#oiligarchy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oiligarchy, aggregated by home.social.
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The #PortlandME No Immunity for #BigOil rally was small, but powerful! We chanted and marched from #UselessSusanCollins office to #AngusKing 's office to #ChelliePingree 's office. Only Chellie committed to making Big Oil pay. I did NOT volunteer to go into Susan Collins' office, as I'm still on her shit-list. Met some good folks from #ThirdAct and #NRCM . It seems I was the only #MaineDSA member there, but that's okay -- a rally should have at least one card-carrying #Socialist! My hand-painted signs were a big hit. Someone asked if I hand painted #NoJobsOnADeadPlanet one. "Yup! No AI involved!" to which everyone laughed. I'm glad I went. I've been burnt out from protesting, so it was good to get my activist batteries recharged hanging out with good people!
#MainePol #USPol #ResistanceIsFertile #BigOilKnew #ClimateCrisis
#MaineEvents #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy #Polluters #MakePollutersPay #CorporatePolluters #WaterIsLife -
The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: ‘Bigger shocks are on the way’
The risks have been known, and building, for over 150 years
By PETER PRENGAMAN
Updated 9:55 AM EDT, August 24, 2026NEW YORK (AP) — "In the opening scene of American writer #KimStanleyRobinson ’s 'The Ministry for the Future,' a #HeatWave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world’s nations to unite to combat #ClimateChange .
"Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense #ExtremeWeather events like #heatwaves, #storms, #floods and #droughts. But what once seemed like the realm of fiction is now discussed as a possibility, even an inevitability.
"Warning about an 'extreme of extremes' or the 'Other Big One,' a play off the California reference of a big future earthquake, can be fraught. After all, nobody can say for sure when a weather catastrophe may happen. But in the last few years, the planetary ingredients needed for a massive disturbance have been building. And alarm is growing.
'The risk is that people just think you are exaggerating,' said #DanielSwain, a climate scientist with the California Institute for Water Resources. 'It’s the ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf’ problem. Sometimes wolves are real. If it’s outside the door, wouldn’t you want to know?' "https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-disaster-big-one-threat-5b062254250a759483c94376d32ae478
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ahELv#Oiligarchy #BigOilAndGas #BigOilKnew #Polycrisis #HungerGames #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
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Sound advice!
HOW TO SURVIVE THE GLOBAL HEATWAVE
🧃 Stay Hydrated
🍦 Treat yourself to an ice cream
✊🏼 Dismantle the #FossilFuelIndustry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small #capitalist class
👗 Loose fitting clothing
by RussellWarfield
#StayCool #ClimateChange #GlobalHeatwave #FossilFuels #Oiligarchy #Capitalism #ThePlanetIsBurning
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"He got the means, he make the harvest high
But you can count those hungry people die
We're all at the mercy
Of the greedy man within"- From "The Ballad of the Little Man, by #KarlWallinger, #WorldParty, 1986
The families going hungry because of #Trump’s #FoodStamp cutsUnder President Donald Trump’s “#BigBeautifulBill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.
by Shannon Pettipiece, May 11, 2026
#USPol #TrumpSucks #FascismInTheUSA
#Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #Fascism #Authoritarianism
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From last year...
#OnionLake #CreeNation to proceed with its legal challenge of #Alberta sovereignty act
By Lisa Johnson The Canadian Press, May 15, 2025
EDMONTON - "Alberta’s bill lowering the bar for a separation referendum has spurred a #FirstNation to push ahead with a legal challenge against the premier’s flagship sovereignty act.
"Danielle Smith has said her Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act is needed to push back on what the province believes is unconstitutional federal encroachment into provincial jurisdiction.
"But Onion Lake Cree Nation Chief #HenryLewis said that law has always been about undermining federal authority and asserting provincial control, which goes against his community’s #Treaty6 relationship with the Crown." 'I want to respectfully remind the premier that this land that we stand on today is #Treaty land and is not yours to take or make sweeping decisions about,” he said at a news conference in Edmonton on Thursday.
"He announced the legal challenge is moving forward a day after Smith’s government passed a bill significantly lowering the threshold for citizens to prompt a referendum, including one on seceding from Canada."
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https://archive.ph/qPDjh#CanPol #CanadaPol #RespectTheTreaties #LandBack #Alberta #FirstNations #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #Albertans #Mining #CorporateColonialism
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Satellite Images Reveal #MegaLeaks of Potent Greenhouse Gas
UCLA's #StopMethaneProject ranked the 25 oil and gas sites with the largest methane emissions rates worldwide.
By Ellyn Lapointe
Published March 18, 2026"Researchers with the Stop Methane Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, used data from #CarbonMapper—a non-profit that uses remote sensing technology to pinpoint and quantify methane emissions—to rank these mega-leaks. They’re spread across a small handful of countries, including the #US, with the majority in #Turkmenistan. A whopping 15 of the 25 largest leaks are concentrated in this #authoritarian state."
Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/satellite-images-reveal-mega-leaks-of-potent-greenhouse-gas-2000734990Full list:
https://stopmethane.substack.com/p/spotlight-on-the-top-25-methane-plumes#MethaneLeaks #MethaneEmissions #WorldPol #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #GreenhouseGas #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Iran #Venezuela #Texas #Pakistan
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Feds Are Downplaying #MethaneLeaks in America’s Biggest #OilField, Satellite Data Suggests
A report found #MethaneEmissions in the #PermianBasin to be nearly four times higher than #EPA estimates. A senator wants an explanation.
By Ellyn Lapointe
Published March 20, 2026"#FossilFuel extraction is a known source of #methane leaks, releasing large amounts of this potent #GreenhouseGas into the atmosphere. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency appears to be drastically underreporting emissions from the nation’s largest oil-producing region.
"Nearly half of U.S. oil comes from the Permian Basin in West #Texas and southeastern #NewMexico. The region generates more than $100 billion annually for the U.S. economy, and apparently, a whole lot of methane, too. A recent report from #MethaneSAT—a methane-sensing satellite that observed Earth from March 2024 to June 2025—found emissions from the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than the EPA’s official estimates."
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https://gizmodo.com/feds-are-downplaying-methane-leaks-in-americas-biggest-oil-field-satellite-data-suggests-2000736269#BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #USPol #TrumpSucks
#TrumpsEPA #EPAFail #ClimateChange
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#Colorado’s #OilAndGas industry is vastly underestimating #methane emissions
Jennifer Oldham
Thu, February 26, 2026 at 6:00 AM ESTExcerpt: "A unique aerial measurement campaign found that emission inventories compiled by energy companies to account for planet-warming methane leaking from equipment on Colorado oil and gas production sites undercount such #pollutants by at least two times.
"Results from the $3.25 million project, led by a team of university researchers and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, provided officials for the first time with a more complete picture of the invisible pollutant emitted from well pads. #FossilFuel extraction is the state’s second-largest source of methane pollution, which has a global warming potential roughly 80 times that of carbon dioxide during a 20-year period."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/colorado-oil-gas-industry-vastly-110014181.html
#BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #MethaneEmissions #MethaneLeaks #USPol #TrumpSucks #TrumpsEPA #EPAFail #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming