What could go wrong? https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-to-explore-injecting-oil-sands-tailings-underground-as-one-management-option/

#TarSands #BigOil #RegulatoryCapture #CorporateCorruption #AER #abpoli #UCP #WaterisLife

Corporate greed and state ‘capture’ - Grenfell as one example

It appears settled that a significant part of the blame for the deaths at Grenfell were down to greed and fraud. Cladding on other flats has made many worthless/unsaleable. As time ticks by, action to hold these comfortable well paid killers to justice remains elusive.

Will any government grasp the nettle?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/01/grenfell-inquiry-culture-of-contempt-britain

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/14/impose-unlimited-fines-on-unsafe-cladding-firms-report-says

#Grenfell #CorporateGreed #RegulatoryCapture #England #Fraud #NoDeterrence

#Bill5 gives a blank cheque to any grifter company, donor developer or #mining company to start making money in #Ontario without having to bother with troublesome zoning or #environmental laws. It also exempts resource companies from their duty to consult #IndigenousPeople https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bill-5-protect-ontario-by-unleashing-our-economy-act-guide-1.7542478

#onpolii #cdnpoli #lawlessness #CorporateCorruption #RegulatoryCapture

"That is not the conversation Facebook or Google want us to have. Their totalizing vision is of a world with no ambient privacy and strong data protections, dominated by the few companies that can manage to hoard information at a planetary scale. They correctly see the new round of privacy laws as a weapon to deploy against smaller rivals, further consolidating their control over the algorithmic panopticon."

#MaciejCegłowski, 2019

https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm

#RegulatoryCapture

"The AER’s credibility as the impartial regulator in charge of preventing destructive projects has been compromised." #Indigenous nations have been saying this for years. It is past time to dismantle this corporate lap dog. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/05/27/Alberta-Regulator-Met-Northback-Before-Reversal/

#abpoli #AbLeg #RegulatoryCapture #mining #UCP #Corruption

@StephenRees Both #Ontario and #BritishColumbia have been captured by #extractiveIndustries and developers. The #corporatization of these provinces intends to roll over #humanrights, #IndigenousRights and title, #ecosystems health, and liveable #environments.

#bcpoli #onpoli #corporateCapture #RegulatoryCapture #CorporateCorruption

@dyckron #Indigenous nations and other #environmental stewards have been calling out the corrupt #AER for years and demanding that it be dismantled. This is just one more reason to do that.

#abpoli #AbLeg #UCP #RegulatoryCapture

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26122023/state-of-denial-texas-polluters-evade-federal-law/

Well that's a fuckin' whirlwind of a story. Between this article, and the previous five in the six-part series ("State of Denial"), an (in my opinion) impenetrable case is made that TCEQ is a sham body, riddled with political and private-sector conflicts of interest that make it fundamentally unsuitable as an enforcement vehicle for federal environmental protection laws. It is a prototypical example of regulatory capture.

And the (federal) EPA's refusal to act in the face of that reality makes them complicit, if not downright duplicitous. As far as I'm concerned, the EPA is treating Texas as a Sacrifice Zone in order to allow out-of-state interests to continue accruing short-term returns, at the expense of the long-term health and well-being of Texans.

#TCEQ #texas #RegulatoryCapture #environmentalism #SacrificeZone #EnvironmentalRacism #ICN

Operational economics: a variant of #RegulatoryCapture, sadly.

"...using spatial analysis and financial valuation of the BCP service, we estimate that, annually, the BCP adds 2.81 GtC (range 2.44–3.53 GtC) to the ocean with a storage time of at least 50 years (±25 years). This ecosystem service is worth US$545 billion per year...where the sum of its discounted values for 2023–2030 is US$2.2 trillion (range US$1.9–2.7 trillion)."

Not #OpenAccess; talking to the hand.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02295-0

#hmrc closing down their (free, fairly good) web and paper filing options in favour of making people use commercial software is bloody awful. Looks like we're going the same way as the US with full #regulatorycapture of the #tax system by the big tax #software providers.

#uk #business

The thought occurred that academic or research capture might be A Thing, akin to #RegulatoryCapture. And ... apparently the former is:

"Academic capture in the Anthropocene: a framework to assess climate action in higher education" (2024)

By Paul Lachapelle, Patrick Belmont, Marco Grasso, Roslynn McCann, Dawn H. Gouge, Jerri Husch, Cheryl de Boer, Daniela Molzbichler & Sarah Klain

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-024-03696-4

#AcademicCapture #ResearchCapture

it's not just #RegulatoryCapture is it.

It's #CulturalCapture as well.

#Corporatism #Inhumane #ProfitsBeforePeople #AgedCareAustralia #SchoolSystem #AustralianPublicService #Unions #Solidarity

In true Trumpian style, #Alberta puts an oil executive in charge of the regulator! https://www.keepersofthewater.ca/news

#RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #Abpoli #WaterisLife #ClimateEmergency

It's hard to think of a better refresher course on the downsides of #UnfetteredCapitalism and #RegulatoryCapture than #ThamesWater.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2025/feb/12/a-state-clean-up-may-be-the-best-bet-for-thames-water?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Would fen-phen have been banned by today's FDA? Has regulatory capture reached the invulnerable pharmaceutical corp stage, yet?

We'll find out by how long it takes Wegovy / Ozempic to get banned.

#wegovy #fenphen #fda #regulatorycapture #Ozempic #semaglutide #pharmaceuticals

Ran into two of the most senior people in UK AI policy talking to the most senior googler here, and they were just talking about search products. Maybe they were old friends from some consultancy #regulatoryCapture
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tkbweudpy6tvzjqdiza4z3p5/post/3lhsvtl2m3c2q

The #AER "is a broken, corrupt system and it needs to go ... It doesn't need just a new board, it doesn't need a new CEO. It needs a complete dismantling." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/north-tailsands-report-1.7440691

#abpoli #AbLeg #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #fossilfuels #tarsands #WaterisLife

From the Stone Age to the Information Age, a test of a society's survivability has been its ability to divorce wealth from political power.

Third draft democracy relocates each to its separate domain.

#ThirdDraftDemocracy #PoliticalScience #USPolitics #auspol #Plutocracy #CampaignFinance #RegulatoryCapture #AgencyCapture #PoliticalContributions #Lobbying

The Mechanics of Changing the World, by John Macgregor. It’s a page turner.
#PoliticalScience #Democracy #Politics #auspol #Plutocracy #Booksky #USPolitics #UKpol #DirectDemocracy #DeliberativeDemocracy #Constitution #RegulatoryCapture