#fossilfuels — Public Fediverse posts
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The economic damage caused by carbon pollution from oil and gas produced from developing the Jacdaw& Rosebank fields would be between £119bn and £336bn in the coming decades, compared with the £28.7bn in value to the UK.
"The figures are likely to be underestimates, as they do not include losses from amplified extreme weather, sea level rise or climate deaths"
#Jackdaw #Rosebank #Oil #Gas #UKPolitics #FossilFuels #NorthSea
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Europe’s heatwaves threaten insurers’ earnings, rating agency S&P says | Insurance industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/25/europe-heatwaves-insurance-companies-earningsThe costs of climate change ripple through so many things. Yet still governments do little, thanks to the power of BigOil.
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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows
By Damian Carrington Environment editorExclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK
#Fossilfuels #Oil #Oil #Gas #Gas #Climatecrisis #Energy #Environment #Commodities #Business #TheGuardian #DamianCarringtonEnvironmenteditor
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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/25/climate-damage-economy-north-sea-oil-gas-fields-rosebank-jackdaw #FossilFuels #Oil #Oil #Gas #Gas #ClimateCrisis #Energy #Environment #Commodities #Business
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Woodside scraps long-term emissions and clean energy targets despite windfall oil profits caused by Iran war | Woodside | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/25/woodside-scraps-emissions-clean-energy-targets-australia"Australia’s biggest oil and gas company recorded a 27% increase in sales profit to $1.67bn in the six-month reporting period"
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Here's a revolutionary idea: let's ditch those pesky fossil fuels and go full retro with windmills and horses for dredging the Netherlands 🐎! Because nothing screams 'modern efficiency' like taking a time machine back to the 1700s ⏳. Next up, a steam-powered internet! 🌬️💡
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/08/could-we-dredge-the-netherlands-without-fossil-fuels #fossilfuels #renewableenergy #windpower #retroinnovation #sustainability #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/08/could-we-dredge-the-netherlands-without-fossil-fuels
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420861
#HackerNews #dredging #sustainability #fossilfuels #Netherlands #renewableenergy #lowtech
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Dopey Dan Tehan, the world's first ai-powered robot with a broad Australian accent, has been programmed by his Liberal Party to advocate drilling for gas in the far north Betaloo Basin and building pipelines to bring it down to southern states, a distance over 3,000 kms. Dan also says building transmission lines to link renewable energy projects to consumers is too expensive, so he must think drilling for gas and piping it 3,000 kms+ is cheaper than firing renewable electrons around 900 kms (SA to NSW) or 500kms (Vic to NSW)*. Yep. Even as half the northern hemisphere is burning and Reno Nevada is being evacuated after its average temperature has risen 4° in the past decade, driven by global warming. Dan's programming needs a reset. #auspol #climatechange #fossilfuels #Liberalparty
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Setting our world on fire as we stagger towards the flames.
* "This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly."
Tim Winton"The dangerous conditions climate scientists long warned of have become our common, if deeply unwelcome, experience, and season by season, our acquaintance with disorder and extremities deepens. In both hemispheres, wildfires rage right into our cities and incinerate entire neighbourhoods. Marine heatwaves are bleaching corals and cooking seagrasses on a global scale. This northern summer has brought temperatures most Europeans associate with the Australian desert. Heat events in Europe have paralysed whole countries, destroyed infrastructure and killed citizens in their thousands."
"There’s nothing accidental or inadvertent about what we’re all suffering through together. We’ve had enough time now and have sufficient expertise to understand that this is not a natural calamity. This is something that is being done to us. Knowingly. Which makes it a crime." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2026/aug/24/this-is-not-a-natural-calamity-it-is-being-done-to-us-knowingly* Our habituation to horror and violence: Paul Virilio's concept of the "integral accident" refers to a global, systemic catastrophe triggered by instantaneous telecommunications and hyperconnected technologies, rather than a localized mechanical failure. >>
The Original Accident, Paul Virilio >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-original-accident--9780745636139
#FossilFuels #climate #progress #techne #IntegralAccident #ManMadeCollapse #habituation #experience #GlobalHeating #HotOcean #Heatwaves #ClimateFiasco #crime #ClimateCosts #FossilFuelIndustry #disasters #malpractice #denial #parrhesia #journalism #habitability #loss -
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Why #Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by #HeatWaves
Whole planet is warming, but changes in #weather patterns could help explain why continent is suffering so many bouts of severe heat.
