Host of @ClimateHubYYC's A Climate of Change zoomcast and The Climate Lens podcast, AB Regional Organizer for @Reality_Canada. Tweets are my own. #yyc
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Last Notes npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley " #ElectroStates are the exact opposite of #PetroStates. Electrified economies powered by renewables rely less on territorial control & more on technology, grids, manufacturing capacity & finance. #EnergyTransition is therefore not just an emission strategy, but a peace strategy." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "Oil is not just an energy source. It's a geopolitical accelerant that rewards coercion, undermines sovereignty and normalises permanent crisis. The Venezuela invasion illustrates #Petrostate logic at its most extreme. This is not an aberration, but a pattern." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "Canada needs to pick a lane as the global order fractures between #PetroStates willing to defend oil dominance through force & #ElectroStates building power through #electrification, renewables & clean industry. Trump's war, openly framed as an oil play, signals a return to naked resource militarism" npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley You're not alone. You're in a *very* solid majority. https://reclimate.ca/canadians-havent-given-up-on-climate-action-they-just-think-everyone-else-has/ #TalkClimate #ClimateChange npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "Our new Prime Minister was the banker to the climate finance world. #MarkCarney wrote 'Values' in 2021, he was all warm & fuzzy on #ClimateChange, warning of existential crisis! If there was ever an economist you'd think would get the #EnergyTransition it'd be Mark Carney. Instead what do we get?" npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley #ClimateLens host Bentley: "Is there any universe in which, right now, we can say that Canada is behaving like an electro state and not a petro state?" npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "The converse of #WarsForOil is #EnergyTransition. When #Humankind completes the switch to #renewables, we stop fighting about oil. That particular thing that we've fought over so much is OVER forever. The terms that are emerging representing the future vs past are #ElectroStates vs #PetroStates." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley " #Electrification will only continue to disrupt the auto sector, which is essentially 50% of customers for the oil Alberta produces, one of many big challenges to the status quo. Not good news for an industry, let alone a province, whose only plan is looking the other way and more of the same." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "All of the producing nations have a massive blind spot on how China has & will continue to completely & utterly disrupt the global auto industry. It now has the capacity to make 56% of the 88 million new cars manufactured on the planet & they'll most certainly be almost entirely EVs." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "The global South is where organizations like #OPEC have modelled all of the growth in oil demand from 2025 to 2050 will take place, always describing China as a consumer of oil, as opposed to the inventor, manufacturer & driving force behind the competition to oil, which is #ElectricTransportation." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "A lot of Canadians don't understand that #China is electrifying its economy. Not just transportation, EVERYTHING. And surprise, surprise: the rest of #Asia is copying China & China is selling its cheap technology, its #WindTurbines, #SolarPanels, #batteries, its #EVs & so on to those countries." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "Canada has the 3rd largest oil reserve in the world so when we think of oil, we think of supply. Because we have so much & can produce it cheaper than anybody else we think there'll always be customers for it. 'If we can just get it to market, my God, they'll buy it up as fast as they can!'" npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Never truer than today #Oligarchy #Gatsby #FScottFitzgerald npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "Study after study from very credible organizations say oil demand in #China is going to fall from roughly 17 million barrels a day to either between 5 or 7 million barrels by 2050, so Canada would be building a 1 million barrel a day pipeline to a market that is basically going to disappear." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Are you thirsty for a casual chat with local climate folks? Join us this month for our #ThirdThursdays Climate Drinks at #CivicTavern. Supported by XhAle Brewing! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Reflecting on that incredible #BadBunny message "the only thing more powerful than HATE is LOVE" and I find myself going back to one of my favourite #Gandhi quotes. I've watched #Superbowl halftime shows (& largely hated them) my whole life, I never expected to be inspired by one. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "The United States doesn't have partners. It has states with which it does transactional business and states which it influences in its own self-interest...over the next few years how we in Canada think of our sovereignty is going to continue to be challenged very strongly by the United States." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley @nprofile…mc39 @nprofile…3r7e @nprofile…w36e SO there was some noice about Calgary trying to get this winter olympics. it was 15 degrees the last couple of days here npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley https://cleantechnica.com/2026/01/30/albertas-900-million-bet-how-the-province-chose-fossil-risk-over-clean-energy-markets/ #abpoli npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Skyfire energy is a great sponsor, a great business and a great community member. Thanks for all you do, #SkyFireEnergy! #yyc #abpoli #CleanEnergy #SolarPower #EnergyTransition #ClimateChange https://skyfireenergy.com/ npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley In which I call out the #PipelinePimps clear across the political spectrum in Canada. Stop wondering why people are either disengaged entirely or gravitating towards dangerous populism. Our choice isn't a choice at all npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley TONIGHT IN CALGARY!!! