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  1. [PODCAST] 🎙️ "Billy Fleming, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions" (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2026)"

    podcasts.wesfryer.com/episode/

    #podcommons #HealOurCulture #BigOil #ClimateChange #energy

  2. "#Albertan landowners and advocacy groups are turning to the courts to hold the #AER accountable over its chronic failure to protect taxpayers from the rising costs of orphan well cleanup." ecojustice.ca/file/alberta-lan

    #abpoli #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #puppets #environment

  3. "#Albertan landowners and advocacy groups are turning to the courts to hold the #AER accountable over its chronic failure to protect taxpayers from the rising costs of orphan well cleanup." ecojustice.ca/file/alberta-lan

    #abpoli #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #puppets #environment

  4. "#Albertan landowners and advocacy groups are turning to the courts to hold the #AER accountable over its chronic failure to protect taxpayers from the rising costs of orphan well cleanup." ecojustice.ca/file/alberta-lan

    #abpoli #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #puppets #environment

  5. "#Albertan landowners and advocacy groups are turning to the courts to hold the #AER accountable over its chronic failure to protect taxpayers from the rising costs of orphan well cleanup." ecojustice.ca/file/alberta-lan

    #abpoli #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #puppets #environment

  6. "#Albertan landowners and advocacy groups are turning to the courts to hold the #AER accountable over its chronic failure to protect taxpayers from the rising costs of orphan well cleanup." ecojustice.ca/file/alberta-lan

    #abpoli #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #puppets #environment

  7. "#Water in the Athabasca River flows north into the Slave River, then Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River before emptying into the #Arctic Ocean." Tar sands tailings should NOT be dumped into the main watershed in northern #Canada. cabinradio.ca/308127/news/heal

    #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #Puppets #abpoli #cdnpoli #nwtpoli

  8. "#Water in the Athabasca River flows north into the Slave River, then Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River before emptying into the #Arctic Ocean." Tar sands tailings should NOT be dumped into the main watershed in northern #Canada. cabinradio.ca/308127/news/heal

    #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #Puppets #abpoli #cdnpoli #nwtpoli

  9. "#Water in the Athabasca River flows north into the Slave River, then Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River before emptying into the #Arctic Ocean." Tar sands tailings should NOT be dumped into the main watershed in northern #Canada. cabinradio.ca/308127/news/heal

    #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #Puppets #abpoli #cdnpoli #nwtpoli

  10. "#Water in the Athabasca River flows north into the Slave River, then Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River before emptying into the #Arctic Ocean." Tar sands tailings should NOT be dumped into the main watershed in northern #Canada. cabinradio.ca/308127/news/heal

    #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #Puppets #abpoli #cdnpoli #nwtpoli

  11. "#Water in the Athabasca River flows north into the Slave River, then Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River before emptying into the #Arctic Ocean." Tar sands tailings should NOT be dumped into the main watershed in northern #Canada. cabinradio.ca/308127/news/heal

    #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #Puppets #abpoli #cdnpoli #nwtpoli

  12. @sjar 🎯🎯🎯 Alleen aandeelhouders van #bigoil zijn niet blij. En die hebben veel poen en dus veel macht. Burning the planet for profit.

  13. @sjar 🎯🎯🎯 Alleen aandeelhouders van #bigoil zijn niet blij. En die hebben veel poen en dus veel macht. Burning the planet for profit.

  14. @sjar 🎯🎯🎯 Alleen aandeelhouders van #bigoil zijn niet blij. En die hebben veel poen en dus veel macht. Burning the planet for profit.

  15. @sjar 🎯🎯🎯 Alleen aandeelhouders van #bigoil zijn niet blij. En die hebben veel poen en dus veel macht. Burning the planet for profit.

  16. @sjar 🎯🎯🎯 Alleen aandeelhouders van #bigoil zijn niet blij. En die hebben veel poen en dus veel macht. Burning the planet for profit.

  17. 🚬🥦 "UC Berkeley unravels the shocking mystery: #tobacco companies invented junk food! Next, they'll reveal that Big Oil is responsible for greasy #pizza. 🍕🕵️‍♂️ Thanks, Berkeley, for pointing out that #corporations like profit! 💡"
    vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/h #UCberkeley #junkfood #BigOil #HackerNews #ngated

  18. Eight new #gas and #OilWells have been approved for San Ardo.

    “These enhanced# oil recovery methods come with all the risks of traditional production,” says Cooper Kass, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, a watchdog organization which has filed multiple lawsuits regarding California’s oil and gas industry. “They also bring a number of additional risks, including the potential for the high-pressure injection to damage the wellbore and/or crack the surrounding rock, which could lead to migration and #groundwater contamination.”—Report by Katie Rodriguez, #MontereyCountyNow

    #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #SalinasValley #MontereyCounty #SanArdo #AeraEnergy #BigOil #ExxonMobil #Shell montereycountynow.com/news/loc

  19. Political donations and lobbying are the poison in the well of democracy.

    Money matters more than votes. The electorate can see this clearly.

