#bigoil — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigoil, aggregated by home.social.
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🚬🥦 "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! 💡"
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/how-tobacco-industry-drove-rise-ultra-processed-foods #UCberkeley #junkfood #BigOil #HackerNews #ngated -
"#Canada’s latest state of the #climate report is a stark warning of what #Canadians will face if governments fail to tackle the #climatecrisis with the urgency it requires,” https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/changes-to-canadas-climate-now-irreversible-federal-report-says/
#cdnpoli #climateCriminals #BigOil #Puppets #CorporateCapture
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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.
https://heated.world/p/oil-executives-just-accidentally
#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.
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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.
https://heated.world/p/oil-executives-just-accidentally
#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.
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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.
https://heated.world/p/oil-executives-just-accidentally
#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.
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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.
https://heated.world/p/oil-executives-just-accidentally
#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.
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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.
https://heated.world/p/oil-executives-just-accidentally
#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.
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If my understanding is correct, that's #Farage and #ReformUK , the party funded by #BigOil that blames #immigrants for all of the #UK 's economic and social woes, is now blaming #climate #Activists for exposing their (presumably now more robustly vetted) party officials' willingness to deceive the public, the taxman and the parliamentary oversight committee?
Were the immigrants too busy for this stitch-up or are they resisting by proxy on this one Nigel?
A couple of days ago he (Farage) was blaming the 'complainants' and now apparently it's eco terrorists or the 'radical left' as the Orange Shitgibbon likes to call any group or individual with a social conscience.
The #journalistic community to be demonised by their rhetoric next perhaps?
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If my understanding is correct, that's #Farage and #ReformUK , the party funded by #BigOil that blames #immigrants for all of the #UK 's economic and social woes, is now blaming #climate #Activists for exposing their (presumably now more robustly vetted) party officials' willingness to deceive the public, the taxman and the parliamentary oversight committee?
Were the immigrants too busy for this stitch-up or are they resisting by proxy on this one Nigel?
A couple of days ago he (Farage) was blaming the 'complainants' and now apparently it's eco terrorists or the 'radical left' as the Orange Shitgibbon likes to call any group or individual with a social conscience.
The #journalistic community to be demonised by their rhetoric next perhaps?
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If my understanding is correct, that's #Farage and #ReformUK , the party funded by #BigOil that blames #immigrants for all of the #UK 's economic and social woes, is now blaming #climate #Activists for exposing their (presumably now more robustly vetted) party officials' willingness to deceive the public, the taxman and the parliamentary oversight committee?
Were the immigrants too busy for this stitch-up or are they resisting by proxy on this one Nigel?
A couple of days ago he (Farage) was blaming the 'complainants' and now apparently it's eco terrorists or the 'radical left' as the Orange Shitgibbon likes to call any group or individual with a social conscience.
The #journalistic community to be demonised by their rhetoric next perhaps?
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If my understanding is correct, that's #Farage and #ReformUK , the party funded by #BigOil that blames #immigrants for all of the #UK 's economic and social woes, is now blaming #climate #Activists for exposing their (presumably now more robustly vetted) party officials' willingness to deceive the public, the taxman and the parliamentary oversight committee?
Were the immigrants too busy for this stitch-up or are they resisting by proxy on this one Nigel?
A couple of days ago he (Farage) was blaming the 'complainants' and now apparently it's eco terrorists or the 'radical left' as the Orange Shitgibbon likes to call any group or individual with a social conscience.
The #journalistic community to be demonised by their rhetoric next perhaps?
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If my understanding is correct, that's #Farage and #ReformUK , the party funded by #BigOil that blames #immigrants for all of the #UK 's economic and social woes, is now blaming #climate #Activists for exposing their (presumably now more robustly vetted) party officials' willingness to deceive the public, the taxman and the parliamentary oversight committee?
Were the immigrants too busy for this stitch-up or are they resisting by proxy on this one Nigel?
A couple of days ago he (Farage) was blaming the 'complainants' and now apparently it's eco terrorists or the 'radical left' as the Orange Shitgibbon likes to call any group or individual with a social conscience.
The #journalistic community to be demonised by their rhetoric next perhaps?
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A quick check of the #UK #news reveals:
1) Reform UK is run by devious bastards, bankrolled by equally devious #BigOil
2) The Orange Shitgibbon is telling lies
3) Labour backtracks on another environmental commitment
4) Some hypocrite is criticising right wing policy via #xitter , #meta , #yt etc etc (only because of the reach it affords them)
5) Some AI willy-measuring story involving billions of £/$ in profit
I haven't looked yet, but am I warm? The fucking planet certainly is.
