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#CID deepens 🇪🇺 commitment to #FalseSolutions to the climate emergency like #H2, #CCS #CarbonRemovals & boosts #gas Keeps #BigEnergy in the driving seat with: ⚠️ industry-led alliances on hydrogen + raw materials ⚠️ industry forum on CCS ⚠️ industry-only advisory group on securing new gas

Picture of Corporate Europe Observatory researcher and campaigner Pascoe Sabido with quote: This dirty deal is what happens when you put those being regulated in charge of regulations. The Clean Industrial Deal funnels public money and political support to Europe's most polluting industries and their favourite false climate solutions.
Rather than phase out fossil fuels and oversee a just transition, the EU plans to pump billions into new gas, carbon capture, and hydrogen infrastructure while setting up new carbon offset markets and deregulating in favour of industry.
This will further enrich oil and gas investors while ordinary people struggle.

ICYMI: New Beef Or Hacker? Latto Disses Nicki Minaj In New Post https://shinemycrown.com/new-beef-or-hacker-latto-disses-nicki-minaj-in-new-post/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Entertainment #BigEnergy #controversy #DrLuke #feud

New Beef Or Hacker? Latto Disses Nicki Minaj In New Post https://shinemycrown.com/new-beef-or-hacker-latto-disses-nicki-minaj-in-new-post/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Entertainment #BigEnergy #controversy #DrLuke #feud

ICYMI: Latto Makes History: Crowned 1st Female ‘Trapper Of The Year’ https://shinemycrown.com/latto-makes-history-crowned-1st-female-trapper-of-the-year/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Entertainment #BchFromDaSouth #BigEnergyRemix #Atlanta #BigEnergy

Latto Makes History: Crowned 1st Female ‘Trapper Of The Year’ https://shinemycrown.com/latto-makes-history-crowned-1st-female-trapper-of-the-year/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Entertainment #BchFromDaSouth #BigEnergyRemix #Atlanta #BigEnergy

Latto Explains Why Ice Spice Can’t ‘Real’ Beef With Her, and the Internet Agrees https://shinemycrown.com/latto-explains-why-ice-spice-cant-real-beef-with-her-and-the-internet-agrees/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Entertainment #PutItondaFloorremix #Atlantarapper #BigEnergy

@chu Unfortunately that only hurts the #littlepeople and creates increased rates and #insurance #monopolies for #bigcorporations willing to take the gamble. These states should actually hold #bigcorp accountable through financial sanctions. This includes #bigoil #bigtech #bigdata #BigEnergy

But you know, the won't because #lobbyistslinepockets

@gsuberland @tinker Plus all the energy that crypto uses. They pretty much need a nuclear power plant's worth of output to run -- and gee, it seems #BigEnergy is all to happy to help out!

Report Finds That ‘Advanced’ #Nuclear Reactor Designs Are No Better Than Current Reactors—and Some Are Worse

Proposed Non-Light-Water Reactors Not Clearly Safer and Will Likely Take Decades to Achieve Reliable Commercial Operation

Published Mar 18, 2021
Union of Concerned Scientists

"One of the proposed sodium-cooled fast reactors, #TerraPower’s 345 megawatt #Natrium, has received considerable media attention recently because TerraPower founder #BillGates has been citing it during interviews about his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. In mid-February, Gates told 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper that the #Natrium reactor will produce less waste and be safer than a conventional light-water reactor.

"In fact, according to the #UCS report, sodium-cooled fast reactors such as the Natrium would likely be less '#uranium-efficient.' They would not reduce the amount of #NuclearWaste that requires long-term isolation in a geologic repository. They also could experience safety problems that are not an issue for light-water reactors.

"Sodium coolant, for example, can burn when exposed to air or water, and a sodium-cooled fast reactor could experience uncontrollable power increases that result in rapid core melting.

“'When it comes to safety and security, sodium-cooled fast reactors and molten salt-fueled reactors are significantly worse than conventional light-water reactors,' says Dr. #EdwinLyman.
'High-temperature, gas-cooled reactors may have the potential to be safer, but that remains unproven, and problems have come up during recent fuel safety tests.'"

#MSRHype
#NoNukes
#NoNewNukes #SmallModularNuclearReactors #BigEnergy #SMR

#Sami activist sets up camp outside #Norway parliament to protest #WindTurbines

By Gwladys Fouche

September 11, 2023

OSLO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - “An Indigenous Sami activist set up camp outside the Norwegian parliament on Monday to protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by Sami #reindeer herders, saying he will stay there as long as the turbines remain in place.

“Norway's supreme court in October 2021 ruled that two wind farms built at Fosen in central Norway, part of Europe's largest onshore wind farm, violated Sami rights under international conventions. But the turbines remain in operation today.

“The Fosen case is one of many conflicts that Norway has yet to resolve, with #ClimateChange and technology enabling #MineralExtraction, #EnergyProduction and #tourism while also threatening #TraditionalWays of life.

