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What record-breaking heat, fire mean for California’s wine industry https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/6334/ #BigOil #California #CaliforniaCuisine #CaliforniaDining #CaliforniaFood #CaliforniaRestaurants #CaliforniaWine #ClimateCrisis #ClimateProgress #critic #ElectricBill #environmentalist #gas #GavinNewsom #lawmaker #month #OilDrilling #OilIndustryWhispering #RooftopSolarIndustry #StateOfficial
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What record-breaking heat, fire mean for California’s wine industry https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/6334/ #BigOil #California #CaliforniaCuisine #CaliforniaDining #CaliforniaFood #CaliforniaRestaurants #CaliforniaWine #ClimateCrisis #ClimateProgress #critic #ElectricBill #environmentalist #gas #GavinNewsom #lawmaker #month #OilDrilling #OilIndustryWhispering #RooftopSolarIndustry #StateOfficial
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What record-breaking heat, fire mean for California’s wine industry https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/6334/ #BigOil #California #CaliforniaCuisine #CaliforniaDining #CaliforniaFood #CaliforniaRestaurants #CaliforniaWine #ClimateCrisis #ClimateProgress #critic #ElectricBill #environmentalist #gas #GavinNewsom #lawmaker #month #OilDrilling #OilIndustryWhispering #RooftopSolarIndustry #StateOfficial
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What record-breaking heat, fire mean for California’s wine industry https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/6334/ #BigOil #California #CaliforniaCuisine #CaliforniaDining #CaliforniaFood #CaliforniaRestaurants #CaliforniaWine #ClimateCrisis #ClimateProgress #critic #ElectricBill #environmentalist #gas #GavinNewsom #lawmaker #month #OilDrilling #OilIndustryWhispering #RooftopSolarIndustry #StateOfficial
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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
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#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. "
#MakePollutersPay #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalDestruction #DeepwaterHorizon #ClimateCrisis #BigOilKnew #MakeCorporatePollutersPay #GlobalWarming #BritishPetroleum
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"The Concord Fund — Leo’s confirmation-campaign vehicle — has given RAGA $18.8 million since 2014, including $2 million in the first half of 2024, making it RAGA’s largest single donor. Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute, and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers have written six-figure checks. The circuit closes at every connection point."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"CRC Advisors, the firm Leo controls, took in $24.9 million from Leo’s 85 Fund in 2023, with $80 million flowing from the network to CRC since Leo took over the firm in 2020.
The fossil fuel industry’s entry into this network runs through the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has received $5.8 million from oil-and-gas companies and their lobbying groups since 2020 alone."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #BigOil
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"The Trust gave $153 million to Leo’s Rule of Law Trust in 2021. The Rule of Law Trust gave $36.3 million in grants to allied organizations in 2020 alone, with the Concord Fund — formerly the Judicial Crisis Network, the organization that ran the campaigns to confirm Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett — as the largest single beneficiary."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has tracked the pipeline across multiple investigations. Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, established in 2020, controls a $1.6 billion dark-money fund."
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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#CarbonCaptureStorage does not work! #RenewableEnergyTransition for a fraction of the cost!
from my friend, Steve Bentley.
"We shouldn't. It's the boondoggliest boondoggle in the history of boondoggling" #Boondoggliest #CarbonCapture #BigOil #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney -
IRREFUTABLE: Our bodies weren't made for this IRREFUTABLE: #BigOil always knew this was coming, spent billions denying/lying about it IRREFUTABLE: #BigOil owes you $$$ for what they did & ARE STILL DOING to your health 1+2=3 #SueBigOil #AQHI #yyc #yeg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Wildfires #smokeyyc #Smoke
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In the "When will we ever learn" category. There is precious little you can trust that comes out of the mouths of #BigOil. And since the penalties for non-compliance are trivial compared to the profits of non-compliance, and there is no personal liability for the C-suite, there is no reason for them to do better.
