Mastodawn

We’ve watched the #LNP shoot itself in the foot, twice in both feet and redoubling its effort to dig its own grave. Now we’re being presented with a #Labor party apparently intent on following suite. #Unions and #LaborHeartland must be seething in frustration approaching outright anger by now.

I’ve been there and I’m not looking back. For me #Labor has lost its way, completely, maybe beyond salvage. The following is just furhter proof of it.

“There’s a tell when a politician has been captured by an industry lobby. The language shifts. The carefully prepared lines about “existing contracts,” “investment certainty,” and “there’s already a tax, actually” start flowing out with the smoothness of a media brief, because that’s exactly what they are. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on all evidence appears to have been captured. So has Resources Minister Madeleine King.”

#AusPol #Lobbyist #ExtractiveIndustries #FossilFuel #GasGrifters #TaxReform #TaxTheRich #Antifa #AntiOligarchy #JoinYourUnion

Blink twice if you need help, Prime Minister

There's a tell when a politician has been captured by an industry lobby. The language shifts. Well, the Albanese Government is repeating Big Gas talking points word for word. Except Australians aren't buying it.

The Point

LM Little May 15

Diamond #mines in the #NWT are likely to follow the history of gold mines, leaving the public on the hook for costly clean-up. It is past time to make #mining companies pay. https://cabinradio.ca/290619/news/politics/what-do-ekatis-financial-troubles-mean-for-environmental-cleanup/

#cdnpoli #nwtpoli #extractiveIndustries

What do Ekati’s financial troubles mean for environmental cleanup?

Life's Better at the Cabin

Cabin Radio

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 May 12

Thanks to Malthus, we have focused on food as the limit to population growth. For some reason, we have failed to consider how demands on other resources may have limits that we cannot afford to cross.

The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/12/global-sand-crisis-land-reclamation-extraction?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Ecosystems #ExtractiveIndustries #NaturalResource #LimitsToGrowth

The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced

It is the most extracted solid material on Earth – but this extraction can threaten ecosystems and livelihoods

The Guardian

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RaymondPierreL3 May 12

@ApaulD
This govt reticence to apply a #GasExportTax or a #SuperProfitTax is not only despicable and a slap in the face of every #Australian, it’s also making a strong case for a call to #EndPoliticalDonations

We cannot have our Parliamentary Representative in the pocket of #ExtractiveIndustries or any #Corporation or #PrivateEnterprises or indeed championing an economic system that has, and is still proving it doesn’t work for the better interests of society as a whole.

Time for a for a #progressiveREvolution at the #VotingBooths people. Use your vote, use your brain put all Australians before your self interests and we might get out OK on the other side.

#AlboPM, you’re a traitor to the people who put you there in good faith.

#AsuPol

RaymondPierreL3 May 11

As if we don’t have enough #Grifters making a pile on #Australia ‘s slack #TaxRevenue from #GasExports here is another one to add to that pile:

“Amid renewed debate over whether Australia is getting enough tax from its gas exports, an investigation by the ABC shows how one LNG producer uses Singapore to help boost its profits.

That company is Shell, the global oil and gas super major, which is the world’s largest trader of the fuel.

Over the eight years to 2024, Shell’s LNG trading and marketing arm in Singapore made billions of dollars in profit. And it did so by buying LNG from producer countries such as Australia before on-selling the gas at a significant mark-up.”

I wonder how many more #FossilFuel #TaxEvasionSchemes are operating that we don’t know about. Wake up #AlboPM we’re all being had here!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-11/australian-gas-giants-using-singapore-to-reduce-taxes/106632272

#GasExportTax #TaxWindfallProfits #ExtractiveIndustries #Shell #AusPol #TaxReformsNow

A tropical tax paradise sells much of Australia's gas

Amid renewed debate over whether Australia is getting enough tax from its gas exports, an investigation by the ABC shows how resource giants use shell companies to shift profit.

DoomsdaysCW May 6

Seems like #Oiligarchy has won the hearts of #Albertan #MAGA-types. If anything, there should be #LandBack to #Alberta's #FirstNations, and colonizer descendants will just have to deal with it!!!