    #Burnham ‘s refusal to do anything about it will cost him dear at the ballot box because every decision he subsequently takes we know is influenced by who has paid the piper. He will play their tunes.

    It’s already clear the #techbros and #bigoil are in his ear over #AI and #NorthSea drilling.

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  20. #BigOil Knew It Was Wrecking #Louisiana ’s Coast, Records Show

    Now, parish lawsuits, including one in front of the Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the state’s vanishing marshes.

    Emily Sanders 03/26/26

    Excerpt: "Now, one of those cases is under consideration by the US Supreme Court. Last year, a state court jury found #Chevron liable in a lawsuit brought by #PlaqueminesParish, one of more than 40 parish lawsuits accusing oil companies of failing to secure permits for their operations and neglecting to clean up the damage they left behind in violation of state coastal management law. After the landmark verdict requiring Chevron to spend $745 million to restore the coast, the company appealed the case to the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in January.

    "In light of the industry’s successful lobbying for legislation limiting landowners’ lawsuits, parish lawsuits are an especially crucial avenue to hold the companies accountable, some local attorneys say. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the parishes and they continue to win their cases in state courts, they could make Chevron, #Exxon, #BP, #Shell, and other oil companies pay billions of dollars to help fund coastal restoration efforts as the state runs out of resources to support cleanup. "

    Read more:
    whowhatwhy.org/science/environ

    #MakePollutersPay #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalDestruction #DeepwaterHorizon #ClimateCrisis #BigOilKnew #MakeCorporatePollutersPay #GlobalWarming #BritishPetroleum

  21. Documents shed light on the earliest-known instance of #ClimateScience funded by the #FossilFuel industry, adding to growing understanding of #BigOil ’s knowledge of #ClimateChange . Fossil fuel industry sponsored climate science in 1954.

    February 1, 2024, Rebecca John

    Excerpt: "Unknown until now, however, is the fact that Keeling’s earliest research into carbon dioxide across the western U.S. was funded in part by the fossil fuel industry via a private foundation — and that in 1954 this foundation was informed of the potential impact of manmade carbon dioxide emissions on both the climate and human civilization.

    "Newly discovered documents affirm that the #automobile and #petroleum industries funded early climate science #Keeling conducted at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) between 1954 and 1956. Records show that 'oil and auto companies' sponsored the scientist’s research via an organization called the Southern California Air Pollution Foundation, formed in 1953 to tackle Los Angeles’s infamous smog. American Motors, #Chrysler, #Ford, and #GeneralMotors were among 18 automotive companies that gave money to the foundation.

    "A 1959 internal U.S. Public Health Service memo also identifies the #AmericanPetroleumInstitute ( #API ) and the #WesternOilAndGasAssociation — the oldest petroleum trade association in the U.S., which is now known as the #WesternStatesPetroleumAssociation — as 'major contributors to the funds of the Air Pollution Foundation.' Its Board of Trustees included top-level representatives from the Southern California Gas Company, the Southern California Edison Co., Chrysler, General Motors, and Union Oil (now #Chevron).

    "And from mid-1955, these trustees were also appraised of research projects by a seven-man 'technical advisory committee,' which included a senior official from API as well as scientists from the Richfield Oil Corporation (now #BP ) and #Chrysler.

    "With the discovery of these Air Pollution Foundation documents, it is now possible to date the earliest sponsorship of climate science by the fossil fuel industry to 1954, approximately a quarter of a century before Exxon’s internal research program of the late 1970s. These new documents provide important evidence that the fossil fuel industry has been intricately connected to climate science from its earliest beginnings — not only as a driver of the greenhouse effect behind climate change, but also as a contributor to the scientific discoveries that would transform our understanding of humanity’s relationship with the Earth and its atmosphere. "

    Read more:
    theinteldrop.org/2024/02/02/bi

    #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew #FossilFuels #ExxonLied #Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #ClimateDenial #BigOil #BigOilStillLies #ClimateDeception #ClimateCrisis
    #Capitalism #Exxon #ClimateCrisis
    #MakeCorporatePollutersPay #Glaciers
    #GlobalWarming #FossilFools #BigOilAndGas

