"The present separatist initiative won’t lead to independence for #Alberta, but it is being used by the province’s #fossilfuel capitalists and political leaders to ensure that the present destructive intensification of extractive projects unfolds on terms that are to their economic and political advantage." https://www.counterfire.org/article/alberta-separatism-a-tangled-reactionary-web/?brid=YWdncwEIeJtbTzL6erf9TYSfMubH

#abpoli #cdnpoli #CapitalismKills #BigOil #CorporateCapture

They Are Dying. And #Canada Is Watching.

#Mikisew #Cree’s own health study confirms what the community has always known: the #OilSands are killing them. If governments and industry don’t act, they say they will shut it all down.

by Brandi Morin
Apr 13, 2026

Excerpt: "The findings confirmed what this community has carried in their grief, in their graveyards, for generations: cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan are at least 25 percent higher than the rest of Alberta. Since 1993, there have been 149 documented cases — and that number, Tuccaro says, is a gross underestimate. People who leave the community for treatment are no longer counted in local statistics. Factor those in, and the real number for Mikisew Cree members alone, he estimates, is closer to 250 to 300."

https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-are-dying-and-canada-is-watching?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true

#CanadaPol #FortChipewyan #MikisewCreeFirstNation #NativeAmericanNews #TarSands #BigOil #FirstNations #EnvironmentalRacism

French #oil giant TotalEnergies is kicking communities in Uganda and Tanzania off their land to make way for an #OilPipeline they never asked for: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

https://act.350.org/sign/stop-the-totalenergies-pipe-dream/ #FossilFuels #BigOil #pipeline

RE: https://expressional.social/@GrumpyOldFart/116651531401117000

Some oil producers in #Africa are attacked via #Ukraine operated #Al-Qaeda #AlQaeda terrorists/mercenaries of #BigOil others are attacked via #World-Bank #Imf

https://kolektiva.social/@GrumpyOldFar[email protected]/116651531517636555

@africa
@GrumpyOldFart

http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSkqNP

#mali #chad #niger #CAR #BurkinaFaso
#China #India #Venezuela #Brasil #Cuba #Iran #Russia #WorldBank

RE: https://expressional.social/@GrumpyOldFart/116651531401117000

Some of us have been posting and drawing attention to #Africa especially developing subsaharan oil producing areas where #China and #India have sought to secure alternative sources for oil, since #Nigeria is under US/UK/EU occupation and 100% of its oil is taken by #BigOil

The West's war against Russia, India, and China continues

#mali #chad #niger #CAR #BurkinaFaso
#China #India #Venezuela #Brasil #Cuba #Iran #Russia

At #Chevron’s Gates, Communities Demand #Justice and a #FossilFree Future

#AntiChevron Day 2026 united communities fighting #extraction, #EnvironmentalRacism, and #corporate impunity across continents

May 21, 2026 | Paul Paz y Miño

"Nearly three decades after communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon first brought global attention to Chevron’s crimes, and 13 years after activists launched the first Anti-Chevron Day in 20 countries, the resistance continues. Chevron remains one of the most polluting companies on Earth – and one of the most determined to avoid accountability for it.

Anti-Chevron Day

"For the 13th year running, Anti-Chevron Day brought frontline leaders from across the globe to the shadow of Chevron’s #RichmondCA refinery, where communities gathered with anger, grief, music, ceremony, and determination to confront one of the world’s most destructive oil companies.

"The gathering came just weeks after the historic First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, #Colombia, where Indigenous leaders and governments demanded an urgent and just transition away from the fossil fuel economy that continues to poison the territories and devastate the health of frontline communities worldwide. In Richmond, that demand felt immediate and deeply personal. It is being shaped by the people most directly harmed by extraction and pollution, and by movements building solidarity across borders.

"Chevron must clean up its '#RainforestChernobyl' in the #EcuadorianAmazon!

"For over three decades, Chevron chose profit over people. While drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964 to 1990, it deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of #ToxicWastewater, spilled roughly 17 million gallons of #CrudeOil, and left #HazardousWaste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor."

Read more:
https://amazonwatch.org/news/2026/0521-at-chevrons-gates-communities-demand-justice-and-a-fossil-free-future

#BigOil #ChevronKnew #OilDrilling #EnvironmentalCatastrophe #OilPollution #AmazonWatch #IndigenousResistance #CleanUpYourMessChevron

> Key inflation gauge worsens as Americans shell out more for gasoline https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/key-inflation-gauge-worsens-americans-shell-gasoline-133380626

"The economy, stupid." -- James Carville

#BadEconomy #ThisIsAmerica #gas #BigOil

The Atlantic: The Gas-Tax Reckoning
https://archive.ph/46gkR

FTA: "Pausing the tax is a lose-lose proposition: It won’t do much to bring down the price at the pump—but it will accelerate a crisis of infrastructure funding that no one wants to solve."

Side note, funny how the #GOP #PartyOfStupid bitched and moaned when Biden suggested the idea before the current clusterfuck, but now their guy is in trouble so hooray.

#assholes #gas #BigOil #BadEconomy