Scott Forbes🇨🇦
@theecologyprof.bsky.social
U of Winnipeg ecologist; behavioural ecology; wildlife biology; fisheries; families; birds; climate change; surf-fishing; wood-working; lifelong student of natural history.
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Quick! Walk back climate policy and further tie our economic future to this dying industry! 4D chess!
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Drilling activity plunges, job losses climb in Western Canada as oil prices sink | CBC News
Low oil and natural gas prices are taking a toll on the industry as drilling activity is falling in Western Canada and job losses are mounting.
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Quick! Walk back climate policy and further tie our economic future to this dying industry! 4D chess!
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Should probably have posted these for the #Birdoftheday theme of #movement.
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Should probably have posted these for the #Birdoftheday theme of #movement.
Seems like I've seen this story before. The price of VCRs & VHS tapes also plunged before their demise. But by all means, let's squander tens of billions of tax dollars on pipelines & carbon capture doomed to be stranded assets for another sunset industry. #EndFossilFuels
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Drilling activity plunges, job losses climb in Western Canada as oil prices sink | CBC News
Low oil and natural gas prices are taking a toll on the industry as drilling activity is falling in Western Canada and job losses are mounting.
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Seems like I've seen this story before. The price of VCRs & VHS tapes also plunged before their demise. But by all means, let's squander tens of billions of tax dollars on pipelines & carbon capture doomed to be stranded assets for another sunset industry. #EndFossilFuels
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They died because they were women.
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
They died because they were women.
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
As the Alberta Energy Regulator puts the cost of cleaning up abandoned wells, mines and pipelines in Alberta at north of a quarter TRILLION dollars, I'm sure $10,000 will cover it. If not, Premier Smith will happily let Canadian taxpayers cover the tab. #EndFossilFuels
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A $10,000 deposit to drill an oil well? Alberta premier floats idea as 250,000 old wells need cleanup | CBC News
Alberta’s premier is floating the idea of making oil and gas companies pay a deposit before they can drill a new well, as the provincial government tries to tackle the large number of old oil and gas ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
As the Alberta Energy Regulator puts the cost of cleaning up abandoned wells, mines and pipelines in Alberta at north of a quarter TRILLION dollars, I'm sure $10,000 will cover it. If not, Premier Smith will happily let Canadian taxpayers cover the tab. #EndFossilFuels
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The MB NDP bragging about a permanent gas tax cut is not a great look.
I thought that a lot of these folks were environmentalists before power was dangled in front of them? Kids try to find Elf on the Shelf this season. I’m trying to find the old NDP that used to be environmentally friendly.
I thought that a lot of these folks were environmentalists before power was dangled in front of them? Kids try to find Elf on the Shelf this season. I’m trying to find the old NDP that used to be environmentally friendly.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The MB NDP bragging about a permanent gas tax cut is not a great look.
I thought that a lot of these folks were environmentalists before power was dangled in front of them? Kids try to find Elf on the Shelf this season. I’m trying to find the old NDP that used to be environmentally friendly.
I thought that a lot of these folks were environmentalists before power was dangled in front of them? Kids try to find Elf on the Shelf this season. I’m trying to find the old NDP that used to be environmentally friendly.
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The alternate #birdoftheday theme is #black birds. As a professional wildlife biologist who has worked on icterid blackbirds for 30-odd years, that would be too easy. So instead, one of a gang of crows we befriended in Port Alberni this year.
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The alternate #birdoftheday theme is #black birds. As a professional wildlife biologist who has worked on icterid blackbirds for 30-odd years, that would be too easy. So instead, one of a gang of crows we befriended in Port Alberni this year.
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Ignored since the federal election, an arms-length expert body set up to advise the federal government on the energy transition is collapsing, with the latest pipeline agreement between Canada and Alberta representing the final straw. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/n...
Federal net-zero body falling apart in wake of Alberta-Ottawa deal
Two prominent members of the Net-Zero Advisory Body, including its chair, have resigned this week, citing a lack of influence over a government that’s increasingly pulling back on climate action.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Ignored since the federal election, an arms-length expert body set up to advise the federal government on the energy transition is collapsing, with the latest pipeline agreement between Canada and Alberta representing the final straw. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/n...
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I think that one of the problems in getting this point across is one of math literacy.
1 million seconds is 11 days.
1 billion seconds is 32 years.
So $10M is almost nothing compared to $34B. Using the time comparison - 10 million seconds is 115 days, 34 billion seconds is over 1000 years.
1 million seconds is 11 days.
1 billion seconds is 32 years.
So $10M is almost nothing compared to $34B. Using the time comparison - 10 million seconds is 115 days, 34 billion seconds is over 1000 years.
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I think that one of the problems in getting this point across is one of math literacy.
1 million seconds is 11 days.
1 billion seconds is 32 years.
So $10M is almost nothing compared to $34B. Using the time comparison - 10 million seconds is 115 days, 34 billion seconds is over 1000 years.
1 million seconds is 11 days.
1 billion seconds is 32 years.
So $10M is almost nothing compared to $34B. Using the time comparison - 10 million seconds is 115 days, 34 billion seconds is over 1000 years.
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PM Carney subsidizes Big Oil to pump carbon to increase production.
He walks back greenwashing rules allowing Big Oil to lie.
He cuts a deal on planet killing methane.
Now his team is walking.
The CEO isn't smartest guy in the room when it comes to a burning planet.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
He walks back greenwashing rules allowing Big Oil to lie.
He cuts a deal on planet killing methane.
