DoomsdaysCW<p>From 2021: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>’s forgotten oil and gas resources</p><p>A fair distribution of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oil</span></a> and gas resources in the Levant Basin will be needed to achieve a lasting political and economic settlement between Israel and Palestine.</p><p>by Mahmoud Elkhafif<br>Published On 21 Jun 2021</p><p>Excerpt: "The prolonged closure and recurrent military operations in Gaza have left more than half the territory’s population living below the poverty line and cost $16.7bn in lost GDP annually. This figure does not account for the huge opportunity cost of preventing the Palestinian people from using their natural gas field off the shores of Gaza.</p><p>"The 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestBank</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaStrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaStrip</span></a>, known as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OsloII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OsloII</span></a> Accord, gave the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PalestinianAuthority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalestinianAuthority</span></a> (PA) maritime jurisdiction over its waters up to 20 nautical miles from the coast. The PA signed a 25-year contract for gas exploration with the#BritishGas Group in 1999, and a large gas field, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaMarine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaMarine</span></a>, was discovered at 17 to 21 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza the same year. However, despite initial discussions between the Israeli government, the PA and British Gas on the sale of gas from this field and the provision of much-needed revenue to the occupied Palestinian territories, the Palestinians have not realised any benefits.</p><p>"Since the blockade of Gaza in 2007, the Israeli government has established de facto control over Gaza’s offshore natural gas reserves. The contractor, British Gas, has since been dealing with the Israeli government, effectively bypassing the Palestinian government regarding exploration and development rights.</p><p>"Israel has also taken control of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meged</span></a> oil and natural gas field, located inside the occupied <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestBank</span></a>. Israel states that the field lies west of the armistice line of 1948, yet most of the reservoir is situated beneath the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PalestinianTerritory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalestinianTerritory</span></a> occupied since 1967.</p><p>"More recently, Israel has begun to develop new oil and gas finds in the Eastern Mediterranean, solely for its own benefit.</p><p>"In commandeering and exploiting Palestinian oil and gas resources, Israel is acting in violation of the letter and the spirit of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheHague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheHague</span></a> Regulations, the Fourth <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenevaConvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenevaConvention</span></a> and a body of international <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/humanitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanitarian</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> law that addresses the exploitation of common resources by an occupying power, without regard for the interest, rights and shares of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/occupied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>occupied</span></a> population."</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/21/palestines-forgotten-oil-and-gas-resources" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/</span><span class="invisible">21/palestines-forgotten-oil-and-gas-resources</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OccupiedPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OccupiedPalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeGaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndTheBlockade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndTheBlockade</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RoyalDutchShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalDutchShell</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliWarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BibiIsAWarCriminal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliIsAPetroState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliIsAPetroState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BritishGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetroCriminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetroCriminals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShellOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LevantBasin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LevantBasin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Starvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starvation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StolenLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StolenLand</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>Behind <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>’s ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndGame</span></a>’ for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>: Theft of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffshoreGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OffshoreGas</span></a> reserves</p><p>By Betsey Piette<br>November 14, 2023</p><p>"In 1999, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BritishGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishGas</span></a> (BG) discovered the existence of natural gas in the Gaza Marine fields, 20 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, at a depth of 610 meters below the surface. Further exploration by BG through two successful wells — Gaza Marine 1 and Gaza Marine 2 — determined the field could contain up to 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. (EgyptOil-Gas.com, April 5, 2018)</p><p>"The Palestinian Authority was 'granted' the right to exercise sovereignty over its own maritime territory by the Oslo Accords in 1995. Four years later, following the findings of the offshore natural gas, the PA gave the international consortium BG a 25-year, 90% stake in a license to explore, develop any discovered fields, and install the required infrastructure. Since that time Israel has consistently blocked this development.</p><p>"In 2002, the PA approved BG’s proposals to construct a pipeline to a processing facility in Gaza. However, the Israeli state delayed this development, arguing that the pipeline should run to an Israeli-controlled port, and that Palestinians would have to supply Gaza Marine surplus fuel to Israel at far below market price.</p><p>"When Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections in Gaza in 2007, Israel established a militarized naval blockade, prohibiting further offshore development. Around the same time, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YamThetis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YamThetis</span></a>, an Israeli gas consortium, challenged the awarding of the contract to BG, further delaying the process.</p><p>"In December 2008, in total contravention of international laws, Israel declared sovereignty over the Gaza Marine area, and BG closed its offices in Tel Aviv.