#ToxicAir - the #PlasticPollution starts well before the plastic is discarded
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Sometimes #BigOil can't get away with bullying and threatening communities and #Indigenous stewards of the land and #water. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/review-board-imperial-oil-ea-1.7400458
#ImperialOil #NWT #WaterisLife #environmentalassessment #environment #Canada
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And how much economic damage is from climate change and pollution from #FossilFuels? #BigOil is the real criminal here!
#ClimateProtesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
By Kara Fox, CNN
September 14, 2024London CNN — "As #RightWing rioters attacked communities with #racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old #ClimateActivist #CressieGethin sat in a prison cell.
"Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating #FossilFuel — in the #NorthSea.
"In late July, a London court found #Gethin and four other members of the #JustStopOil activist group guilty of 'conspiring intentionally to cause a #PublicNuisance,' after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 — a major ring road around London — bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.
"Prosecutors alleged that the protests, organized over a #ZoomCall, disrupted more than 700,000 drivers, caused economic damage of over £760,000 ($980,000) and racked up £1 million ($1.3m) in policing costs.
"Now Gethin and three others — Louise Lancaster, #DanielShaw and #LuciaWhittakerDeAbreu, who planned the disruption on the call — are serving four-year jail terms, while Just Stop Oil co-founder #RogerHallam was given five years. All are appealing.
"The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for #nonviolent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged #policing powers to crack down on disruptive protests, even when they are peaceful.
"They place the act of planning a 'public nuisance' event, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, on a similar footing as #ViolentCrimes like robbery, for which punishments range from community service to 12 years’ jail, or rape, which is four to 19 years.
"The judge — who in court referred to the activists as '#extremists' — justified the long jail terms because all five activists had previously been convicted of one or more offenses in relation to direct action protest. Each were on bail for another set of proceedings when the Zoom call took place. He also noted people missed important doctor’s visits and funerals because of the protest.
"But activists like Gethin say their demonstrations are proportionate to the problem at hand — a rapidly warming world that threatens to transform life as we know it, through deadly #ExtremeWeather events and by pushing #ecosystems to their brinks. They are now battling the bolstered powers of the #police and courts to get their point across.
“'A very harsh sentence like this doesn’t make sense morally or legally — but it does make sense politically,' Gethin told CNN in a handwritten letter from HMP Bronzefield, a women’s prison just south of London’s Heathrow Airport.
"The laws have drawn criticism from the UN’s special rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders, #MichaelForst, who said not only do they criminalize peaceful protest, but they are being enforced in 'punitive and repressive' ways."
Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/climate/uk-climate-protests-policing-laws-prison-intl/index.html#BigOilAndGas #ClimateActivists #ClimateProtest #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism #WaterDefenders
#ClimateDefenders
#EnvironmentalActivists
#SilencingDissent #SLAPPs #ClimateActivists #CorporateColonialism
#EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #BiodiversityNecessityDefense
#EarthDefenders
#SLAPPs #Fascism #CivilDisobedience
#Activism #ClimateStrike
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#NemonteNenquimo, #Waorani, Protecting the #AmazonRainforest
By Water for Life, via #CensoredNews, Sept. 21, 2024
"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of #Ecuador, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.
"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"
From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:
"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
Background from the publisher:
"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.
"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.
"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.
"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in #ClimateChange activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against #BigOil, protecting over a half million acres of primary #rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling #loggers, #miners, #OilCompanies and #missionaries.
"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of #AmazonFrontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of #IndigenousPeoples, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html
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Die #klimaverbrecher
➡️ @shell #DenHaag
Wir sind die #letzteGeneration
#ClimateActionNow
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Some climate advocates who supported oil and gas companies are shocked to learn that big oil is bad. They believed that the industry would cooperate with them on reducing emissions and investing in clean energy. But they were wrong, as the industry continues to lobby against climate action and spread misinformation. #ClimateBetrayal #BigOil #FossilFools https://newrepublic.com/article/174903/oil-friendly-climate-advocates-shocked-learn-big-oil-bad?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other