Registrations are OPEN for the 2025 #PeoplesBlockade!
Unite in Muloobinba/Newcastle to stop coal exports at the world’s largest coal port and demand a plan to support coal workers.
#ClimateJustice #activism #protest #australia #fossilfuels #energy
More info + FAQ: www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) Chief Economist spruiking lies again. Citing ‘serious scientists’
#auspol #climatechange #fossilfuels #politics
#disinformation

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/if-we-are-to-dispense-with-fossil-fuels-the-hysterical-consensus-had-better-be-right/news-story/b848619f8597209ba0876314757d207c

https://archive.md/V3y4e

“The media & (some of) political class have convinced people a bleak future awaits their children and grandchildren unless fossil fuels are curtailed.” Because it does. Because that’s our reality. Likewise our overuse of plastics, agrochemicals, logging, building materials are destroying our planet.

No new coal or gas and more transparency

"We are hurtling towards disaster, eyes wide open […] It’s time to wake up and step up […] leave oil, coal and gas in the ground where they belong." António Guterres

"The science says we do need to rush. It is now over 30 years since the Australian government first accepted that climate change was real, was primarily caused by fossil fuels, and was an enormous risk to Australia, but centrists like Albanese are still telling us that it’s not yet time to stop building new gas or coal mines."
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https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-dangers-of-centrism-in-a-time-of-crisis-262961

Lagging federal lobbying rules leave door open for corruption and undue influence

"Opaque federal regulations give powerful interests like gambling, defence and fossil fuel sectors outsized influence over policy making. The lack of transparency and accountability risks corrupting the political decision-making process and reduces trust in our democracy."
https://transparency.org.au/lagging-federal-lobbying-rules-leave-door-open-for-corruption-and-undue-influence/
#FossilFuels #Australia #coal #denial #FossilFuelSubsidies #transparency #trust #accountability #corruption #LobbyIndustry #regulation

**I've told you all, several times, that you shouldn't trust #BCNDP & that they're #sellout #neoliberals. They pander to #CorporateLobbyists invested in #Ecocide & exploitation of unceded #IndigenousLands. #RCMPCIRG = #CorporateMercenaries funded by #PublicMonies - our #Taxpayers funds. I told you that #DavidEby was groomed by #JohnHorgan too. I wasn't lying. They both lied to public though.**

Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects.

A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legislation.

https://breachmedia.ca/rcmp-unit-controversial-police-opposition-fast-tracked-resource-projects

#FossilFuels #CleanEnergy
Tell Dominion Power to stop building dirty plants-
https://sierraclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/actions/national?actionid=ar0513654&id=70131000001iOuIAAU

#Tourism surge is driving up σpollution in #Antarctica scientists warn

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250821-surging-tourism-is-polluting-antarctica-scientists-warn

A boom in tourism over the past two decades is increasing pollution in Antarctica and accelerating the melting of snow, scientists have warned. Much of the pollution caused by the increase in human presence comes from transport powered by #fossilfuels releasing fine particles containing heavy metals into the #environment.

Corporate Greed and National Interests Torpedoed the UN Plastics Treaty

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/failed-plastics-treaty

"Heatwaves
are reaping such long-term population crashes in some regions that experts say the climate emergency has become a driver of biodiversity loss on a par with – or worse than – deforestation and habitat loss."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/20/monkeys-falling-trees-baking-barnacles-heat-driving-animals-extinction-climate

"Human-driven climate change is already reshaping biodiversity globally and may explain reported declines of birds in undisturbed tropical habitats."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02811-7
#fossilfuels #ClimateEmergency #biodiversity #GHG #pollution #ExtremeHeat #wildlife #birds #tropics #climate

They're baaacckk!

The energy war room is a little late to the game, but they’re now joining the push to convince us David Yager’s plan to shift responsibility for the costs of old oil and gas sites to the public is cool, cool.

Meanwhile, formal challenges to the AER’s decision to let fossil fuel companies pay only a fraction of skyrocketing orphan well costs are bogged down.

And Brian Jean’s Chief of Staff has been showing up at landowner meetings to defend the plan.

Here’s an end of summer update in my newsletter on what is probably more bad news coming our way this fall.

https://jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/the-war-room-defends-yagers-report?r=b0efu

What are you doing to make the world better? #ThreeGoodThings

I'll start:
- Making #FOSS easier to use
- Ditched #FossilFuels (no car, gas heat, etc.)
- Undermining the #rich folks who exploit the common people

I'm officially encouraging you to do whatever good things you can, regardless of size.

Voices arguing that climate action is a waste of time are getting louder. Here’s why they are wrong | Clear Air https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2025/aug/20/voices-arguing-climate-crisis-action-is-a-waste-of-time-are-wrong #Australianpolitics #Climatecrisis #Australianews #Environment #Fossilfuels #Energy

"Morteratsch is one of the most studied glaciers in the world, thanks to its accessibility and its dramatic retreat -- more than 2 miles in the last 165 years, driven by human-induced climate change. During our hike up the glacier, Hösli pointed to artifacts that showed just how far the glacier has retreated."

“I think walking up here and seeing the signposts, seeing where the glacier used to be a hundred years ago, 50 years ago has more of an effect than just seeing it in a picture.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/europes-melting-glaciers-signs-climate-peril-are-everywhere-rcna223824

Carbon Capture ‘Not Going to Happen,’ Top Fossil Fuel Advocate Bjorn Lomborg Predicts in May 2025 at the Fraser Institute in Vancouver.
“What you can do is you can get a lot of subsidies,” he said.
#FossilFuels #cdnpoli
https://www.desmog.com/2025/06/05/carbon-capture-not-going-to-happen-top-fossil-fuel-advocate-predicts/

Grande mobilisation de @xrnorway.bsky.social devant la raffinerie de Mongstad (Bergen)

https://www.liberation.fr/international/europe/greta-thunberg-et-200-militants-bloquent-la-principale-raffinerie-de-norvege-20250818_3ROGOYVFEJBX3OWKDS36RXR6ME/

Les activistes insistent auprès de leur gouvernement et l'interpellent : La Norvège a besoin d'un plan de sortie des énergies fossiles

Et côté gouvernement français, on a un plan "nous" ?

US pipeline protester’s obstruction conviction overturned by appeals court https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/18/mylene-vialard-pipeline-protester-conviction-overturned #Climatecrisis #Fossilfuels #Environment #Minnesota #Worldnews #USnews #Energy

#australia #climatechange #politics

David Pocock MP: Setting an emissions target without releasing the National Climate Risk Assessment is “going on a journey without a map”. How do you plan a journey when you don’t know where you’re headed?
#auspol #fossilfuels

We are set up to fail at assessing the policy if we don’t know what needs to be addressed. If we know, we will assess effectiveness & inadequacy

https://www.europesays.com/2337281/ Rystad Energy Reveals Surprising Oil Resource Trends #CO2Emissions #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #EnergyTransition #FossilFuels #GlobalEnergyOutlook #OilDemand #OilPrice #OilProduction #OilResources #PermianDelawareBasin #Petroleum #RystadEnergy #VacaMuerta

https://www.europesays.com/2337279/ Trump Moves to Open 82% of Alaska’s Petroleum Reserve for Drilling #AlaskaOilDrilling #ArcticWildlife #BidenEraRestrictions #ClimateChange #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #EnergySecurity #EnvironmentalImpact #FossilFuels #NationalPetroleumReserve #OilPrice #OilProduction #Petroleum #trump