#extractiveindustries — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #extractiveindustries, aggregated by home.social.
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I can’t say I wasn’t aware of the greenwashing that’s going on on the back of the fuel tax credit (FTC) scheme, but it doesn’t hurt keeping up to date with the rorts purpetrated by our mining and extracting industry giants. This tax-payer funded rort, just keeps getting better and better despite the revelations in independent media. Not that our #Labor govt is inclined to stamp it out apparently. Seems like we can do both, meet our paultry emission targets AND pay big poluters to, well… polute some more. How inane is that. This is govt taking the rest of us for #numpties. This BS can’t be allowed to go on. We need #AlboPM to end the FTC schemes at least for big business if he’s not gutsy enough to cut the #Farmers out as well.
“The analysis by Naru Research found the top 18 FTC scheme recipients, mostly multinational iron ore mining and coal companies, collectively received $3.3 billion in credits but only faced an estimated $150 million in compliance costs under the Safeguard Mechanism.
“Australia’s biggest industrial greenhouse gas emitters are being paid to pollute,” stated researcher Tim Baxter.”
#SafeguardMechanism #ClimateAction #EmissionTargets #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #FTC #ExtractiveIndustries #FossilFuels #CarbonReductionFramework #AusPol #EnvironmentUnderThreat #NetZero
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The rush for critical minerals is repeating an ongoing history Indigenous communities know well
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RE: https://rssfeed.media/@guardianfeeds/116904768457462914
What a bunch of hypocrites (#Labor #LNP parties)… let’s all be anti-nuclear wars but bugger the non proliferation treay (#NPT) we’ve committed to if there’s a commercial deal to be made. There’s a reason why #India is not an NFT signatory and it’s not because it doesn’t like #Inspections of nuclear facilities. It has to do with #Pakistan (also no a signatory) and the nuclear threat it represents. And even if it is likely that India will abide by its commitment, it just frees up the uranium they get from other sources from non-weapons programmes to be diverted to military use. So, yes, one way or another, #Australia will contribute to weaponised uranium in India. Well done ! Bunch of #NeoLiberal lapdogs. No doubt the #MiningSector Lobby (and #Gina?) has the govt’s ear.
#AusPol #AustralianUraniumSales #ExtractiveIndustries #NuclearWeapons
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I found this via @supersquirrel !
#IndigenousLands are crucial for #ClimateMitigation and #resilience.
Research shows their health is a direct result of #IndigenousStewardship.
"As the impacts of #ClimateChange continue to escalate, a growing number of climate scientists and policymakers cite Indigenous lands as a model for their rich #biodiversity and effective carbon storage. But that recognition has not always translated into space for Indigenous leaders in climate negotiations, access to #ClimateResilience funding, or enforcement of #HumanRights standards.
"That has been the case for decades. But the problems do not stop there. New research shows that approach overlooks the key role that Indigenous knowledge and culture can play in mitigating climate change. It also reveals a dangerous misconception that has taken hold in global climate discussions: the idea that Indigenous lands are so rich because they are remote or sparsely populated.
"Nothing could be further from the truth. The health of Indigenous lands and their ability to store vast quantities of carbon stem from the stewardship of the people who inhabit them.
"That’s the finding of research from Conservation International, which shows that traditional knowledge, community protocol, and Indigenous culture play a direct role in protecting forests, wildlife, and the environment. Sushma Shrestha, who is #Indigenous #Newar from #Nepal and the study’s lead author, said the research comes at a critical time.
" 'All of humanity relies on everything that #IndigenousPeoples have to contribute and offer in terms of their lands, in terms of carbon storage, in terms of biodiversity conservation,' she said.
"The study, released as a narrative report and a peer-reviewed study, explores how #IndigenousKnowledge and practices benefit the planet. It also found that all 43 of the surveyed communities are experiencing drought, extreme weather, and other adverse impacts from climate change. More than half are affected by #ExtractiveIndustries like #mining and #logging.
"Researchers interviewed 49 Indigenous leaders from six continents about how they steward their land, which ranged from the Amazon rainforest to East African savannas and Pacific Islands. They found that traditional management practices like avoiding #overfishing, maintaining sacred spaces, watching for fires and other threats, and direct resistance against extraction contribute to the remarkable health of Indigenous territory. Ninety-six percent of respondents said they had land set aside for special uses, like spiritual practices, that also benefit the environment by protecting those spaces and ecosystems. Shrestha stressed that although each Indigenous community is distinct, there are shared lessons the entire world can learn from.