“The government has said that the supreme court, while ruling that the licenses of the two farms were illegal, did not give instructions on what to do next and that the conflict should be resolved through talks.

“‘It has been 700 days of human rights abuse and the Norwegian state has not done anything to stop it. So I have chosen to come here and set up camp until the human rights abuse stops,' Sami activist #MihkkalHaetta, 22, told Reuters, dressed in a traditional gakti outfit worn inside out as a sign of protest.

“‘I believe that there is only one solution and that is to tear down the wind turbines at Fosen.'

“In February #IndigenousProtesters including Haetta occupied the lobby of the #oil and energy ministry before police removed them.

“They later occupied the entrances of 10 ministries and were joined by #Greta Thunberg, who said #HumanRights had to go hand-in-hand with #ClimateProtection and #ClimateAction.

“Since the protests, the government and the reindeer-herding families affected by the #FosenWindFarm have been involved in mediation to resolve the conflict but no concrete measures have been announced yet.

“The reindeer herders have said the only solution to the conflict is that the turbines be torn down.

'We still hope that the mediation process will be able to lead to an amicable solution to the matter. It would be the best for all parties,' Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland told Reuters in an emailed statement.

“’It is too early to say anything concrete about when a solution might be in place, but I am focused that the mediation track can be followed as long as there is hope for a solution.'

“About Monday's protest, Aasland said 'the right to free expression is a founding democratic right I have great respect for’.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sami-activist-sets-up-camp-outside-norway-parliament-protest-wind-turbines-2023-09-11/

#CulturalGenocide #IndigenousActivism #EnvironmentalRacism #SamiPeople #TraditionalLifestyle #EndangeredSpecies #BigEnergy #ClimateJustice

A Last #Wildness

Riding alongside the reindeer herders of Europe’s northernmost county.

Global warming and its discontents have brought energy firms, foreign investors, and the Norwegian state into conflict with an #indigenous #pastoral economy.

DECEMBER 5, 2023
by Ben Mauk & Carleen Coulter

"At seven o’clock one September morning, four reindeer herders on dirt bikes and ATVs drive up toward the peninsula whose tip is the northernmost point of mainland Europe. The peninsula is called Čorgašnjárga in Northern #Sámi, the working language of the herders, and Nordkinn in Norwegian. Channels of wind come down the fjords on either side and whip the land clean. Near the coast of Lakesfjorden, the herders find #reindeer gathered on the northern side of a wooden fence several miles long. They open a gate and begin to funnel the animals south toward a brown depression in the landscape, where, inside a labyrinth of pens, corrals, and fence-lined paths, several hundred more reindeer, and a dozen herders, are waiting.

“In summer 2020, the waning days of the midnight sun, the photographer Carleen Coulter and I traveled across Troms og Finnmark, Europe’s northernmost county, following reindeer herders during calf-marking season. The county is curved like the blade of a knife, tracing the edge of a belt of land that crosses #Norway, #Sweden, and #Finland into #Russia’s #KolaPeninsula. The region — known as Sápmi to the Sámi people who are its most longstanding inhabitants — is sometimes called Europe’s #LastWilderness. It is a rare sanctuary in the northern world, one where a #lynx, #stoat, or #salmon might emerge into being, live out its hungry life, and die without encountering any evidence of humankind.

“This wildness is now threatened, not only by #ClimateChange but by some of the very forces developed to combat that existential peril. The most visible sign of change is the wind turbine, hundreds of which are proposed for construction in Sápmi as part of Norway’s commitment to a climate-neutral future. Although its total output remains small compared to producers like #Germany and #Spain, Norway is home to one of the fastest-growing #WindIndustries in the world, and tripled its onshore capacity between 2018 and 2020. Much of the growth is taking place in Troms og Finnmark, where #WindFarms have proven to be uncommonly productive. The 15-turbine Raggovidda wind park in East Finnmark, one developer told the Independent Barents Observer, 'is the most efficient in Norway, in all of Europe — perhaps in the whole world.' It is so productive that its output has far outstripped the needs of its host municipality. Its owners sought and received a concession for the installation of extra power cables to export the electricity for profit. Plans for more ambitious wind parks, some with hundreds rather than dozens of turbines, are pending approval.

“If you have hiked or driven past one, you will know the repetitive strangeness of a field of wind turbines. The effect is only enhanced near the Arctic Circle, where they are perched on treeless plateaus and holy mountains, surrounded by empty sky, each airfoil the size and shape of 747’s wing. Reindeer will not go near them, although the mountains, cool and #lichen-covered, are important summer grazing pastures. As a result, the animals starve, overheat, or become disoriented and are hit by cars.

“The corral where herders were marking reindeer that September is part of Norway’s second-largest herding district; Lágesduottar encompasses large tracts of public land in eastern Troms og Finnmark. There are nineteen reindeer concessions employing around one hundred people, as one linguist and herder present at the marking, Máret Laila Anti, explained, 'from babies to great-grandmothers.' With few exceptions, only #IndigenousSámi people are permitted to hold concessions in Norway. A concession cannot be bought or sold, only inherited or abandoned.

