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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. NYC pension system will be in better hands after Brad Lander’s departure as city comptroller

    Brad Lander won’t be New York City comptroller much longer — and that’s good news for Gotham’s rank…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Personalfinance #AlvinBragg #BlackRock #BradLander #Business #exxonmobil #LarryFink #PersonalFinance #ZohranMamdani
    newsbeep.com/us/321739/

  7. Nu op Mayonaise: Noorwegen zwemt in olie, Nederland keek toe – hoe Statoil de welvaart veiligstelde | Noorwegen beheerde zijn olie-inkomsten via staatsbedrijf Statoil (nu Equinor) en een strikte belasting van 78%, waardoor miljarden naar het Noorse oliefonds gingen | #vergelijking #Noorwegen #overheid #Statoil #economie #Equinor #Shell #staatsbedrijf #olieindustrie #duurzaamheid #publiekerijkdom #oliefonds #Groningen #nederland #gaswinning #ExxonMobil #energiebeleid

    bit.ly/4qd3Q9x

  8. From 2021... This started before #Trump, but things are way worse now!

    #AntiProtestLaws Threaten #Indigenous and #Climate Movements

    #CriticalInfrastructure” laws in over a dozen states wrongly invoke national security to justify targeting #PipelineProtesters.

    Kaylana Mueller-Hsia, March 17, 2021

    "In 2016 as a member of Congress, #DebHaaland stood for four days in solidarity with protesters at the #StandingRockSioux Reservation against construction of the #DakotaAccessPipeline. Today, as the first #NativeAmerican to be the secretary of the interior — the first to lead any cabinet department — she has the opportunity to support the #FirstAmendment rights of the protesters she joined in the past.

    "With her authority over energy development on federal lands, Haaland can be a voice for Indigenous and climate movements facing an urgent threat: the rapid spread of laws to protect 'critical infrastructure' that single out activists.

    "Since 2016, 13 states have quietly enacted laws that increase criminal penalties for trespassing, damage, and interference with infrastructure sites such as oil refineries and pipelines. At least five more states have already introduced similar legislation this year. These laws draw from national security legislation enacted after 9/11 to protect physical infrastructure considered so 'vital' that the 'incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety.'

    "Many industry sectors are designated critical infrastructure, including food and agriculture, energy, water and wastewater, and communications, but most state critical infrastructure laws focus more narrowly on oil and gas #pipelines. While protecting critical infrastructure is a legitimate government function, these laws clearly target environmental and Indigenous activists by significantly raising the penalties for participating in or even tangentially supporting pipeline trespassing and property damage, crimes that are already illegal. Many laws are modelled on draft legislation prepared by the American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as #ALEC, a powerful lobbying group funded by #FossilFuel companies like #ExxonMobil and #Shell.

    "Central to the new critical infrastructure laws are increased criminal penalties and vague, broad definitions that could discourage protest and particularly, nonviolent civil disobedience. Many laws make any 'damage' to or 'interference' with a facility deemed critical infrastructure a felony. Under #Ohio’s law, trespass with the purpose of 'tampering' with a facility is a third degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. In Indiana, a felony conviction is applied for any facility trespass, a crime that is typically a misdemeanor or fine.

    "Vague language like 'damage,' 'tamper,' and 'impede' in critical infrastructure laws makes it unclear if, for example, knocking down #SafetyCones and starting a fire next to a natural gas facility are the same under the law. Many critical infrastructure laws do not clarify if they apply only to land a company fully owns or also to pipeline easements, which run through both public and private lands. At least some laws apply to both. Only a week after Louisiana’s critical infrastructure law was enacted, opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline were charged with trespassing for boating on public waters on the border of a pipeline easement.

    "The combination of overly broad language and steep penalties in critical infrastructure laws make it likely that future activists and supporting organizations will be discouraged from exercising their First Amendment-protected protest rights. A lawsuit brought in response to the #BayouBridge charges will test the laws for the first time on First Amendment grounds.

    "Many of these laws even extend beyond the protesters. In a proposed law in #Minnesota, anyone who 'recruits, trains, aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires' someone to trespass without a 'reasonable effort' to prevent the trespassing is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. In #Oklahoma organizations that conspire with perpetrators are liable to be fined up to $1 million. These laws may infringe on the freedom of association protected under the First Amendment. Indeed, the Supreme Court ruled that the illegal actions of a few individuals do not implicate an entire group.

