#resourceextraction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #resourceextraction, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mastodon.ie/@andrewg/117098562278114107
By that measure: A forest is merely the delivery mechanism for the timber, wildlife and land resources which, once extracted, generate income, rents, appreciate in value, and provide economically valuable services...
(I agree, I hate this timeline!)
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RE: https://mastodon.ie/@andrewg/117098562278114107
By that measure: A forest is merely the delivery mechanism for the timber, wildlife and land resources which, once extracted, generate income, rents, appreciate in value, and provide economically valuable services...
(I agree, I hate this timeline!)
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Some coastal cities are sinking faster than the ocean is rising. Coastal communities are facing a hidden threat that is making rising seas far more dangerous: the land beneath them is sinking. New research shows that people in densely populated coastal regions experience an average relative sea-level rise of about 6 millimeters per year, nearly three times the global coastal average. Groundwater pumping, oil and gas extraction, heavy urban development, sediment compaction, and natural geological processes are all contributing to the problem. #climate #resourceextraction #sealevelrise #subsidence
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801042824.htm
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Some coastal cities are sinking faster than the ocean is rising. Coastal communities are facing a hidden threat that is making rising seas far more dangerous: the land beneath them is sinking. New research shows that people in densely populated coastal regions experience an average relative sea-level rise of about 6 millimeters per year, nearly three times the global coastal average. Groundwater pumping, oil and gas extraction, heavy urban development, sediment compaction, and natural geological processes are all contributing to the problem. #climate #resourceextraction #sealevelrise #subsidence
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801042824.htm
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Blockades, marches and human shields: Bolivia’s farmers resist as land opened up to industry https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/15/blockades-marches-and-human-shields-bolivias-farmers-resist-as-land-opened-up-to-industry #Bolivia #farmers #Indigenous #EnvironmentalRacism #colonialism #ResourceExtraction #UNDRIP
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Blockades, marches and human shields: Bolivia’s farmers resist as land opened up to industry https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/15/blockades-marches-and-human-shields-bolivias-farmers-resist-as-land-opened-up-to-industry #Bolivia #farmers #Indigenous #EnvironmentalRacism #colonialism #ResourceExtraction #UNDRIP
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The intersection of many man-made actions - #ClimateCrisis, excessive #ResourceExtraction, #Wetlands "reclamation" - all in the interest of profit, now starting to show the actual costs.
The mystery eating Ocean Beach alive | The San Francisco Standard
https://sfstandard.com/2026/06/21/mystery-sand-ocean-beach-san-francisco-seawall/ -
The intersection of many man-made actions - #ClimateCrisis, excessive #ResourceExtraction, #Wetlands "reclamation" - all in the interest of profit, now starting to show the actual costs.
The mystery eating Ocean Beach alive | The San Francisco Standard
https://sfstandard.com/2026/06/21/mystery-sand-ocean-beach-san-francisco-seawall/ -
Every empire tells itself its resource grabs are unique, justified by necessity. From Roman grain to Persian Gulf oil, the extraction script barely changes-only the technology and rhetoric get an update. #history #geopolitics #ResourceExtraction
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from the January clearance sale of my employer:
- The Rise of Horses: 55 Million Years of Evolution from Johns Hopkins University Press (one I might just review in tandem with a more recent book on horse evolution. At some point.)
- Extraction to Extinction: Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources from @sarabandbooks.
- The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World from WH Allen. Somewhere there is a review series brewing about long-term thinking (no, not *that* sort of long-termism!)#Evolution #Horses #NaturalResources #ResourceExtraction #Environmentalism #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from the January clearance sale of my employer:
- The Rise of Horses: 55 Million Years of Evolution from Johns Hopkins University Press (one I might just review in tandem with a more recent book on horse evolution. At some point.)
- Extraction to Extinction: Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources from @sarabandbooks.
- The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World from WH Allen. Somewhere there is a review series brewing about long-term thinking (no, not *that* sort of long-termism!)#Evolution #Horses #NaturalResources #ResourceExtraction #Environmentalism #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Japan PM asks IEA to prepare additional ‘coordinated release’ of oil | Nation
The head of the International Energy Agency said …
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #afp #chemicalmixtures #economies #economy #energy #Energy(Industry) #energyeconomics #fossilfuels #glassformingliquidsandmelts #hydrocarbons #InternationalEnergyAgency #news #oils #petroleum #petroleumindustry #politics #resourceextraction
https://www.alojapan.com/1468205/japan-pm-asks-iea-to-prepare-additional-coordinated-release-of-oil-nation/ -
https://www.alojapan.com/1468205/japan-pm-asks-iea-to-prepare-additional-coordinated-release-of-oil-nation/ Japan PM asks IEA to prepare additional ‘coordinated release’ of oil | Nation #afp #ChemicalMixtures #economies #economy #energy #Energy(Industry) #EnergyEconomics #FossilFuels #GlassformingLiquidsAndMelts #hydrocarbons #InternationalEnergyAgency #Japan #JapanNews #news #oils #petroleum #PetroleumIndustry #politics #ResourceExtraction The head of the International Energy Agency said Wednesday he was “ready to move forward” with an
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NOW: Live #Diné People’s Press Conference on #NavajoGovernment Concerns
Tó Nizhóní Ání
By #ChiliYazzie, #CensoredNews
Contact: [email protected]
"A group of grassroots organizations convened in Dec 2025 to discuss concerns related to the #NavajoNation, these concerns have been formulated into position statements to be presented to the Navajo Nation leadership including the Navajo Nation Council and the Office of the President and Vice President. These positions will be presented at the Press Conference to be held in front of the Navajo Nation Council Chambers on January 27, 2026, at 9 am.
