Alberta (which will surely lead to them being removed everywhere)
They would have saved 181 Mt of GHGs.
Thousands of people fought for years to get these regs. Less than a year later. Gone.
Likely overlooked is the suspension of the Clean Electricity Regulations in Alberta (which will surely lead to them being removed everywhere)
They would have saved 181 Mt of GHGs.
Thousands of people fought for years to get these regs. Less than a year later. Gone.
This pipeline will never be built. But trying to build it is still a tragic waste of time and money at a time when we have neither to spare.
Stop wasting money on pipelines. Give us real nation-building projects.
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Stop wasting money on pipelines. Give us real nation-building projects
This week’s agreement between Ottawa and Alberta on a pipeline to B.C.’s north coast is the latest chapter in this weird, depressing tale of wasting tens of billions of dollars
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This pipeline will never be built. But trying to build it is still a tragic waste of time and money at a time when we have neither to spare.
Stop wasting money on pipelines. Give us real nation-building projects.
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Stop wasting money on pipelines. Give us real nation-building projects
This week’s agreement between Ottawa and Alberta on a pipeline to B.C.’s north coast is the latest chapter in this weird, depressing tale of wasting tens of billions of dollars
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Stop wasting money on pipelines. Give us real nation-building projects.
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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"We did buy a pipeline because we felt there was a need to still get Alberta's oil to market," McKenna says. "And what did we get? They did not live up to their end of the bargain under any stretch of the imagination."
As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know
Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"We did buy a pipeline because we felt there was a need to still get Alberta's oil to market," McKenna says. "And what did we get? They did not live up to their end of the bargain under any stretch of the imagination."
🌊✊ Civil Society Rejects Northwest Coast Oil Pipeline
40+ organizations stand with Coastal First Nations to protect the north Pacific coast. Oil tankers put communities, wildlife, and our climate at risk.
💧 No consent. No plan. No pipeline.
📢 full statement below!
#EnergySky #Climate #cdnpoli
40+ organizations stand with Coastal First Nations to protect the north Pacific coast. Oil tankers put communities, wildlife, and our climate at risk.
💧 No consent. No plan. No pipeline.
📢 full statement below!
#EnergySky #Climate #cdnpoli
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🌊✊ Civil Society Rejects Northwest Coast Oil Pipeline
40+ organizations stand with Coastal First Nations to protect the north Pacific coast. Oil tankers put communities, wildlife, and our climate at risk.
💧 No consent. No plan. No pipeline.
📢 full statement below!
#EnergySky #Climate #cdnpoli
40+ organizations stand with Coastal First Nations to protect the north Pacific coast. Oil tankers put communities, wildlife, and our climate at risk.
💧 No consent. No plan. No pipeline.
📢 full statement below!
#EnergySky #Climate #cdnpoli
Reposted by Stephen Thomas
The Ottawa - Alberta MOU looks to be very, very bad. Ottawa is giving in to unreasonable demands--and giving up good climate policies. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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 10:11 PM
The Ottawa - Alberta MOU looks to be very, very bad. Ottawa is giving in to unreasonable demands--and giving up good climate policies. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Reposted by Stephen Thomas
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Reposted by Stephen Thomas
🎉 Today at COP30, the world committed to center justice for workers & communities in the UN climate talks, with the decision to develop a Just Transition mechanism.
⚠️ But on adaptation, finance & implementing the transition away from fossil fuels, the COP30 outcome falls short.
Our full analysis ⬇️
⚠️ But on adaptation, finance & implementing the transition away from fossil fuels, the COP30 outcome falls short.
Our full analysis ⬇️
CAN-Rac celebrates Just Transition decision at COP30, while major gaps remain on finance, adaptation and energy - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)
Belém, Brazil, 22 November 2025:
Climate Action Network Canada celebrates the COP30 decision to develop a Just Transition Mechanism—a model for how the international climate negotiations can centre j...
shorturl.at
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
🎉 Today at COP30, the world committed to center justice for workers & communities in the UN climate talks, with the decision to develop a Just Transition mechanism.
⚠️ But on adaptation, finance & implementing the transition away from fossil fuels, the COP30 outcome falls short.
Our full analysis ⬇️
⚠️ But on adaptation, finance & implementing the transition away from fossil fuels, the COP30 outcome falls short.
Our full analysis ⬇️
❗I'm so excited to talk with Dr. David Suzuki, Melina Laboucan-Massimo and Jordyn Burnouf - three of my movement heroes.
⚡We'll be talking about all things renewable power, and how it can bring the benefits we need at the global scale, and at the local.
📅 Dec 4th - link below!
#EnergySky
⚡We'll be talking about all things renewable power, and how it can bring the benefits we need at the global scale, and at the local.
📅 Dec 4th - link below!
#EnergySky
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
❗I'm so excited to talk with Dr. David Suzuki, Melina Laboucan-Massimo and Jordyn Burnouf - three of my movement heroes.
⚡We'll be talking about all things renewable power, and how it can bring the benefits we need at the global scale, and at the local.
📅 Dec 4th - link below!
#EnergySky
⚡We'll be talking about all things renewable power, and how it can bring the benefits we need at the global scale, and at the local.
📅 Dec 4th - link below!
#EnergySky
Reposted by Stephen Thomas
Do annual U.N. climate talks accomplish anything? On the last day of #COP30 in Brazil, activist @harjeet11.bsky.social says "this is the only place where we can get justice, however ineffective it has been."
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Do annual U.N. climate talks accomplish anything? On the last day of #COP30 in Brazil, activist @harjeet11.bsky.social says "this is the only place where we can get justice, however ineffective it has been."