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A quick check of the #UK #news reveals:
1) Reform UK is run by devious bastards, bankrolled by equally devious #BigOil
2) The Orange Shitgibbon is telling lies
3) Labour backtracks on another environmental commitment
4) Some hypocrite is criticising right wing policy via #xitter , #meta , #yt etc etc (only because of the reach it affords them)
5) Some AI willy-measuring story involving billions of £/$ in profit
I haven't looked yet, but am I warm? The fucking planet certainly is.
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A quick check of the #UK #news reveals:
1) Reform UK is run by devious bastards, bankrolled by equally devious #BigOil
2) The Orange Shitgibbon is telling lies
3) Labour backtracks on another environmental commitment
4) Some hypocrite is criticising right wing policy via #xitter , #meta , #yt etc etc (only because of the reach it affords them)
I haven't looked yet, but am I warm? The fucking planet certainly is.
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A quick check of the #UK #news reveals:
1) Reform UK is run by devious bastards, bankrolled by equally devious #BigOil
2) The Orange Shitgibbon is telling lies
3) Labour backtracks on another environmental commitment
4) Some hypocrite is criticising right wing policy via #xitter , #meta , #yt etc etc (only because of the reach it affords them)
5) Some AI willy-measuring story involving billions of £/$ in profit
I haven't looked yet, but am I warm? The fucking planet certainly is.
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A quick check of the #UK #news reveals:
1) Reform UK is run by devious bastards, bankrolled by equally devious #BigOil
2) The Orange Shitgibbon is telling lies
3) Labour backtracks on another environmental commitment
4) Some hypocrite is criticising right wing policy via #xitter , #meta , #yt etc etc (only because of the reach it affords them)
5) Some AI willy-measuring story involving billions of £/$ in profit
I haven't looked yet, but am I warm? The fucking planet certainly is.
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A long segment on the BBC News about the ramping up of Venezuelan oil production under US control.
Some mention of imperialism but not a word about the #climate
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@GeraldKutney Nothing to see. Just continue subsidizing and burning #fossilefuels. Can’t have #bigoil shareholders value drop.
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@GeraldKutney Nothing to see. Just continue subsidizing and burning #fossilefuels. Can’t have #bigoil shareholders value drop.
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@GeraldKutney Nothing to see. Just continue subsidizing and burning #fossilefuels. Can’t have #bigoil shareholders value drop.
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@GeraldKutney Nothing to see. Just continue subsidizing and burning #fossilefuels. Can’t have #bigoil shareholders value drop.
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@GeraldKutney Nothing to see. Just continue subsidizing and burning #fossilefuels. Can’t have #bigoil shareholders value drop.
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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 https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/eight-new-gas-and-oil-wells-have-been-approved-for-san-ardo/article_1ec8a978-68de-481d-b262-535169e8f93b.html#tncms-source=mosaic
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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 https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/eight-new-gas-and-oil-wells-have-been-approved-for-san-ardo/article_1ec8a978-68de-481d-b262-535169e8f93b.html#tncms-source=mosaic
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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 https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/eight-new-gas-and-oil-wells-have-been-approved-for-san-ardo/article_1ec8a978-68de-481d-b262-535169e8f93b.html#tncms-source=mosaic
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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 https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/eight-new-gas-and-oil-wells-have-been-approved-for-san-ardo/article_1ec8a978-68de-481d-b262-535169e8f93b.html#tncms-source=mosaic
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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 https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/eight-new-gas-and-oil-wells-have-been-approved-for-san-ardo/article_1ec8a978-68de-481d-b262-535169e8f93b.html#tncms-source=mosaic
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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. "
#ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew #FossilFuels #ExxonLied #Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #ClimateDenial #BigOil #BigOilStillLies #ClimateDeception #ClimateCrisis
#Capitalism #Exxon #ClimateCrisis
#MakeCorporatePollutersPay #Glaciers
#GlobalWarming #FossilFools #BigOilAndGas -
"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 -
"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. https://www.cbc.ca/books/on-oil-by-don-gillmor-1.7475535
#books #reading #BigOil #RegulatoryCapture #ClimateBreakdown
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“It’s hypocritical. These guys have been hyping 90%, 95% capture, and now it’s, ‘well. we really can’t do it that fast, it’s not tested, it’s not certain’.” https://www.theenergymix.com/master-class-in-greenwash-as-ottawa-alberta-oil-sands-alliance-unveil-ccs-deal/
#Greenwashing #tarsands #BigOil #carbonCapture #CorporateCapture #cdnpoli
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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, 2026Excerpt: "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."
