“Fracking
undoubtedly poses a major risk to this huge, quite incredible aquifer that many Aboriginal communities and pastoralists rely on. Unbelievably there has never, ever been a referral of fracking in the Northern Territory … under the EPBC Act.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/27/santos-gas-plan-beetaloo-basin-northern-territory-fracking-fears
#water #FossilFuels #extractivism #EPBCAct #Beetaloo
#Extractivism
A ‘one-time’ offer to fix nature "rammed through"
"Will the new legislation stem the damage to nature?"
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https://theconversation.com/long-sought-environmental-law-reform-is-finally-here-but-will-the-compromise-deal-actually-protect-nature-270775
#biodiversity #EPBCAct #climate #fossilFuels #loggingimpacts #extractivism #water #Australia
The federal environmental protection laws - fixing a broken system?
"The Greens have agreed to support Labor’s re-write of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act after securing further concessions from the government amid tense and prolonged negotiations...The deal will clear the path for Labor to ram the legislation through the Senate on Thursday..."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/27/australia-politics-live-barnaby-joyce-one-nation-pauline-hanson-environment-nature-bill-deal-coalition-greens-murray-watt-question-time-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-ntwnfb
#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #extractivism #environment #EPBCAct #water #FastTrackApprovals #loggingimpacts
Check out the programme for our Joint International Workshop with the University of Bologna: this year, the subject is "Infrastructures of Rent Extraction".
It will take place in Bologna on 27 November.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/global-infrastructures-2025/
#Histodons #Capitalism #TechnoCapitalism #Technology #GlobalInfraestructures #Infraestructures #Extractivism #GlobalEconomy #TransnationalCorporations #BigTech #LabourHistory #RentierCapitalism #TechnoFeudalism #RentExtraction #Bologna
CFA: We're recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work in a project on democracy and mining in Sweden at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
Apply by: January 31, 2026
Please circulate widely!
@sociology @politicalscience @internationalrelations @socialscience @academicjobs
#postdoc #vacancies #democracy #mining #greentransition #criticalminerals #extractivism
Water Extraction
"The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting a mining giant for compensation. But there are limits to what he can do, with BHP’s extraction out of his control."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/water-is-under-pressure-in-the-great-artesian-basin/106002448
#water #OverExtraction #mining #irrigation #TakeCulture #limits #Ramsar #GroundwaterDependent #ecosystems #NSW #GAB #extractivism #IndigenousPeoples
‼️Tota l'atenció al Sudan i a la R.D. Congo!
🗣️ Manifestació convocada per Red de Acción Panafricanista, Comunitat Negra Africana i Afrodescendent a Catalunya, Cacau i Negritud, Dignité RD Congo i Burkinabè de Barcelone.
Rio Tinto pauses plans for $3.7b lithium mine but Serbians remain concerned
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-18/rio-tinto-jadar-valley-mine-paused-amid-huge-opposition/106020944
Transnational companies in environmental conflicts: Rio Tinto, anti-mining resistance in Serbia, and the contradictions of Europeanization . "We reconstruct the anti-mining against a lithium mine in Serbia."
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42597-024-00114-5
#GlobalNorth #GreenExtractivism #lithium #REEs #Serbia #EU #cars #EV #ElectricVehicles #extractivism #ResistanceMovement #water #pollution
Environmental reform - The EPBC negotiations
"They can continue to work to appease the big business and big mining and logging companies with the Coalition, or they can work with the Greens to put in place legislation and laws that actually protect our environment, protect our forests and our climate." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-18/business-groups-epbc-work-together-on-environmental-reform/106020174
#EPBCAct #conservation #extractivism #law
Child poverty, homelessness hit new highs in mining-rich WA
"Findings from the Child Poverty in Australia report released on Monday found one in six children in WA are experiencing food insecurity, poor housing conditions and limited access to healthcare. More than 100 children and young people are sleeping rough in Perth every night, charities say."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/child-poverty-homelessness-hit-new-high-in-mining-rich-wa/106017944
‘From quarry to country - the 'resource curse’
"Australia a glorified quarry with some beaches. Australia does little besides digging stuff out of the ground to create national prosperity." Governance and tax enforcement is “the invisible machinery that turns a quarry into a country."