- The proposal to reform the Navajo government drafted by the Office of Navajo Government Development has been analyzed and is found to be replete with foundational issues, we are recommending that the proposal not be presented to the Navajo people as a referendum initiative as proposed by the ONGD
- The proposal by the #Trump administration to expedite natural resources #extraction with little or no #environmental review is a critical concern
- The depletion of the #waters of Navajo lands and the continued lost of water rights must be consciously and deliberately addressed by our Navajo Nation leadership
- The uninhibited incursion by the federal Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency on Indian lands and arrest and abuse of #NativeAmerican citizens is greatly concerning
Diné Grassroots Coalition is a coalition comprised of Diné community members concerned about the state of the Navajo Nation."
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/01/now-live-dine-peoples-press-conference.htmlFB:
https://www.facebook.com/tonizhoniani#USPol #BuuNygren #TrumpSucks #ICEOut #ICECrackdown #NativeAmericanNews #WaterIsLife #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ResourceExtraction #Sovereignty #NativeAmericansAreAmericans #BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople
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NOW: Live #Diné People’s Press Conference on #NavajoGovernment Concerns
Tó Nizhóní Ání
By #ChiliYazzie, #CensoredNews
Contact: [email protected]
"A group of grassroots organizations convened in Dec 2025 to discuss concerns related to the #NavajoNation, these concerns have been formulated into position statements to be presented to the Navajo Nation leadership including the Navajo Nation Council and the Office of the President and Vice President. These positions will be presented at the Press Conference to be held in front of the Navajo Nation Council Chambers on January 27, 2026, at 9 am.
- The proposal to reform the Navajo government drafted by the Office of Navajo Government Development has been analyzed and is found to be replete with foundational issues, we are recommending that the proposal not be presented to the Navajo people as a referendum initiative as proposed by the ONGD
- The proposal by the #Trump administration to expedite natural resources #extraction with little or no #environmental review is a critical concern
- The depletion of the #waters of Navajo lands and the continued lost of water rights must be consciously and deliberately addressed by our Navajo Nation leadership
- The uninhibited incursion by the federal Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency on Indian lands and arrest and abuse of #NativeAmerican citizens is greatly concerning
Diné Grassroots Coalition is a coalition comprised of Diné community members concerned about the state of the Navajo Nation."
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/01/now-live-dine-peoples-press-conference.htmlFB:
https://www.facebook.com/tonizhoniani#USPol #BuuNygren #TrumpSucks #ICEOut #ICECrackdown #NativeAmericanNews #WaterIsLife #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ResourceExtraction #Sovereignty #NativeAmericansAreAmericans #BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople
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We were promised artificial intelligence, productivity gains, personal fulfillment & extended leisure.
What we got was our personal achievents & gains turned into yet another resource that’s extracted and mined by rich people whose greed can never be satisfied.
And they installed stupid bully with a whip in power who keeps saying we should love them for it.
#ai #capitalism #resourceextraction #intellectualproperty #theft
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We were promised artificial intelligence, productivity gains, personal fulfillment & extended leisure.
What we got was our personal achievents & gains turned into yet another resource that’s extracted and mined by rich people whose greed can never be satisfied.
And they installed stupid bully with a whip in power who keeps saying we should love them for it.
#ai #capitalism #resourceextraction #intellectualproperty #theft
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Trump taps #OilIndustry insider to oversee drilling on #PublicLands
#BureauOfLandManagement nominee #KathleenSgamma heads a #FossilFuel industry trade group that sued the Biden administration over a landmark #conservation rule.
By Maxine Joselow
"President Donald #Trump has nominated oil and gas advocate #KathleenSgamma to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, the agency tasked with managing millions of acres of public lands and waters for the benefit of all Americans.
"The nomination of Sgamma, who heads a Denver-based oil and gas industry trade group called the #WesternEnergyAlliance, heralds a seismic shift in the management of roughly 245 million acres of public property — about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass.
"If confirmed by the Senate, she would be a key architect of Trump’s #DrillBabyDrill agenda alongside Interior Secretary and '#EnergyCzar' #DougBurgum. An MIT graduate who previously worked in consulting, she has advocated for the BLM to prioritize oil and gas drilling, #HardrockMining and #livestock grazing on public lands nationwide.
"A spokesman for Sgamma did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"During his first term, Trump tapped conservative lawyer William Perry Pendley to lead the BLM on an acting basis. But Trump never nominated Pendley, a vocal advocate of selling off public lands, to helm the agency on a permanent basis, prompting a rebuke from a federal judge.