" 'It’s a time where all hands need to be on deck,' Shrestha said. 'And collectively, actions need to be taken, and indigenous peoples have been doing this on their own for a very long time.'
"The study builds on years of research that shows, among other things, that the world’s healthiest forests are on Indigenous lands and conservation efforts are more effective when they incorporate Indigenous autonomy and decision-making at every step."
Read more [includes some really good links to articles]:
https://sopuli.xyz/post/47753605#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #LandBack #CommunityMonitoring #Stewardship #TEK #IndigenousSolarPunk #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge
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#KenHenry ‘s most relevent words in his Guardian article are not about tax reforms but instead they are about the scourge of #Capitalism in large letters: “…towards investing in real restoration through shifting the responsibility for nature repair to precisely those industries that have caused the damage. Australia has spent many decades writing cheques against accounts it does not own, taking from the “natural capital” of future generations … “
So while Henry supports #Chalmers ‘ latest budget for its courage, modest as it is in imo, and accuses #GriftingCorporations of ecological genocide (rightly so), there is no finger pointing to #Labor ‘s continued financial and legislative subventions of the #FossilFuelIndustries and #ExtractiveIndustries responsible for worsening an already oversubscribed budget, withholding rightful sovereign revenue and raping a land never ceded.
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The #IndigenousAffairs section of #HighCountryNews has a lot of stories about #NativeAmericans and #ClimateChange and their fight against #ExtractiveIndustries .
https://www.hcn.org/topic/indigenous-affairs/
#NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews
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#Reciprocity, #Respect, #Relationality: Three Rs to Understand #IndigenousPerspectives on Development in the #Green conomy
By Edson Krenak, May 27, 2026
"Reciprocity is more than a practice; it is our way of life, the way of life. Instead of focusing solely on economic growth, without limit, we must pay attention to check whether all beings are enjoying life in a healthy place. Without reciprocity, the green economy will reproduce the same extractive logic it claims to overcome, and eventually fail our common home, Earth."
#IndigenousPeoples #Greenwashing #UncheckedGrowth #Capitalism #Colonialism #ExtractiveIndustries #LoveYourMotherEarth
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Diamond #mines in the #NWT are likely to follow the history of gold mines, leaving the public on the hook for costly clean-up. It is past time to make #mining companies pay. https://cabinradio.ca/290619/news/politics/what-do-ekatis-financial-troubles-mean-for-environmental-cleanup/
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Thanks to Malthus, we have focused on food as the limit to population growth. For some reason, we have failed to consider how demands on other resources may have limits that we cannot afford to cross.
The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/12/global-sand-crisis-land-reclamation-extraction?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other#Ecosystems #ExtractiveIndustries #NaturalResource #LimitsToGrowth
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Seems like #Oiligarchy has won the hearts of #Albertan #MAGA-types. If anything, there should be #LandBack to #Alberta's #FirstNations, and colonizer descendants will just have to deal with it!!!
Albertans Could Soon Vote on Whether to Separate From Canada. Here’s What to Know
by Chantelle Lee, May 5, 2026
"Many Albertans have slammed the federal Liberal government for blocking #pipeline projects and canceling oil and gas projects. The province’s economy is largely driven by its #OilAndGas extraction, as well as #mining and #quarrying."
Read more:
https://time.com/article/2026/05/05/alberta-canada-separatist-movement-referendum/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/KxxFz#Colonialism #CorporateColonialism #CanPol #CanadaPol #NoMining #ExtractiveIndustries #BigOilAndGas #FuckColonialism
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"#Canada’s northern plan and NATO’s Arctic Sentry are turning the (#Arctic) region into a new battleground and impeding #Indigenouspeople’s persistent efforts to preserve their homeland for peace and #sustainable development." https://ricochet.media/climate/carneys-plan-to-militarize-the-melting-arctic-threatens-peace-at-the-top-of-the-world/
#cdnpoli #NWT #Nunavut #Yukon #militarization #mining #extractiveIndustries #colonialism
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"A growing ( #NewBrunswick ) province-wide coalition is resisting American-backed #mining, gas, and #data centre projects they say threaten #publichealth and #Indigenous land." https://breachmedia.ca/new-brunswick-united-states-extractive-projects-mining-oil-gas-data-centres/
#climateCriminals #WaterisLife #RiseUp #nbpoli #cdnpoli #extractiveIndustries
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Another bone headed proposal designed to serve the #mining industry and wage war on a fragile #Arctic #ecosystem. The Carney Cons have been totally captured by #extractiveindustries. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-economic-security-corridor-grays-bay-benefits-9.7023113
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@gerrymcgovern Of course #IndigenousPeoples will be asked to suck it up and STFU when #extractiveIndustries endanger lands and #waters. #Norway practices #settlerColonialism too!