“We’ve said for years that the burning of #fossilfuels will continue to warm the planet,” said Matt Patterson, a research fellow in #climate science and machine learning. “It’s the fossil fuels that’s causing this,” Dr. Patterson said. “In some sense, it’s that simple.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/climate/europe-heat-waves-jet-stream.html
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Mission impossible? Quantifying military emissions / Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Die #Ölkonzerne arbeiten weiter mit Hochdruck am #Klimaschutz und verteuern schleichend die Betriebskosten der #Verbrenner.
Der Erfolg lässt sich an steigenden Neuzulassungszahlen für #Elektroautos ablesen.
Tolle Sache. 🤪
https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Preis-fuer-E10-naehert-sich-Rekordhoch-id31223770.html
#endfossilfuels #fossilfuels #fossileRohstoffe #EAuto #Elektroauto #Antriebswende #Elektromobilität #Ladeinfrastruktur
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Let’s call this the MAD Ages, as the mad King is trying to accelerate the burning of fossil fuels and take control of its market to use it to leverage a politics of racketeering not transactional, as global warming is not mediated. In fact it is Increasing the likelihood of biosphere collapse so is an ecocide programme and against the interests of the people! #TheMADAges #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #Ecocide #Entropy #Accelerate #FascistsHell
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Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs
By Michael JacobsCarbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the price
#Fossilfuels #Climatecrisis #Energy #Oilandgascompanies #Environment #CarboncaptureandstorageCCS #Energyindustry #Gas #Oil #TheGuardian #MichaelJacobs
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Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/24/andy-burnham-rosebank-carbon-capture-storage-north-sea-uk-net-zero-commitments #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #Energy #OilAndGasCompanies #Environment #CarbonCaptureAndStorageCcs #EnergyIndustry #Gas #Oil
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How much more are you spending on petrol since the war in Iran began? | US-Israel war on Iran News
EXPLAINER At least 145 countries have reported increases in petrol prices since the attacks on Iran by the…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #BusinessandEconomy #Conflict #Economy #Energy #Explainer #Fossilfuels #Infographic #interactive #Iran #US-IsraelwaronIran
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A car park with 10,000 spaces - in the mud
Amazing picture! Parking, as far as the eye can see.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/mundi-mundi-bash-continues-despite-rain-and-flooding/107050906
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Climate change and corruption are also driving up interest rates
Climate costs will dwarf AI* "...Trust in all institutions, including governments, is in decline, in tech companies as protests break out over data centres on top of anxiety about the impact of AI, and in governments, because of corruption."
"Transparency International has just released its corruption perception indices for 2025, and it's getting worse almost everywhere, including Australia, down from 10th to 12th place."
"The widespread popular dissatisfaction with the working of modern American capitalism may be the product of some real, objective problems in the way American capitalism is working: income and wealth inequality on a scale not seen in a century; the concentration of economic, cultural and increasingly political power in a class of technology leaders whose products are dissolving the bonds that keep society together; the tightening nexus between business elites and the people who control the political process; rampant corruption and a political establishment that doesn't seem interested in accountability; the revival, after decades of stable prices, of inflationary pressures that are pushing the cost of living to painful levels.” The Wall Street Journal editor, Gerard Baker
"..Temperatures would be various degrees of catastrophic … and expensive, for governments, companies and households." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/climate-change-and-corruption-are-also-driving-up-interest-rates/107068768* 'Exceptional' summer heatwaves in Europe hurting economy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/summer-heatwaves-in-europe-hurting-economy/107054578
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"But the US narrow merchandise trade deficit only exists because the US buys so much of its energy from Canada. Canada fuels American growth, supplying 99 percent of their natural gas imports, 85 percent of their electricity imports, 60 percent of their crude oil imports. I don’t think they want us to stop sending any of that energy."
#MarkCarney, 2026
https://thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-why-i-rejected-trumps-trade-deal/
Well that's something I didn't know. Doesn't make Canada the good guys though.
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The end of Latrobe Valley coal – in pictures
By Jesse ThompsonOnce the economic lifeblood of the region, Latrobe Valley’s coal industry is in terminal decline. Jesse Thompson’s photographic project aims to document this period of rapid change and examine the legacy that is being left behind
#Australianews #Coal #Environment #Fossilfuels #Energy #Photography #TheGuardian #JesseThompson
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The end of Latrobe Valley coal – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/gallery/2026/aug/24/the-end-of-latrobe-valley-coal-in-pictures #AustraliaNews #Coal #Environment #FossilFuels #Energy #Photography
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@TheBreadmonkey Dow will sell you 10% biodegradable plastics, claiming 90%.