  22. #MissKittyPolitics so I guess that means that the United States has to #sanction itself since #bigoil and the #military #industrial #complex are B💥💥MING because of their relationship to #Iran in the war. They are profiting more than any third party. TO THE GREAT DETRIMENT OF THE SPECIES. 💀💀💀

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vovinwhtulbsx4mwfw26r5ni/post/3mtu4yysgei2e

  23. Oil Majors Reap $93 Billion Windfall From the Iran War

    Oil prices have soared in recent months as a result of the almost complete closure of the Strait…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Aramco #BigOil #bp #breakingnews #chevron #energycrisis #Iran #iranwar #oilprices #oilprofits #StraitofHormuz #windfalltax
    newsbeep.com/694071/

  24. The report #OilCompanies are worried about: #ClimateAttribution science

    New report says our ability to tie weather damages to #ClimateChange is improving.

    John Timmer – Jul 17, 2026

    Excerpt: "Climate change is being driven largely by the greenhouse gases we’ve pumped into the atmosphere, which trap more of the Sun’s energy there. That added energy increases the odds of extreme events: longer, more intense heat waves and droughts, interspersed with excessive precipitation. But these sorts of events have happened in the past—how can we tell if any given weather disaster has been made more likely by the climate?

    "It’s a question with implications for everything from building codes to disaster preparedness. And there’s some good news: According to a report released by the US National Academies of Science on Thursday, the field of climate attribution is growing increasingly mature and can answer some questions for us with far greater confidence than it could just a decade ago. The report also notes that there are still important limits and suggests steps to address them.

    "Overall, this makes it clear that climate attribution is normal, mainstream science. And the #FossilFuel industry views that as a problem, as it could make it easier to hold companies liable for damages. This has triggered a backlash that has Republicans in Congress and state governments threatening the National Academies’ funding."

    Read more:
    arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

    #BigOil #BigOilAndGas #BigOilKnew #Oiligarchy #FossilFools #CimateCrisis #CorporateColonialism #ScienceDeniers #MakePollutersPay

  25. #ClimateChange #BigOil #HeritageFoundation

    "Advocates call for Kagan investigation on climate change bias

    Advocates are calling on the U.S. Senate Monday to investigate conflicts of interest from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. The advocates argued Kagan was biased in favor of climate science and should not participate in a consequential case that could determine the future of climate change policies.

    Leaders from the Judicial Crisis Network, the Heritage Foundation, the National Republican Lawyers Foundation and others wrote a letter to lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee about concern over Kagan’s support for climate change.

    Justices on the high court are expected to hear Suncor v. Boulder County Commissioners, a case examining whether state and local governments can prevent fossil fuel companies from engaging in global emissions activities that contribute to climate change.

    (. . .)

    The advocates argued that Kagan’s authorship as part of the manual is evidence she is unable to make an unbiased decision in Suncor v. Boulder County Commissioners. The Constitution requires justices on the Supreme Court to recuse themselves from consideration of cases in which 'impartiality might reasonably be questioned.'

    Kagan did not recuse herself from consideration of the court’s petition when it was granted in February 2026."

    thecentersquare.com/national/a

  26. They Are Dying. And #Canada Is Watching.

    #Mikisew #Cree’s own health study confirms what the community has always known: the #OilSands are killing them. If governments and industry don’t act, they say they will shut it all down.

    by Brandi Morin
    Apr 13, 2026

    Excerpt: "The findings confirmed what this community has carried in their grief, in their graveyards, for generations: cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 percent higher than the rest of Alberta. Since 1993, there have been 149 documented cases — and that number, Tuccaro says, is a gross underestimate. People who leave the community for treatment are no longer counted in local statistics. Factor those in, and the real number for Mikisew Cree members alone, he estimates, is closer to 250 to 300."

    indigenousinsider.substack.com

    #CanadaPol #FortChipewyan #MikisewCreeFirstNation #NativeAmericanNews #TarSands #BigOil #FirstNations #EnvironmentalRacism

  27. At #Chevron’s Gates, Communities Demand #Justice and a #FossilFree Future

    #AntiChevron Day 2026 united communities fighting #extraction, #EnvironmentalRacism, and #corporate impunity across continents

    May 21, 2026 | Paul Paz y Miño

    "Nearly three decades after communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon first brought global attention to Chevron’s crimes, and 13 years after activists launched the first Anti-Chevron Day in 20 countries, the resistance continues. Chevron remains one of the most polluting companies on Earth – and one of the most determined to avoid accountability for it.

