Unsurprisingly, the Government doesn’t like to draw attention to the fact that since the 2022 election:
It has approved four new coal projects.
It has approved the drilling of 116 new coal seam gas wells.
It has sat in court with coal companies and defended its right not to consider the climate impact of opening new fossil fuel projects.
The Government has passed legislation at the request of gas companies specifically designed to expedite their expansion. This is not hyperbole. The transcripts and documents are there in black and white.
The Government has stacked the agencies legislated to oversee and shape Australia’s climate policies — including the Net Zero Authority and the National Reconstruction Fund — with industry interests and surrounded them with a fortress-like bureaucracy, impervious to public scrutiny. It has left a former gas executive in charge of the Climate Change Authority.
The Prime Minister and various ministers have flown to India, Japan, Korea, and (just this month) Vietnam to lock in customers for our gas and coal. The media releases never mention that either. Australia is one of the world’s largest fossil fuel exporters, and the Government is subsidising, legislating, and using the full weight of our foreign policy to ensure we stay that way. Because Governments are very effective at making very big things happen very quickly when they want to.
The Australian Government has lobbied UNESCO to stop the Great Barrier Reef from being listed as “in danger”. This is as it is in the grip of another mass coral bleaching event.
The Australian Government has refused to end native forest logging. Despite the carbon it would store and the very real risk of extinction to the koala and the swift parrot. It has left the protection of our collapsing ecosystems to the market. It has put far more energy into talking about being ‘nature positive’ than doing anything about it.
The federal Labor government alone still gives over $9 billion in subsidies to fossil fuels. It has committed $1.5 billion to a gas export hub in the Northern Territory. One single gas export hub is getting half of what Australia has committed to global climate finance over five years.
Pedal-electric Hopper may be the German "car" you didn't know you wanted.
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The rider's pedaling power is augmented by a 250-watt rear hub motor, taking the Hopper up to a top speed of 25 km/h (16 mph). The motor is powered by a removable 30-Ah/48V/1,440-Wh lithium-iron-phosphate battery, which is claimed to be good for a range of approximately 65 km (40 miles) per charge. An optional rooftop solar panel should help boost that figure.
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In order to minimise maintenance and mechanical complexity, the Hopper utilises an electronic pedal-by-wire system instead of a traditional chain-drive drivetrain.
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Such systems work by having the rider spin up a generator as they pedal. Doing so converts their mechanical energy into electrical energy, which is fed into the motor. That motor converts the electrical energy back into mechanical energy, which is used to turn the wheel.
"The final option would be a “fire sale” of his properties, including office towers, golf courses and resorts, but the brief argues this “would inevitably result in massive, irrecoverable losses.”
A couple years ago I was one of the first people on the scene of an accident on #bchwy4 where a large cargo truck ran into a semi truck trailer. The driver of the cargo truck was hurt and had to be attended to by EMT. The semi trailer never stopped and left the scene, it passed me just a few hundred metres from where the accident happened before I got there.
A few days later I got a call from ICBC asking if I could provide any information. I sent a detailed description of where I saw the semi trailer, what state it was in, etc.
A few weeks later I got a random phone call from ICBC thanking me for the report and indicating that it had a major impact. I suspect that it proved that the person who was hurt was not responsible... or it proved the identity of the truck that left the scene.
All to say... if you see something that the authorities might be interested in, report it! You never know who you might help.
The stories keep coming and going and people keep forgetting about them and moving on they fall flat for the next lie coming out of this genocidal regime and it's supporters
I honestly can't understand why we just let this to go on. Abs so many people ignore every outrageous crimes committed by them.
#UN / Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says
Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food:
“There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid or intentionally obliterate small-scale fishing vessels, greenhouses and orchards in Gaza – other than to deny people access to food,”
“Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, simply for being Palestinian. In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide. This means the State of Israel in its entirety is culpable and should be held accountable – not just individuals or this government, or that person.”
@oatmeal@israel@palestine The total eradication of a people b/c of #Bibi and his hatred of Palestinians. All he wants is to reclaim the land and get rid of every single living man, woman and child in Gaza. He will face his #Karma but it can’t be soon enough for me. May his soul forever be tormented.
Stories of atrocity on October 7 have been used to justify the ongoing assault on Gaza. But several of these high-profile claims have been found to be based on unreliable witnesses or even fabricated entirely. We deserve to know the truth.
True, we *want to know the #truth. What we *deserve is a different matter altogether. Humans are destroying their home planet's #environment and #climate. Were #karma real, we'd already be gone. That'd be a better example of "deserved."
Leave it to the GOP. Immigration was a potentially winning issue for them. This not only pretty much defangs the issue for the Ds, it turns it against the Rs, as it highlights that the R's "crisis" was more about political posturing and performance and pandering to their Dear Leader than policy for America. Even the border patrol union was for this.