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"Corporate tax transparency data released yesterday by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) shows, once again, that multinational gas exporters are reaping billions from Australian resources while paying little or no tax.
“It beggars belief that a company like Santos can spend a decade selling almost $50 billion worth of gas and not pay a cent of tax on it," said Rod Campbell, Research Director at the Australia Institute.
Big gas is taking the piss and Australian governments are letting them. It has to stop."
I can't, in all honsety, add anything to the above quote, let's #EatTheRich
#Greenwashing #FossilFuels #ExtractiveIndustries #taxReform #AusPol
Read more:https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem?
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Sigh – here we go again, linking gas to national security
https://live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/10/parliament-live-senate-estimates-gets-underway-all-the-days-events-as-it-happens/
“Japanese companies routinely pay no tax or royalties for Australian gas. Same for US companies. Often, they on-sell this free Australian gas at a profit – see IEEFA estimates that this scored Japanese companies profits of AU$1 billion last year.”Not only are we not collecting a rightful amount of tax in the PRRT, we’re compelling domestic consumers to bid for domestic gas that has been allocated to future contracts with overseas on-sellers at the peril of domestic supply. We are also making it too easy for importers of our gas to do as little as possible to meet #FossilFuel reduction targets at the cost of #ClimateAction. Finally, are currently incentivising more fossilfuel #FossilFuelPropsecting and #FossiflFuelDepositDevelopment. It begs the question: ‘How can we sleep while are beds are burning?” (Quoting from #MidnighOil songbook)
#TheGreatGasLie #ProfitsBeforeClimate #Grifters #ExtractiveIndustries #Auspol #StopBurningFossilFuel
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@abcfeeds
A terrible decision that will haunt this Minister and the govt in the future. There are no plausible and environmentally friendly reasons why the extention has been granted, PERIOD -
Something else I took away from the MSN slideshow was the importance of #BuildingCommunity and perhaps embracing #Anarchy (as in "No Rulers, No Kings"). These days, the ruling class are corporate executives and greedy politicians. Certainly, many who are currently in charge are failing us and the environment!
6. Political systems cannot coordinate responses to global crises.
"Democratic governance systems designed for gradual policy adjustments cannot process the rapid, fundamental changes required to address simultaneously occurring economic, #environmental, and social crises that demand coordinated international responses exceeding current institutional capabilities. Political polarization and short electoral cycles prevent the #LongTermPlanning and #ResourceAllocation necessary to navigate systemic challenges that span decades and require #SustainedCooperation across competing #national interests.
"#InternationalCooperation continues deteriorating as #ResourceScarcity and climate impacts intensify competition between nations, while domestic political systems fragment under the stress of managing declining living standards and increasing inequality that undermine social cohesion. The failure of governance systems to facilitate necessary changes creates the kind of institutional breakdown that characterizes the transition from complex societies to simpler, more localized forms of social organization that can better adapt to resource constraints and environmental instability."
#Nationalism #Corporatocracy #NoKings #CorporateColonialism #ExtractiveIndustries #BadGovernance
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More from 1177BC...
"There are only a few instances in history of such globalized world systems; the one in place during the Late Bronze age and the one in place today are two of the most obvious examples, and the parallels -- comparisons might be a better world -- between them are sometimes intriguing.
"To give just one illustration, Carol Bell, a British academician, has observed that 'the strategic importance of tin in the LBA [Late Bronze Age] ... was probably not far different from that of crude oil today. At that time, tin is thought to have been available in quantity only from specific mines in the Badakhshan region of Afghanistan and had to be brought overland all the way to sites in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and north Syria, from where it was distrbuted to points father north, south, or west, including onward across the sea to the Agean. Bell contianues, 'The availability of enough tin to produce ... weapons grade bronze must have exercised the minds of the Great King in Hattusa and the Pharaoh in Thebes the same way that supplying gasoline to the American SUV driver a reasonable cost preoccupies an American president today!"