“Four wind power projects have been proposed within Lágesduottar district. Given the typical grazing paths of reindeer, the parks would also affect three other herding communities, totaling more than sixty concessions and about three-hundred people. If constructed, they would almost certainly spell the end of herding in the region. The extra work created by the wind parks—the loss of grazing grounds, the additional fences and labor required—would cause some herders to abandon their concessions. This would have a domino effect, Anti believed. Although reindeer themselves are family property, the land they graze is collectively managed, a division shared by #nomadic #pastoral societies around the world. Families gather together to make lighter work of marking and fence repair. 'If two families leave,' Anti said, 'the work on the others increases, and causes more to abandon herding, and the whole community will collapse.'

“Like reindeer herding, wind energy requires huge reserves of land—between ten and a hundred times the land required by coal-fired electricity, according to one estimate. Because turbines are frequently the target of urban activists who complain that they obstruct views and kill birds, developers find space where they always have: on rural land used and occupied by disenfranchised minority and indigenous groups. In Norway, the rise of mega-farms has punctured reindeer #MigrationPaths and imperiled longstanding strategies of land management. Although herders make up only a small minority of Sámi communities in Norway, their loss is a potent symbol of these changes, resistance to which is often framed around the reindeer’s life cycle.

“Following herders across landscapes filled with wind farms and proposed construction sites, we visited coastal fishing towns, camped along the last #WildSalmon refuge in Europe, and attended a plenary session of the Sámi Parliament, in Karasjok, where we met representatives who felt they had been silenced by #LargeEnergyFirms. One member of parliament, Maja Kristin Jama, came from a herding family who had grazed their reindeer in the Fosen herding district, now home to Europe’s largest onshore wind park. In 2020, Norway’s Supreme Court determined that the park had violated protected #cultural rights, and in 2021 ruled its licenses invalid, but turbines are still operational and there are no plans to dismantle the site. 'We can talk, we can discuss, we can protest, we can ‘have dialogues,' Jama said. 'But in the end, we can’t really affect these plans.'

https://www.thedial.world/issue-11/sami-reindeer-herders-wind-power-renewable-energy?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#CulturalGenocide #IndigenousRights #EnvironmentalRacism #SamiPeople #TraditionalLifestyle #EndangeredSpecies #BigEnergy #RightsViolations

[Transcript] #Powerlands

Story by Jessica Partnow, November 2023

"On this week’s #MakingContact, we bring you a special encore of an episode that first aired in June. We’ll hear an extended interview with #IveyCamilleManybeadsTso, a #queer #Diné filmmaker and director of the award-winning #documentary Powerlands.

"Powerlands traces how #multinational energy #corporations extract resources and profits while displacing and harming #Indigenous communities around the world. The film follows #IndigenousActivists in #NavajoNation, #Colombia, #Mexico and the #Philippines who are fighting back against corporations like #PeabodyEnergy, #Glencore and #BHP."

Powerlands Documentary website:
https://powerlands.org/#&gid=1&pid=1

Interview transcript:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/powerlands/ar-AA1jXelC

#IndigenousActivism #WaterIsLife #Mining #ResourceColonialism #Colonialism #BigMountain #Corporatocracy #CulturalGenocide #BigOilAndGas #BigEnergy #BigUranium #McCainShame

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67430888
Key take away:
“It comes after an auction for offshore wind projects failed to attract any bids, with firms arguing the price set for electricity generated was too low.”
Here we go again
#Capitalism
#EndStageCapitalism
#ProfitsOverPeople
#ProfitsOverPlanet
#ClimateBreakdown
#BigEnergy
#RenewableEnergy
#NoPlanetB

Investing in #renewables is good. But bailing out old nuclear plants and counting on #SmallModularNuclearReactors is just a bailout for greedy executives and those in the pockets of #BigEnergy!

#Illinois Senate approves plan to allow new #nuclear reactors

Story by By JOHN O'CONNOR, November 9, 2023

"Just over two years ago, Pritzker signed a law requiring the state to use only carbon-free electricity by 2045. That means closing numerous coal-fired power plants and investing heavily in wind and solar energy. It also included a $700 million bailout to keep afloat two unprofitable nuclear plants in the state, validating for Rezin and other supporters that nuclear power must remain part of the picture."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illinois-senate-approves-plan-to-allow-new-nuclear-reactors/ar-AA1jChXH

#RethinkNotRestart #PG&E #NRC #IAEA #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #PriceAndersonAct #SMR #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree

#StevenDonziger: The man who stood up to an oil giant, and paid the price

Rex Weyler
26 February 2020

"The link between #ecological protection and #HumanRights is evident in #Ecuador’s #Amazon basin, where massive #OilPollution has destroyed #forests and #farms and left some of the world’s poorest people with #BirthDefects and a #cancer epidemic. In 1993, Ecuador’s Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía (FDA), representing 30,000 victims of #Chevron’s toxic oil waste, asked Donziger to help them win compensation for what is likely the largest oil-related human disaster in history."