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https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/11/11/the-stats-guy-resource-curse
#mining #wealth #children #unhoused #ChildPoverty #ResourceCurse #governance #extractivism #Australia #Country
NSW Forestry born-again as eco-forestry looking for new markets
"The forestry industry in northern NSW is considering new financial opportunities in eco-forestry and environmental markets."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-16/great-koala-national-park-forestry-future-carbon-market/105954932
#Biodiversity #wildlife #NSWLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #LoggingIndustry #MidNorthCoast #GKNP #KoalaTouristPark #firebreaks #LoggingAndLandclearing #extractivism #MinisterialDiscretion #EPBCAct
Image: The Bongil Bongil National Park has been included in the new Great Koala National Park, but the logging monster is always lurking... (Art by 'Danka')
Australia is negotiating the high bar of environmental destruction.
"New environment laws could help or harm nature depending on the minister. Australia's national environment law has failed to stop the loss of unique ecosystems, plants and animals over the past 25 years." (236 years?)
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/new-environment-laws-could-help-or-hinder-nature/105963168
#EPBCAct #Biodiversity #climate #extinction #harm #law #exemptions #extractivism
Why Indian Political Parties Are Ecologically Indifferent
https://onceinabluemoon2021.in/2025/10/31/why-indian-political-parties-are-ecologically-indifferent/
#WhyIndianPoliticalPartiesAreEcologicalIndifferent – Ecology = 0% votes?, #EcologicalIndifference, #ClimateCrisisIndia, #GreenwashingIndia, #PerformativeEcology, #ModiClimate, #BJPEnvironment, #GrowthParadigm, #Extractivism, #DelhiSmog, #Partyless_Democracy,
@fionaorkneynews
An extraordinary history of #extractivism - and this detail caught me:
"Many people utilised tangles for burning in their homes, but as coal was cheaper than kelp, some lairds brought cargoes of coal up in kelp ships and sold it to the kelp workers to maintain and preserve the supply of the more expensive kelp."
#kelp #chemicalindustry
New national environmental standards ?
"ACF warns weak nature laws risk repeating decades of destruction. As it stands, this draft bill has too many loopholes that benefit big polluters and bulldozers. This is the biggest nature law reform in a generation, and Parliament has to get it right.”
" ACF is calling on the government to ensure the reforms:
Close loopholes that allow deforestation and habitat destruction to continue .
Establish an independent regulator to enforce the rules without political interference .
Set clear national standards to protect and restore nature, and
Require decision-makers to consider climate harm in every decision. "
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https://www.acf.org.au/news/acf-warns-weak-nature-laws-risk-repeating-decades-of-destruction
#biodiversity #EPBCAct #law #nature #NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #exemption #NationalInterest #climate #harm #FossilFuels #deforestation #mining #extractivism #LandClearing
Algal bloom triggered reef restoration after colonialism dredged oysters in Coffin Bay
"Once spanning more than 7,000 kilometres of coastline, native oyster reefs were decimated by Europeans during the 19th century."
"Oyster reefs filter large volumes of water to remove excess nutrients and algae. A community science project to restore once-decimated oyster reefs has become a key element of South Australia's Summer Algal Plan.We have a lot of work to do to put them back so that these ecosystems function in the way that they used to before colonisation."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-29/native-oyster-reefs-restored-algal-bloom-recovery-sa/105943318
#restore #reefs #marine #ecosystems #HABs #extractivism #oysters #bloom #pollution #ecological #disaster
Good in-depth analysis here.
#Geopolitics
#Petrostates
#NewColdWar
#USImperialism
#Extractivism
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a5ho7ypozpn5qod5rnjjyg25/post/3m4b3qxi5h22q
Reforest the deforested thoughts
An Indigenous journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence on an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30
“It is essential that we gain global awareness that Indigenous communities are our defenders of nature, our defenders of the planet […] the areas they control, these are the areas where nature is most protected, biodiversity is most guaranteed, and the absorption of carbon released into the atmosphere is most guaranteed.”
"I left with the feeling that many people in the world still need to listen, not to the speeches, but to the sounds of the rivers. To reforest their deforested thoughts, and then act with the speed we need to stop the extermination they are causing, and will cause to our own species."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/waja-xipai-indigenous-journalist-interview-antonio-guterres-cop30
#COP30 #climate #IndigenousPeoples #biodiversity #violence #extractivism #deforestation #extermination #ClimateAction
Biodiversity is in catastrophic decline. Here are three ways to ensure Australia’s conservation law actually works
"The commonwealth bureaucracy has failed to enforce the existing laws."
"The exemption for native forest logging should have been phased out. Instead, it was extended."
"The highest priority for the reforms must be to ensure land-clearing is properly regulated."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/australia-conservation-law-biodiversity-decline
#biodiversity #NativeForests #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #EPBCAct #extractivism #deforestation #LandClearing #conservation #regulation
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