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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. 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

  14. "Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and it is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments — in some cases, effectively become the government." This powerful novella is a must read.
    #BigOil #books #bookstodon #regulatoryCapture #cdnpoli #abpoli

  15. "The twilight of #oil is upon us and it is fighting to survive, even as we are ourselves fight to survive the #climatecrisis exacerbated by our dependence on it." A good read in these times of separation talk within the #Alberta #petrostate. cbc.ca/books/on-oil-by-don-gil

    #books #reading #BigOil #RegulatoryCapture #ClimateBreakdown

  16. 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

  17. Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Are Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest

    Scientists are linking deadly heat waves, like the record-breaking heat dome, to pollution from fossil fuel companies.

    murica.website/2026/03/climate

  18. "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

  19. "The aspiring autocrat knows how to survive. The Venezuela venture was another act of lawless chaos that further emboldened Trump to look around the hemisphere and wonder aloud at taking over Colombia, Mexico, Cuba and Greenland.

    In any previous era such would be considered the unhinged ravings of a madman. Today? He's daring us to look the other way."

    #Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #FossilFuels #EconomicElites #imperialism #isolationism #GlobalPeace
    /23

  20. "In the long list of Trump's brazen deflections and acts of unbridled arrogance, his invasion of Venezuela and capture of Nicolás Maduro certainly competes for top of the list. It was a breathtaking example of his self-absorbed and illiterate approach to foreign policy. ...

    He wants the oil. He wants revenge. He wants to distract."

    ~ National Catholic Reporter

    #Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #FossilFuels #EconomicElites #imperialism #isolationism #GlobalPeace
    /22

    ncronline.org/opinion/editoria

  21. "Worst of all, it encourages Putin to continue his war in Ukraine and gives the green light to China to use its military to take over Taiwan and bully other Asian nations.

    Trump's mix of isolationism and interventionism is disastrous for America and the world."

    #Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #FossilFuels #EconomicElites #imperialism #isolationism #GlobalPeace
    /21

  22. "Despite Trump's infatuation with fossil fuels, Venezuelan oil may not be a good investment, especially now that wind and solar energy is cheaper than fossil fuels.

    Trump's war is illegal, unwise, immoral and a waste of money. It harms both Venezuela and the United States."

    #Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #FossilFuels #EconomicElites #imperialism #isolationism #GlobalPeace
    /20

  23. "Trump bluntly says it is about oil, even though American oil companies are not eager to invest billions in Venezuelan oil production granted the political uncertainty. In addition, since Venezuelan oil is high in sulfur and difficult to refine, it sells for about $15 a barrel less than brent crude oil, which is currently selling at about $60 a barrel."

    #Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #FossilFuels #EconomicElites #imperialism #isolationism #GlobalPeace
    /19

  24. "The result of Trump isolationism is that the world is less safe, and no one is better off economically except billionaires. ...

    Trump does not pretend he is defending democracy and human rights. He is not supporting the installation of the actual winner of the last Venezuelan presidential election."

    ~ Thomas Reese

    #Trump #Venezuela #oil #BigOil #FossilFuels #EconomicElites #imperialism #isolationism #GlobalPeace
    /18

    ncronline.org/opinion/trumps-f

  25. #Wikipedia - Origin of the concept of a #SacrificeZone

    "According to the United Nations Human Rights Council [#UNHRC], the term Sacrifice zone emerged in the #ColdWar period when #NuclearTesting, conducted by #colonial powers, such as the #UnitedStates, #France, the #UnitedKingdom, and the #SovietUnion transformed sections of land into #uninhabitable and highly #radioactive areas. Sacrifice zones can be defined as communities that experience dangerous levels of hazardous contamination and waste exposure. Sacrifice zones are linked to #racism, #oppression, #patriarchy, and #colonialism, as they are hubs of #pollution that disproportionately target and harm the physical and mental health of marginalized groups who face overlapping forms of #oppressions.