- Eric Cline, "1177BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed," Preface to the revised edition, page xvii.#ClimateChange #Collapse #Change #1177BC #BronzeAgeCollapse #HistoryRepeatingItself #Histodon #ExtractiveIndustries
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Will these rorts never end? How much longer are we going to transfer wealth to the #ExtractiveIndustries in their efforts to dig up Australia and line the pockets of Corporates and the #MiningMagnates ?
“The ruling opened the door for other local governments to scrutinise miscellaneous license holders, a move which the mining sector said could cost it $55 million a year.”
The WA govt is yet again caving in to #MiningSector demands. There’s no end to the #Grifting here. No end to the #ProfitScrounging.
Read more:
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"What future do we want — neocolonial domination by big corporations, or healthy communities? " https://rabble.ca/columnists/death-by-extractivism/
#Canada #extractiveIndustries #climateBreakdown #CorporateGreed #CorporateCapture
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'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams
This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis."
Brett Wilkins
Jun 16, 2025"Four wealthy nations—the #UnitedStates, #Canada, #Norway, and #Australia—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to new data published by #OilChangeInternational on Monday, the first day of the #BonnClimateChangeConference in Germany.
"Oil Change's analysis, titled #PlanetWreckers, notes that if those four #GlobalNorth nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction, 32 billion tons of carbon pollution would stay in the ground instead of being burned and released into the atmosphere, where they fuel planetary heating. That's the equivalent of three times the annual global emissions created by burning coal.
" 'A handful of the world's richest nations remain intent on leading us into disaster. This is not just hypocrisy. It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis,' Oil Change International global policy lead Romain Ioualalen said in a statement Monday.
"It is sickening that countries with the highest incomes and outsized historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis are planning massive oil and gas expansion with no regard for the lives and livelihoods at stake," Ioualalen added."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-change-report-planet-wreckers#Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #BigOilAndGas #DrillBabyDrill #LeaveItInTheGround #CorporateColonialism #FossilFuels #Fracking #Oil #Pollution #Drilling #Ecocide #USPol #CanadaPol #PetroState #ThanksBigOil #ClimateCatastrophe #BPKnew #ExxonKnew #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #OilUpTheSwamp #ExtractiveIndustries #NoPipelines #RenewablesNow #FossillFuel #NoJobsOnADeadPlanet
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@Michael_Collins
The corporatisation of the #tertiarySector is paying its dividends in the most egregious way. The neoliberal thinking that education can be run like a business and that markets would somehow nurture and develop educational institutions (in the economic sense) is shown, well and truly, to be a delusion.The sector needs to be fully funded from the public purse and left to its previous collegiate form of governance. Funding could be made available from the ‘rapping of the land’ by #ExtractiveIndustries and a sensible PRRT increase （together with cuts in tax examption allowances for #FossilFuel Exporters）。
Gumption is all that is required from our govt。
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@StephenRees Both #Ontario and #BritishColumbia have been captured by #extractiveIndustries and developers. The #corporatization of these provinces intends to roll over #humanrights, #IndigenousRights and title, #ecosystems health, and liveable #environments.
#bcpoli #onpoli #corporateCapture #RegulatoryCapture #CorporateCorruption
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@abcfeeds
Yeah, well…money talks real loud sometimes. Still, WTF?
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Gee, I was just posting about #subsidence the other day...! Different places have different reasons for it to occur, but the worst is happening in Texas -- and #BigOilAndGas extraction is part of the problem there!
Big US cities are sinking. This map shows where the problem is the worst.
by Doyle Rice
Excerpt: "How does groundwater extraction cause subsidence?
"Generally, according to a statement from Lamont-Doherty, it happens as water is withdrawn from aquifers made up of fine-grained sediments; unless the aquifer is replenished, the pore spaces formerly occupied by water can eventually collapse, leading to compaction below, and sinkage at the surface.
"In Texas, the problem is exacerbated by pumping of oil and gas, the study says."
#SinkingBuildings #SinkingCities #OilAndGas #ExtractiveIndustries