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#Oxford City Council just voted to divest from genocidal #Israel and #FossilFuels
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/25/oxford-council-israel-divest/
At an Oxford City Council meeting on Monday 24 March, councillors unanimously voted for an “ethical investment and procurement” process, specifically in connection to Israel’s ongoing genocide in #Gaza.


It is interesting how The Punter is combining physical outdoor media, online text news media, and digital video media.

#Media #AusPol #youtuber #FossilFuel #FossilFuels

https://youtu.be/CI46vQxT5vQ


Blog: Voices of #Decolonization

#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘#nuclear-is-green' deception

by William Eric Altvater, February 6, 2025

"Some First Nation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #Indigenous peoples to expand nuclear power generation capacity in #Canada.

"For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.

"Newcomers, armed with the #Colonizing tool, 'The #DoctrineOfDiscovery' and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called 'Savages,' almost totally exterminating #Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.

"Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for #capitalism, a system to make a #profit, that morphed into #greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.

"Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, #deforestation is rampant, #biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.

"As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the 'bigger, better, faster, more is never enough' mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that #FossilFuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.

"So-called '#GreenEnergy' is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.

"#NuclearPower is now being touted as being 'Green.' It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as #uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.

"When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.

"After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous #Grandmothers have labelled it 'Forever Dangerous.'

"The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the #RadioactiveWaste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.

"What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.

"Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.

"Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the 'Nuclear is Green' mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."

Eric lives in #PeskotomuhkatiNation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.

https://www.wabanakireach.org/first_nations_chiefs_shouldn_t_be_duped_by_the_nuclear_is_green_deception_by_william_altvater
#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #UraniumMining #UraniumMilling #LeaveItInTheGround #Greenwashing #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #NuclearIsNotGreen #CanadaPol #NuclearWaste #NuclearIndustry #TEPCOLies #HoltecLies #NuclearColonialism


Global sea ice falls to lowest levels since sattelite measurement began - but we are still burning fossil fuels with the promise of more to come.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/06/global-sea-ice-hit-all-time-minimum-in-february-scientists-say

#ClimateChange #Environment #Ice #FossilFuels


Wann kommt die Frage wie schädlich sind #fossilfuels wirklich?


Here's #WhatBidenDid to keep coal in the ground:

"In one of its biggest steps yet to keep #FossilFuels in the ground, the Biden administration announced Thursday that it will end new coal leasing in the #PowderRiverBasin, which produces nearly half the coal in the United States.

The bureau determined that no future coal leasing should happen in the basin, and it estimated that coal mining in the #Wyoming portion of the region would end by 2041."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/16/coal-leasing-powder-river-basin-climate/


Turns out, saving the planet isn’t profitable enough.

Norwegian energy giant Equinor announced plans to slash its renewable energy investments by half over the next two years, all while ramping up oil and gas production.

The CEO put it bluntly: "we don't see the necessary profitability in the future" in renewables.

Profit over planet, as usual.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30d4ernzqjo

#climatechange #energy #fossilfuels


Is Keir Starmer supporting the North Sea oil projects in Rosebank and Jackdaw fields in good faith?

As the newly required enhanced environmental impact statements will make it more difficult for resubmitted proposals to succeed, is Starmer calculating he can keep the right wing press off his back by supporting these oil/gas projects knowing their impact statements might scupper them?

If so, is he being clever or miscalculating the shorter term impact on public opinion?

#FossilFuels #climate


"Australia says reliance on coal-fired power drops to record low"

#Australia #Energy #FossilFuels

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-australia-reliance-coal-power.html


#ClimateChange set the table for #LosAngeles #wildfires
#GlobalWarming from burning #fossilfuels increased the likelihood of extreme fire conditions.
Today’s #climate, 2.3°F (1.3°C) above pre-industrial average, based on a 10yr ave, also increased overlap between flammable #drought conditions and strong #SantaAna winds that propelled the flames from vegetated open space into neighborhoods, killing at least 28 people and destroying or damaging more than 16,000 structures.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/climate-change-set-the-table-for-los-angeles-wildfires/


While we are certainly seeing a shift to green energy in the UK, unfortunately because storage issues remain largely unresolved, we still contract for significant back-up capacity when normal (renewable) sources of power cannot meet peak demand.

And those 60% of those back up sources remain fossil fuel assets....

If you needed an argument why investment in network storage is required, this would be in it!

#GreenTransition #GreenEnergy #fossilfuels

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/28/uk-energy-bills-fossil-fuel-power-plants-capacity-market


Recommended. I'm entranced by this creative, insightful, obvious, at the same time daring because obvious, essay about vehicles in USA. The industry is our economic strength and weakness--Kunce explores well "suckers for cars." We value our EV and hybrid carriages as we age, if regretting the removal of neighborhood trolleys, buses. Still, myths and illusions of car/truck culture persist despite impacts on health, planet.
#fossilfuels #trucks #LincolnSUV #Veblun #cool

https://open.substack.com/pub/lucaskunce/p/steel-tail-feathers?r=ct3l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false


Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt? An excerpt from Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis.