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RoyalDutchShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalDutchShell</span></a> bought out BG’s interests in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaMarineFields" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaMarineFields</span></a> for $52 million in 2016. By March 2018, Royal Dutch Shell backed out of their investment, leaving the PA to search for a replacement company to develop the field. (EgyptOil-Gas.com, April 5, 2018)."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://iacenter.org/2023/11/15/behind-israels-end-game-for-gaza-theft-of-offshore-gas-reserves/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iacenter.org/2023/11/15/behind</span><span class="invisible">-israels-end-game-for-gaza-theft-of-offshore-gas-reserves/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeGaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndTheBlockade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndTheBlockade</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliWarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BibiIsAWarCriminal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliIsAPetroState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliIsAPetroState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BritishGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetroCriminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetroCriminals</span></a> ShellOil <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LevantBasin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LevantBasin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Starvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starvation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StolenLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StolenLand</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p>Meanwhile, in Albertastan, the separatists want to replace their currency with a Bitcoin clone tied to the price of oil. 🤨</p><p>“World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says<br>António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels”</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FossilFools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFools</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PetroState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetroState</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ABPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABPoli</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/22/antonio-guterres-climate-breakthrough-clean-energy-fossil-fuels" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/jul/22/antonio-guterres-climate-breakthrough-clean-energy-fossil-fuels</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The Oil Company Behind the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepwaterHorizon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepwaterHorizon</span></a> Spill Wants to Do a Massive, Risky Drilling Project in the Gulf</p><p>July 11, 2025 </p><p>"What’s happening: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BP</span></a>, the company behind the worst <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilSpill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilSpill</span></a> in U.S. history, is asking the Trump administration to allow it to drill a new, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UltraDeepwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UltraDeepwater</span></a> project in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GulfOfMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GulfOfMexico</span></a>.</p><p>"Why it matters: BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 killed 11 people and released 4.9 million barrels of oil that blanketed the Gulf shoreline. It wiped out horrific amounts of marine life, cratered local economies, and left Gulf communities burdened with everything from health issues to unemployment.</p><p>"The conditions around BP’s new proposed project, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kaskida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kaskida</span></a>, could make it even more dangerous than the Deepwater Horizon. Kaskida would be in greater depths, where equipment would have to withstand higher pressures and temperatures.</p><p>"BP lacks experience operating this type of well and had not met required qualifications for using this drilling technology at the time of its application. It also vastly underestimates the impacts of another oil spill. We’re telling the government not to give BP another chance to contaminate the Gulf and disrupt coastal communities." </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BPLied</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPIsNotSorry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BPIsNotSorry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BPKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThanksBigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThanksBigOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GulfStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GulfStates</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleanUpYourMessBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanUpYourMessBP</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>YIKES! Please read and share this! </p><p>via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>UnicornRiot</span></a></span> </p><p>"We’ve been forced to spend around $55,000 to date because of Energy Transfer’s legal campaign against our freedom of the press.</p><p>"We’ve only raised back $38,916 of this so far.</p><p>"Your donation helps us keep operating despite corporate attempts to silence us" </p><p><a href="https://donorbox.org/unicorn-riot-nodapl-legal-defense" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">donorbox.org/unicorn-riot-noda</span><span class="invisible">pl-legal-defense</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransfer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPs" class="mention 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href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingProtest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransfer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAllies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAllies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthDakota</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPsLawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLAPPsLawsuits</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KelcyWarren</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockReservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRockReservation</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Every Dirty Gift <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBill</span></a> Gives the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> Industry<br>Trump’s “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a>” has billions for oil and gas companies: tax breaks, deductions, and pay-to-play <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deregulation</span></a> </p><p>by Antonia Juhasz, July 10, 2025</p><p>"The new law compounds the already $17 billion in direct federal subsidies U.S. taxpayers pay to oil, gas, and coal companies every year. It cuts hundreds of billions of dollars in tax incentives for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a>, despite it being cheaper, healthier, more efficient, and more reliable than <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a>. As a result, the law threatens nearly a million U.S. jobs and will result in higher electricity and transportation costs for people living in every state in the continental U.S.