    Anti-Chevron Day

    "For the 13th year running, Anti-Chevron Day brought frontline leaders from across the globe to the shadow of Chevron’s #RichmondCA refinery, where communities gathered with anger, grief, music, ceremony, and determination to confront one of the world’s most destructive oil companies.

    "The gathering came just weeks after the historic First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, #Colombia, where Indigenous leaders and governments demanded an urgent and just transition away from the fossil fuel economy that continues to poison the territories and devastate the health of frontline communities worldwide. In Richmond, that demand felt immediate and deeply personal. It is being shaped by the people most directly harmed by extraction and pollution, and by movements building solidarity across borders.

    "Chevron must clean up its '#RainforestChernobyl' in the #EcuadorianAmazon!

    "For over three decades, Chevron chose profit over people. While drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964 to 1990, it deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of #ToxicWastewater, spilled roughly 17 million gallons of #CrudeOil, and left #HazardousWaste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor."

    Read more:
    amazonwatch.org/news/2026/0521

    #BigOil #ChevronKnew #OilDrilling #EnvironmentalCatastrophe #OilPollution #AmazonWatch #IndigenousResistance #CleanUpYourMessChevron

  28. “The Secret British Intelligence War on Iran”

    by David Miller in Tracking Power Update

    @[email protected]
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    @iran
    @BBCNews
    @BBC

    “British intelligence spearheaded the overthrow of Iran’s elected prime minister in 1953, bribed officials, staged chaos and used the BBC for a coded coup signal — all to protect oil profits — after previously treating Zionist extremists as the top national security threat. Later and until today, they targeted the Islamic Republic of Iran and developed close collaborations with the Mossad”

    open.substack.com/pub/tracking

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Intelligence #MI5 #MI6 #Iran #Mossad #Mossadegh #Coup #BigOil #Israel #Irgun #SternGang #BBC #Nuclear

  29. The ultra-rich have already declared war to the planet and everyone on it.

    They're laying off hundreds of thousands of employees.

    They're increasing their extractive economies until they've stripped the lands and seas of all their resources.

    They're investing billions in AI slop.

    They're building luxury bunkers and exclusive cities to house and protect them from Global Warming and Climate Change, which they've single-handedly caused.

    It's now or never: EAT. THE. RICH.

    #Capitalism #EatTheRich #PayTaxes #Consolidation #TrickleDownEconomy #BeTheChange #ResetSociety #Decentralization #BigTech #BigCorpo #BigOil #BanFossils #GreenEnergy #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Tyranny #DirtyPoliticians #NoKings #Fascism #Nazi #ArrestTheRich #CrimesAgainstHumanity #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #SaveThePlanet #MotherNature #AI #AISlop #AIAct #BanAI

  30. say #thankyou #maga to leader without a good plan #trump #fuel #price #energy #price #skyrocket in #Germany because of his (and his friends) #war on #iran #bigoil is probably celebrating this X-D #shell #exxon #total and others X-D

  31. "About 12 percent of Monterey County’s oil and gas wells are located within 200 feet of a river or creek. This includes the Salinas River, which runs through the San Ardo oil field, and is a critical source of the county’s groundwater.

    "In December 2025, over 4,000 gallons of oil and toxic wastewater spilled in the San Ardo oil field, just over a mile from where the Sargent Creek feeds the Salinas River. It is unconfirmed whether that spill was connected to an active or idle well.”
    —Katie Rodriguez, #MontereyCountyNow
    #BigOil #Chevron #AeraEnergy #CaliforniaResourcesCorporation #MontereyCounty #Water #Air #CenterForBiologicalDiversity #AirQuality #WaterQuality #Groundwater #Oil #DesertedOilWells #SalinasValley #SanArdo

    montereycountynow.com/news/loc

  32. STOP LAUGHING at #DanielleSmith and the #UCP #Alberta! This is a slow moving coup d'etat against #Albertans, #Canadians and #Canada! This is an attempt to hand our lands to Donald Trump, the #ChristianNationalist right, and #BigOil This? Is in NO WAY a joking matter This is EXISTENTIAL 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ownlsrdmnvwgzmcdi2bof6s/post/3maigm7gijk2s

  33. #Trump to #BigOil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I’ll Help You Wreck the Planet

    “You won’t read a more important story today,” said one commentator. “Trump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion.”

    Jake Johnson
    May 09, 2024

    "Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a straightforward offer to some of the top fossil fuel executives in the United States during a dinner at his #MarALago club last month, which marked the hottest April on record.

    According to new reporting, Trump pledged to swiftly gut climate regulations put in place by the Biden administration if the oil and gas industry raises $1 billion for his 2024 presidential campaign.

