#Alberta isn't served by a #fossilfuel lobbyist as their premier nor is #Canada's #democracy helped by this #BigOil shill. https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/whose-side-is-danielle-smith-really-on
#BigOil
Transparency
Won't help Tesla.
Scientifically documented (Nature) research attributing damage expressed in $$$ to fossil fuel companies. Hopefully eventually some accountability will be taken from this, as well as fostering climate mitigation activity over continuing legacy business as usual for the benefit of profit models of existing stakeholders.
* LinkedIn post on this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gfriend_%F0%9D%97%95%F0%9D%97%A5%F0%9D%97%98%F0%9D%97%94%F0%9D%97%9E%F0%9D%97%9C%F0%9D%97%A1%F0%9D%97%9A-%F0%9D%97%A1%F0%9D%97%98%F0%9D%97%AA%F0%9D%97%A6-%F0%9D%97%A7%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%97%B2-%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%97%B1-%F0%9D%98%81%F0%9D%97%BC-%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%97%B1-activity-7323099625165389824-lVdG/
* Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08751-3
Has the Tony Blair Institute just had a big shadowy donation from the #FossilFuel and/or #Nuclear industry?
Carbon capture is very expensive with questionable results…renewables work right now.
Getting to #NetZero matters for any chance of the survival of society as we know it. Implying it’s optional helps whom?
#BigOil not the nation’s poorest.
Conservatives hellbent on environmental destruction. "We have compared the climate positions of the Liberals, Conservatives & NDP. We anticipate that emissions would continue to decline under a Liberal government & increase under a Conservative one. All told, the climate policies the Conservatives would either repeal or not follow through on account for roughly 90% of Canada’s expected emissions reductions by 2030." #climate #environment #bigoil #pollution #conservatives https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/this-election-is-about-climate-change-whether-youre-aware-of-it-or-not/article_91b006b5-5f95-44c5-9aaa-8661490d1c6b.html
Pacific island states urge rich countries to expedite plans to cut emissions https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/26/pacific-island-states-urge-rich-countries-to-expedite-plans-to-cut-emissions #PacificIslands #emissions #FossilFuels #BigOIl #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Public affairs firms in Europe enable pollution by lobbying for big oil, says analysis | Pollution | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/25/public-affairs-firms-in-europe-enable-pollution-by-lobbying-for-big-oil-says-analysis
It's honestly a little difficult to properly express how hard the Trump regime is leaning into its "villain in a Captain Planet cartoon" schtick with how quickly they're working to gut environmental regulations, strip mine the country, and turn the planet to ash. Furthermore, you can tell it's a real priority for the Kelpto Kaiser, his rich donors, and his fascist administration because of the extreme lengths the regime is willing to go to, in order to (not so) plausibly grant itself the power to do so.
Take for example the US interior department's announcement that they're going to fast track permit approvals for fossil fuel and mining projects on currently protected lands; and by "fast track" we mean reduce the length of the process to the point that the government is basically just rubberstamping mining projects. Their justification for doing so? Trump's executive order declaring an “energy emergency” which the regime argues, grants them extraordinary powers to quickly strip mine national monuments without consultation, or something.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/interior-agency-fossil-fuel-mining-permits
US interior agency to fast track permits for fossil fuel and mining projects
"The US interior department has announced plans to radically fast track permitting for projects involving fossil fuels and mining citing Donald Trump’s ‘energy emergency’ declaration that many experts say does not exist.
The move would reduce to a maximum of 28 days permitting procedures that previously could take multiple years, the department said late Wednesday.
Green groups immediately criticized the plans to boost planet-heating fossil fuels and questioned their legality describing them as an extreme change to the nation’s core environment laws.
The department said that reviews that now typically take around a year would be reduced to just 14 days while a full environment impact statement that usually took two years would now take less than a month."
Obviously this is an extraordinarily bad idea for too many reasons to list fully here; not the least of which being that there is no energy emergency because the United States is already "extracting more oil and gas than any other country in world history." On a boiling planet run by genocidal billionaires, the last damn thing anyone needs is the US government helping Trump's fossil fuel industry donors mine more oil and gas we shouldn't be burning out of the ground on federally protected lands. I'm not surprised environmental groups are planning to sue to stop this, and I hope they win; assuming court orders mean anything to this administration at all - it's currently not clear that they do.
A moment must also be spared to note however that this is yet another example of Trump's strategy to expand his executive powers in ways that fracture the rule of law, by declaring a bunch of made up emergencies. At this point, I highly doubt that most Americans even know that the Trump administration has declared no less than 8 "national emergencies" to increase his power to do (mostly) fascist shit; that's how often the regime has gone to this well. There is no more an "energy emergency" in America, than there is an "invasion" by "narco-terrorist gangs" occurring on our southern border. The regime is merely pretending these things are true, and pointing to Trump's delusional edicts to justify enforcing this "unreality" as if they were true; but at the end of the day the Emperor really is bare ass naked, and reality isn't a game of nazi Simon Says.