#CanadaPol #FortChipewyan #MikisewCreeFirstNation #NativeAmericanNews #TarSands #BigOil #FirstNations #EnvironmentalRacism
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The fix is in - the #BigOil puppets want to release #tarsands tailings into the most important #watershed in #Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-oilsands-tailings-mine-wastewater-consultation-9.7206761
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Gas Prices Up 56% In USA! Painful for Consumers, but Good for #EVs. Gas cost calculator. Support the #environment. Tell #BigOil goodbye! Buy an #EV. #CleanTechnica reporting. #AirPollution #Respiratory cleantechnica.com/2026/05/17/g...
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HT @miki_lou
"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. "
#BigOil #TarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #WaterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #ToxicChemicals
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"Mikisew Cree’s own #health study confirms what the community has always known: the #oilsands are killing them. " https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-dying-and-canada-is-watching?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true
#BigOil #tarSands #Alberta #IndigenousPeoples #waterisLife #environment #cdnpoli #toxicChemicals
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Le culte trumpiste tient bien ses promesses.
Il avait promis "Pas d'éoliennes" et pas d'éoliennes il n'y aura aux USA.Sa justification "comment on fera quand il n'y aura plus de vent, hein ? Ces écolos n'y ont même pas pensé, qu'ils sont cons !"
Le projet de Total, qui était déjà entamé, était de construire 2 fermes à éoliennes en North Carolina et à New-York.
Le lobby BigOil a réussi a leur faire annuler en échange de 1 milliard $
Trump ne tient que les promesses qu'il avait fait aux milliardaires.https://qz.com/trump-pays-totalenergies-billion-abandon-wind
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Total a obéit aux menaces du Trumpistan, le doigt sur la couture du pantalon.
Le projet du géant français de l'énergie, créer 2 fermes éoliennes capables de produire de l'électricité pour 1 millions d'americains.
Oui mais voilà, BigOil et ses donations/corruption aux politiciens US en avait décidé autrement.
À force de lobbying et de menaces des sanctions US, ,Total a accepté d'abandonner ces 2 projets, déjà entamés, en échange d'un plat de lentilles dorées.
1 milliard, c'est visiblement le coût de la probité de l'entreprise française.En échange, Total achètera aux USofA du pétrole issu de la fracturation, qui confisque les terres des autochtones et pollue les nappes phréatique au point de rendre l'eau des communautés alentour impropres à la consommation humaine.
Sans l'autorisation de Macrotte, rien de tout cela n'aurait été possible.
Illégitimes, corrompus, autorisant l'armée fasciste US à utiliser ses installation ET pollueurs, le bilan du macronisme fait vraiment rêver, non ?
#Pollution #Eoliennes #TotalEnergies #BoycottTotal #Chantage #Lobbying #BigOil
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Finally #nwtpoli is speaking for our #water BUT IMHO the fix is already in. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/water-nwt-ab-9.7134277
#abpoli #cdnpoli #waterisLife #regulatoryCapture #CorporateCapture #BigOil #BigData
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“The companies now are at the point where they just want to start dumping the tailings ponds. It’s not OK,” https://cabinradio.ca/277841/news/health/what-are-the-risks-to-the-nwts-water-quality/
#WaterisLife #BigOil #tarsands #abpoli #cdnpoli #NWTpoli #CorporateCapture #RegulatoryCapture #EcosystemDestruction #BorealForest #environment
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"#Canada’s #oil and gas industry is steadily building an #environmental time bomb." https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/30/opinion/oilpatch-liabilities-oil-oilsands-syncrude-wells-cleanup-alberta
#tarsands #BigOil #ClimateCriminals #BorealForest #WaterisLife #toxic #abpoli #cdnpoli #NWTpoli
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"It would take just one spill to destroy our way of life." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-nations-water-oilsands-9.7057845
#cdnpoli #BigOil #CorporateCapture #WaterisLife #IndigenousPeoples #Ecosystems #TarSands
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#Wikipedia - #Venezuela
#Pollution at #MaracaiboLake"#LakeMaracaibo in the state of #Zulia is one of the most important bodies of water in the western region of Venezuela. This lake was also the site of one of the worst environmental catastrophes in Venezuela's history: the #BarrosoII blowout in 1922; an oil well that began spewing huge quantities of oil for 9 days, spilling around 900,000 barrels in the area. This oil disaster, paradoxically, became a milestone for the abundance of the oil industry in the country.