Now his team is walking.
The CEO isn't smartest guy in the room when it comes to a burning planet.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Climate change advisers quit over Carney government’s energy deal with Alberta
Two departing members of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body say the Carney government is shredding any hope the country will meet its climate goals.
www.thestar.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Canada should announce that if Hegseth ever sets foot in our country, he will be arrested, manacled and transported immediately to The Hague to face prosecution for war crimes.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Canada should announce that if Hegseth ever sets foot in our country, he will be arrested, manacled and transported immediately to The Hague to face prosecution for war crimes.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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Compare that to $34 billion spent on TMX and countless more billions to subsidize unproven carbon capture for Big Oil’s Pathways Alliance. This taxpayer is not impressed. #EndFossilFuels
Canada is investing over $10M to support EVs and make charging easier nationwide. ⚡🇨🇦
This includes funding for 1,200+ new chargers in ON, NB, and AB, plus research to make EV motors more affordable and efficient.
🔗News release: bit.ly/3XzHwcY
This includes funding for 1,200+ new chargers in ON, NB, and AB, plus research to make EV motors more affordable and efficient.
🔗News release: bit.ly/3XzHwcY
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Compare that to $34 billion spent on TMX and countless more billions to subsidize unproven carbon capture for Big Oil’s Pathways Alliance. This taxpayer is not impressed. #EndFossilFuels
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Vertical bifacial agrivoltaics feasible at high latitudes with 8-meter row spacing www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/13/v... - find more information on vertical PV in global-local resolution: doi.org/10.1016/j.so... @dominikkeiner.bsky.social
Vertical bifacial agrivoltaics feasible at high latitudes with 8-meter row spacing
New research from Finland shows how spacing between solar modules plays a key role in determing power and crop yield. The scientists found that, at a separation of 8 m, crops received at least 75% of ...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Vertical bifacial agrivoltaics feasible at high latitudes with 8-meter row spacing www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/13/v... - find more information on vertical PV in global-local resolution: doi.org/10.1016/j.so... @dominikkeiner.bsky.social
Two provinces with 1/7th of Canada's population (AB/SK) account for half of our greenhouse gases. If they get away with this - a massive expansion of methane-burning power plants - what the rest of Canada does to reduce emissions doesn't matter. #ClimateActionNow
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Alberta's data centre plans would erase gains from phasing out coal
Celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's plans for a massive gas-powered data centre would raise Alberta's emissions to historic levels
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December 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Two provinces with 1/7th of Canada's population (AB/SK) account for half of our greenhouse gases. If they get away with this - a massive expansion of methane-burning power plants - what the rest of Canada does to reduce emissions doesn't matter. #ClimateActionNow
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For #ThrushThursday a robin and the kids. #Birds 🪶
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
For #ThrushThursday a robin and the kids. #Birds 🪶
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Classic lemon socialism. Privatize the profits and socialize the losses. Fossil fuels are high risk-low reward investments. So what do our political leaders do? Spend public dollars to subsidize a sunset industry where the profits go largely to foreign multinationals. Brilliant. Just brilliant. 🤡
Canadian oil and gas investments are vulnerable to a fast energy transition, research finds corporateknights.com/energy/new-o...
New oil and gas investments threaten Canada's economy: report
If the world moves quickly to renewables, Canada’s fossil fuel sector would be deep underwater on new investments
corporateknights.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Classic lemon socialism. Privatize the profits and socialize the losses. Fossil fuels are high risk-low reward investments. So what do our political leaders do? Spend public dollars to subsidize a sunset industry where the profits go largely to foreign multinationals. Brilliant. Just brilliant. 🤡
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports #renewables now 10 times more efficient than new nuclear at CO2 #climate mitigation. Build times for new #nuclear are massively longer than for #solar and #wind. Nuclear costs always ramp.
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports #renewables now 10 times more efficient than new nuclear at CO2 #climate mitigation. Build times for new #nuclear are massively longer than for #solar and #wind. Nuclear costs always ramp.
The right-wing parties in BC are a train-wreck. First the implosion of BC United (formerly 'Liberals' who were anything but liberal); now the disintegration of the Conservatives that nearly knocked off the NDP a year ago. BC politics is always entertaining. 🍿
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John Rustad removed as leader of B.C. Conservatives, party says
Board of directors decided Rustad is ‘professionally incapacitated’ and ‘unable to continue’ as leader, party says
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December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The right-wing parties in BC are a train-wreck. First the implosion of BC United (formerly 'Liberals' who were anything but liberal); now the disintegration of the Conservatives that nearly knocked off the NDP a year ago. BC politics is always entertaining. 🍿
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Why IGN are we proposing to build oil pipelines where the profits go primarily to the foreign multinationals who own most of the tar sands? Is it that our political leaders have the mental capacity of cognitively-impaired plants or is there another possible explanation? #BanPipelines
"The oil sands in Alberta will get most of the profit from this pipeline, but all of the risk is being placed on British Columbia and particularly the First Nations along the west coast,” said Nissen.”
‘There’s no monitoring of earthquakes’: new British Columbia pipeline could spell catastrophe, experts warn
Project on ‘very poorly understood’ terrain and likely to pass through Rocky Mountain trench, which researchers say poses immense geological hazard
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Why IGN are we proposing to build oil pipelines where the profits go primarily to the foreign multinationals who own most of the tar sands? Is it that our political leaders have the mental capacity of cognitively-impaired plants or is there another possible explanation? #BanPipelines