#Fascism #ClimateCrisis #Trump #DepartmentOfInterior #DougBurgum #BigOil #FossilFuels #Mining #Capitalism #Corruption #NationalEmergency #Autocracy
“The hardcore separatists in Alberta are really part of a global group of folks who are quite frankly tired of losing not just elections, but losing credibility, losing their livelihoods and don't know quite who or what to blame, but they know something big has to change"
#alberta #canada #separatists #conservatives #BigOil
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/alberta-separation-rears-its-head-again-but-how-likely-is-it-to-happen/article_dd2b2b97-05d3-43d6-9054-6ee8f04125fe.html
@justinling.ca More importantly, it clearly shows that #PierrePoilievre is in alignment with #Trump and #GOP policy, and support for #BigOil, since #Trump recently #EO'd plastic straws back into existence...
Vote for #MarkCarney
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“#PierrePoilievre’s inner circle is stacked with #FossilFuel lobbyists, and his campaign’s received major donations from #OilIndustry insiders. Poilievre can be tied directly to #Enbridge, #PathwaysAlliance, #KochIndustries and the #CanadianGasAssociation.”
#BigOil #NeverVoteConservatives
https://cultmtl.com/2025/04/pierre-poilievre-is-big-oil-useful-idiot/
"#Shell’s shift to offshore operations certainly “opens a new frontier for the destruction of the #environment,” but should not distract from the company’s culpability for poisoning #Nigerian communities for decades." https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/shell-exits-nigeria-leaving-behind-a-trail-of-environmental-degradation
#CCS is touted as a "get-out-of-jail-free" card for #BigOil to keep their polluting business-as-usual.
BUT this technology is clearly no more than a costly distraction. It's high time to prioritize real solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, starting with a #FossilFuelsPhaseOut.
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California's senator Scott Wiener proposed a bill that would've let wildfire victims sue the oil companies for causing the climate crisis.
Guess who teamed up with the Big Oil execs to defeat the bill?
Unions.
Specifically the unions representing oil industry workers. In other words, the workers collaborated with their class enemies: their bosses.
I'm not opposed to unions. I've been a union organizer for decades. But goddamn, these blockheads are acting just like Mr. Block (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Block). They somehow forgot the first rule of labor: the boss is NOT your friend. Be suspicious. Don't trust them. And sure as hell don't collaborate with them to help enrich them even further, especially not on your backs, nor in ways that further destroy the planet.
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.... Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth."
-- preamble to the constitution of the IWW
That last line, added to the original 1905 preamble to the IWW constitution in the late 1980s, might sound a bit vague and "crunchy." But it was an attempt to acknowledge that some types of work simply shouldn't exist. That's not to say those who currently work in those industries (e.g. Fossil fuel extraction) should be thrown under the bus. Everyone should be allowed to do something productive that they enjoy. And everyone should have all the material necessities to live a safe secure and meaningful existence. But saving the planet from climate collapse will certainly require many changes in the types of work that are available. Coal mining, for example, has been on the decline for years because there is so little left in many regions that it's not profitable for the bosses to continue paying miners to mine ît anymore.
In a sane and compassionate world, we'd provide these workers with free Healthcare housing, UBI, and retraining so they could transition to some other productive endeavor. And union leaders would recognize that the interests of their members are much more closely aligned with, and linked to, those of the rest of the working class. (Continued burning of oil will contribute to more climate disasters, more wild fires, and possible the loss of their own members' lives or homes).
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-oil-union-climate-bill/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #climatecrisis #wildfires #unions #ubi #BigOil
#Reading How Beautiful We Were, a beautifully told story of #activism and cultural and community connections along with the ugliness of #environmentalRacism and #corporateGreed of #BigOil and complicity of governments in the death of people and the #environment.
"The history's well established & irrefutable: #OilAndGas knew exactly what #ClimateChange is, its relationship to their product & exactly how dire it would get for nearly 50 years now, at a minimum. The response was to deny, create doubt, slow walk solutions & pretend to help while making it worse"
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/352139/link/
#BigOil #Petroganda #PetroPedagogy #abpoli #Climate #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Disinformation #Indoctrination #Propaganda #yyc #Greenwashing
"#BigOil, the billionaires & their legions of puppets all have very direct, clear reasons to maintain this broken & burning status quo. The only thing that can stop them remains US. They have all the money but there's way more of us than them. The battle for #HeartsAndMinds never had higher stakes"
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/352139/link/
#BigOil #Petroganda #PetroPedagogy #abpoli #Climate #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy #Disinformation #Indoctrination #Propaganda #yyc #Greenwashing
" #BigOil, the billionaires & their legions of puppets all have very direct, clear reasons to maintain this broken & burning status quo. The only thing that can stop them remains US. They have all the money but there's way more of us than them. The battle for #HeartsAndMinds never had higher stakes"
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