The Case for Letting Malibu Burn https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/

#ClimateChange #GOPKillsUsAll #ExxonKnew #WeAreRoasting #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #ClimateEmergency #LAFires #WildFires #USPol


#australia so fire prone #auspol

“We sound like a broken record but only because the records keep breaking,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which monitors global temperatures. “They will continue to break until we get emissions under control.”
#emissions #fossilfuels #climatechange #science

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/climate/california-fires-climate-change-disasters.html

The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change. ‘We’re in a New Era’: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Disasters.


With carbon pollution fueling hotter summers, weather whiplash, and fiercer Santa Ana winds, the dead of winter is now fire season in southern California, after the hottest year in human history.
#LAFires #climatechange #fossilfuels #climatejustice https://hillheat.news/p/big-oil-burns-down-los-angeles


"99% of existing US #coal plants are more expensive to run than replacement by local #wind, #solar, and #energy storage resources."

#renewables #batteries #FossilFuels #nuclear #auspol

https://energyinnovation.org/report/the-coal-cost-crossover-3-0/


Another expose of the #AtlasNetwork.
This is a summary of the webinar from December 2023 held by Sydney University of Technology.
#politics
#auspol #democracy
Even more relevant today with an approaching #australia federal #election.

#disinformation
“The disinformation campaign against offshore wind power in Australia comes out of the same American sources as all the other disinformation campaigns against competition for fossil fuel profits”

#money #fossilfuels
#usa #disease #AtlasNetwork #Advance #CIS

https://substack.com/home/post/p-154113679


The Mount Vernon News was family owned from 1939 until it was sold in 2020 to a “pink slime” media company with ties to conservative billionaires. Then it began publishing one-sided articles that make dubious claims about solar power.

(Published Oct. 2024)
https://propub.li/3CY5WFR

#News #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Solar #Energy #Billionaires #Journalism


Opinion | The World’s 10th Largest Economy Just Signed on to Make Climate Polluters Pay https://www.byteseu.com/599357/ #ClimateEmergency #DonaldTrump #economy #ExtremeWeather #FossilFuels #KathyHochul #NewYork
Opinion | The World’s 10th Largest Economy Just Signed on to Make Climate Polluters Pay


To be fair to Tanya Plibersek, she did come to an agreement with the Greens on more effective environmental law reform that would’ve passed in the Senate. It was blocked by politicians scared of #fossilfuels politicians.

As environmental law currently exists, she doesn’t have a legal basis to refuse the approval. #environment #law

#vote for environment / #climate #climateaction oriented independents or Greens #auspol we need a Labor minority govt


Hey folks. Shit news but we all knew it was coming. Caval ridge, Lake Vermont, and Boggabri have all been approved just now #fossilfuels #coal #gas #auspol #energy #corporategreed #money #australia
A list of the new coal approvals (listed above)


"Given that most of the country’s power is still generated from fossil fuels, this raises some obvious climate concerns. Major tech companies have started investing in next-generation energy technologies like nuclear fusion, carbon capture, and small modular nuclear reactors. But those require lead time and in some cases luck, and the same companies want new data centers now. Data center growth is already helping to extend the life of coal-fired power plants and fueling a boomlet for the gas power providers furnishing Silicon Valley titans with new turbines. There is nothing inevitable, though, about the tremendous energy demand that AI boosters say they’ll need.

“Nobody has any idea what AI electricity usage in data centers is going to be in three to four years,” says Jonathan Koomey, a researcher and consultant who studies the energy impact of internet and information technology. Electricity demand is indeed growing for the first time in over a decade, he says. Not all of that is from data centers, and larger spikes in demand are generally concentrated in places with new factories and data centers, like Virginia and Georgia. The modest overall load growth happening now, moreover, doesn’t indicate that there’s some looming crisis in which the U.S. will run out of electricity as data centers proliferate.

The bigger risk may well be that these fantastical demand projections are used to bring new fossil fueled power plants online and keep existing ones running—regardless of whether they’re actually needed. Once built, new coal or gas plants are likely to operate for decades. “When people think it’s a crisis they make big mistakes,” Koomey says. “It’s absolutely not a crisis.”"

https://newrepublic.com/article/189460/ai-data-centers-coal-fossil-fuels-energy

#USA #AI #DataCenters #FossilFuels #Energy #Electricity


Welcome good news 👇
#climateaction
“Australia will soon seal an agreement with a group of Western nations to END PUBLIC SUBSIDIES for fossil fuel export projects, drying up a key source of finance for new oil, gas and coal fields.” 👏
#climatechange #fossilfuels
Australia’s decision to formally end financial support for international projects raises pressure on major trading parties such as South Korea & Japan to do the same."
#advertising #marketing
(Why is Labor so shit at publicising their wins?
#auspol #australia #politics #government
They need to flood #media & #socialmedia with memes like the right wing do. Use the allegedly non- partisan Topham Guerin agency)

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2024/12/14/australias-clean-energy-transition-partnership-huge-win-climate