Yay petrochemicals and #FossilFuels #Oligarchy!
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@urlyman it doesn't necessarily require #FossilFuels. It requires fossil fuels if we want to do it quickly and at scale, but we cannot do it quickly and at scale because that will surely tip us over the edge into an unsurvivable climate.
So we're going to have to do it gradually, mainly with recycled metals, over a much longer period (centuries). I do believe that's possible, but it means the total material wealth of the planet will be much lower in the interim.
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What Energy Really Costs in Land: Looking Beyond the Fence Line
Why land area only matters when you count all the land that energy really uses
Arguments about land use in energy often begin with a photograph and end with a conclusion. A gas-fired power station occupies a compact industrial site. A nuclear station sits within a relatively small, well-defined boundary. A solar farm spreads across fields, while wind turbines may be visible across an entire landscape. From the fence line, the answer appears obvious: conventional generation is compact, while renewables are land hungry.
The observation is real, but the conclusion is often misleading because it counts only the land that can be seen. Modern energy systems are not simply power stations; they are supply chains. Every source of electricity requires some combination of mining, processing, transport infrastructure, maintenance, waste handling and eventual decommissioning. Looking only at the generating facility ignores much of the land required to support it.
This creates a problem in public debate. People often talk about “land used by energy” as though it were a single, obvious measure. In reality they are usually discussing one of three very different things. The first is the land physically occupied by the generating facility. The second is the land occupied throughout the entire lifecycle of producing a unit of electricity. The third is the ecological opportunity cost of that occupation: what other functions that land can still perform while the energy system is present.
All three questions are legitimate. None can safely be substituted for another.
The fence-line view
If the discussion is restricted to the generating site itself, then gas and nuclear perform exceptionally well.
A modern combined-cycle gas turbine plant can produce very large quantities of electricity from a remarkably compact site. Nuclear stations achieve something similar through the extraordinary energy density of uranium and their high utilisation rates. Ground-mounted solar, by contrast, requires substantially more surface area.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero estimated that, at the end of September 2024, ground-mounted solar installations occupied around 21,200 hectares across the United Kingdom, representing approximately 0.1% of the nation’s total land area. Typical projects occupy around 2.25 hectares per megawatt of installed capacity, although individual sites vary significantly.
These figures often appear in criticisms of solar farms, but it is important to be clear about what they mean. They describe the area contained within the solar development boundary. They do not describe the total land required to provide solar electricity, nor do they describe land that has necessarily been removed from all other uses.
This distinction becomes obvious when nuclear is added to the comparison.
One of the most comprehensive studies of electricity land use examined around 1,400 observations across 73 countries and 45 US states. It found nuclear to be the most land-efficient source of electricity generation in its dataset, with a median land-use intensity of approximately 7.1 hectares per terawatt-hour generated annually. That made nuclear dramatically more land efficient than ground-mounted solar and significantly more land efficient than coal.
If the question is simply “which technology generates the most electricity per hectare of generating site?”, nuclear wins and gas performs extremely well. On that narrow metric, critics of solar farms are broadly correct.
The problem is that this metric only captures the final stage of the energy system.
Looking beyond the power station
Once the boundaries are expanded beyond the generating facility, the picture becomes much more nuanced.
Gas generation depends upon a continuing industrial landscape that extends well beyond the power station itself. Every unit of electricity requires gas to be extracted, processed, compressed, transported and ultimately burned. This requires wells, gathering systems, access roads, processing plants, compressor stations and pipelines, many of which extend across large geographic areas.
The generating station may remain small, but the supporting infrastructure does not.
Research into natural gas infrastructure has demonstrated why this wider perspective matters. One study found that roads and pipelines accounted for more than a third of the directly affected habitat footprint associated with gas extraction activities. The authors concluded that these linear features should be considered alongside extraction facilities when assessing environmental impact because they contribute significantly to habitat fragmentation.
This does not mean gas suddenly becomes the worst-performing technology. It does mean that comparing the complete fenced area of a solar farm with only the turbine hall of a gas station is not comparing like with like.