    According to Helen Huntington Smith, the term was first used in the U.S. discussing the long-term effects of #StripMining #coal in the American West in the 1970s. The National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering Study Committee on the Potential for Rehabilitating Lands Surface Mined for Coal in the Western United States produced a 1973 report that introduced the term, finding:

    In each zone the probability of rehabilitating an area depends upon the land use objectives, the characteristics of the site, the technology available, and the skill with which this technology is applied. At the extremes, if surface mined lands are declared national sacrifice areas, all ecological zones have a high probability of being successfully rehabilitated. If, however, complete restoration is the objective, rehabilitation in each zone has no probability of success.

    Similarly in 1975, Genevieve Atwood wrote in Scientific American:

    Surface mining without #reclamation removes the land forever from #productive use; such land can best be classified as a #NationalSacrifice area. With successful reclamation, however, surface mining can become just one of a series of land uses that merely interrupt a current use and then return the land to an equivalent potential productivity or an even higher one.

    Huntington Smith wrote in 1975, "The Panel that issued the cautious and scholarly National Academy of Sciences report unwittingly touched off a verbal bombshell" with the phrase National Sacrifice Area; "The words exploded in the Western press overnight. Seized upon by a people who felt themselves being served up as 'national sacrifices', they became a watchword and a rallying cry." The term sparked public debate, including among #environmentalists and politicians such as future Colorado governor Richard Lamm.

    The term continued to be used in the context of strip mining until at least 1999: '#WestVirginia has become an environmental sacrifice zone'."

    #JoeManchin #BigOil #BigCoal #StripMining #EnvironmentalRacism #CoalMining #Appalachia #PollutionSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism

  26. #StandingRock Chair on #Greenpeace Verdict -- False, Self-serving Narrative in Insulting Lawsuit

    "If Greenpeace can be held liable for telling the truth about #SiouxNation Treaty rights, then we are all in trouble."

    By Standing Rock Chairwoman Janet Alkire, via #CensoredNews, March 27, 2025

    "As Chairwoman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, I take offense to the jury verdict in the #EnergyTransfer #SLAPP lawsuit against Greenpeace. We expect more from #NorthDakota judges and members of the jury from our neighboring communities.

    "#EnergyTransfer’s claims in this case were ridiculous. They were wholly disrespectful of the #StandingRockSioux Tribe, our ancestors, and our youth, who started the movement in 2016 to protect our water from an oil spill from #DAPL. Neither Greenpeace nor anyone else paid or persuaded Standing Rock to oppose DAPL.

    "Our young people and our elders urged us to protect our water and #UnciMakah (grandmother earth). That is what happened, and is happening still. Energy Transfer’s false and self-serving narrative that Greenpeace manipulated Standing Rock into protesting DAPL is patronizing and disrespectful to our people.

    "We understand that many Morton County residents support the #OilIndustry, even out-of-state #pipeline companies such as Energy Transfer. But we are your neighbors, and you should not be fooled that easily. Energy Transfer does not know us. They don’t know who we are – an Indigenous Nation that has survived every attack because our ancestors are with us.

    "Greenpeace did not manipulate Standing Rock, but #EnergyTransfer has manipulated #MortonCounty. DAPL crosses our Treaty and aboriginal land for hundreds of miles.

    "Our ancestors occupied this land for thousands of years before #NorthDakota came into existence. The land between the Heart and Missouri River are our #unceded Treaty lands under the 1868 and 1851 Fort Laramie Treaties. Our aboriginally-occupied territories extend east to the James River and beyond. That is a historical truth. If Greenpeace can be held liable for telling the truth about Sioux Nation Treaty rights, then we are all in trouble.

    "The construction of Fort Rice on our northern boundary in 1864 was a violation of the Fort Laramie Treaties. This required our Tribe to be vigilant. No one should be surprised that warrior society burials are found in this area, near the pipeline route.

    "And do not insult our cultural experts, who have wisdom over matters most residents of Morton County or bureaucrats at the State Historical Society know absolutely nothing about. Energy Transfer and its lawyers should be ashamed of themselves. Everyday North Dakotans on the jury should know better.

