Settler on Treaty 7 Land Trying to build a future that's worth living. 🌿 https://phillipmeintzer.medium.com/https://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mtlzmikxfs2vThat's because part of the purpose for these data centres is to artificially inflate the demand (and therefore price) of natural gas to inflate company profits on the backs of ordinary Albertans who would be forced to pay more for our utilities. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlzmikxfs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mtk4zq24f22e"The fix is straightforward: make polluters pay the debts they owe as well as the real costs of cleanup, and make them pay in a reasonable time before these become a burden on Albertans and Alberta taxpayers" https://www.pembina.org/pub/unpaid-bills #ABLeg #CDNPoli @pembina.org @cuym-alberta.bsky.social20 Aug 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtk4zq24f22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mtjui2bhe22xCanada only builds pipelines for oil, China build pipelines for people. #CDNPoli [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 18:22 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjui2bhe22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mtjka2y2os2jThose orchestrating climate catastrophe are also gutting public services, increasing military spending, attacking immigrants, and undermining Indigenous rights. We need to challenge our enemies and, to do this, we must eschew the notion that they are invincible. https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/defying-despair-in-the-face-of-climate-catastrophe20 Aug 2026 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjka2y2os2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mtf2nowx2s27For example, CNRL made $10.8 billion in profit in 2025 alone. CNRL could pay for the cleanup of the entire orphan inventory ($1.66B) and still walk away with over $9B in profits. That's why the orphan fund / orphan levy exists. But the AER keeps protecting industry at our expense. #ABLeg #ABPoli [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Aug 2026 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtf2nowx2s27https://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mtf2fwk4r227Based on the AER's own numbers, there are 94 companies with roughly $2 billion in liabilities who are considered to be in "high financial distress." The AER knows this problem is about to get MUCH worse, but they continue to set the orphan levy low to protect profitable O&G companies. #ABLeg #ABPoli [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Aug 2026 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtf2fwk4r227https://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mtf23qc3pc27The orphan fund exists to ensure that industry as a whole pays for cleanup when companies go bankrupt. The longer orphan wells sit unreclaimed, the more taxpayers pay to cover unpaid rent to landowners & unpaid municipal taxes. Low orphan levy = delayed cleanup = increased cost to Albertans. #ABLeg [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Aug 2026 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtf23qc3pc27https://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mtezlmiiyk27Alberta's Energy Regulator continues to protect industry profits at the expense of landowners & taxpayers by setting the orphan levy unrealistically low. The latest levy is only $155 million against total orphan cleanup costs of $1.66 BILLION. https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-orphan-wells-cleanup-costs-record-2026/ #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli18 Aug 2026 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtezlmiiyk27https://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mtcnm7o6d22r🔥 "Capital's drive to extract value disrupts and undermines the slow, interdependent processes that sustain ecosystems... Nature is systematically reorganized in the service of accumulation, with ecological repair — if and when it occurs — subordinated to profit." https://monthlyreview.org/articles/value-chains-in-the-digital-age/17 Aug 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtcnm7o6d22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3mt2nsfssns2nSolidarity with ACFN and Chief Allan Adam!!! 🫡 - “They ain’t going to get no approval from ACFN on any further expansions of the oil sands to fill those pipes.” https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/acfn-chief-joins-bc-first-nations #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli14 Aug 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2nsfssns2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3msyhgr5xmk26$2 billion for armoured vehicles but only $34 million for communities to cope with climate change. Disgusting. #CDNPoli [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2026 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyhgr5xmk26https://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3msqpn77tuk2zDocs obtained via access to information reveal that oil & gas industry associations significantly influenced the Alberta government's Mature Asset Strategy — a plan to dump billions in industry cleanup costs onto ordinary Alberta taxpayers instead of holding companies accountable. #ABLeg #ABPoli [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Aug 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqpn77tuk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3msqmggu5qc2i"But the provincial government’s latest scheme to reduce the 77,869 inactive wells across Alberta... has Popowich convinced that the deck is stacked against rural landowners and in favour of oil and gas interests." https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/10/news/alberta-oil-and-gas-abandoned-wells-cleanup #ABLeg #CDNPoli @cuym-alberta.bsky.social10 Aug 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqmggu5qc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/phillipmeintzer.bsky.social/post/3msj74bd6bc2eThe polycrisis is not a collection of isolated events. The common denominator of today's polycrisis is the structural crisis of late-stage (or monopoly) capitalism, where "the accumulation of capital is invariably accompanied by the accumulation of catastrophe." https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-global-structural-crisis-of-capital/07 Aug 2026 18:35 +0000at://did:plc:phponn5ujc7dno42lw5maxmt/app.bsky.feed.post/3msj74bd6bc2e