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Vous trouverez ci-dessous un podcast sur les médecins engagés dans le mouvement écologiste, an Earth Hour update, a clothing exchange from Wild Child PEI, Outdoor Leader Training, SMR-waste news, and coverage of Sierra Club Canada in The Pointer and the Penticton Herald. But first...
In December we warned that Trump’s new 2025 'National Security' Strategy declared U.S. plans to use private sector influence erode Canadian sovereignty. The strategy mentions the oil and gas and tech sectors in particular as tools for expanding U.S. influence and specifically declares climate action in other countries to be a threat to U.S. dominance. All the more reason to take climate action if we want sovereignty, but U.S. influence is working.
“The U.S. wants to achieve energy dominance. We support you in that view… [as] Fortress North America” Tim Hodgson, the Canadian Energy Minister recently told the U.S. Regarding Trump's U.S. tech billionaire friends wanting to build out AI data centres: “We can provide [the] gas,” Hodgson said. Our government is now trying to ship more oil to the U.S. via a Keystone XL revival. They even admit they have no intention of selling less to the U.S. but simply deflect critique by promising illusionary demand for oil elsewhere. We warned this was what oil interests really wanted: to tie us even further to the U.S. The four companies that represent 80% of Canadian oil sands production are 60% American-owned. They are sending a large share of their profits to their shareholders in the United States, even as they lobby to weaken Canadian climate policy and hold back renewable energy here in Canada.
Thanks to big oil and gas' influence, our Federal Government’s plan is now to:
- Help the U.S. Government and their AI tech billionaire friends torch the climate, causing more out of control wildfires, so they can generate AI slop and disinformation (to be used against Canada) via water-wasting, gas-powered, data centres.
- Trust oil and gas corporations and FURTHER INTEGRATE OUR ECONOMY with the U.S.
All of this instead of going renewable - and yes it is instead of going renewable: The National Observer, just today, reports "Ottawa's 'one-stop shop' for companies seeking clean-tech support" is being cut. That's just one of the many ways public sector cuts that could undermine community ability to get ahead on renewable energy as well as undermine our ability to "prevent oil spills from becoming catastrophes" and ensure "dangerous goods don't explode on our railways.”
Again, polling shows 58% of Canadians say transitioning away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy (entirely possible) is more important than ever, in light of U.S. aggression (only 11% say less). Take action: call your MP and cabinet ministers and demand a renewable future rather than oil and gas expansion. Say no to gas for AI billionaires, say no to a Keystone XL revival, and say no to Fortress North American and U.S. energy dominance.
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