Nuclear tells a different story. Like gas, nuclear has upstream requirements that are invisible from the generating site. Uranium must be mined, processed, enriched and manufactured into fuel. Nuclear facilities must eventually be decommissioned, and wastes must be managed for the long term. Yet even when these stages are included, nuclear remains one of the most land-efficient energy technologies available.
Solar presents the opposite pattern. Manufacturing panels requires materials, mining and factory infrastructure, but once the system is built there is no ongoing fuel extraction. No wells have to be drilled. No pipelines have to be maintained. No raw fuel has to be supplied throughout the next thirty or forty years of operation. Most of the lifecycle impact occurs before operation begins.
Not all hectares are equal
Even lifecycle land occupation does not tell the whole story.
A hectare occupied by a solar farm is not necessarily equivalent to a hectare occupied by a mine, a gas field, a road corridor or an industrial estate. The crucial question becomes not simply how much land is occupied, but what remains possible on that land while the energy system is present.
This is where ecological opportunity cost becomes important.
A wind farm may extend across a large geographic area, yet much of the intervening land remains available for agriculture. A solar farm may support sheep grazing, species-rich grassland, improved hedgerows and pollinator habitat. A gas pipeline corridor may occupy a comparatively small total area while simultaneously fragmenting habitats across a much wider landscape. A surface mine may transform ecosystems entirely.
The difference between land occupied and land lost is therefore critical.
So what is the right comparison?
The mistake in many energy debates is to use one metric for one technology and a different metric for another. Solar farms are usually assessed by counting every hectare within their development boundary. Gas power stations are often assessed only by counting the power station itself. Wind farms are frequently criticised using their entire spacing area, while coal stations are discussed without reference to the mines that feed them.
None of these comparisons are fair.
The correct approach is to apply the same system boundary to every technology. Either count only the generating facility for all technologies or count the full lifecycle for all technologies. Either focus on site occupation or focus on ecological outcomes. Mixing the approaches inevitably produces misleading results.
The useful question is not “How much land can I see?” but “How much land does the entire energy system occupy, for how long, and what can that land still do?”
Once those questions are separated, land use becomes a meaningful environmental metric rather than a convenient photograph.
Sources
- Lovering et al. (2022) Land-use intensity of electricity production and tomorrow’s energy landscape, PLOS ONE.
- Ritchie (2022) How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?, Our World in Data.
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (2024) Land Utilised by Solar PV.
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (2025) Ground-mounted Solar Energy Plants: Predicted Land Use.
- House of Commons Library (2025) Planning for Solar Farms.
- UNECE (2021) Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Options.
- Gibon (2022) Corrigendum to UNECE Integrated Life-cycle Assessment of Electricity Sources: Land Use.
- Jones et al. (2014) Quantifying Habitat Impacts of Natural Gas Infrastructure to Facilitate Biodiversity Offsetting.
- The Wildlife Trusts (2025) Impacts of Ground Mounted Solar Farms on Biodiversity.
- Cagle et al. (2023) Standardized Metrics to Quantify Solar Energy-Land Relationships.
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London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? | Low emission zones | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-airSimple: Big Oil doesn't like it.
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Drill, Burnham, drill? The oil basin that is a totem for Trump - and a headache for Britain’s new PM
By Matthew Taylor Environment correspondentNorth Sea oil, once the driving force of the UK economy, may be dwindling but it remains a symbol of prestige and a rich resource for political debate
#Fossilfuels #Energy #Oil #Gas #Renewableenergy #Energyindustry #Oilandgascompanies #Labour #Politics #Oil #Environment #Commodities #UKnews #Business #Scotland #TheGuardian #MatthewTaylorEnvironmentcorrespondent
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The idiocy of the Trump regime is endless. The only way to create any resiliency here in the face of upcoming global fossil fuel shortages would be to shore up a North American alliance, where the combined resources of the USA/Canada/Mexico's oil, natural gas and refinery productions, along with markedly reduction of diesel & lng exports, could keep us in relatively better (even if not good) economic outlook, versus the rest of the globe. But instead the MAGAts are doubling down on tariffs & refined fuels exports, alienating allies, & dooming the US public to massive inflation & job loss, all so a few fossil fuel corporations can reap record profits on lower volume.
#Idiocracy #kleptocracy #economics #fossilfuels #tariffs #maga #trump #canada #usa #mexico #iran #war #globaleconomy #trade
