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  1. It's tough to promote that #CanadasChangingClimate report (that WE paid for) outlining the horrific damage & danger now and yet to come from all that #BigOil world burning when you're working day in and day out to reward those exact same world burners. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli #MarkCarney

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5/post/3murz6l3vcs2z


    Liberals remove layer of revie...

  2. [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

  3. [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

  4. [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

  5. [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

  6. [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

  7. "#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

  8. "#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

  9. "#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

  10. "#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

  11. "#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

  12. "#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

  13. "#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

  14. "#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

  15. "#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

  16. "#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

  17. Making it easier to get permits for carbon capture, transport and storage has been a major lobbying goal of #BigOil group IOGP, which is moderating a panel on “Strengthening Europe’s industrial base with CCS value chain”.

    4 out of 6 speakers on the panel are from the #fossilfuel industry. 🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️

    👇

    1st Conference on European Per...

  18. The ICP is spearheaded by the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP), which represents all the big names in #BigOil, from BP, ExxonMobil & Shell to TotalEnergies, Eni & Equinor.

    The #EU Commission is sending 3 high-level speakers, alongside 9 speakers from #fossilfuel industry. 👇

    1st Conference on European Per...

  19. To keep drilling, Big Oil needs permission to dump treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland. We don’t have to give it to them.

    heated.world/p/oil-executives-

    #BigOil #oilIndustry #fracking #ecoTerrorism #Texas #PecosRiver #AtascosaRiver #ecocide #fossilFuel

    Sometime in the next few months, Texas is set to issue its first permits letting the oil industry pour treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland.

    Five applications are currently pending, covering more than 18 million gallons of wastewater per day, all bound for the Pecos and the Atascosa Rivers. The Texas environmental regulator is also actively working on the rules that would allow oilfield waste to be sprayed on cropland.

    It may sound crazy to dump treated fracking waste on land that is used to grow food, or into waterways connected to drinking water supplies. But last month, oil and gas industry representatives gathered before the state Senate to explain why they desperately need to do exactly this.

  20. 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/

  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. "These new findings are known as 'source attribution': Conclusions were stark: fossil fuel firms increased the likelihood of the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave by 31 percent."
    >40+ cases filed in U.S. against #BigOil since 2017, at least five are entering #discovery phase(!)
    >This science will help communities plan for weather tragedies, it seems they're saying. I guess we're #MakingLemonade
    #climate #change #FossilFuel #ClimateChange #oil #gas #ExtremeWeather
    motherjones.com/environment/20

  23. "The science backs up what people on the front lines already know: humanity's addiction to burning massive amounts of #coal, #oil and #gas is heating our planet, turning more of #Canada's vast #forests into tinderboxes, and spreading dangerous smoke far beyond the flames." cbc.ca/news/science/wwa-study-

    #BorealForest #ClimateBreakdown #wildfires #drought #BigOil #ClimateCriminals

  24. #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

  25. Trump probes Exxon, Chevron over gas price gouging

    President Trump said the Department of Justice is investigating Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell and BP for not lowering gasoline pump prices in line with falling crude costs, ‌and accused them of 'gouging' customers. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed rump #DOJ #GasPrices #PriceGouging #BigOil #ExxonMobil #Chevron #Shell #BP #GasolinePrices #OilPrices #TrumpDOJ #EnergyPrices #IranWar #StraitOfHormuz #USPolitics #BreakingNews

    fllics.com/en/video/trump-prob

  26. 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

  27. Your regular reminder each of these #CostOfClimate stories involves YOU the taxpayer covering the damages as opposed to the fabulously wealthy #BigOil companies that LIED about all of it & profited mightily We need to stop being suckers We need to MAKE THEM PAY #SUEBIGOIL #ClimateChange

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g2etkgo54mymirahunukhwkf/post/3mldtcqdiws2h

  28. Your reminder that as it stands ALL the enormous costs of #ClimateChange will be paid for by taxpayers and NOT the fabulously wealthy #BigOil companies that SPENT BILLIONS lying about the dangers so they could reap unprecedented profits. #SueBigOil #CostOfClimate

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:prhg7e4i6rmbpzhxgb4vdc36/post/3mkzothgl7s2t

  29. Lobbyists Push to Shield Oil Companies from Climate Change Lawsuits

    📰 Original title: Contributor: Don't let lobbyists win a liability shield for Big Oil

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/lobbyists-push

    #climatechange #bigoil #climatelawsuits #corporateaccountability

  30. Lobbyists Push to Shield Oil Companies from Climate Change Lawsuits

    📰 Original title: Contributor: Don't let lobbyists win a liability shield for Big Oil

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/lobbyists-push

    #climatechange #bigoil #climatelawsuits #corporateaccountability

  31. #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

  32. From @TheBreach

    While he was on the campaign trail, #PrimeMinister #MarkCarney said he’d stand up to Donald Trump.

    Instead, he’s using the U.S. president’s trade war as an excuse for a rapid-fire #rightwing agenda that would make Stephen Harper blush.

