Surging gas power emissions and policy rollbacks are erasing Canada’s biggest climate win

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/13/analysis/gas-emissions-surging-policy-rollbacks

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masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 31d

That'll show the wildfires who's boss.

ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 30d (3 replies)

Fuck you, Carney. I should have voted NDP.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 30d (2 replies)

Ex NDP leader Horwath approves data centers for Hamilton Wednesday. These clowns are all the same.

Levi@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 30d

Go Green!

ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 30d

Still better than the liberals overall.

Scotty@scribe.disroot.org · 3 pts · 30d (2 replies)

The sad thing is that Canada's climate actions are rated 'highly insufficient', very much as China's, and only slightly better than the U.S., while no country is on track to meet the Paris goal ... [Source]

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Can we stop signing bullshit accords no one takes seriously?

Scotty@scribe.disroot.org · 3 pts · 30d

Nah, we must rather take these accords seriously that we sign, because they are necessary.

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 2 pts · 30d (2 replies)

You know Carney’s Liberal are conservative in red coat when they accused the Liberal for the Ontario Forest fires

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 30d (1 reply)

He actually has a point. Turdeau was great at making bullshit policies and regulations that were entirely impotent on goals.

Carbon tax just became pay to burn.

But Carney doing fuck all is not an alternative.

Sleeping_Elephant@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 30d

To be fair Trudeau also put caps on extraction.

Carbon Taxes will never work without a parallel system to reward cutting carbon though. You can’t just tax the externality without adding incentives on the other side of the equation. Unfortunately most people hate the idea of a Carbon Coin.