"Erick Camargo indicates that oil spills generated by the lack of maintenance of the complex network of oil infrastructure continue to be a constant and are the main cause of contamination in the lake. However, he also indicates that the use of #agrochemicals on nearby crops and the discharge of #sewage worsen the situation.
"A 2022 scientific paper reveals the presence of multiple #toxic elements in surface sediments in different parts of the lake. This constitutes a high risk for the flora and fauna of the region, as well as for the health of the human communities living in the areas where the samples were taken. Another study in 2007 revealed the presence of #ToxicMetals in part of the subway aquifers connected to the lake basin; the samples taken had values well above the limits allowed for #DrinkingWater according to national and international regulations."
Related article:
https://apnews.com/article/lake-maracaibo-venezuela-pollution-fishermen-ca80fea76eece2e733285d44b8dbdd80#Venezuela #BigOil #BigOilAndGas #SacrificeZones #SEZs #HumanRights #HumanRightsFreeZone #Pollution #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalRacism #EconomicSacrificZones #WaterIsLife #Industries #IndustrialUse #PollutionSacrificeZones
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#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
https://cdn.countercurrents.org/swanson090612.htm#BigOil #BigOilAndGas #SacrificeZones #SEZs #HumanRights #HumanRightsFreeZone #Pollution #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalRacism #EconomicSacrificZones #WaterIsLife #Industries #IndustrialUse #PollutionSacrificeZones
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Fossil-Fueled Climate Change Left Out of Media Coverage of Hurricane Helene: Scientist Peter Kalmus https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/30/hurricane_helene_climate_crisis
#ClimateJustice #ExtremeWeather #Flooding #HurricaneHelene #DemocracyNow #AmyGoodman #PeterKalmus #NASA #ClimateScientist #FossilFuels #BigOil #FossilFuelIndustry #NaturalGasExports #MountainValleyPipeline #BankFinancing
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A Fresh Approach to Limiting CEO Pay — and Saving Our Environment
A newly drafted Salary Cap Act would powerfully discourage the corporate decisions that so endanger our future.
March 11, 2024
by Daniel Wortel-London"The compensation of oil company top executives, for instance, links intimately to exploring for new #fossilfuel fields, extracting ever more oil, and promoting still more carbon consumption. Top #BigOil corporate chiefs, as Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute observes, 'have personal ownership of tens or hundreds of thousands of shares' and that 'creates an unacknowledged personal desire to explore, extract, and sell fossil fuels.'"
Read more:
https://inequality.org/research/a-fresh-approach-to-limiting-ceo-pay-and-saving-our-environment/#SalaryCaps #CEOPay #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #TaxTheRich
#MakePollutersPay -
#ExxonMobile #UK by putting #CO2 #pipelines under the #isleofwight
#shareholders are keen to make have more #money using #AONB for #American #BigOil #CarbonStorage in busiest #shippinglanes, The #EnglishChannel
#Fawley #SolentCO2PipelineProject
#StopOil
#environment
https://carbonherald.com/exxonmobil-uk-requests-approval-for-carbon-storage-in-the-english-channel/
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/exxonmobils-very-informative-consultation-events-continue-but-plans-still-being-opposed-by-locals/
https://carbonherald.com/exxon-mobil-uks-co2-pipeline-plans-uncertain-after-strong-petition/ -
@chu Unfortunately that only hurts the #littlepeople and creates increased rates and #insurance #monopolies for #bigcorporations willing to take the gamble. These states should actually hold #bigcorp accountable through financial sanctions. This includes #bigoil #bigtech #bigdata #BigEnergy
But you know, the won't because #lobbyistslinepockets
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An important thread on TwiX by @Peters_Glen
He analyses the allegedly accomplished disconnect of GDP vs CO2 . #IEA had published a SUCCESS story. Glen debunks it: The disconnect is NOT happening.
Look at all the charts Glen created
https://nitter.cz/Peters_Glen/status/1753333579801636953#m
The disconnect is not happening. And where it does a tiny bit, eg Denmark, it is nowhere near enough the rate it would need to be if one wants to desperately cling to the fairy tale of #GreenGrowth & #capitalism . GreenGrowth & #GDP growth – while #CO2 shrinks as fast as it has to – works only in theory. And only if it is done globally, without "exporting" CO2-intensive activities to regions with bad emission laws.
We now need to hit the breaks really hard. Controlled, managed #Degrowth = #PlannedEconomy from now for the next 20 years or so, followed by a #PostGrowth system.
It was simply left too long, too much CO2 accumulated due to decadent #economists spouting fairytales and #BigOil telling lies.
#Economics #climate #rations