Extractivist elites have mobilized the governments of #Canada, both federal and provincial, to adopt legislation and policy in favour of #mining, #FossilFuel and #forestry interests - in the name of nation-building and 'standing up' to #Trump.
Believe it at your peril. #FirstNations, #Climate and #environmental activists are not duped.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/canada-trump-flood-zone
#Indigenous #Extractivism #NaturalResources #Capitalism #Neoliberalism
Fixing outdated environmental laws (the EPBC Act)
Destruction as usual ?
“Australians are tired of the bush being bulldozed and burnt and elected a government that will act on nature and on climate." They expect "sweeping changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) in the next 18 months."
"The past failures, combined with the approval of major fossil fuel projects and the rushed passage of laws to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry, have environmentalists worried about Labor’s second term."
"Environmental organisations also want an end to the “climate blindness” of Australia’s environmental laws, an end to loopholes such as the effective exemption granted to logging under regional forest agreements, and a clearer focus on what’s needed for the recovery of threatened species."
"Corporate Australia needed to “leave its bludgeons at the door” as the process started afresh."
"Ending habitat loss was the “bottom line outcome”, ...meaning that native forest logging and agricultural land clearing must be addressed in some form."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/14/environmentalists-worry-as-labor-seeks-consensus-on-federal-nature-laws-epbc-act-epa
#EPBCAct #BiodiversityCrisis #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #GHG #FastTrackApprovals #extractivism #destruction #SamuelReview #LoggingIndustry #landclearing #FossilFuels #CorporateAustralia
🌊 WATER IS LIFE, LITHIUM KILLS!
Local communities across Europe and including Doade in Galicia are under attack from reckless mining projects that are imposed by governments as “strategic.” We refuse to let corporate interests destroy our livelihood & dictate our future!
👉 Join the Protest at DG GROW’s doorstep!
📅 WHEN? 12th June, 13:00 - 14:00
📍 WHERE? DG GROW, Av. d´Auderghem 45, Brussels
Mining the ocean for fish n chips
"Humans have done "unspeakably awful" damage to the planet's oceans."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/david-attenborough-prince-william-oceans-/105390896
#ocean #Biodiversity #harm #fishing #FishnChips #extractivism
Australia is a global deforestation hotspot,
ranked second in the world for biodiversity loss due to forest and bushland destruction
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https://www.greenpeace.org.au/our-work/forests/australian-deforestation/
"Deforestation in Colombia fell 33%
year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 to 27,052 hectares due to agreements with communities and a greater presence of the state and the Armed Forces, the environment ministry said"
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https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/deforestation-colombia-falls-33-first-quarter-2025-06-05/
#deforestation #destruction #LoggingIndustry #biodiversity #NSW #Australia #extractivism #governance
On a tour of the #Africa Museum outside #Brussels -- one of the sites which administered the ultimate #colonial #extractivism and resonant today:
'Tshibwabwa’s masks and body costumes, assembled as ‘The Hidden Face of Coltan’, are a parody of early modern plate armour. Their martial character reminds us that the coltan in our phones is a blood mineral, which fuels the wars in the eastern DRC. As visitors reach for their phones to post photos of Tonga, the mask looks back sceptically.'
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'Tervuren was conceived as a showcase for the splendours of Leopold’s vast annex in Africa, but by the 1900s an international movement for ‘Congo reform’ was spreading word of European atrocities, especially those committed against the families of rubber tappers who fell short of their quotas.'
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'But Congolese researchers who would like to explore the archives for themselves … are held back from entry to the EU by stringent visa regimes. Digitisation … remains a slow project. How can a museum be decolonised if the descendants of colonised Congolese can’t gain access to its archives?’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/jeremy-harding/paths-to-restitution
Then: Plundering and polluting for profit on stolen land regardless of the human, social and environmental consequences.
Nowadays: BloodyHugeProfits, FMG, Gina Mineheart, RioStinko, Woodside
#Capitalism #Colonialism #Extractivism #FirstNations #GhostTowns #GoldFever #LandBack
North West Shelf gas extension will deliver ‘almost nothing’ to Australia’s public purse
"Experts say hugely profitable east coast LNG producers pay little in resources rent tax and Woodside project won’t help country’s energy shift." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/01/north-west-shelf-gas-extension-australia-lng-woodside-project-little-rent-tax
#fossilfuel #LNG #extractivism #Australia #energy #transition #climateemergency #petroglyphs #IndigenousHeritage #destruction #BigQuarry
Another ongoing genocide in #WestPapua
Ryan Jessurun says: impressive documentary about the postcolonial history of West Papua in the cinemas soon. The rarely shown and beautifully coloured archive material alone is worth it.