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley @nprofile…pfq9 Throw a gorcery store in there and we're in business! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "We don't get to give up. We have to live with each loss and fight each fraction. That's it, that's all. Fight and keep fighting. Get angry. Turn that into power. Start today and never stop." https://medium.com/@stevebentley_84215/what-every-doomer-gets-wrong-4750aec20949 #ClimateChange #Wildfires #Doomers #abpoli #yyc #cdnpoli #EnergyTransition npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley @nprofile…hst7 sooner the better npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley NO. MORE. PIPELINES. #MarkCarney #ClimateChange #cdnpoli https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/25/opinion/international-criminal-court-landmark-climate-ruling-consequences npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Check out our upcoming Art of Protest workshop! 🎭 npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "I can be very critical of the city planning profession. We should be leaders. Too often city planners have the rap of being a bureaucrat, a technocrat, or the profession gets portrayed as just mind numbingly boring. Cities are inherently interesting, fascinating, sexy & exciting things!" npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Got a stack of bottles and cans you'd LOVE to see something good happen with? Connect with our good friends @skipthedepot.bsky.social and they'll come by, pick them up secure the refund and donate them to the Hub for you! Easy-peasie and you help a really good cause! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Heads up Calgary, this FUN and FREE 2nd annual #AllElectricHubAndSpokes event is selling out FAST! Join the tour/party on FREE #Ebike &/or #EScooter courtesy of #CityOfCalgary and #BowCycleEbikes! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Such a waste of time & money. Threaten to tear out things we've already build that the people are using & love for the very cynical hope of dividing a population against itself & riding that hate to political victory npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley This is The Alberta Way™️ thanks to #DanielleSmith who would be eminently proud to see Trump copying from her playbook. Call it anything you like, so long as you don't call it #SmallGovernment, small c conservatism. You couldn't be further away from it. #abpoli #cdnpoli https://www.ft.com/content/8fc81250-33ef-486e-9322-15548ee897a7?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosgenerate&stream=top npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Big Oil capitalizes on an under-informed populace. If only it were somebody's job https://medium.com/@stevebentley_84215/big-oil-and-bad-media-15f6d782383e #ClimateChange #BigOil #EnergyTransition #abpoli #cdnpoli npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/the-peak-numbers-canadas-oil-friendly-newspapers-keep-ignoring/ npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "With Alberta’s municipal elections fast approaching, who better to have on than #BrentToderian to tell us what types of climate solutions we can apply at the local level for a safe & prosperous #ClimateSmart future & what types of policies must we avoid at all costs" npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Tired of your tax dollars going to super wealthy #BigOil companies that lied about #ClimateChange for decades & refuse to clean up after themselves? Want to do something about it? 1st step is join a local climate org like the Calgary Climate Hub! https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/08/20/no-public-dollars-for-pipelines-calgarians-protest-against-government-funding-of-fossil-fuels/ #yyc #abpoli npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley YOUR Calgary Climate Hub in the news again! That's a headline we're proud of! #JustSayNo to the #CarbonCapture pipe dream! #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/calgary-climate-protestors-call-carbon-capture-pipe-dream?itm_source=index&tbref=hp npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley This is our 36th episode of the #ClimateLens (with one of our best launch days ever) making it our 3rd birthday which we're celebrating this afternoon at our monthly #ThirdThursday Calgary climate folks get together! Join us from 5-7pm at #CivicTavern! #yyc npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley A big thank you to #GoodEarth Coffeehouse for their generous donations of baked goods to our Community Climate Conversations! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley TODAY'S THE DAY. COME OUT AND BE HEARD. NO MORE SUBSIDIZING THE WORLD'S RICHEST INDUSTRY TO BURN THE WORLD AROUND US. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley This month's guest is one of the world's TOP urbanists, Canadian #BrentToderian.bsky.social! We talk suburbs, #sprawl, #BikeLanes, why smart #CityBuilding is the common sense climate solution & the awesome responsibility of the city councils we elect npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley RALLY TOMORROW!!! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley We had a GREAT time at our 4th annual #HubAndSpokes bike tour/party, celebrating Calgary's downtown #ActiveTransportation network & making a few new friends. Good news, we have an all-electric version coming this September 13th! #yyc #yyccc #yycbike npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley " #BjornLomborg suggests that the only reason #BigOil is advocating for #CarbonCapture is so they can get massive government subsidies that'll enable them to keep producing more oil. It's a pretty frank admission from a key booster of the industry. He's not just some random guy." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley re you thirsty for a casual chat with local climate folks? Join us this month for our #ThirdThursdays Climate Drinks on the third Thursday of each month at #CivicTavern. Supported by npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "Consistent #OilAndGas ally #BjornLomborg said 'in realistic terms, I don't think it's ever going to happen,' that deploying this technology, capturing emissions & burying them underground is so expensive that it's totally infeasible to do #CarbonCaptureAndStorage at scale." