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Richard Brooks

Climate Finance Director @Stand.earth Fighting climate change by challenging the power of the financial institutions enabling fossil fuels companies. Banks, pensions and retirement funds on my radar. Advancing climate finance action.

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Richard Brooks

The death & likely extinction of this orca whale population will be because of @mark-carney.bsky.social & @juliedabrusin.bsky.social's decision to pay & build a new tar sands pipeline from Alberta to the coast. There's no mitigation measures possible. #greensky #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

75 of these whales remain. A new West Coast pipeline would be 'devastating' for them, experts say | CBC NewsMultiple environmental groups are concerned the Alberta government's proposed oil pipeline route poses a risk to southern resident killer whales. They are protected under the Species At Risk Act, but ...www.cbc.ca
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Quite a Canada Day this year. We're paying for another pipeline *and* abandoning our climate goals. globalnews.ca/news/1194986...

New pipeline from Alberta to B.C. coast to be built as a private-public partnership | Globalnews.caAlberta Premier Danielle Smith, is aiming for the pipeline to be designated a project of national interest by October and get shovels in the ground as early as September 2027.globalnews.ca
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Great reporting by @natashabulowski.bsky.social with @nationalobserver.com on First Nations leaders putting Canada's big public pensions on notice, demanding they respect their rights & lands and not invest in polluting, malfunctioning LNG Canada. #greensky www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/12/n...

First Nations leaders warn against LNG Canada investmentIn a letter to Canadian pension funds, some First Nations leaders are called on pension funds to clearly state their position on investing in LNG Canada Phase 1 and 2 by June 25 and requested meetings...www.nationalobserver.com
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Meanwhile CPP, under pressure from .... Mark Carney... is considering taking a multibillion equity stake in LNG Canada with other public pensions & the support of taxpayer money from Export Development Canada, controlled by the Prime Minister. Makes you think. 🤔 stand.earth/press-releas...

First Nations Leaders Warn Canada's Major Pension Funds: Do Not Invest in LNG Canada - Stand.earthNear Smithers, British Columbia (Wet’suwet’en territory) — Hereditary Chiefs of the Gidimt’en and Likhts’amisyu clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, together with the President of the Union of British Co...stand.earth
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Uniper, at the behest of the Germany seeking a $120 billion submarine contract with Canada, just signed a hyped gas letter of interest w/ Ksi Lisims LNG - a project that Carney really wants to get built, willing to throw billions of taxpayer dollars at. /2 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

German utility Uniper explores deal with planned Ksi Lisims LNG in B.C.Uniper is seeking to increase its flexibility to schedule shipments of LNG globallywww.theglobeandmail.com
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Follow this thought thread: ‪ 🇨🇦 Canada's Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social is former chair of Brookfield. 🇩🇪 Brookfield just teamed up with the national pension fund CPP to buy a stake in Uniper, the German gas company. /1 #cdnpolitics uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/germany...

Germany mulls sale of energy supplier Uniper to Canadian investment groupA potential bidder is Brookfield, the investment group run by Mark Carney, who was Bank of England governor between 2013 and 2020. Uniper has a range of UK assets that are seen as valuable for any wou...uk.finance.yahoo.com
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There is no good financial reason for Canadian public pensions to invest their members' money into the risky, malfunctioning LNG Canada project. The associated Coastal Gaslink fracked gas pipeline supplying this terminal was only built with the use of armed militarized police. #cdnpolitics

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As Carney attempts to fast-track dirty gas megaprojects, First Nations leaders have a warning: Any investors in LNG Canada will be complicit in grave violations of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, title and sovereignty. 📣 Listen to Hereditary Chief Na’Moks’ powerful message for financiers. 📣 #GreenSky

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Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health

🚨 Canada’s largest pension funds are facing pressure from the federal government to finance risky LNG projects that would worsen the climate crisis and undermine their own members’ retirement security. Working and retired pension plan members are speaking out.

Pension Beneficiaries Fear Funds Will Pour Retirement Savings Into LNGAs Ottawa looks to pension funds to finance major energy projects and LNG Canada moves to double production in Kitimat, beneficiaries warn their retirement savings could become their “biggest contribu...www.theenergymix.com
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After rejecting fossil fuel divestment for nearly 15 years on the grounds that a "seat at the table" can lead to transformation of the Exxons of the world, NY State Comptroller Tom Dinapoli just needs to give it up such a unproven excuse. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

NY Comptroller hopefuls held ICE-linked stocks they now criticizeIn New York’s comptroller primary, candidates clash over pension divestment from Palantir, fossil fuels and ICE-linked firms.www.timesunion.com
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