Albertans Could Soon Vote on Whether to Separate From Canada. Here’s What to Know

by Chantelle Lee, May 5, 2026

"Many Albertans have slammed the federal Liberal government for blocking #pipeline projects and canceling oil and gas projects. The province’s economy is largely driven by its #OilAndGas extraction, as well as #mining and #quarrying."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/KxxFz

#Colonialism #CorporateColonialism #CanPol #CanadaPol #NoMining #ExtractiveIndustries #BigOilAndGas #FuckColonialism

Albertans Could Soon Vote on Whether to Separate From Canada. Here’s What to Know

The Alberta separatist movement dates back decades, but has gained momentum in the past year.

Time

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RaymondPierreL3 May 1

@ApaulD
I find it hard to get my head around the fact that we (govt) subsidise #ExtractiveIndustries including #Gas and #FossilFuel use to the tune of billions of $ a year (Tax concessions and foregone revenue) when #Renewables have proven to be cheaper, cleaner, morally and ethically superior in every way. The pace of electrification is stochastic only because of these divergent public investment strategies and the inconsistent ‘signals’ to investors and developers of clean energy.

RaymondPierreL3 Apr 29

If #AlboPM is resisting the #GasTax because he gave his ‘word’ to foreign gas recipient’s demands (aka Bullying) to not do so, then he’s a bigger mug than I thought and frankly not as savvy as he portrays.

One: Those mulit-year fixed prices gas export contract will outlast the #Hormuz debacle (plan?) so any increases the #Grifting Corporations might add to the price of gas will be felt years from now when contracts are to be renewed.

Two: The #Investors are also the recipients of the gas and a tax on gas will cut into their egregious profit margins. So who cares?

Conclusion: AlboPM is complicit (knowingly or otherwise) to the rape and pillage of Australian sovereign #resources and a flight of our currency to foreign shores.

Ergo — kick #Labor out of govt and put the Greens in to fix this shit!

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-kills-gas-tax-to-protect-nation-s-fuel-security-and-asian-refinery-deals-20260429-p5zs1t.html

#AusPol #FossilFuel #ExtractiveIndustries #ForeignInvestment

Albanese kills gas tax to protect nation’s fuel security and Asian refinery deals

In his strongest language on the issue to date, Anthony Albanese said a $17 billion tax on gas exports would harm Australia’s fuel security.

The Sydney Morning Herald

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RaymondPierreL3 Apr 28

@Susan60
Agreed. It’s not a clean solution to transport at all. It also suffers the same (actually more so) range anxiety as Battery Electric Vehicle (#BEVs ), the latter of which is being addressed with more charging points and lower charging times in the offing.

It maybe cheaper to run than #FossilFuel fed Internal Combustion Engines ( #ICE) , but not as cheap as BEVs (zero cost if you have a home PV system).

Any transport technology is cheaper when govt incentives are in the mix. This was so when we builkt cars in AUS, as well as for gas powered cars and is currently so for BEVs (though the latter is waining — a crazy policy move IMO).

There are no comprehensive transport solutions to our current planetary crisis other than electrification of all transports systems in Australia. We have Sun and Wind a plenty and Batteries will soon be ubiquitous on the #Grid provided Govt(s) give up on their #Complicit and expensive support to #ExtractiveIndustries. The #ABC of all msm platforms ought to desist from giving voice to an industry that has failed Australians for decades. There never was a social licence for #Grifters, #Profiteers and despoilers of the #land that was never ceded.

There. I’ve said my piece on the matter. Thank you Susan for tooting about it.

#AusPol #ClimateEmergency #Electrification #TaxReformNow #Antifa #EatTheRich #TreatyNow #Renewables

RaymondPierreL3 Apr 24

This statment by the CEO of the Business Council Association is exactly what our #AlboPM is parroting publically:

“Mr Black gave evidence to the Senate inquiry on its second day of public hearings, arguing a levy would be “counterproductive” at a time when Australia needs more investment. […] Energy investors are like butterflies – if they are scared, they fly away,” he said, citing the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA).”

Which, of course, is absolute BS. All that investors need for incentive is a sound #BusinessCase that promisses #Profit. ANY PROFIT above the #CashRate will do. It doesn’t have to be the promisse of #Pilfering or #Sacking an economy FFS. ANy fool understands this. WHY doesn’t the #PM get it? If #AlboPM is not fool (and I have no reason to think he is), then HE IS COMPLICIT in the rape and sacking of the country by #Multinationals and the #ExtractiveIndustries - pure and simple (Because based on numbers, it’s not about jobs). And the #NationalSecurity ballon won’t fly here either.

I’m getting fed up hearing this neoliberal lie over and over and over again…

#AusPol #GasTac #TaxReform #LameLabor