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#FossilFuels

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Ms. Que Banh

From #DogwoodBC ->

The #BCgovernment doesn’t think people care about #ClimateChange any more. But the next drought or heat dome is coming, and they’ll see just how much we care then. The time to solve a disaster is before it starts, not when you’re in the middle of it.

As of right now, B.C. has no climate plan. They’ve dismantled #CleanBC - an already meek attempt to protect British Columbians from the worst possible outcomes, with nothing to replace it. And what’s worse, they’re charging ahead with plans to approve another fracked gas pipeline: the #PrinceRupert Gas Transmission pipeline.

#FrackedGas is methane, a greenhouse gas that accelerates global heating. #PRGT would not only add to the carbon emissions responsible for more wildfires, it would also increase fracking operations in northern B.C. which doctors and scientists alike have shown make people in surrounding communities sick.

Approving PRGT is reckless. Dangerous. And completely out of step with what this moment demands. We don’t need more #FossilFuels — we need real climate action. Right now.

Send a letter to #Climate Minister Tamara Davidson. Demand a stop to the PRGT pipeline.

dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/prgt-ca

#BCpoli#CDNpoli#BCNDP
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Akshay

Interesting article on Shanxi, China’s coal belt province!

Their whole economy depends on coal, and people don’t know much about climate change.

Nevertheless:

“People are quite happy to move on, if they are provided with good training and strong support to help that transition go smoothly”

After all, coal mining in a coal economy isn’t that great, in reality…

carbonbrief.org/interview-what

Carbon Brief · Interview: What the people of China’s coal-rich Shanxi think about climate change - Carbon BriefShanxi province in northern China is the country’s largest coal producer, leaving its coal-reliant economy and workers particularly exposed to the nation’s pledge to transition away from fossil fuels.
#China#Climate#FossilFuels
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Maude Nificent

from the Australia Institute…

<While the country was distracted by the federal election, something chilling appeared off Victoria’s coastline.
A new offshore gas rig, built by multinational petroleum giant ConocoPhillips, has been erected to drill deep into the seafloor off the Great Ocean Road. Not only is the gas rig next to a Marine National Park, it now stands as a backdrop to the world famous Twelve Apostles – a reminder that nowhere is safe from the oil and gas industry in Australia.

With Australia's media still focused on the outcome of the election, this major development has not been widely reported on – even when the risk of an oil spill from the gas rig would be catastrophic to our marine ecosystems

youtu.be/0jH6zzjyCXE?feature=s

#FossilFuels #Auspol #EnvironmentalDisasterWaitingToHappen
#AustraliansFundingMultiNationalCompanies #TwelveApostles

australiainstitute.org.au/post

YouTubeThere's a huge new gas rig looming over our 12 ApostlesBy The Australia Institute
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Throughout my writing about fascism, capitalism, and climate catastrophe, I've worked pretty hard to focus attention on what I consider the most fundamentally important and horrifying reality of our time. That being that no matter how hard it may be for us to accept, the billionaire ruling class in the Pig Empire, and the governments they own, fully intend to kill billions of people to keep extracting capital on a boiling planet in the face of a climate apocalypse. Furthermore, given that democratic societies full of people who probably don't want to die so billionaires can keep doing capitalism as the planet turns to ash are highly unlikely to continue facilitating that behavior, this same ruling class is busy transforming our nations into fascist police states to facilitate that outcome.

Naturally, that sounds like a conspiracy theory to people who wouldn't want to believe it anyway even if they knew it was true, so until folks watched Elon Musk literally buy Trump's way to the White House this past fall, this idea was pretty hard to communicate to my readers; although I certainly kept trying. In my opinion, the evidence has been all around us for years now; from the funding behind fascist movements and political parties in the Pig empire, to the capitalist control of supposedly "liberal democratic" governments across the "West" that continue to facilitate the mass extraction of fossil fuels we cannot burn without murdering potentially billions of people, while professing to care about climate crisis. As far as I'm concerned the only plausible explanation for the ruling class and political actors to do absolutely nothing about climate crisis and fossil fuel dependency while simultaneously hardening borders, curtailing civil rights, and building out massive police states hell bent on squashing protestors, is because they intend to take humanity and a biosphere that supports 8B+ human lives right off the ecological cliff, and they know the folks doing the dying are probably going to try and oppose that.

As we crash through climate objectives and rocket towards an environmental apocalypses in the middle of a mass extinction event however, it turns out that banks and government bodies are more or less starting to admit this genocidal bullshit is the actual plan, out loud. As this April 8th article from Kate Aronoff writing for The New Republic demonstrates, portions of the banking sector and highly-respected bipartisan think tanks are now openly arguing climate targets are a joke and it's time for a new phase of aggressive climate imperialism as the planet descends into a warming-induced apocalypse because nothing, not even the end of the world, can get in the way of churning profits to enrich a ruling class that already owns everything around us.

archive.ph/0dvEn

The Bleak, Defeatist Rise of “Climate Realism”

"The brand of climate cynicism being voiced by the Council on Foreign Relations is more novel. In an essay outlining the founding principles of the Climate Realism Initiative, Varun Sivarum—the program’s director and a former top aide to Biden-era U.S. climate envoy John Kerry—describes a zero-sum, catastrophically climate-changed world where “other countries will single-mindedly prioritize their own interests” and the United States should do the same. Facing climate-fueled mass migration “of at least hundreds of millions of climate refugees [that] could upend the international order, and increasingly grisly natural disasters,” the U.S. “should provide the support it can, cooperate with countries on building resilience capabilities, and protect its borders,” as well as “prepare for global competition for resources and military positioning that is intensifying in the melting Arctic.”

