Rishi Sunak says new #gas power 🏭 is needed to keep the lights on. Shadow energy secretary Ed Miliband says: "the reason the Tories cant deliver lower bills & #EnergySecurity we need is they're specialists in failure when it comes to our clean energy future" https://buff.ly/3TAvGyc
UK, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Denmark have failed to align #oil & #gas🛢️ policies with 1.5C #ParisAgreement climate pledge, finds Oil Change International https://buff.ly/43cL5HY
We can't safely burn the oil & gas🛢️ we already have, yet we're still looking for more | Chinese state-owned #oil & #gas giant has discovered a new reserve in the South China Sea containing 100m+ tons of oil equivalent https://buff.ly/3TgsdU6
The #AngloSaxon capitalist model ruined earth for humanity and many other species. #BigOil has been its undertaker, b/c #BigOilKnew.
If capitalism hadn't made the #GreenRevolution possible, human society would already have reached the #overshoot (1) point at the end of the last century:
In 1968, the #biologists Paul and Anne #Ehrlich wrote the book The #PopulationBomb"...
Australians are missing out on a fair share of revenue while #fossilfuel companies are making record profits and worsening the #climatecrisis.
The fact is the Australian government collects more money from students paying #HECS than it does from #gas companies paying the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT).
The Petroleum Resource Rent Tax is broken. #auspol
#FossilFuel companies continue to reward executives for increasing output of #oil & #gas, despite their public pledges to slash production & support climate goals https://buff.ly/3TfZO1l
Ärztliche Zwangsuntersuchung von Führerscheininhabern alle 15 Jahre ohne jegliche Auffälligkeit, von Brüssel vorgegeben? Grüne, Volt, ÖDP, die PARTEI waren dafür - wir konnten es aber verhindern.
Es gibt hier Argumente für beide Seiten. Da muss abgewogen werden. Das kann von Land zu Land unterschiedlich ausfallen. Deshalb sollte das vor Ort (vom Bundestag) entschieden werden und nicht von der EU über einen Kamm geschert werden.
Besonders problematisch am konkreten Vorschlag war außerdem, dass man schon in den Dreißigern zum Arzt gemusst hätte - sowas gibt es bisher m.W. kaum irgendwo in Europa.
Donald Trump is the #oil & #gas industry’s undisputed top pick for the 🇺🇸 Republican presidential nomination as energy sector donors shower his candidacy with nearly 10x the amount of $ they gave challenger Nikki Haley https://buff.ly/49Ny2Ps#lobbying
Money set aside to clean up the nation’s #oil and #gas wells covers less than 2% of the projected cost. The remainder that tab? $151.3 billion, which without swift action could fall to taxpayers. These wells are leaking nasty and dangerous stuff, which our reporters measured with special equipment. They found explosive levels of methane and toxic levels hydrogen sulfide. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-rising-cost-of-the-oil-industrys-slow-death
Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.