#anthropology #colonialism #Extractivism #Papua
https://www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/the-promise-legt-nederlandse-kolonisatie-van-west-papoea-bloot/
NZ/ Aotearoa :100% pure and clean, green
New Zealand's unique #biodiversity is at risk as the government plans to boost mineral exports to $3bn by 2035
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/fast-track-to-where-the-new-law-opening-up-new-zealand-to-a-mining-boom
#newzealand #Aotearoa #biodiversity #conservation #wildlife #mining #extractivism #FossilFuels #laws
Blasting Aboriginal heritage sites
"Half a decade on from the blasting of Juukan Gorge by mining giant Rio Tinto, the laws that allowed the destruction to go ahead remain largely in place."
"We have been living with these types of Juukan Gorge-like incidents on everyone's country since the establishment of mining on our country, and it's not going to go away."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-24/five-years-since-juukan-gorge-destruction-pilbara-heritage-laws/105295474
#IndigenousHeritage #IndigenousPeoples #law #extractivism #destruction #JuukanGeorge #iconoclasm #Australia
“It only makes sense to talk about restoration when deforestation is controlled.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/20/long-read-deadly-mission-amazon-rainforest-dom-phillips-bruno-pereira
#Australia #Amazon #rainforests #deforestation #crime #cattle #extractivism #IndigenousPeoples #restoration
Wood for the trees, Jonathan Green, November 2023
https://www.themonthly.com.au/november-2023/essays/wood-trees
#biodiversity #ecosystems #NativeForests #IndigenousPeoples #wildlife #EPBCAct #SamuelReview #extractivism #degradation #LoggingIndustry #mining #harm
When you hear someone say that "AI is the future of search" as if it is a great thing, and a foregone conclusion, what they are actually saying is that the doors to any individual blog or website or resources are closing. The digital waypaths to finding sourced content directly are being shuttered and boarded up. That human search via multiple methods utilising various recommender systems is being removed. In favour of a single gateway to pre delivered materials all owned by private monopoly companies. And we are expected to react as if this is a good thing, the "future".
#ai #ChatGPT #GenAI #openai #extractivism #academia #archives #internet #KnowledgeEquity #knowledgecommons #search
Queensland government cuts Environmental Defenders Office funding despite pre-election promise for support
"The service that we provide is sometimes inconvenient for powerful vested interests...There were countless examples of free legal advice the EDO had provided to individuals, landholders, First Nations groups and community groups to help them combat the interests of developers, mining companies and governments."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/environmental-defenders-office-funding-cut-queensland-government/105293462
https://www.edo.org.au/the-latest/
#environment #conservation #law #EDO #ToondahHarbour #PurlingBrookFalls #water #BottledWater #Santos #extractivism #VestedInterest
Another happy story from the world of extractive techno-capitalism.
National Environmental Standards
Create new, legally enforceable national environmental standards to deliver better environmental protection or continue with the big quarry model this term?
"Nature doesn’t negotiate. Nature is a system of systems, and if we take too much from it those systems begin to break down – usually irreversibly."
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https://theconversation.com/its-a-hard-job-being-environment-minister-heres-an-insiders-view-of-the-key-challenges-facing-murray-watt-256465
Samuel Review
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/epbc-act-reform/standards
#EPBCAct #BiodiversityCrisis #Biodiversity #Ecosystems #FirstNations #restoration #nature #extractivism #harm #LoggingImpacts #mining #water #extraction #FossilFuels #ClimateDisruption #destruction #governance
Today our friends in the National Anti-Mining Front in #ecuador and CONAIE have launched the “People’s Against Extractivism” initiative which we are proud to have signed on to. Predatory extractive industries exploit people and the planet all over the world and requires an international response against each stage of this system.
More information is available in the link here https://antiextractivismo.org/
NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue
"Professor David Heilpern, a former court magistrate, claims the NSW Forestry Corporation is no longer fit for purpose and should be disbanded. A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an extraordinary attack on the New South Wales government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions."
"The corporation has been convicted of more than a dozen environmental offences, including a judgment in the land and environment court last year that found the agency was likely to reoffend and had poor prospects of rehabilitation.They get caught, investigated, prosecuted, a criminal conviction, a fine – which the public pays – and they carry on and do it all again."
“There is just no integrity, accountability or justice in this model of operation.”
“For the Forestry Corporation, breaking the law and harming the environment and wildlife has become like a game of charades played under the protection of the state."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/11/nsw-forestry-agency-called-criminal-organisation-by-critics
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #crime #harm #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #governance #accountability #extractivism
"The experiment begun in 1492 was accompanied by a new relationship with the world and with each other, based on the novel idea that the prosperity of human societies lay in the submission of a wild and free nature to the rational act of exploitation. From then on, the entire living world was put to work, and in this first planetary empire, people, plants and animals became commodities circulating from one corner of the hemisphere to the other."
wrote Sylvie Laurent in her book "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
#wilderness #progress #SylvieLaurent #capitalism #extractivism #capture #appropriation #grabbing #marchandization #Discovery #encounter #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #America #Americas #history #slavery #agroBusiness #agriculture #NewWorld #quote #quotes #beliefs #belief #labour #technoCriticism