    "The criminalization of environmental protest is fueled by federal security agencies and oil and gas companies, who are often major political donors. For years, the Department of #HomelandSecurity and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have labelled activists at infrastructure sites as #DomesticTerrorists and violent extremists in order to justify further #surveillance and #policing. Government documents have been released that detail the FBI’s focus on '#AnimalRights / #EnvironmentalExtremism,' describing even #NonviolentProtesters as #extremists.

    "At Standing Rock, a private security firm [#Blackwater] hired by the pipeline companies consistently referred to protesters as 'terrorists' while working with law enforcement. Ahead of the #KeystoneXLPipeline protests in 2018, #DHS agents held an '#AntiTerrorism training' for state and local authorities. In contrast, members of the #FarRight militant group the #ThreePercenters have established a significant presence at oil and gas plants with little law enforcement reaction.

    "To be sure, as the recent power outages in Texas showed so vividly, the United States needs reliable energy. But it’s questionable whether pipeline construction sites that could feasibly be moved or replaced with renewable energy sources should legitimately be considered 'vital' to the energy grid. Furthermore, a singular focus on this aspect of security comes at the cost of others. Whose essential resources do pipeline projects protect and whose do they threaten? Black Americans are disproportionately likely to live near natural #GasPipelines and experience higher #CancerRisk due to unclean air. An oil spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline could devastate the #SiouxTribe’s water source. Meanwhile, on some reservations, 10 percent of households lack electricity and as many as 40 percent of households must haul water and use outhouses. The well-being of these communities must count too.

    "The rise in critical infrastructure laws may foreshadow more anti-protest legislation to come. A similar wave of anti-protest laws has already begun in response to the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests. State legislators contemplating critical infrastructure laws should bear in mind that laws that criminalize trespassing and protect the safety of construction workers and law enforcement already exist. Critical infrastructure laws don’t fill an unmet need — they only raise the penalties for specific groups of people. Courts adjudicating #FirstAmendment challenges in the coming years should recognize that these laws are overbroad and impose disproportionately severe penalties that chill freedom of assembly and association.

    "As secretary of the interior, Haaland promises to uplift the voices of Indigenous and climate protesters in the Biden administration. State legislators, law enforcement, and the fossil fuel industry should follow suit and listen to these activists rather than suppressing constitutionally protected activity under the guise of national security."

    Source:
    brennancenter.org/our-work/ana

    #BrennanCenter #Authoritarianism #Fascism #NoDAPL #NoKXL #PipelineProtests #WaterIsLife #ACAB #ErikPrince #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ExxonLied #Blackwater #StandWithStandingRock #StandingRockSioux

  9. 36 empresas de #combustiblesfósiles son las causantes de la mitad de las emisiones en todo el mundo

    https://elperiodicodelaenergia.com/36-empresas-de-combustibles-fosiles-son-las-causantes-de-la-mitad-de-las-emisiones-en-todo-el-mundo/

    Petroleras, productoras de #carbón o #industriales se encuentran en el listado de las compañías más contaminantes que elabora #CarbonMajors.

    Un nuevo análisis de los últimos datos de emisiones de la base de datos Carbon Majors revela que las emisiones de los mayores productores de #petróleo, #gas, #carbón y #cemento del mundo aumentaron en 2023 en comparación con 2022, y más del 50 % de estas emisiones se vincularon a solo 36 empresas.

    A pesar de la abrumadora evidencia científica que relaciona las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero con el catastrófico #calentamientoglobal, 93 de las empresas de la base de datos Carbon Majors aumentaron sus emisiones en 2023, incluidas 50 empresas privadas.

    Estas son las principales conclusiones del informe:

    Las empresas estatales dominaron las emisiones globales en 2023. 16 de los 20 principales emisores son de propiedad estatal y, en general, los emisores estatales contribuyeron con el 52 % de las emisiones globales en 2023.

    Las empresas #chinas contribuyeron significativamente más que las empresas de cualquier otra nación. Produjeron el 23% de las emisiones globales de #CO2 de combustibles fósiles y cemento en 2023, manteniendo el liderazgo que tenían en 2022.