Look folks, this isn't a partisan political question of which party is better, or worse, on the issue of climate crisis; this is about a billionaire donor class that controls policy and politicians in both parties, and why that reality means we were always speeding towards a hydra-headed crisis of capitalism, climate catastrophe, and fascist authoritarianism as the awful reality that nobody "in charge" is going to stop a crisis that will kill billions from happening, set in. The Trump regime certainly represents an acceleration of the process towards climate apocalypse, but it is also the product of that very same process; we are here because rich people mean to kill us all to keep getting richer, and fascism is how you create societies where that is possible. Not just because fascist ideology allows the construction of vast police states, but because the very same "us and them" hate-fueled logic that drives fascist movements to power, is also an absolute necessity for a climate imperialism political paradigm on a boiling planet with diminishing resources.

#Fascism#EndTimesFascism#Trump
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Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱

Malm noted: “1840 was a pivotal year in history, for both the Middle East and the climate system. It marked the first time the British Empire deployed steamboats in a major war. Steam power was the technology through which dependence on fossil fuels came into being: Steam engines ran on coal, and it was their diffusion through the industries of Britain that turned this into the first fossil economy.

“Only by exporting it to the rest of the world and drawing humanity into the spiral of large-scale fossil fuel combustion,” Malm writes, “did Britain change the fate of this planet: The globalization of steam was a necessary ignition. The key to this ignition, in turn, was the deployment of steamboats in war. It was through the projection of violence that Britain integrated other countries into the strange kind of economy it had created — by turning fossil capital, we might say, into fossil empire.”

systemchangenotclimatechange.o

System Change Not Climate Change · Massive-Scale Genocide and Ecocide Are Close Relations - System Change Not Climate ChangeSCNCC’s Ken Boettcher reviews a lecture by Andreas Malm that draws chilling parallels between Israel’s annihilation of Palestine and capitalism’s global destruction of ecosystems.
#preying#predation#brutalization
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

"Trials will test ways to block sunlight and slow climate crisis that threatens to trigger catastrophic tipping points"

theguardian.com/environment/20

Uhhh... I have a small question:

What happens if someone fucks that up?

Is this not massive hubris?

Why don't we just wean ourselves from #fossilFuels?

This idea we're going to parasol the sun instead... seriously?

Nobody is doing a risk-reward analysis here an elementary school kid could raise issues with?

Geoengineering Real-world geoengineering experiments revealed by UK agency Trials will test ways to block sunlight and slow climate crisis that threatens to trigger catastrophic tipping points View image in fullscreen Most geoengineering proposals aim to block sunlight reaching and heating the Earth’s surface. Photograph: Kazimierz Jurewicz/Alamy
#climateChange#climateCrisis#climate
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Voting is Your POWER

Oil giants are abandoning the energy battlefield, redirecting profits to shareholders.

Major oil companies are not just quitting renewables—they're retreating from energy growth entirely. Rather than investing in future production, oil majors are now diverting more than half of their cash flow to shareholders, a withdrawal that signals "the future of energy is being built around them, not by them."
#fossilfuels #oil #oilcompanies #climate #ClimateChange #energy

harrybenham.substack.com/p/lea

The Manufacturing of Energy · Leaving the battlefield: oil companies are quitting renewables, yes, but also quitting energyBy Harry Benham
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hskzoom

"April storms that killed 24 in US made more severe by burning fossil fuels – study

Study finds human-caused climate change made four-day rainfall across central Mississippi valley 40% more likely"

#climatecrisis #fossilfuels #death #storms #flooding

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · April storms that killed 24 in US made more severe by burning fossil fuels – studyBy Nina Lakhani
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Zoey 🏳️‍⚧️☀️

Getting off of fossil gas as soon as possible is absolutely necessary to keep our planet from getting even warmer. Every penny invested in maintaining or expanding our current gas infrastructure is spent creating a stranded asset and would be better spent on renewables

#Michigan #Utilities #Energy #Climate #NaturalGas #FossilFuels

planetdetroit.org/2025/05/mich

Planet Detroit · Natural gas spending will cost Michigan ratepayers, hurt climate goals, report findsA report warns Michigan gas customers of rising energy bills as investments in natural gas infrastructure increase.
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JEmphatically

Whenever I interview people about Alberta's regulatory framework for cleaning up aging oil and gas wells and related infrastructure, the same reference keeps coming up - "foxes in hen houses."

Hiring an oil services executive (and stacking the consultation with 70% industry representation) to come up with the government's strategy doesn't help. The resulting report mirrors efforts by companies in the US to avoid taking full responsibility.

theenergymix.com/alberta-follo

The Energy Mix · Alberta Follows Familiar Playbook to Help Fossils Sidestep Well Cleanup ObligationsBy Mitchell Beer
#cdnpoli#ableg#fossilfuels
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SnowshadowII :maple:

The problem with exporting fossil fuels is we all share the same air!🤦‍♀️

"Rocky Mountain coal mine in Alberta takes next step to expansion

In Alberta, a massive open-pit coal mine near Jasper National Park is hoping to expand the amount of coal it mines to be burned for electricity overseas "

#Alberta #FossilFuels #Climate
#Canada

thenarwhal.ca/alberta-vista-co

A yellow mining dump truck traverses a landscape blackened by coal.
The Narwhal · Alberta’s Vista coal mine seeks expansion | The NarwhalAlong the Rocky Mountains near Jasper National Park, Coalspur wants to expand its massive Vista coal mine to fuel overseas power plants
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