</p><p>"The power of the fossil fuel industry over Trump and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> is on full display in their Big Beautiful Bill. Mike Sommers, president of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanPetroleumInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanPetroleumInstitute</span></a>, the fossil fuel industry’s largest lobbying group, told CNBC, 'It includes almost all of our priorities.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-big-beautiful-bill-fossil-fuel-gifts-1235382436/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/politics/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics-features/trump-big-beautiful-bill-fossil-fuel-gifts-1235382436/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/ARDGt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/ARDGt</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigUglyBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigUglyBill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExxonLied</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDeregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDeregulation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MastersBidding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastersBidding</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSucks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p>Le sigh…</p><p>“Fresh off his government passing Bill C-5 to get big developments built quickly in the country, Prime Minister Mark Carney is talking confidently, with an eye on two pivotal oil and gas initiatives that could make it onto Ottawa’s major projects list.</p><p>They also happen to be on the province’s wish list for accelerated federal approval: a new oil pipeline to the West Coast and a massive carbon capture network proposed by Canada’s largest oilsands producers.</p><p>“I am confident that my government will do everything we can so that those projects can be built,” Carney said in an interview Saturday, shortly before flipping pancakes at a Stampede breakfast in the city’s northeast.”</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDNPoli</span></a><br><a href="https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/varcoe-mark-carney-oil-pipeline-ottawa-major-project-list" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu</span><span class="invisible">mnists/varcoe-mark-carney-oil-pipeline-ottawa-major-project-list</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p>“Energy minister leans on oil industry talking points in carbon capture announcement”</p><p>We’re cooked. ‘Responsibly produced oil’ and ‘clean LNG’ are oil-industry marketing terms.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FossilFools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFools</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDNPoli</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/07/news/energy-minister-carbon-capture-announcement-oil-industry-talking-points" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationalobserver.com/2025/07/0</span><span class="invisible">7/news/energy-minister-carbon-capture-announcement-oil-industry-talking-points</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>International Survey Shows 81% Back Forcing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> to Pay for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> Destruction</p><p>"People are no longer buying the lies. They see the fingerprints of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> giants all over the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/storms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>storms</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> devastating their lives, and they want accountability," said the head of one green group. </p><p>by Eloise Goldsmith, Jun 19, 2025</p><p>"Large majorities of people around the world support both taxing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gas</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> companies for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDamage</span></a> made worse by fossil fuels and using higher taxes on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/polluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polluters</span></a> to support communities most impacted by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>, according to the results of an international survey released Thursday.</p><p>"The study, which was jointly commissioned by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenpeace</span></a> International and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxfam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxfam</span></a> International, surveyed roughly 1,200 people in each of these 13 countries: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kenya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kenya</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philippines</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spain</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a>, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>. The research was conducted by the data company Dynata, and field work was done between May 9-28, 2025. Greenpeace noted that, taken together, the countries represent close to 50% of the globe's population.</p><p>"The results of the survey showed a whopping 81% of those surveyed would support taxes fossil fuel companies to pay for damages wrought by 'fossil-fuel driven climate disasters.'</p><p>"These survey results send a clear message: people are no longer buying the lies. They see the fingerprints of fossil fuel giants all over the storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires devastating their lives, and they want accountability," said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MadsChristensen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MadsChristensen</span></a>, the executive director of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenpeaceInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenpeaceInternational</span></a>.</p><p>" 'It's only fair that those who caused the crisis should pay for the damage, not those suffering from it,' he added.</p><p>Read more / listen:<br><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/international-survey-shows-81-back-forcing-big-oil-to-pay-for-climate-destruction" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/internat</span><span class="invisible">ional-survey-shows-81-back-forcing-big-oil-to-pay-for-climate-destruction</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilLied</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sunoco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunoco</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BP</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chevron</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanPetroleumInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanPetroleumInstitute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShellOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExxonLied</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BPLied</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TaxThePolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaxThePolluters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilCompanies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChevronDoctrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChevronDoctrine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MakePollutersPay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MakePollutersPay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WateIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WateIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a> experts said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClarenceThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClarenceThomas</span></a>’ undisclosed ties to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Koch</span></a> network could call his impartiality in the case into doubt. This sort of potential conflict is why the judiciary has rules against both political activity and fundraising, they said. 