Mark and Sherry talk through of some recent developments:

• a press release from the Saskatchewan Environmental Society outlining the threat of climate chaos to Saskatchewan and the irresponsibility of government policy
• a recent report from IISD showing the major contribution of fossil fuel dependence to inflation and the cost of living crisis
• Progress in the city of Saskatoon towards rapid bus transit (now called Link) and in plans for the housing accelerator which we discussed in episode 320.

Then part 2 of a repeat of episode 308 on dealing with ecostress.

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A run-through of some recent reports:

• for each of the last 12 months the average global temperature has been more than 1.5degC higher than pre-industrial levels
• the recent heatwave in eastern Canada shown to be 2x to 10x more likely than it would have been before climate change
• gas with carbon capture and storage produces far more emissions than normally claimed; so does "blue" hydrogen
• Saskatchewan fails spectacularly in an assessment of its climate leadership

Then part 1 of a repeat of episode 308 on dealing with ecostress. More of that episode to be re-run next week...

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• The federal government has just passed legislation which makes greenwashing illegal, and the greenwashing arm of the oil industry has in consequence taken all content off its website
• The Saskatchewan provincial government is set to disregard (probably illegally) the federal Clean Electricity Regulations, and the tribunal they set up to resist federal legislation they don't like has produced a report based on biassed assumptions and dubious criteria
• A new windfarm to be built near Weyburn will have significant involvement by an Indigenous consortium. But do media reports overstate its significance?

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