Robert Alstead

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[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

🇨🇦Emissions target for 2030 = 440Mt

Oil & gas emissions are around 207Mt now.

https://t.co/RZCBwLpi6t

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

Carney of all ppl knows emissions must drop drastically, but Canada's MOU with Alberta (40% of 🇨🇦 emissions) "weakens the ability of industrial carbon pricing to materially reduce emissions, while enabling higher emissions from increased oil & gas production". #cdnpoli #climate

[Canadian Climate Institute @ClimateInstit]

We dug into the emissions impacts of the sweeping policy changes under the Canada-Alberta MOU deal—here’s what we found out. (Hint: It barely moves the needle) 👇
https://t.co/YhN5F3ZlMM

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

Driving costs for the fam (3 drivers, 4 ppl) was a total of $242 in April and $182 in May using both Evo and Modo carshare. I'll update the monthly chart soon. That included trips to Whistler, Grouse, school drop-offs, grocery runs, driving lessons. #modo #evocarshare

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

20 years ago we gave up our car and switched to #Modo car share. I charted our average monthly costs from June 2007 to March 2026.

https://t.co/2wnjKiFOFb

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

"At some point there will be a backlash against the backlash and the next one may be even bigger than the Greta Thunberg storm."

Look forward not backward, #cdnpoli #bcpoli.

https://t.co/CirWXihxt7

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

These new temp records are “mind-bogglingly crazy".

- Peter Thorne, director of the ICARUS Climate Research Centre, at Maynooth University, in Ireland.

#cdnpoli

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Early heat wave in Europe shatters records, prompts health risk warnings https://t.co/Gr0ym5DJeL

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

"When it comes to Cup game days, Forbes reported a 290 per cent price increase in Vancouver from the same dates last year: $315 to $1,229 a night."

[The Vancouver Sun @VancouverSun]

What World Cup bump? Vancouver hotel bookings down 20 per cent this year https://t.co/JumWReE18B

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

Bloomberg commodity strategist: "Crude oil is going the way of whale oil..." #cdnpoli
https://t.co/zvuuXaTjQ1

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

"Even by the low standards of pandering, the gas tax cut seems gratuitous." #cdnpoli https://t.co/GsMCgvBKoX

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. Seriously bad news.
https://t.co/PZTZJlqsFN

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

@stephenfgordon I agree. Remove the negative signs and it works.

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

@oceancape @AdsWriter @ExnerPirot @lraitt I was going to say "tarsands", but didn't want to hurt your feelings.

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

@oceancape @AdsWriter @ExnerPirot @lraitt You need to get your head out of the oilsands:

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

@oceancape @AdsWriter @ExnerPirot @lraitt Canadian oil has by far the highest emissions per barrel. e.g. ~ 500% more than Australia and Norway. This is the real reason why producers are fighting carbon pricing. It's the dirtiest oil on the planet.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Pierre Poilievre: It's clear that he's learned all the wrong lessons--

Mark Carney: Oh dear, oh dear. Mr. Speaker, I feel like I'm in the presence of students. I don't think you would pass the exam with those answers.

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

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[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Man those Conservative byelection numbers. 18 per cent in Scarborough Southwest. 12 per cent in University-Rosedale. 3 per cent (!) in Terrebonne.

Man.

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

I expect we'll be hearing more about windfall taxes on Big Oil now that Avi Lewis is leader of the @NDP. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

Oil companies are on track to make tens of billions in windfall profits from Trump’s illegal war in Iran.

It’s their profiteering that’s driving up prices. It’s them who should pay.

It’s time for price caps on gas to stop oil companies from price-gouging Canadians — and a windfall profits tax on war-time oil revenues, so the government can invest that money in the public interest.

https://t.co/uxMVcqef9c

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

Wasted opportunity. A $2.4 billion push to fossil fuel use. After you cancelled the carbon tax. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

We’re saving you money at the pump. Starting next Monday, we’re suspending the federal Fuel Excise Tax on gasoline and diesel across Canada.

You’ll save up to 10 cents per litre from April 20 until Labour Day.

[Robert Alstead @RobertAlstead]

20 years ago we gave up our car and switched to #Modo car share. I charted our average monthly costs from June 2007 to March 2026.

https://t.co/2wnjKiFOFb

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Yes, the sun does't shine at night, but batteries produced electricity every minute last night (4/4) as California set a new discharge record of 57.17 GWh/day.

Batteries have met 8.01% of all main-grid demand in 2026 in the 4th-largest economy in the world.

The batteries cost (if bought today) only ~0.28 cents/kWh-grid-output, or 0.86% the cost of grid electricity in CA.