    The “remarkably blunt and transactional pitch,” reported by The Washington Post, was Trump’s latest explicit statement of his intention to give the fossil fuel industry free rein to wreck the planet if he wins a second term in power. Executives from #Exxon, #Chevron, #OccidentalPetroleum, and other prominent fossil fuel companies reportedly attended the Mar-a-Lago dinner.

    Late last year, Trump said he would be a dictator on the first day of his second term, vowing to use his executive authority to “close the border” and “drill, drill, drill” for the fossil fuels that are driving global temperatures to catastrophic extremes and imperiling hopes for a livable future.

    The Post reported Thursday that Trump said a $1 billion investment in his run against Democratic President Joe Biden would be a “deal” for Big Oil “because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him.”

    “The contrast between the two candidates on climate policy could not be more stark,” the Post noted. “Biden has called #GlobalWarming an ‘existential threat’ and over the last three years, his administration has finalized 100 new #environmental regulations aimed at cutting #AirPollution and #GreenhouseGas emissions, restricting toxic chemicals, and conserving public lands and waters. In comparison, Trump has called #ClimateChange a ‘hoax,’ and his administration weakened or wiped out more than 125 environmental rules and policies over four years.”

    Will Bunch, a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote in response to the Post‘s reporting that “you won’t read a more important story today.”

    “Trump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion,” Bunch added. "

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/trump-oi

    #USPol #TrumpLies #ExxonLies #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #Alaska #California #Florida #WaterIsLife #PowerCorruptionAndLies #Oiligarchy #BigOil #FossilFuels #TrumpIsAFossil #TrumpIsAFascist

  34. #Wikipedia - #UnitedStates
    See also: #Superfund

    "Perhaps the best-known sacrifice zone in the United States is '#CancerAlley' in #Louisiana, an 85-mile stretch of land along the #MississippiRiver containing over 200 #petrochemical plants. Serious air and water quality violations have been documented since the 1970s, and elevated #cancer risk has been found. The region's population is disproportionately #Black and #LowIncome.

    "Commentators including Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco, Robert Bullard and Stephen Lerner have argued that #corporate business practices contribute to producing #SacrificeZones and that these zones most commonly exist in low-income and minority, usually #AfricanAmerican communities. Sacrifice zones are a central topic for the graphic novel #DaysOfDestructionDaysOfRevolt, written by Hedges and illustrated by Sacco.

    "In 2012, Hedges stated that examples of sacrifice zones included #PineRidge, South Dakota and #CamdenNJ. In 2017 a #WestCalumet public housing project in East Chicago, Indiana built at the former site of a lead smelter needed to be demolished and soil replaced to bring the area up to residential standards, displacing 1000 residents. In 2014, Naomi Klein wrote that 'running an economy on energy sources that release poisons as an unavoidable part of their extraction and refining has always required sacrifice zones."

    Related link:
    The Spread of Sacrifice Zones
    By David Swanson, June, 2012
    cdn.countercurrents.org/swanso

    #BigOil #BigOilAndGas #SacrificeZones #SEZs #HumanRights #HumanRightsFreeZone #Pollution #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalRacism #EconomicSacrificZones #WaterIsLife #Industries #IndustrialUse #PollutionSacrificeZones
    #GlobalSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism

  35. Kollektives Lacksaufen diese Woche:
     
    - Merz verschiebt Festlegung EU-Klimaziele
    - Evonik-Chef will Emissionshandel abschaffen
    - Tiefrote Zahlen bei VW wegen VerbrennerAus-Aus
    - Shell übertrifft Gewinnerwartungen
     
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    #Klimaschutz #Klimaziele #Klimakatstrophe #COP #BigOil #Merz #Reiche #Autoindustrie

  36. Kollektives Lacksaufen diese Woche:
     
    - Merz verschiebt Festlegung EU-Klimaziele
    - Evonik-Chef will Emissionshandel abschaffen
    - Tiefrote Zahlen bei VW wegen VerbrennerAus-Aus
    - Shell übertrifft Gewinnerwartungen
     
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    #Klimaschutz #Klimaziele #Klimakatstrophe #COP #BigOil #Merz #Reiche #Autoindustrie

  37. Kollektives Lacksaufen diese Woche:
     
    - Merz verschiebt Festlegung EU-Klimaziele
    - Evonik-Chef will Emissionshandel abschaffen
    - Tiefrote Zahlen bei VW wegen VerbrennerAus-Aus
    - Shell übertrifft Gewinnerwartungen
     
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    #Klimaschutz #Klimaziele #Klimakatstrophe #COP #BigOil #Merz #Reiche #Autoindustrie