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Canada Wildfires Spark 'Ecoterrorist' Conspiracy Theory
Barron's ^ | June 8, 2023 | Gwen Roley

Posted on 06/09/2023 6:03:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

As Canada hurtles towards its worst wildfire season in history, a conspiracy theory has taken off online claiming environmentalists intentionally set some of the blazes.

"I bet a good portion of the wildfires raging across the country were started by green terrorists who want to give their climate change campaign a little boost," Maxime Bernier, a former foreign minister-turned fringe party leader, said in a June 5 tweet.

So far in 2023, Canada has seen larger wildfires than any previous year at this point in the season, with more than three million hectares burned. Tens of thousands of people have evacuated as a result.

On TikTok, a video already viewed almost 20,000 times, claims the fires in Nova Scotia were set "on purpose to push a climate change agenda."

One article speculates that since 90 percent of Alberta's fires could be "human-caused," there is a possibility that "ecoterrorists" may be behind them.

As wildfires spread in Quebec, some questioned how all the blazes could have started on the same day. One Facebook video with more than one million views blames "a terrorist attack" for the flames.

But Karine Pelletier from the province's Forest Fire Protection Agency said the causes are still under investigation.

"There are a lot which are caused by humans, but these are almost always accidents," she said, noting that recent lightning strikes were to blame for many of Quebec’s wildfires.

Alberta Wildfire told AFP that unless lightning is involved, a blaze is classified as human-caused. This does not exclusively mean arson.

"It could be related to general causes, including agriculture, forest industry, powerlines, or oil and gas industry, railroad or residential wildfires," said spokeswoman Melissa.

Nova Scotia officials have also said they are still investigating the origins of the province’s fires, which are presumed to be human-caoused.

(Excerpt) Read more at barrons.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canada; wildfires

1 posted on 06/09/2023 6:03:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
It's not conspiracy theory that multiple people have been arrested in Canada for arson.

https://www.worldtribune.com/multiple-arsonists-arrested-for-canada-wildfires-biden-trudeau-media-blame-climate-change/

2 posted on 06/09/2023 6:05:08 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

They must be Catholics.


3 posted on 06/09/2023 6:06:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve reached the point where I now believe ALL conspiracy theories unless proven otherwise.


4 posted on 06/09/2023 6:06:56 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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The true wacko conspirators are those mocking the justifiably distrusting observers.


5 posted on 06/09/2023 6:07:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nickcarraway

Forget about Joe Biden, UFOs gave Bigfeet LASERs.


6 posted on 06/09/2023 6:10:40 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: Tell It Right

Richard Jewell types?


7 posted on 06/09/2023 6:11:32 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: nickcarraway

Related article, not a duplicate:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4159687/posts

Claims this is to force people into “15 minute cities”.


8 posted on 06/09/2023 6:12:33 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: nickcarraway

I saw satellite footage show the start of the fires in Canada. And it showed that many fires started at exactly the same time in many places all at once. This is definitely a real conspiracy.

There are many reasons why they might do this. A slightly more odd one came to my mind. If an invasion was about to take place then you would not want people hiding in the woods. I know that sounds a bit kooky, but I like brainstorming.


9 posted on 06/09/2023 6:36:52 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel

We have known Chinese bases in British Columbia


10 posted on 06/09/2023 7:31:00 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Revel

Got a linky?


11 posted on 06/09/2023 7:33:47 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Revel

Who knows. But this is Canada. I doubt that they are being proactive with their forest management like they used to be like back in the old days. I’m not a Canadian and I do not work in the logging industry so I may be mistaken.


12 posted on 06/09/2023 7:35:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: nickcarraway
This tweet shows a video which appear to show the fires starting at the same time. (I have seen other such videos). The first video is Trudeau hysterically blaming climate change for the fires.

Post Millennial Twitter

13 posted on 06/09/2023 8:33:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Tell It Right

The fires in the US Northwest and CA were eco terrorism as well. In WA State, much of the ecoterrorism was inspired by the Canadian anti-oil sands activists. As a matter of fact, the two women who were convicted of eco terrorism charges were charged on the basis of belonging to the Canadian group. Obama made it impossible to bring terrorism charges against an American without ties and contacts with foreign groups.

We suffered with the smoke from Canadian fires for several years before the fires started here, too. We had a couple of years of bad fires until Jay Inslee the very Leftwing Governor said enough and took back control of the forests and the fires from the federal government and ended it all. …except the smoke from the Canadian fires and the CA fires.


14 posted on 06/09/2023 8:45:44 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Revel

They claimed the fires were supposed to be a controlled burn, done for fighting the fires not starting them, except that fire fighting efforts are done in January, not June. The wild fires in the Us West were arson and so are the Canadian fires. It isn’t a conspiracy.


15 posted on 06/09/2023 8:51:14 PM PDT by Eva
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To: nickcarraway
"Maxime Bernier, a former foreign minister-turned fringe party leader"

Bernier is a mainstream center-right Conservative. The author must be a deranged Stalinazi fringer.

16 posted on 06/09/2023 8:53:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I actually saw a women who was some kind of official in Canada saying that if they would let the loggers do their job then the forests would cleared of the old growth, and new trees planted. Reducing fires. So I assume the the loggers are mostly hog tied these days.


17 posted on 06/09/2023 10:03:36 PM PDT by Revel
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Satellites Show Canada Fires All Igniting Simultaneously

https://www.bitchute.com/video/PzQR4vBrOpJ2/


18 posted on 06/09/2023 10:09:16 PM PDT by Revel
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To: JonPreston

Todays conspiracy theory’s is now todays truth


19 posted on 06/10/2023 4:36:04 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: nickcarraway
As Canada hurtles towards its worst wildfire season in history, a conspiracy theory has taken off online claiming environmentalists intentionally set some of the blazes.

As Canada hurtles towards its worst wildfire season in history, a conspiracy theory has taken off online claiming CLIMATE CHANGE intentionally set some of the blazes.

Which "conspiracy" is more likely to be true?


Wildfires starting simultaneously across the province have led to police investigating possible arson, while mainstream media and politicians continue to blame 'climate change.'> https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/satellite-footage-raises-possibility-that-arson-not-climate-change-theory-to-blame-for-quebec-fires/

Satellite images from the College of DuPage Meteorology Department show that—on the 2nd of June—the fires that erupted in Quebec, Canada, all started at the exact same time. https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1666753426967986176

Source: About two minutes into the video you can see 20 or so fires all start at once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKUkZ2oOFF0

Someone on that twitter post replied; I wonder what happened to the 30 TONS of EXPLOSIVE chemical fertilizer that "vanished" recently

20 posted on 06/10/2023 5:04:10 AM PDT by Pollard ( >>> The Great Rest is already underway! <<<)
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