    Las emisiones de cemento están aumentando significativamente. Cuatro de las cinco empresas con los mayores aumentos relativos de emisiones en 2023 fueron cementeras (#HolcimGroup, #HeidelbergMaterials, #UltraTechCement y #CRH), siendo las emisiones de cemento las que registraron el mayor aumento relativo entre los cuatro tipos de materias primas. Ninguna empresa cementera figura entre los cinco mayores emisores en general.

    "Es verdaderamente alarmante que las mayores empresas de combustibles fósiles sigan aumentando sus emisiones ante el empeoramiento de los desastres naturales causados ​​por el #cambioclimático, haciendo caso omiso de la evidencia científica de que estas emisiones nos están perjudicando a todos. Está más claro que nunca que las empresas privadas sucias, impulsadas por las ganancias y el statu quo, nunca optarán por autorregularse", afirma #TzeporahBerman, fundadora y copresidenta de la Iniciativa del Tratado de No Proliferación de Combustibles Fósiles.

    Los cinco principales emisores estatales (#SaudiAramco, #CoalIndia, #CHNEnergy, #NationalIranianOilCo. y #JinnengGroup) fueron responsables del 17,4 % de todas las emisiones de CO2 en 2023 (7,4 GtCO2e). Cabe destacar que Coal India, CHN Energy, National Iranian Oil Co y Jinneng Group aumentaron sus emisiones en 2023 en comparación con 2022.

    Los cinco principales emisores propiedad de inversores privados (#ExxonMobil, #Chevron, #Shell, #TotalEnergies y #BP) representaron el 4,9% de las emisiones globales de CO2 en 2023 (2,2 GtCO2e).

    El conjunto de datos Carbon Majors cubre las emisiones desde 1854 hasta 2023, y revela que el 67,5 % de las emisiones industriales #antropogénicas de CO2 desde la #RevoluciónIndustrial se pueden rastrear hasta 180 entidades productoras #estatales y #corporativas en la base de datos.

    #Leyendo #Ciencia

  10. #BigOil firms knew of dire effects of #FossilFuels as early as 1950s, memos show

    Newly unearthed documents contain warning from head of #AirPollutionFoundation, founded in 1953 by oil interests

    Dharna Noor
    Tue 12 Nov 2024 10.00 EST

    "Major oil companies, including #Shell and precursors to energy giants #Chevron, #ExxonMobil and #BP, were alerted about the planet-warming effects of fossil fuels as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents show.

    The warning, from the head of an industry-created group known as the Air Pollution Foundation, was revealed by Climate Investigations Center and published Tuesday by the climate website DeSmog. It represents what may be the earliest instance of big oil being informed of the potentially dire consequences of its products.

    "'Every time there’s a push for #ClimateAction, [we see] fossil fuel companies downplay and deny the harms of burning fossil fuels,' said Rebecca John, a researcher at the Climate Investigations Center who uncovered the historic memos. 'Now we have evidence they were doing this way back in the 50s during these really early attempts to crack down on sources of pollution.'"

    Read more:
    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n

    #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ExxonKnew #BPKnew #ShellOilKnew #ExxonLied #ClimateCatastrophe

  11. #ExxonMobil plan to dismantle and recycle offshore #oil and #gas facilities in #Gippsland #wetlands has sparked concerns about #environmental impacts and risks to #marine life. With 60,000 tonnes of steel and contaminated #waste involved, stakeholders worry about potential #pollution and damage to the #ecosystem. Despite federal and state regulations, the project raises questions about accountability and compensation for locals.
    #fossilfuels #EnvironmentalCrime #ToxicWaste
    smh.com.au/environment/climate

  12. In Mosambik ist eine Islamistenmiliz in die Küstenstadt Palma eingedrungen und hat dort wahllos um sich geschossen. Der Energiekonzern Total bringt 1000 Mitarbeiter in Sicherheit.
    Lage in Mosambik eskaliert nach Milizenangriff | DW | 28.03.2021 #Mosambik #Islamisten #Überfall #Palma #Totale #Evakuierung #ExxonMobil #CaboDelgado