Notices by Andrew Henry (andrewhenry@mastodon.energy)

A long term abusive relationship.

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With every legal avenue exhausted, county officials say there’s no way to recover the outstanding money.

“[The industry] helped build Alberta as a whole to what we are today,” said Reeve Tyler Airth.

“But it’s really hard to be proud to support oil and gas when every time you turn around you feel like you're getting kicked by this very industry you fought so hard for.”

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#canpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/northwest-alberta-unpaid-oil-tax-9.7018017

Oil market faces ‘super glut’ as supply surge hits prices

Commodities trader Trafigura says burst of new supply coming online will collide with reduced demand growth

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Demand from China, the world’s biggest oil importer, is expected to grow more slowly next year due to its huge fleet of electric vehicles, which have sharply reduced petrol demand. Low prices this year have prompted China to buy more crude to fill its strategic stockpile.

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#canpoli
#energytransition
https://www.ft.com/content/37a7bc5c-3d16-4f00-be12-9e039b9bfea1

A tough year for the folks we got our Fall CSA basket from.

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The drought didn't help. The many days of dangerous smoke. the unbeaerable heat. Post heat wave we had a wave of sickness and mental health break requests.. it was a difficult summer for all of us.

Food security is precarious due to the enviromental unpredictability that comes with climate change (chaos) but also because of the toll it takes on the people that are working through this chaos.

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https://www.rootsandshootsfarm.com/post/2025-review

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Teresa’s Story: Albertan Farmer Speaks Out About Multi-Billion Dollar Well Cleanup Crisis

Teresa lives near Vermillion, AB and has been struggling for years with unexplained health issues occurring in her children, her animals and herself. After being ignored by the company and the AER about the terrible odors from the two wells on her home quarter, experts show huge amounts of air contaminants being vented from the wells and leaking into her home.

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#canpoli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYgWAqmqms

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The Hudson Medical Centre serves about 11,000 patients, mainly English speakers, according to Dr. Tara McCarty, a family doctor at the clinic and one of its co-owners.

It is the only bilingual m family doctor group in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region, she says.

McCarty said Wednesday that the clinic will be forced to close April 1 after three of the seven doctors practising there decided to leave the province in response to the new legislation.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hudson-medical-centre-9.6993716

Wrote something for the local paper.

Eastern Canada, like most of the country is in a nasty drought. We are pretty obviously now in the depths of the climate crisis with obvious economic, societal and landscape consequences.

The piece points out that it is at the provincial level in Canada where the operational changes needed to rapidly decarbonize need to occur. Yet, provincial premiers are oblivious to the crisis, and though not mentioned are making things worse.

https://lowdownonline.com/facing-climate-crises-premiers-achieve-new-highs-with-lows/

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Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say.

A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer.

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#climatecrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say

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Flash drought hits parts of the Northeast 

Drought developed quite rapidly in the Northeast this summer, affecting private wells, farms and hydropower production. In Vermont, there were more than 400 wells and springs that were no longer producing enough water. Many water sources ran dry in Orange, Caledonia and Orleans counties.

Across the Connecticut River, which was low enough to walk across in places, wells in New Hampshire were running dry.

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#drought
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3e81092a31fd4a8c890ce9f09aaf284b

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“**water levels in parts of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are likely to reach critically low stages soon, forcing shippers to light-load harvest-season grain barges for the fourth year in a row.**”

‘We’ve had low water levels for four years in a row now,’ said Mike Seyfert, president and CEO of the National Grain and Feed Association. ‘What I would say is, it certainly doesn’t make things easier.'”

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#drought
https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/10/low-mississippi-river-levels-to-again-disrupt-harvest-shipping/

This should not to have happened.

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"I am saddened to share that we have had our first death from measles in the province. A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth."

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#canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/premature-baby-dies-of-measles-in-alberta-outbreak-s-1st-death-1.7649692

China isn't buying American grain.

"Cash Grain Receipts Lowest in History: The Ugly Truth About USDA's Higher Farm Income Forecast"

From: The Farm Journal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFdxuKybEzQ

Alberta’s ethical oil!

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The Alberta government is planning to create standards for releasing treated oilsands tailings into the environment.

Tailings are mixture of water, sand, bitumen residue and chemicals considered toxic to fish and other wildlife. As of 2023, nearly 1.4 trillion litres of the substance were stored in the province.

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#canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/oilsands-tailings-action-plan-1.7626374

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Earlier this month, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) certified the municipality of La Pêche as a Dark Sky Preserve, making it the third in Quebec and the 23rd across all of Canada. The municipality’s night sky is now formally protected from excessive light pollution, ensuring top-tier stargazing for generations to come. 

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https://lowdownonline.com/royal-astronomical-society-recognizes-la-peche-as-dark-sky-preserve/

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As disasters become more commonplace, insurers have had to pay out more than $100bn in natural catastrophe losses every year so far this decade, a number Swiss Re recently predicted could reach $300bn in a peak year.

“Insurers have no choice but to identify ways to offload increasing risk, and they’re doing it in the cat bond market,” said Richard Pennay, chief executive at Aon Securities.

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#climatecrisis
https://www.ft.com/content/fcaf9230-fed8-4d35-9626-7abec8cc95ea

Driving not sober eighteen year olds home from Canada Day festivities. There were a few stops involved.

They sure do slam the car door hard, obliviously.

#CanadaDay

At this rate blue-green algae in Lake Erie will be present year round.

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Researchers at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab say they have detected a harmful toxin produced by blue-green algae earlier in the year than ever before in Lake Erie.

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#ClimateCrisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/early-blue-green-algae-erie-1.7566330

Wrote something for the local paper.

With home insurance becoming unaffordable or unavailable in places that had long experience with hurricanes, tornadoes or wildfires it was a matter of time before Canadian homeowners would start to encounter difficulties finding affordable insurance coverage. With increasing flooding, hailstorms and wildfires in 🇨🇦that time appears to have arrived.

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“Most states and countries are trying to project sea-level rise. Meanwhile, large waves and high tides are already beating up the shoreline,” Gary Griggs, a professor at the University of California, told me. He recently published a paper in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering pointing out that we’re not prepared for the faster catastrophes happening now. “Twenty-eight-foot waves and 7-foot tides overpower everything just like a Hurricane Sandy.”

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-13/big-waves-and-high-tides-can-be-just-as-insidious-as-hurricanes

Unlike previous efforts this time will be different.

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“I remember as a young cabinet minister identifying in 2009 Sizewell as a potential new site for nuclear and I didn't expect it would be me back doing it and making it happen."

He said the project would replicate the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset.

"Sizewell will reap the benefits of replicating what happened at Hinkley. We are confident it can be built cheaper and faster."

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@chrisnelder https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gr3nd5zy6o

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In the past, "snowpacks" would take time to fully melt and trickle into the ground as it warmed up. This would recharge the moisture of the soil.

"What's happening the last few years is that we go from a relatively cold period of time and one or two days later it's plus 22 [C]," Laroque explained.

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#climatecrisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/is-climate-change-the-cause-of-saskatchewans-wildfire-1.7548474