    "When it comes to the excessive police and private security response to the generally peaceful protests at #CannonBall, believe your eyes. The scenes of guard dogs menacing Tribal members are reminiscent of the violence of #WhiteSupremacists in the #DeepSouth during the 1950’s and 60’s, but it was in North Dakota, in this day and age. It was on the news and on the internet.

    "Many of the protesters were Native American veterans of the United States armed forces. Energy Transfer used attack dogs against peaceful protesters and war heroes. But the jury sided with the out-of-state, unlicensed security with the attack dogs, instead of North Dakota veterans who supported Standing Rock.

    "A Texas oil company has come to North Dakota, and its lawyers and propaganda machine are weaving stories about how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and our supporters have lied, and how the poor pipeline company, a trillion dollars richer than in 2016 when this all started, should receive extra millions from non-profit organizations. It’s a funny thing about liars – they always accuse everyone else of lying. The Greenpeace trial was marked by secrecy.

    "The court is not making the transcript public. The documents obtained by Greenpeace about Energy Transfer’s terrible safety record are protected by a secrecy order and are not available to the public. The judge exhibited so much bias in favor of Energy Transfer that a team of international human rights lawyers felt compelled to monitor the trial. One prominent monitor stated 'In my six decades of legal practice, I have never witnessed a trial as unfair as the one against Greenpeace that just ended in the courts of North Dakota.'

    "Standing Rock has tried to work for greater transparency on DAPL. It is our experience with the Army Corps of Engineers and Energy Transfer that all documents relating to DAPL pipeline safety are heavily redacted, and kept secret. What are they hiding? Who is looking out for the communities that may be affected by an oil spill? And why didn’t the North Dakota court allow Greenpeace to address these questions at the trial?

    "DAPL is a dangerous pipeline. It crosses our unceded Treaty and aboriginal land. Energy Transfer destroyed Tribal burials as identified by our cultural experts, and committed violence against our people. That is the history that North Dakota and Morton County must reckon with. After the Greenpeace verdict, that day seems farther off than ever."

    Source:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03
    #StandWithStandingRock #SLAPPsLawsuits #SLAPPs #FossilFuel #BigOilAndGas #Academi #EricPrince #Blackwater #ACAB #PrivateSecurity #BigOil #KelcyWarren #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #WaterProtectors #StevenDonziger #EnvironmentalRacism #ReaderSupportedNews #CorporateFascism #SilencingDissent #StandingRockReservation

  27. **(S+) Mit dem Elektroauto im Urlaub: So was von geladen**

    spiegel.de/auto/elektroauto-mi

    > *Elektroautos sind die Zukunft, oder? Weil er vorbereitet sein will, hat unser Autor für drei Tage im Schwarzwald ein solches Fahrzeug geliehen. Er hatte sich nicht ausgemalt, was auf ihn zukam.*

    Link ohne paywall: archive.is/bkWJ5

    Es ist wirklich unglaublich, wie *subtil* der SPIEGEL hier vorgeht, um #EMobility schlecht zu reden. Ein grenzdebiler Redakteur reicht schon aus, der eigentlich nur ungefiltert berichtet, wie borniert er ist.
    Aber kurz:
    Nur zugeparkte / kaputte Ladesäulen, solche, die nur vor Geschäften stehen, die das, was er kaufen will, nicht haben, LadeApps, die das Telefon zum einfrieren bringen, Laden / Zahlungen nur im Ausnahmefall möglich, Schnellader als potentielles Brandrisiko für das EAuto - dieser Qualitätsjournalist lässt wirklich nichts aus. Und mit der Realität hat das selbstredend nur wenig bis gar nichts zu tun.