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "Your civic duty as a Canadian does not start and stop on election day. We must write, protest, organize, donate, occupy, march and demand better because our silence only makes the already rich richer at our expense and a more dangerous world for everyone & everything we care about." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley In an escalating climate crisis why do our governments continue to give life support to rich fossil fuel industries? Join your fellow Albertans for a rally against public $ being used for new pipelines or delay tactics like #CarbonCapture! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "The global #ClimateMajority is real & must now become not just heard but felt & relentless. Your civic duty as a Canadian does not start & stop on election day. Write, protest, organize, donate, occupy, march & demand better or the rich will only get richer at our expense." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley https://arij.net/investigations/disinformation-in-climate-issues/en/?mc_cid=5ea04e0769&mc_eid=f7fadaa7dc&tztc=1 npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley I started a Medium blog site for this sort of thing. By all means share, like, subscribe or whatever it is you normally do. Thanks for caring about the right stuff! #ClimateChange #ClimateSky #yyc #abpoli #Urbanism #CityBuilding https://medium.com/@stevebentley_84215/critical-city-climate-action-is-the-most-possible-and-needs-you-a40c0eecbb02 npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley I started a Medium blog site for this sort of thing. By all means share, like, subscribe or whatever it is you normally do. Thanks for caring about the right stuff! https://medium.com/@stevebentley_84215/dear-republican-lawmakers-26347a5e72dd #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #Denialism npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley I started a Medium blog site for this sort of thing. By all means share, like, subscribe or whatever it is you normally do. Thanks for caring about the right stuff! #ClimateChange #ClimateSky #yyc #abpoli #Urbanism #CityBuilding https://medium.com/@stevebentley_84215/critical-city-climate-action-is-the-most-possible-and-needs-you-a40c0eecbb02 npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley If it seems like the Hub is doing a WHOLE LOT OF STUFF these days it's because WE ARE. Join us. Support us. Volunteer with us. Don't get distracted. That's how they keep winning. FIGHT #ClimateChange! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "The truth is, if even our so-called 'climate champions' are backing #FossilFuel infrastructure it means they feel more pressure from lobbyists than from citizens. This has to change. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley The elephant in the room & the ostriches in power #ClimateChange #Wildfires #Smoke #EnergyTransition #cdnpoli npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley THIS SATURDAY!!! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Did my part to push back against #DanelleSmith 's Separatist agenda right here in Calgary and you can too! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley A Hub membership comes with benefits! 😋 Enjoy a 10% discount with #freshroutes, your mobile ALL CANADIAN (!) grocery store. Just another great reason to join the Calgary Climate Hub! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Our good friends #Eavor Technologies in the news! #EnergyTransition leaders RIGHT HERE in Calgary Alberta. #Geothermal #ClosedLoopGeothermal #CleanEnergy #abpoli #cdnpoli https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/03/opinion/geothermal-energy-carbon-tax-poilievre-trump-alberta npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "It’s understandable that in uncertain times we want someone to cheer for & it's very normal to want to look to someone like new Prime Minister #MarkCarney as a hero who understands finance, speaks the language of power & has as strong an understanding on #ClimateChange as you could ever hope for." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Miss out on this year's FUN #HubAndSpokes ride? Well you're in luck, we're doing another one this September 13th & this one's All-Electric! Don't have an #EBike or #EScooter? That's okay, the Hub's got you covered! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley @nprofile…zdxt That and straight up breathing the smoke. Again. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "There's a really novel & interesting effort by cities, states & other jurisdictions to bring lawsuits against the #OilAndGas industry premised on this argument that #OilAndGas deliberately lied to the public about #ClimateChange & this was framed as a sort of a form of consumer fraud." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley @nprofile…yq2m There's only one thing and it's the same all over the world: The People. Everywhere you look there is a global climate majority that want to see real climate action. That majority isn't boisterous enough yet npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley And finally, I have the privilege of fighting #ClimateChange every single day with #CalgaryClimateHub. We can use every bit of support we can get. It's not getting any easier but we'll NEVER stop. #ClimateChange #ClimateSky #yyc #abpoli #Urbanism npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley If you got value from this 🧵 you'll love the next episode of the #ClimateLens featuring one of the world's best urbanists, Canadian #BrentToderian, available August 20 wherever you get your podcasts. Meantime, this month's show is a banger as well. Check it out! #yyc #yyccc #abpoli #ClimateChange https://www.podcastics.com/episode/377291/link/ npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Ultimately your city’s probably no different from the rest: by the data a solid majority wants to stop dicking around & start fixing #ClimateChange in a meaningful way. They all have their scripts when they come to your door but it’s YOUR movie, not