'Parties litigating in the court before <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeThomas</span></a> don’t know the extent of Thomas’ relationship with the parties on the other side,' said James Sample, a Hofstra University law professor who studies judicial ethics. 'You have to be pretty cynical to not think that’s a problem.' "</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OligarchCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OligarchCamp</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BohemianGrove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BohemianGrove</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ImpeachClarenceThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImpeachClarenceThomas</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChevronDoctrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChevronDoctrine</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NDRC</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KochIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KochIndustries</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorruptSCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorruptSCOTUS</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUSIsCompromised" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUSIsCompromised</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corporatocracy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalProtections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalProtections</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporatePolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatePolluters</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateDeniers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDeniers</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClarenceThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClarenceThomas</span></a> Secretly Participated in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KochBrothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KochBrothers</span></a> Network Donor Events </p><p>by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski<br>Sept. 22, 2023, 5 a.m. EDT</p><p>Excerpt: "Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.</p><p>" 'In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society. Its advocacy is credited with helping stamp out Republican Party support for combating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, once an issue that drew bipartisan concern. The “full weight of the network” was thrown behind passing the 2017 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpTaxCut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTaxCut</span></a>, securing a windfall for the Kochs and their donors. And the upcoming Supreme Court term could bring the network a victory it has pursued for years: overturning a major legal precedent known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chevron</span></a>.</p><p>"While most Americans aren’t familiar with the 1984 case Chevron v. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NRDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NRDC</span></a>, it’s one of the Supreme Court’s most-cited decisions. Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. In essence, Chevron is about government agencies’ ability to issue regulations. After a law is enacted, it’s generally up to agencies across the government to make detailed rules putting it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess the agencies’ determinations. In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.</p><p>"The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of dollars in grants to law professors making the case to overturn it.</p><p>"The network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent years. Once broadly supported by academics and judges on the right, Chevron is now anathema to many in the conservative legal movement. And there’s no more prominent convert than Thomas.</p><p>"In 2005, Thomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that expanded Chevron’s protections for government agencies. Ten years later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced his own earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is unconstitutional after all — a rare reversal for a justice with a reputation for being unmovable in his views.</p><p>"By last year, Koch network strategists sensed that victory could be at hand. During an internal briefing for network staff, Jorge Lima, a senior vice president at Americans for Prosperity, said the Supreme Court seemed primed to radically change its approach to the issue. The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented. “We’re doubling down on this strategy,” Lima told the crowd.</p><p>"Several months later, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch network staff attorneys represent the plaintiffs. If Thomas and his colleagues side with them this coming term, Chevron will be overturned once and for all." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/clarenc</span><span class="invisible">e-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OligarchCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OligarchCamp</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BohemianGrove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BohemianGrove</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ImpeachClarenceThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImpeachClarenceThomas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chevron</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChevronDoctrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChevronDoctrine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NDRC</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KochIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KochIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorruptSCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorruptSCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUSIsCompromised" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUSIsCompromised</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corporatocracy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalProtections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalProtections</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporatePolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatePolluters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateDeniers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDeniers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a></p>
TheGentYYC<p>She'd fork every cent over to the already fabulously wealthy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> without batting an eye. It's her raison d'etre. As for pipelines & whatnot she talks about "de-risking" projects which just means using taxpayer dollars for stuff Big Oil recognizes aren't safe investments anymore & transferring all that risk onto The People's backs.</p><p>Welcome to the Petrostate of Alberta. Now PAY UP, citizens.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DanielleSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DanielleSmith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Petrostate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Petrostate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yyc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HandsOffMyCPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOffMyCPP</span></a></p>