"President Joe Biden in 2021 chose Tracy Stone-Manning, a prominent Montana-based #environmentalist, to lead the BLM. Earlier in her career, Stone-Manning worked on conservation policy at the #NationalWildlifeFederation and led Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality.
"Under Biden, the BLM finalized a landmark rule that sought to put conservation, #recreation and #RenewableEnergy development on equal footing with #ResourceExtraction on public lands. Sgamma’s Western Energy Alliance filed a lawsuit challenging that rule, which the Trump administration is expected to overturn.
"In an interview with The Washington Post in April, Sgamma criticized the regulation for allowing ranchers, renewable-energy developers and other interests to lease federal lands for the purpose of #conservation and #HabitatRestoration.
"We have no choice but to litigate,' she said. 'These conservation leases seem to be designed to preclude energy development on federal lands.'
#Environmentalists criticized #Sgamma’s nomination.
"'This choice shows that the new administration will leave no favor ungranted for the oil and gas industry and the wealthy #FossilFuel #executives who funded Trump’s campaign,' #AlanZibel, oil and gas research director with the liberal advocacy group #PublicCitizen, said in an email.
"#JeffEshelman, president and #CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, which represents small oil producers, praised Sgamma’s selection while critiquing the Biden administration."
Original article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/12/trump-bureau-land-management-kathleen-sgamma/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/tmTH6#selection-645.0-724.1
#USPol #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #BigOilAndGas #BigOilKnew #KillCapitalism #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #BigOilCriminals #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateCrisis
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #NoMiningOnConservationLands #DrainTheSwamp? More like, #OilUpTheSwamp!#IndepdendentPetroleumAssociationOfAmerica -
From 2019: Criminalization of #HumanRights Defenders of #IndigenousPeoples Resisting #ExtractiveIndustries in the United States
Report to the Inter-American
Commission on Human RightsPrepared by the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program on behalf of the Water Protector Legal Collective
6/24/2019
Introduction
1. Peaceful demonstrations are a catalyst for the advancement of human rights. Yet around the world governments are criminalizing dissent and suppressing public #protest, often as a means to protect #CorporateInterests. In this context, indigenous peoples increasingly find themselves as the subjects of arrests, criminal prosecution and police violence when defending the lands they rely upon for their existence and survival from #ResourceExtraction by industries who are operating without the free prior and informed consent of the affected communities.
2. This report is submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (#IACHR) in conjunction with a thematic hearing held during the 172nd period of sessions. At the hearing,
Commissioners heard directly from those involved in the indigenous-led resistance to the #DakotaAccessPipeline (DAPL) at Standing Rock, North Dakota. This report addresses the criminalization and suppression of protest by indigenous human rights defenders and their allies by United States (U.S.) federal, state and local governments, working hand-in-hand with private security forces [#Blackwater], specifically in relation to the construction and operation of #DAPL by #EnergyTransfer
Partners and Dakota Access, LLC (Dakota Access) and the connected #BayouBridgePipeline (collectively the “#BakkenPipeline”).3. Standing Rock is an emblematic case of #IndigenousResistance to extractive industry that drew attention from around the world as water protectors met on the banks of the #MissouriRiver in peaceful assembly in what was the largest gathering of indigenous peoples in the U.S. in 100 years. Standing Rock is merely one example of how the U.S. government works with industry to approve energy projects carried out without the meaningful participation or consent of
indigenous nations. Indigenous peoples are left with no choice but to peacefully protest and then are criminalized for their efforts to defend their lands and resources.4. Since Standing Rock, there has been an alarming trend by the United States government and state legislatures to criminalize opposition to pipelines and other energy projects. These #AntiProtest and so-called “#CriticalInfrastructure laws” progress towards criminalizing dissent and implicitly condone the use of excessive force towards human rights defenders, often including indigenous peoples and their allies who are at the forefront of resistance to extractive industries. As the international community has acknowledged, these laws are incompatible with domestic and international law. The governments’ use of excessive force and mass arrests to threaten, intimidate, and silence “#WaterProtectors” seeking to defend their lands, resources, and #culture, and the collusion with private security forces, violate fundamental human rights to #FreeSpeech and Aassembly enshrined in international human rights law and the #USConstitution.
5. The information provided here builds on a 2016 request for Precautionary Measures filed by the #StandingRock, #CheyenneRiver and #YanktonSioux tribes, past Commission hearings on similar matters that remain unsettled, and reports on Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Activities, and the Criminalization of #HumanRightsDefenders. In addition, the United Nations has reported on the situation at #StandingRock through the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of of indigenous peoples. Despite condemnation from these international bodies and mechanisms, water protectors continue to suffer impacts from the criminalization of their dissent, while the United States moves forward permitting new #pipeline projects on indigenous territories.
#HR9495 #StopHR9495 #CriminalizingDissent #Fascism #Authoritanism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism #BigOilAndGas #ErikPrince #ErikPrinceColonialism #Blackwater #StandWithStandingRock #NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #NoDAPL #StandingRockSioux #LandDefenders #WaterDefenders #WaterProtectors #DefendTheSacred