theirs. What do you want from this exchange? /end #yyc #yyccc #abpoli #ClimateChange npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley When they come knocking at YOUR door, consider asking the following: npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley During election season YOUR POWER becomes clear. They want your vote so badly they themselves or their campaign team will literally come knocking at your door to ask for it. If they hear #ClimateAction or bonafide climate solutions like #BikeLanes at enough doors, they have to retool & address that. /5 #yyc #yyccc #abpoli #ClimateChange npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Outside election season one of the more empowering things you can do is phone, write or meet these people who work for YOU & always need YOUR VOTE & tell them exactly what you'd like them to do or stop doing. Remind them when it's smokey that cities are humankind's prime spots for #ClimateAction! /4 #yyc #yyccc #abpoli #ClimateChange npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley It's true climate laggard provincial governments are attempting power grabs & trying to rip out progress at the city level but it's also true they're failing at it, which means our city climate engagement is more important now than ever. We need fighters /3 https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6851374 #yyc #yyccc #abpoli #ClimateChange npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley To see real impact happen before your very eyes you just can't beat city-level #ClimateAction. It's why npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley 🧵 It's said that a politician only has 2 jobs: npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Your Sunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Shout out to our sponsors at #BowValleyGreenEnergyCoop, a grassroots organization dedicated to advancing community-owned #CleanEnergy solutions in the #BowValley & beyond, empowering Albertans to save money, actively reduce emissions & transition to a more #sustainable energy future! #yyc #abpoli npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "With #RussiaUkraine a lot of #OilAndGas companies & their advocacy groups saw a huge opportunity to shift the entire conversation around climate & energy instead of net zero & winding down production the conversation was all about energy security, supplying Europe & taking on foreign dictator." npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Thank you Doug Anderson of #Minnesota npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley @nprofile…hye7 No doubt. And here in Canada we have a new PM talking about more pipelines npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Shout out to our good friends (and SPONSOR) #SkyFireEnergy who have been providing REAL leadership on #solar energy in western Canada for over 20 years now! Check out their website here: https://skyfireenergy.com/ npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley An extremely obvious thing that absolutely needs saying anyways #ClimateChange #AOC npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Alberta (or Trump) can like it or lump it but the #EnergyTransition is here #abpoli #cdnpoli #ClimateChange https://www.semafor.com/article/08/07/2025/wall-street-shifts-toward-renewables npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley /end npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley But one thing I do understand is wanting somebody to blame for all this. I'll do you one better: I know not only who's to blame but who should pay every one of your constituents for that smoke they're breathing. The best thing about it? They've got all the money in the world /8 #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #Denialism https://www.podcastics.com/episode/377291/link/ npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley As a Canadian I'll NEVER apologize for that smoke you're breathing because not only did you (& America's Republicans & Canada's "Conservatives") light the match but you're STILL pouring gas on the fire & lining your pockets with oil bucks while you do it /7 https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-fossil-fuel-industry-spent-219-million-to-elect-the-new-u-s-government/ #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #Denialism npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley But yes the smoke sucks. In Calgary we breathe 100s of more smoke hours now than we did just 8 years ago. I assure you literally NOTHING has changed about how we manage forests in that time. What's changed, irrefutably, you total imbecile, is the temperature of the planet /6 npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Wherever you go, show me a political leader calling themselves a "conservative" & I'll show you a denier of #ClimateScience who now has to resort to increasingly sillier reasons for the world we all see burning around us. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley And if it isn't Canada or America's west coast again it's Australia. Or Russia. Japan. You-name-it. npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley The fires (that remember, YOU lit) are everywhere, most certainly including #America under governments/presidents from both parties. 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This is why we've relaunched our popular Community Climate Conversations program. Join us in #Ramsay this Sunday!!! npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley "While most of the world barely knew #ClimateChange was even a thing #ImperialOil was so advanced in its understanding it was actually running models on solutions, calculating how much a #CarbonPrice could specifically hurt #OilAndGas profits in Alberta & Canada and they even put a number on it" npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley #SueBigOil #abpoli #cdnpoli #Wildfires #ClimateChange npub1ta98ptuuzvzzvw4np4tm3fkkqcjs079jggqehptha5jylfnxxkdq3yfp76 Bentley Now put that half a pack a day on a whole city like #YYC breathing hundreds more smoke hours per year then ask what the health costs will be for that population over a lifetime & understand: you are owed no small amount of money by some of the richest people on the planet #SueBigOil #abpoli #cdnpoli #Wildfires #ClimateChange