    The latest video from The Breach independent media breaks down how Carney has unleashed a pro-corporate, Trump-friendly blitz—embracing #BigOil and #militarism , #SocialCuts & crackdowns on #refugees.

    breachmedia.ca/carneys-first-1

    #CDNpoli #USpoli #Geopolitics #Conservatives #Neoliberals #FascismAdjacent #Capitalist #Colonizers #BaitAndSwitch #PoliticalLies #CorporateGreed #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #FuckYouCarney

  33. #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, March 11, 2025:

    "While the bizarre court case continues in #MandanND, #EnergyTransfer v #Greenpeace, our most viewed articles include this one from the medics at #StandingRock, who were targeted and
    attacked as the medics were treating water protectors on Oct. 27, 2016 -- a tactic that was used in #Palestine when medics were targeted and assassinated during the past two years. At Standing Rock, law enforcement had silencers on their weapons. 'Why do they have silencers if they are here for peace,' a medic said, who was fired on by law enforcement using shotguns loaded with lead-filled bean bags. According to the #GenevaConvention, knowingly firing at a medic wearing clear insignia is
    a #warcrime."

    From 2016: #MortonCountySheriff and the Violent Gang of #Police Targeted and Arrested #Medics while they were Treating Patients

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/10
    #ReaderSupportedNews #ACAB #StandWithStandingRock #GreenpeaceUSA #SLAPPs #SLAPPsLawsuits #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #NorthDakota #StandingRockSiouxTribe #StandingRockReservation #BigOil #CorporateColonialism

  34. Dispatches from Joye: The Beginning of #Resistance to #DakotaAccessPipeline, Spring of 2016

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Feb. 25, 2025

    MANDAN, North Dakota -- "We travel back in time to the beginning of the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Jury selection is underway in the case of #EnergyTransfer v #Greenpeace and #RedWarriorSociety, and oral arguments are to begin tomorrow, in #NorthDakota District Court.

    "Energy Transfer, the owner of Dakota Access Pipeline, seeks to erase the fact that this is, and has always been, an #Indigenous-led movement, Greenpeace said.

    "On March 29, 2016 -- five months before hundreds, and then thousands arrived at the Standing Rock camps -- #JoyeBraun, #CheyenneRiverLakota, sent Censored News the announcement of the resistance.

    "'It must be stopped,' Joye said in the media statement.

    "#LaDonnaBravebullAllard, working then in the #StandingRock #HistoricPreservationOffice, released the statement with Joye.

    "The headline read, 'Tribal Citizens Rise Up Against #BakkenOilPipeline: #HorseRide and #SpiritualCamp to be Held Along Proposed Route of Dakota Access Pipeline.'

    "With the dateline of Cannonball, the statement says, 'On April 1st, 2016, tribal citizens of the #StandingRockLakota Nation and ally #Lakota, #Nakota, and #Dakota citizens, under the group name
    Chante tin'sa kinanzi Po will have a #HorseRide to celebrate the founding of a #SpiritCamp that will be erected along the proposed route of the Bakken oil pipeline, Dakota Access."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02
    #StandWithStandingRock #WaterIsLife #NoDAPL #KelcyWarren #Trump #StandWithStandingRock #BigOil #CorporateColonialism #BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #StandingRock #SLAPPs #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #SLAPPsLawsuits #SilencingDissent #ACAB #EnergyTransfer #UnicornRiot

  35. The short explanation is that the US is a petrostate.

    Fealty to fossil-fuel polluters has little to nothing to do with what voters want.

    The fealty is structural, embedded in our institutions - industrial and military of course, but also academic, journalistic, cultural, financial.

    #climate #uspol #kamalaharris #gop #trump #climatesilence #fossilfuels #bigoil

  36. “We know that carbon emissions are the root cause of environmental destabilisation. They are a key driver of increasingly extreme weather patterns, food price inflation, and water shortages.

    So fossil fuel enablers should be made pariahs, not policymakers in the highest levels of government”

    Clive Lewis, Labour MP

    #FossilFuelLobby
    #Tories
    #BigOil
    #RevolvingDoor

    theferret.scot/revolving-door-?

  37. 2022: #BernieSanders wants a 95% tax on #BigCorporations' pandemic-era profits to bring down rising prices

    by Joseph Zeballos-Roig and Juliana Kaplan
    Mar 25, 2022

    - Sanders wants to hit all large firms with a 95% windfall tax on their revenue.

    - Under the plan, #Amazon would have paid $28.6 billion in 2021.

    - Its reach goes far beyond the #OilAndGasIndustry.

    - Deemed a "temporary emergency measure," the tax would only be in place from 2022 to 2024. The levy would bring in $400 billion in just one year.

    Sanders: "We cannot allow #BigOil companies and other large, profitable corporations to continue to use the war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the specter of #inflation to make o#bscene profits by price gouging #Americans at the gas pump, the grocery store, or any other sector of our economy."

    businessinsider.com/sanders-wi

    #CorporateTaxDodgers #Oligarchy
    #OilAndGasIndustry
    #Oiligarchy
    #Corporatocracy
    #Corporatism #BerniesList

  38. The Acorn Project

    Sounds nice. What could it be? Perhaps some reforestation? Replacing inner city streets with green spaces? Getting everybody to grow some of their own food?

    No. It's fucking carbon capture and making hydrogen from fucking natural gas.

    WTAF?

    This is about the fourth time that Rishi Sunak has boiled my piss today.

    #carboncapture #climatechange #Tories #RishiSunak #RishiSnake #bluehydrogen #greenwashing #Tories #northseagas #bigoil

    theacornproject.uk/