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BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2026-04-22 · 21:45 UTC

Are Aussies being fleeced over gas profits?! Yes! What should we be doing instead?
"Even considering our usual slavish enthusiasm for giving all our shit to billionaires for free this is bad.' " First Dog on the Moon >
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/apr/22/are-aussies-being-fleeced-over-gas-profits-yes-what-should-we-be-doing-instead
#FossilFuels #tax #extractivism #OilandGas #SubimperialEnforcer #education #austerity #HealthCare #NDIS #cutbacks #Australia

#fossilfuels #tax #extractivism #oilandgas #subimperialenforcer #education

BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2026-04-22 · 08:01 UTC

Foreign companies are making billions off Australia’s gas. It’s time that changed

"While the gas is extracted from beneath Australian soils, the profits go almost entirely to large multinational companies. Research suggests gas companies have made roughly $A149 billion from exports in just four years. Only a small percentage of this profit has been taxed."

"That’s why some politicians, think tanks and environmental groups are pushing for a 25% tax on gas exports.For decades, we’ve allowed foreign companies to earn billions of dollars from our gas sector, and to be taxed very little." >>

https://theconversation.com/foreign-companies-are-making-billions-off-australias-gas-its-time-that-changed-281010
#extractivism #OilandGas #FossilFuels #Tax #SubimperialEnforcer #education #austerity #HealthCare #cutbacks #CuttingCosts #Australia #NDIS

#extractivism #oilandgas #fossilfuels #tax #subimperialenforcer #education

BellingenNSW @[email protected] · 2026-04-13 · 02:06 UTC

The United States is destroying itself - Rebecca Solnit

"Although there are far worse things about the utterly gratuitous and literally unjustified war on Iran, the fact that it burns through billions a day is striking, given that huge cuts are being made to environmental protection and national parks, and the forest service is being effectively sabotaged, while public lands are being offered up to fossil fuel companies and mining interests. The forest service headquarters are being moved across the country, which will probably cause many resignations, like the similar move of the Bureau of Land Management in Trump’s first term. More than 50 forest service research stations are being cut, meaning more loss of irreplaceable ongoing research, data, facilities and staff." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction

The list rings a bell...

#destruction #environment #conservation #biodiversity #PublicLands #FossilFuelIndustry #FossilFuels #climate #NationalParks #forests #science #democracy #UltraWealthy #cutbacks #msm #extractivism #mining

#destruction #environment #conservation #biodiversity #publiclands #fossilfuelindustry

Osna.FM @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 02:24 UTC

Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche (CDU) has signalled that the German government will allow industry to emit more CO₂. "We have advised the Commissio... https://news.osna.fm/?p=39940 | #news #advocates #cutbacks #ets #eu