    #BigOil #Verkehrswende #Elektromobilität #SektorZielVerkehr #Decarbonisierung

  28. **(S+) Mit dem Elektroauto im Urlaub: So was von geladen**

    spiegel.de/auto/elektroauto-mi

    > *Elektroautos sind die Zukunft, oder? Weil er vorbereitet sein will, hat unser Autor für drei Tage im Schwarzwald ein solches Fahrzeug geliehen. Er hatte sich nicht ausgemalt, was auf ihn zukam.*

    Link ohne paywall: archive.is/bkWJ5

    Es ist wirklich unglaublich, wie *subtil* der SPIEGEL hier vorgeht, um #EMobility schlecht zu reden. Ein grenzdebiler Redakteur reicht schon aus, der eigentlich nur ungefiltert berichtet, wie borniert er ist.
    Aber kurz:
    Nur zugeparkte / kaputte Ladesäulen, solche, die nur vor Geschäften stehen, die das, was er kaufen will, nicht haben, LadeApps, die das Telefon zum einfrieren bringen, Laden / Zahlungen nur im Ausnahmefall möglich, Schnellader als potentielles Brandrisiko für das EAuto - dieser Qualitätsjournalist lässt wirklich nichts aus. Und mit der Realität hat das selbstredend nur wenig bis gar nichts zu tun.

    #BigOil #Verkehrswende #Elektromobilität #SektorZielVerkehr #Decarbonisierung

  29. #BigOil’s Plan To #Criminalize #Pipeline #Protests

    By ExposedByCMD Editors
    | June 18th, 2024
    at 12:21 PM (CDT)

    "#AnneWhiteHat found herself facing up to 10 years in prison after she was arrested for two counts of felony trespassing in September 2018 under one such law, which had just taken effect in Louisiana following pressure from oil and gas lobbyists.

    She was one of four Native women who founded a resistance camp called L’eau Est La Vie, which was organizing nonviolent direct actions in protest of the #BayouBridgePipeline — a now-operating 163-mile pipeline owned by #EnergyTransfer that transports crude oil throughout the state. The protests ranged from a rendition of 'Crawfish the Musical' on the construction site to protesters locking themselves to pipeline equipment to tree sits in the centuries-old cypresses the company planned to tear down.

    "The Bayou Bridge pipeline is the tail end of the #DakotaAccess route — White Hat had already joined her relatives to participate in the resistance camp at Standing Rock in North Dakota. 'I felt like it was a righteous cause, not to let them comfortably continue to threaten the waters of Indigenous #FirstNations,' she said. 'I was inspired from the work up North and just couldn’t let them continue down here unanswered and unchecked.'

    White Hat had just finished leading a prayer ceremony when she was arrested at a boat ramp miles from the pipeline construction site. She was hauled into a sheriff deputy’s car with two other women and driven through tall sugar cane fields on the way to jail.

    'It was terrifying,' said White Hat. 'We’re way out in the middle of nowhere. I was like, ‘Is this the point where I actually disappear?’

    Investigative journalist Karen Savage was arrested that day, too — her second arrest under felony trespass charges as she reported on the Bayou Bridge protests. She was one of the only reporters to travel to the Atchafalaya Basin swamp, where the pipeline was being constructed.

    By the time the water protectors got to the swamp, Savage said, they 'had done everything — they went to public meetings, they had petitions, they wrote letters, they tried to meet with the governor — they did everything they tell you in school, to participate and use your civil obligation in your community.' Despite their best efforts in one of the most oil- and gas-friendly states in the country, said Savage, 'nobody was listening.'"

    exposedbycmd.org/2024/06/18/bi

    #BigOilAndGas #CriminalizingDissent #ACAB #HumanRightsViolations #IndigenousActivism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousLandDefenders
    #DirectAction #CorporateFascism #CriminalizingDissent
    #WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #EcoActivists #NoDAPL

  30. On Indonesia’s Seram Island, a massive oil find lies beneath sacred land. Uncertainty and fear now walks with the Bati Indigenous.

    news.mongabay.com/2023/07/on-i

    SERAM ISLAND, Indonesia — Zainudin Kelsaba traversed across the eastern Seram highland and stopped at an ancient outcrop grown over by trees and scrub. “The mountain is our home,” Zainudin told Mongabay Indonesia. “The trees and rocks are part of our life.”…

    #indigenous #sacredlands #threatened #bigoil #climatecrisis #landdefenders #outnumbered #PTBalamEnergy #resourcetheft #violence