TheGentYYC<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DanielleSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DanielleSmith</span></a> kept telling us how much we want this then found out we REALLY don't want this so she blocked access to the survey results and kept telling us how much we want this anyways. That's how strong her zeal is to fork over Albertan tax dollars & even pension funds to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DanielleSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DanielleSmith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Petrostate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Petrostate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yyc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HandsOffMyCPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOffMyCPP</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@10tothe22" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>10tothe22</span></a></span> Hey there. I don't mind you sharing a graphic I dug up from my archives, but could you at least copy the alt text I put in there? TY! Also, the quote is from a movie, not Orwell.</p><p>Alt Text: An image of a metallic surface, with the letters I R A, and another spot where there is half a Q and half an N. Is the war between us an IRAN? Or us and IRAQ?<br>There is a quote below the image (misattributed to George Orwell):<br>"The war is not meant to be won<br>it is meant to be continuous."<br>- George Orwell</p><p>Original post:<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/113771386333904298" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/</span><span class="invisible">113771386333904298</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWars</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IranWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IranWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Doublethink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Doublethink</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/1984Movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1984Movie</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Oh geesh, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@Tooden" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Tooden</span></a></span> ! There's a lot going on Down Under!</p><p>Extreme weather could send milk prices soaring, deepening challenges for the dairy industry<br>Phys.org<br>6 days ago<br>Australia's dairy industry is in the middle of a crisis, fueled by an almost perfect storm of challenges.</p><p>The future for Northland weather: Storm alerts are 'the new normal'<br>rnz<br>1 day ago<br>This year has already brought almost every possible weather extreme to Northland, with record rain hot on the heels of a drought, a cyclone and even a tornado. Is this a sign of things to come?</p><p>5 killed and thousands affected by latest Australian floods<br>World Socialist Web Site<br>25 days ago<br>Another extreme weather event on Australia's eastern coast highlights government inaction on disaster preparation and climate change.</p><p>Parts of Australia got months worth of rain in just a few days. | CNN<br>CNN<br>26 days ago<br>Rescuers in parts of Australia are saving people trapped in their homes by flooding. The area got months worth of rain in just a few days and more rain's coming. CNN's Lynda Kinkade has the story.</p><p>How Australia's climate is changing amid week of weather extremes<br>Sky News Australia<br>80 days ago<br>Australia is famously a land of "droughts and flooding rains" - but the climate is not the same as when Aussie poet Dorothea Mackellar wrote her famous poem describing the "sunburnt country".</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalHeating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalHeating</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AustraliaWx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AustraliaWx</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetaryWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetaryWaves</span></a> linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950, study finds</p><p>By SETH BORENSTEIN<br>Updated 4:51 PM EDT, June 16, 2025<br>WASHINGTON (AP) — "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeatWaves</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Droughts</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a>, a new study says.</p><p>"In the 1950s, Earth averaged about one extreme weather-inducing planetary wave event a summer, but now it is getting about three per summer, according to a study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Planetary waves are connected to 2021’s deadly and unprecedented Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2010 Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding and the 2003 killer European heatwave, the study said.</p><p>" 'If you’re trying to visualize the planetary waves in the northern hemisphere, the easiest way to visualize them is on the weather map to look at the waviness in the jet stream as depicted on the weather map,' said study co-author Michael Mann, a University of Pennsylvania climate scientist.</p><p>"Planetary waves flow across Earth all the time, but sometimes they get amplified, becoming stronger, and the jet stream gets wavier with bigger hills and valleys, Mann said. It’s called quasi-resonant amplification or QRA."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/extreme-weather-climate-change-heatwave-flooding-drought-cc4c3d93e178b6f4ab13cb7788998801" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/extreme-wea</span><span class="invisible">ther-climate-change-heatwave-flooding-drought-cc4c3d93e178b6f4ab13cb7788998801</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalHeating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalHeating</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iceland</span></a> saw <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecordHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecordHeat</span></a> in May. What does that mean for the world?</p><p> By ISABELLA O’MALLEY<br>Updated 1:42 PM EDT, June 11, 2025</p><p>"Human-caused <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> boosted Iceland and Greenland ’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwave</span></a>, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArcticIce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArcticIce</span></a> has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday.</p><p>"The Greenland ice sheet melted many times faster than normal during the heat wave, according to the analysis by World Weather Attribution, with at least two communities seeing record temperatures for May. Parts of Iceland saw temperatures more than 10°C (18 °F) above average, and the country set a record for its warmest temperature in May when Egilsstadir Airport hit 26.6°C (79.9 F) on May 15.</p><p>"The findings come as global leaders put more focus on Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments that he would like to annex the mineral-rich island.</p><p>"Burning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> for electricity and transportation releases pollutants such as carbon dioxide that cause the planet to warm unnaturally fast. The Arctic is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth.</p><p>"Even in today’s climate, the occurrence of such a strong heat wave in the region is relatively rare, with a 1% chance of occurring in a year, the analysis said. But without human-caused climate change, such an event would be “basically impossible,” said Friederike Otto, associate professor of climate science at Imperial College London, one of the report’s authors.</p><p>"The extreme heat was 40 times more likely compared to the pre-industrial climate.</p><p>Global impacts from a melting Arctic</p><p>"Otto said this extreme weather event affects the world.</p><p>"As the Greenland ice sheet melts, it releases massive amounts of fresh water into the salty oceans. Scientists say this could slow down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AMOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AMOC</span></a>], an ocean current that circulates water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe and then the Arctic.</p><p>"Such a slowdown could disturb global climate and weather patterns.</p><p>“The nature of weather in the Northern Hemisphere is directly tied to what’s happening in the Arctic, because that ice floor basically at the bottom of the atmosphere helps determine the weather patterns that we get,” said Waleed Abdalati, who heads an environmental sciences institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was not involved in the WWA analysis.</p><p>"The Greenland ice sheet and other ice covering the Arctic can influence where and when wind blows, how much water content the wind has and whether precipitation falls as rain or snow.</p><p>"Most of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet happens in June, July and August. The May heat wave means there will be a longer melting season this year.</p><p>"Melting ice sheets and glaciers also contribute to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeaLevelRise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaLevelRise</span></a> that is threatening to flood coastlines globally and inundate low-lying island nations in the Pacific Ocean.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities in Greenland are increasingly encountering dangerous travel conditions as sea ice that was once constantly frozen begins to thaw. Access to traditional hunting locations are lost, and sled dogs can no longer travel the same routes. Thawing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/permafrost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permafrost</span></a> can destabilize buildings and increases the risk of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landslides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landslides</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tsunamis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tsunamis</span></a> caused by landslides." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/iceland-greenland-heat-wave-arctic-climate-weather-2f156f6a0c6d1d5f7f3881917c539b83" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/iceland-gre</span><span class="invisible">enland-heat-wave-arctic-climate-weather-2f156f6a0c6d1d5f7f3881917c539b83</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalHeating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalHeating</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams</p><p>This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>."</p><p>Brett Wilkins<br>Jun 16, 2025</p><p>"Four wealthy nations—the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to new data published by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilChangeInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilChangeInternational</span></a> on Monday, the first day of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BonnClimateChangeConference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BonnClimateChangeConference</span></a> in Germany.</p><p>"Oil Change's analysis, titled <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetWreckers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetWreckers</span></a>, notes that if those four <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalNorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalNorth</span></a> nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction, 32 billion tons of carbon pollution would stay in the ground instead of being burned and released into the atmosphere, where they fuel planetary heating. That's the equivalent of three times the annual global emissions created by burning coal.</p><p>" 'A handful of the world's richest nations remain intent on leading us into disaster. This is not just hypocrisy. It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis,' Oil Change International global policy lead Romain Ioualalen said in a statement Monday.</p><p>"It is sickening that countries with the highest incomes and outsized historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis are planning massive oil and gas expansion with no regard for the lives and livelihoods at stake," Ioualalen added."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-change-report-planet-wreckers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/oil-chan</span><span class="invisible">ge-report-planet-wreckers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrillBabyDrill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrillBabyDrill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheGround</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fracking</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Drilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drilling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanadaPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadaPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetroState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetroState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThanksBigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThanksBigOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BPKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExxonKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilUpTheSwamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilUpTheSwamp</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoPipelines</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossillFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossillFuel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoJobsOnADeadPlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoJobsOnADeadPlanet</span></a></p>
Obbie King<p>Chevron (and others) *BROKE THE LAW*!!! They pumped fracking chemicals into the ground without providing disclosures (legally required in Colorado) of what they were up to, or what those chemicals are.</p><p>Shut down their wells, confiscate their equipment, and ban them from doing business in the state. Clean up the wells, and fine the oil barons triple the clean-up costs.<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/us-oil-firms-chemicals-colorado" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/20/us-oil-firms-chemicals-colorado</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/fracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fracking</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a></p>
Cruiser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nicolas_fournier" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nicolas_fournier</span></a></span> But just because we - might - start doing something real about emissions, melting does not just stop or become reversed ... so we should have done a lot already long ago 😔 <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossilfuels</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oiligarchy</span></a></p>
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